You are invited to join ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci and President attorney Elie Miller to our next meeting. The meeting will be held on Saturday, October 10, 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 recorded and posted within a…
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Final Deadline to Sign Up for the ACSOL Conference is Friday, September 25
The final day on which to sign up for ACSOL’s conference is Friday, September 25. “This deadline is necessary in order to accommodate the hotel’s schedule,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci. No tickets will be available at the door. It will not be recorded nor streamed. Come and get information on the CA tiered registry, SORNA litigation, employment, emotional support, how to have success on the registry, sex addiction and treatment, foreign and domestic travel, parole and probation survival and early termination, women on the registry, diversionary programs, and…
Read MoreJanice’s Journal: Congratulations, Michigan Registrants!
ACSOL congratulates more than 20,000 registrants in Michigan who are no longer required to register! They are now free to live without carrying the burden of registration. This magnificent and meaningful result was achieved due to one lawsuit filed in Michigan state court. A lawsuit that ended in the Michigan Supreme Court. According to that Court, the State of Michigan violated the state’s constitution by applying a law retroactively. That is, the State in 2011 passed a law that required individuals who were no longer required to register again or…
Read MoreKS: RM389: Kansas Court Kills Lifetime Supervision
Source: patreon.com/registrymatters/ 9/20/26 This week on Registry Matters: we dig into the collapse of a South Carolina church, where a registrant volunteer scandal at Pawleys Island set off arrests, lawsuits, and a wave of institutional panic that tore the congregation apart. We also break down Louisiana’s ballot measure to constitutionally ban post-conviction bail for minor-related offenses — stripping judges of individualized discretion entirely — and examine a Kansas appellate ruling that struck down lifetime supervision as unconstitutionally disproportionate for a young man’s minimal offense. In a follow-up segment, we look…
Read MoreMaine wants to make one probation violation for anything enough to send someone back to prison
Source: themainewire.com 9/14/26 A Maine Republican lawmaker wants convicted sex offenders who violate probation to face an immediate consequence: return to prison and serve the remainder of their suspended sentence. … “You don’t get to roam the streets. You haven’t learned your lesson. You’re not rehabilitated. You go back to serve your sentence,” Henderson said while announcing the legislation. … Read the full article
Read MoreSign up for the October 2-3, 2026 ACSOL Conference
Use the link below to download the updated conference schedule which features both individuals and panels that will address the issues of greatest importance to registrants and their families. For example, Sherri Moreno will share information regarding how to get a good job and keep it. Janice Bellucci will discuss the pending case before the U.S. Supreme Court. And Roger Hunnicutt and Rick Chew will share the methods they used to succeed on the registry. For those of you who are driving to the hotel, there will be plenty of…
Read MoreCongress approves legislation to keep child sex offenders out of union leadership
Source: 953mnc.com 9/18/26 Congress has approved legislation aimed at keeping people convicted of child sex crimes out of union leadership positions. Michigan Congressman Tim Walberg, who chairs the House Education and Workforce Committee, praised passage of the Ending Predator Access to Union Power Act. The bill adds sex offenses against minors to the list of convictions that can bar someone from serving in certain union offices or jobs. … Read the full article
Read MoreCA: CASOMB 9/17/26 Agency Reports Show Number of Registrants Continues to Decrease; Number of Petitions Granted Continues to Increase
During today’s meeting of the California Sex Offender Management Board (CASOMB), state agencies provided statistics on a large number of issues important to registrants and their families. The most important information is that the number of people required to register has decreased by 136 and that the number of people who are no longer required to register after their petition was granted has increased by 474. In addition, the agencies reported that the total number of petitions filed for removal from the registry increased by 480 while the number of…
Read MoreNC: Convicted sex offender offered opening prayer at rally for GOP Senate nominee in North Carolina
Source: abcnews.com 9/22/26 A pastor kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “hammered down on the conservative movement.” The prayer was hardly unusual by North Carolina political standards. What was surprising was the man who delivered it. Pastor Daimon L. King is a registered sex offender, twice sentenced to prison for convictions involving children, according to state and court records. The episode occurred with two…
Read MoreEarly Bird ACSOL Conference Discount Ends Sept 15!
The early bird discount for the ACSOL conference ends today! Conference tickets are still available today only for $150, however, tomorrow conference tickets will cost $185. Be sure to use the link below to sign up and make a discounted hotel reservation. If you signed up but have not received an email from us welcoming you, please email [email protected] Use the link below to download the updated conference schedule which features both individuals and panels that will address the issues of greatest importance to registrants and their families. For example, Sherri…
Read MoreMI: Michigan State Police Begins Removing Sex Offenders from Registry
Source: michigan.gov 9/11/26 “On September 9, 2026, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the 2021 Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) amendments cannot be used to retroactively extend the registration requirements of anyone who committed their relevant crime prior to July 1, 2011, because doing so would be unconstitutional,” said Col. James F. Grady II, director of the Michigan State Police (MSP). “The MSP did not make this change to the law. However, the department maintains the database, is required to comply with the Court’s order and is taking the necessary steps to implement the ruling. Any concerns about or…
Read MoreMI: Michigan Supreme Court limits sex offender registry law to post-2011 cases
Source: michigan.gov 9/11/26 “On September 9, 2026, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the 2021 Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) amendments cannot be used to retroactively extend the registration requirements of anyone who committed their relevant crime prior to July 1, 2011, because doing so would be unconstitutional,” said Col. James F. Grady II, director of the Michigan State Police (MSP). “The MSP did not make this change to the law. However, the department maintains the database, is required to comply with the Court’s order and is taking the necessary steps to implement the ruling. Any concerns about or…
Read MoreLA: No one is available to castrate Louisiana sex offenders
Source: lailluminator.com 9/8/26 A convicted sex offender from Assumption Parish is believed to be the first person in the U.S. sentenced to undergo surgical castration without their consent, but the lawmaker who pushed for the severe punishment to be made available said it’s unlikely to ever take place. The state corrections department has also confirmed it’s not currently staffed to handle the procedure. … A Sept. 1 post on the X account of Attorney General Liz Murrill, whose office started the investigation, celebrated Clark’s conviction and sentence. “Louisiana justice served…
Read MoreCA: After a backlash over votes on sex offenders, two California parole board members were dropped
Source: calmatters.org 9/11/26 In summary Two parole board members who authorized the release of men convicted of sex crimes were ousted after Senate President Pro Tem Monique Limón declined to take up their appointments. Criminal justice advocates are concerned. The leader of California’s Senate effectively removed two commissioners from the state’s Board of Parole Hearings this June after releases they granted caused a public backlash. The commissioners, Patricia Cassady and Teal Kozel, had already served nine and three years on the board respectively when they separately approved for release David…
Read MoreOnly 5 More Days for Early Bird Discount at ACSOL Conference
There are only five more days left for the early bird discount at the ACSOL conference. You don’t want to miss the important information about employment, early termination of parole/probation, emotional support groups and petitioning for removal from the registry that will be shared at the conference. There will also be valuable networking opportunities. One of the four plenary speakers at the conference will be criminal defense attorney Chance Oberstein, a former president of the ACSOL board of directors. Mr. Oberstein will also speak on panels regarding how to avoid…
Read MoreSan Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads
Source: wired.com 9/9/26 The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction. San Francisco’s city attorney has hit Meta with a cease-and-desist letter telling the company to stop “allowing” paid advertisements that include AI-generated child sexual abuse content and asked it to explain how the ads repeatedly ran on its platforms. On Tuesday, WIRED reported that Meta has run more than 350 ads in recent months that transformed still images of minors—some of…
Read MoreNew Details Regarding Pending U.S. Supreme Court Case to be Revealed at ACSOL Conference
ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci, who filed earlier today, a brief in the pending U.S. Supreme Court case regarding a Missouri state law, will reveal new details regarding that case during the ACSOL conference on Friday, October 2. Attorney Bellucci has represented the registrant at every level in the case after he was convicted for failing to post a sign on his home on Halloween. “This case has been pending for almost three years,” stated Bellucci. “There is much to share about this case with those who attend the conference.”…
Read MoreRegistrant’s Brief Opposing Missouri’s Request for U. S. Supreme Court Review Filed Today
Registrant Thomas Sanderson filed a brief today with the U.S. Supreme Court opposing a request filed by the State of Missouri and supported by 16 additional states to review a decision issued in favor of Mr. Sanderson by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. The trial court also issued a decision in favor of Mr. Sanderson. Both courts found that a Missouri state law that required all registrants to post a sign on their home on Halloween was unconstitutional. In the brief filed today, Mr. Sanderson asked the Court to…
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