Month: September 2025

Registrant Publishes Book About Registration Laws in Texas

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Source: amazon.com My name is Daniel Gillie. I was recently released from prison as a registered person in Texas about 3 months ago. During my time in prison I found out how little education the State of Texas gives you in regards to registration. Finding this out motivated me to learn all the rules and requirements of registration, and eventually, my wife and I decided to make a book out of it to help other people. The book is called ” The Texas Registrants’ Guide” and it is currently available on Amazon…

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Allegedly False Rape Accusations as Sexual Harassment for Title IX Purposes

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Source: reason.com 9/29/25 “[P]ersistent and unfounded branding of a man as a ‘rapist’ cannot be easily dismissed as anything other than sex-based harassment.” From Friday’s decision by Judge Paula Xinis (D. Md.) in Doe v. Univ. of Md, College Park (for more detail on the factual allegations, see pp. 4-12, and for more on two claims that were dismissed, see pp. 21-23): In October 2020, University of Maryland student Jane Roe … alleged that John Doe …, the plaintiff here, and another student had sexually assaulted her in separate incidents on the…

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OH: 135 Arrested in ‘Operation Next Door’ Crackdown on Sex Workers renamed to “Human Trafficking Survivors”

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Source: ohioattorneygeneral.gov 9/29/25 A statewide human trafficking operation conducted last week by more than 100 law enforcement agencies resulted in the arrest of 135 people seeking to buy sex – including from minors, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced today. “Operation Next Door was named to highlight the proximity and prevalence of human trafficking,” Yost said. “Too often, we are lulled into the false narrative that these crimes happen only in the shadows. This is simply not true – human trafficking occurs in plain sight and, unfortunately, may even be…

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Police using drones to read your license plates, warns EFF

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Source: malwarebytes.com 9/24/25 Police are using drones as flying automated license plate readers (ALPRs), according to a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). And where there is a market, a provider will jump in. Or was it the other way around this time? Flock Safety, for example, recently told a group of potential law enforcement customers interested in Drone as First Responder (DFR) programs that its drone can be used as a flying license plate reader camera as well. An ALPR system is an intelligent surveillance system that automatically identifies…

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Sex offenders, terrorists, drug dealers, exposed in spyware breach

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Source: malwarebytes.com 9/29/25 We’ve covered spyware and stalkerware leaks many times before, but we don’t often see such exposure in software used by law enforcement. According to a report by Straight Arrow News (SAN), the hacker “wikkid” said the intrusion against RemoteCOM was “one of the easiest” they’d ever carried out. RemoteCOM describes itself as “the premier computer, smartphone and tablet monitoring service for the management of pretrial, probation and parole clients”. According to a leaked training manual, its software, sold as “SCOUT”, says it can be used to track targets ranging from sex offenders, sex traffickers,…

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Tech 5 takeaways from CNBC’s investigation into ‘nudify’ apps and sites

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Source: cnbc.com 9/28/25 Key Points: CNBC investigated “nudify” apps and how a group of friends in Minnesota became key figures in the fight against nonconsensual, AI-generated porn. Experts said these services, which are often promoted via Facebook ads, are available to download on the Apple and Google app stores and are easily accessed using simple web searches. “That’s the reality of where the technology is right now, and that means that any person can really be victimized,” said Haley McNamara, senior vice president of strategic initiatives and programs at the…

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CA: Redding motel under scrutiny after police say 18 sex offenders and arsonists are housed there

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Source: actionnewsnow.com 9/25/25 REDDING, Calif. – A motel on Cypress Avenue is getting attention this week after Redding Police found out that more than a dozen registered sex offenders and arsonists are being housed there. Recently, Redding Police Chief Brian Barner and his staff found out that the ‘Guestplace Inn & Suites’ on Cypress Avenue is housing 18 registered sex offenders and arsonists. Those receiving housing are apart of the ‘No Boundaries’ program. No Boundaries works in collaboration with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to house parolees who are fresh out of jail.…

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CA: California shrank prisons with sentencing changes. A new study shows how that’s working

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Source: calmatters.org 9/25/25 California over the past dozen years enacted a series of criminal justice laws that were meant to give more people an opportunity to be resentenced and thin out the state’s severely overcrowded prisons. This week a state agency released the most-comprehensive look yet at how those changes are playing out among formerly incarcerated people.  The report found low recidivism rates among people who were older and had served lengthy sentences. Those patterns contrasted with people serving shorter prison sentences for nonviolent crimes, which showed higher rates of recidivism, the…

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The Sex Offender Registry Shouldn’t Mean We’re Unwelcome at Church

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Source: filtermag.org 9/25/25 In the Bible Belt, there’s basically a church on every corner—especially here in Nashville. It feels like there should be so many options to choose from if you want to join a faith community. But the church doors are often closed to people on the sex offender registry, including myself. Sex offender registries are designed so that society treats you like a leper; as if you should be sent away somewhere, so that “decent” people don’t have to worry about you. I’ve felt that shame deeply in the…

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Janice’s Journal: Fraud, Deceit, Murder

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The registrant community is in shock today after learning that a 71-year-old registrant was brutally murdered by a 29-year-old stranger.  The violent attack that led to murder began in the registrant’s own home after the stranger falsely identified himself as a CPA going door-to-door looking for new business.  Tragically, the registrant opened the front door of his home, giving the stranger an opportunity to begin his attack. Although the registrant was able to escape from his home, he was unable to gain help from a car that he tried to…

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CA: Fremont murder suspect allegedly admits to targeting sex offenders

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Source: kron4.com 9/23/25 A man accused in a deadly Fremont stabbing last week allegedly admitted to police that he was targeting registered sex offenders as potential victims. Varun Suresh, 29, of Fremont, has been charged with murder in connection to the stabbing death of a 71-year-old man that occurred Thursday in the 600 block of Upper Vintners Circle. He also faces charges for residential burglary and armed individual causing great bodily injury. … Investigators said Suresh had targeted the victim “because of the victim’s age and previous offenses,” according to Fremont police.…

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MO: Missouri defends Halloween sex offender sign requirement at Eighth Circuit

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Source: courthousenews.com 9/16/25 Missouri is trying to revive a mandate for sex offenders to post a sign on Halloween stating they don’t have candy or treats at their residence after the law was blocked last October.   ST. LOUIS (CN) — An Eighth Circuit judge compared a Missouri law requiring sex offenders to post signs on Halloween saying they don’t have candy to a North Dakota law requiring landowners to post signs warning if there is quicksand on their property during a hearing Tuesday challenging the sign law’s constitutionality. “In…

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ACSOL Online Meeting October 18, 2025

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You are invited to join ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci, President attorney Elie Miller, and board members Roger Hunnicutt and Sherri Moreno for our next meeting.  The meeting will be held on Saturday, October 18 online on Zoom beginning at 10 a.m. Pacific time, 1:00 PM Eastern, and will last at least two hours. You can use the Zoom app or you can call in using a Zoom phone number. There is no registration needed for this meeting. No government officials are allowed to attend the meetings. This meeting will be…

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CA: CASOMB 9/18/25 Agency Reports Show Increase in Registrants in Custody, Petitions Filed and Granted

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The California Sex Offender Management Board (CASOMB) met today and during that meeting, several state agency reports were presented.  The reports reflect increases in almost every category including the number of registrants in prison as well as the number of petitions granted.  Below is a chart listing those and other statistics presented during today’s meeting.  Please note that the former category on this chart reflects statistics presented in May 2025.   The next CASOMB meeting is scheduled for November 19 in Sacramento.  That meeting will be held at 2590 Venture…

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FL: Video Vigilantes Star In “To Catch A Case”

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SEPTEMBER 16–A group of five young Florida men is facing an assortment of criminal charges for battering and falsely imprisoning a man who they targeted in a “To Catch a Predator”-style sting that was recorded and “uploaded to a website for public viewing for profit,” according to court records. As alleged in arrest affidavits, the video vigilantism occurred around 2 AM Friday at a home in Largo, a city in the Tampa Bay area. The victim arrived at the residence allegedly expecting to meet a minor for a sexual encounter. The…

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AL: Pastor and people on the sex offense registry arrested after car wash

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BALDWIN COUNTY, AL. (WALA) – A local pastor is speaking out after court documents show he allowed People Forced to Register (PFR) to volunteer at a car wash that was too close to a school or daycare. According to the documents, Dennis Potter is accused of allowing six PFR to volunteer to help wash cars on Sept. 14. The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office said the car wash happened near a school or daycare. By law, PFR cannot be within 2000 feet of. Potter, who owns Outcast Ministries Inc., a non-profit…

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Should Paying for Sex Be a Crime? A debate between Melanie Thompson and Kaytlin Bailey

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Source: reason.com 9/16/25 Melanie Thompson of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Kaytlin Bailey of Old Pros debate the resolution, “Paying for sex should be a crime.” Thompson is arguing in favor of the resolution. She is the chief advocacy and outreach officer at the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women International, an organization working against the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls. Bailey is arguing against the resolution and is the founder and executive director of Old Pros, a non-profit media organization that uses storytelling to advocate for sex workers’ rights. She is…

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