Author: R H

Emily Horowitz: 18-Year-Old Faces Possible 70 Years in Federal Prison for Snapchat Sexting Crime

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Source: reason.com 9/14/22 by ACSOL board member Emily Horowitz “I’m not saying my kid should get nothing,” says Eric Beyer Jr.’s mother. “But to take an 18-year-old kid and put him in jail for longer than he’s been alive?” Teens using Snapchat. (Franviser | Dreamstime.com) Let’s say you’re a 17-year-old boy asking two 16-year-old girls to sext you on Snapchat—well, that’s pretty normal these days, right? Let’s agree that it is. Now, let’s say that you possibly paid the girls for their sexts, and then allegedly threatened to expose them…

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National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Warns About Unsafe ‘Back-to-Schooling’

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Source: reason.com 9/9/22 You’re more likely to be struck by a meteor than to have your kid abducted by a stranger. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) gets about $40 million a year in federal funding. It spends at least a few of those bucks crafting unnecessary emails like the one I got last week with the subject line: “Are your kids safely back-to-schooling?” Not only is “back-to-schooling” not a verb, but also the question seems geared less toward making kids safe and more toward making parents…

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Illinois Civil Rights Attorney Adele Nicholas to Join ACSOL Conference

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Illinois civil rights attorney Adele Nicholas will join the ACSOL conference on October 1 in a presentation regarding her recent significant legal victory in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.  In that decision, the Court reversed a prior ruling and determined that a city law that limited the number of registrants who could live there had been applied retroactively. Ms. Nicholas will join ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci in a discussion starting at 3:30 p.m. regarding possible methods to overcome the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Smith v. Doe, issued in…

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OK: Grove sex offender files lawsuit against sheriff; seeking $1 million in damages

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Source: fourstateshomepage.com 9/10/22 GROVE, Okla. – A Grove sex offender has filed a civil lawsuit seeking $1 million against a Kansas sheriff saying his “good reputation” was ruined after a social media site post alerted the public to the man’s activities. Kirk William ____, 65, is being held in the Beaver County, Oklahoma jail on no bail on an application to revoke a suspended sentence.  He was taken into custody in Miami after a protective court hearing where he sought to have a relationship with a child. ____ filed the…

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VA: Youthful offender law nixes sex assault prosecution

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Source: rutlandherald.com 9/10/22 A man charged with sexual assault on a 14-year-old got the charges against him dismissed due to a gap in Vermont’s youthful offender law, prosecutors said this week. In a decision handed down Friday in a case that originated in Rutland County, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that the state could not appeal the family court’s dismissal of a juvenile delinquency petition, overturning a precedent from 1991. “In crafting the juvenile-delinquency statutes, the Legislature explicitly intended to protect minors from the consequences associated with a criminal record,”…

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NC: Central Prison on lockdown after inmates beat convicted sex offender to death

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Source: wral.com 9/9/22   Local News Central Prison on lockdown after inmates beat convicted sex offender to death Tags:assault, Central Prison, sex offender Posted September 9, 2022 2:37 p.m. EDT Updated September 9, 2022 5:16 p.m. EDT  Raleigh, N.C. — An inmate at Central Prison in Raleigh died after being assaulted with a weapon on Friday. Ronald Rhodes was beaten by other inmates on Friday morning in the recreation yard, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety. The prison has been placed on lockdown as State Capitol Police…

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SORNA Regulations Hearing Postponed Again. Now it is on September 26

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Source: ACSOL The federal district court has once again postponed the date of the hearing during which arguments in support of and in opposition to a pending Motion for Preliminary Injunction (PI) was to take place.  The new hearing date is September 26.  The location remains the same — U.S. District Court in Riverside, California. This is the sixth scheduled hearing date for the PI motion.  The hearing date has been changed three times at the request of the Attorney General and three times by the court.  It is possible…

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CA: Friends Outside in Los Angeles county will pay registrants for an employment research project

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Friends Outside in Los Angeles county will pay registrants for an employment research project (Deadline 12/31/22) ELIGIBILITY: 1. Must be a registrant 2. Must have received services from an America’s Job Center of California within the last 3 years 3. Must participate in an anonymous and confidential interview COMPENSATION PROVIDED CONTACT: [email protected] (818) 975-0630 (ask for Marco) Program is available: September 9, 2022 – December 31, 2022 Please post this downloadable PDF of our flyer wherever appropriate: Registrant Study Flyer

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NC: Teacher busted for sex with student invited same student over while on house arrest

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Source: nypost.com 9/7/22 A North Carolina teacher who was charged with having sex with one of her students was arrested again after investigators learned she’d had the same student over her home nine times since she was placed under house arrest, police said. Elizabeth Suzanne ____, 36, was originally arrested on three felony sex charges, including statutory rape of a victim 15 years old or younger, after investigators from the Irridell County Sherriff’s Office learned of reports that she had had sexual relations with the student in June, according to…

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NY: Broome County Registrant Sentenced for Failing to Register an Email Account

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Source: justice.gov 9/6/22 SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Thomas E. Cargill, age 56, of Endicott, New York was sentenced today to 18 months in prison, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release, for failing to update his sex offender registration by maintaining an unregistered email account. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and David L. McNulty, United States Marshal for the Northern District of New York. Cargill also was ordered to pay a special assessment of $100. In addition to the term of imprisonment…

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WI: Man who had sex in park with 13-year-old girl to serve 90 days in jail

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Source: yahoo.com 9/5/22 Sep. 5—CHIPPEWA FALLS — A 21-year-old Fairchild man accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl at a park in Chippewa Falls in July 2021 will serve 90 days in jail. Dylan J. ____ pleaded no contest Friday in Chippewa County Court to an amended felony count of third-degree sexual assault. He was originally charged with three counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child under age 16. Along with the jail sentence, Judge Steve Gibbs ordered _____ to complete a sex offender treatment course, serve three…

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TX: Man wrongfully convicted of molesting a child 30 years ago sues for the impact the case has had on his life

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Source: kvue.com 8/31/22 AUSTIN, Texas — A petition was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court to allow Troy Mansfield, the man wrongfully convicted of molesting a child 30 years ago, to sue Williamson County for the impact the case has had on his life. … Then, in 2016, a judge overturned Mansfield’s conviction, ruling that prosecutors had violated his constitutional rights by not disclosing favorable evidence. Mansfield was no longer a convicted felon and was taken off the sex offenders list. Mansfield then tried to sue the County over the…

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GA: Georgia deputy police chief arrested in Florida for soliciting prostitution

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Source: foxnews.com 9/2/22 A Georgia deputy police chief was arrested in Florida after he allegedly solicited prostitution in the Sunshine State. Cartersville Deputy Police Chief Jason DiPrima was arrested Thursday in Polk County, Florida. He faces charges of soliciting another for prostitution, lewdness or assignation. Read the full article  

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OR: Registrant died trying to stop Safeway shooting rampage

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Source: foxnews.com 9/2/22 A man lauded as a hero for confronting a shooter inside an Oregon grocery store Sunday was convicted of child sex crimes while in the Army decades ago. Donald Surrett, Jr. died while trying to stop 20-year-old Ethan Blair Miller’s shooting rampage. Police said Surrett’s decision cost him his life but likely saved the lives of others. … Information from state court records and the Oregon State Police’s sex offender registry indicates Surrett did not reoffend after his prison release,the lowest classification in the state and an…

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CA: 26-year-old registered sex offender in Sacramento County accused of sexually assaulting two teens

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Source: kcra.com 9/1/22 SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. —A 26-year-old Sacramento County man who is a registered sex offender is accused of assaulting two teens, authorities said in a release.  ______ was arrested and booked in the Sacramento County Main Jail on Tuesday, the sheriff’s office said. “He is known to frequent public recreation areas, parks and movie theaters throughout Sacramento County,” the sheriff’s office said. The victims are females ages 13 and 17, according to authorities. ______ has met minors previously online and through social media by using fake names and…

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FL: FAC sends letters to Sheriffs asking them to warn scam targets

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Source: Florida Action Committee 9/1/22 FAC has sent letters to the Sheriffs of all 67 Counties in Florida, asking them to warn registrants of the scam targeting registrants across Florida and all states. FAC also calls on the affiliate organizations in each State, encouraging them to send a similar request to the registration offices in their States. Scams targeting people on the registry have been taking place for years. Law enforcement has done very little to pursue the scammers or warn registrants about the existence of these scams. For that…

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PA Attorney Aaron Marcus to Speak at ACSOL Conference

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ACSOL is pleased to announce that Aaron Marcus, lead attorney in a recent successful case in Pennsylvania, has agreed to speak at this year’s virtual conference on Saturday, October 1.  Marcus will provide an in-depth analysis of the Torsilieri decision, describe the significant efforts leading to that success as well as possible future applications of that case.  Marcus’ presentation will begin at 9:20 a.m. (Pacific) and include law professor and ACSOL board member Catherine Carpenter who recently completed a comprehensive law review article regarding the irrebuttable presumption doctrine that was…

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ME: Sex offenders find refuge at hotels funded by FEMA, investigation reveals

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Source: ktxs.com 8/30/22 SOUTH PORTLAND, ME (WGME) — Some hotels in a Maine city have been in the spotlight since the start of the pandemic, as they began housing individuals experiencing homelessness as well as asylum seekers. Some hotels in a Maine city have been in the spotlight since the start of the pandemic, as they began housing individuals experiencing homelessness as well as asylum seekers. (WGME) A concerned citizen in South Portland asked the WGME I-Team about it. There are quite a number of sex offenders living in hotels…

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