General News – ACSOL

ICE HSI opens Angel Watch Center to combat child sex tourism, announces FY19 child exploitation investigative results

·November 15, 2019
·3 Comments

On Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at HSI’s new Angel Watch Center (AWC) in Fairfax, Virginia. As part of the…

Data shows upswing in child exploitation cases

·November 14, 2019
·10 Comments

Homeland Security investigators who uncover child exploitation initiated more than 4,000 cases around the world in the 2019 budget year, resulting in thousands of arrests and the identification of more…

CA: Sex crimes by cops an outgrowth of their ‘power and coercive authority,’ expert says

·November 12, 2019
·10 Comments

[ocregister.com - 11/12/19] LAPD officers who took advantage of their power imbalance to commit sexual assaults fit national trends, says prominent criminologist. LAPD officers Luis Valenzuela and James C. Nichols…

Kat’s Blog: Will Vagueness Take Down the Registry?

·November 7, 2019
·7 Comments

It’s well known, nothing is clear cut when it comes to the registry. The rules and regulations may vary slightly from state to state, but the vagueness with which these…

General Comments November 2019

·November 5, 2019
·62 Comments

Comments that are not specific to a certain post should go here, for the month of November 2019. Contributions should relate to the cause and goals of this organization and…

Halloween and Stranger Danger

·November 1, 2019
·41 Comments

[bostonreview.net - 10/31/19] Do you believe in the boogeyman? This is the pivotal question of the Halloween movie franchise. The tension around naming the movies’ antagonist foregrounds the problem of…

Kat’s Blog: Prisoners Fighting California Fires

·October 31, 2019
·20 Comments

The California fires were raging across the CNN newscast, firefighters in yellow and orange turnout coats braving the hellish lines of fires that roared up and down hillsides, valleys and…

Army sex offender argues that prison’s ban on contact with his children violated rights

·October 29, 2019
·5 Comments

A soldier convicted of a sex crime involving a child will argue in the military’s top court next week that a prison policy preventing him from contact with his own…

Kat’s Blog: The “Public List” That Remains Private

·October 25, 2019
·10 Comments

In 1963 the Supreme Court/ Brady v. Maryland, ruled that prosecutors must inform those accused of a crime about any evidence that might help their defense at trial and that…

Halloween and the Sex Offender Myth: Part I (Updated with Part II)

·October 23, 2019
·3 Comments

Part II (October 23): https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/halloween-and-the-sex-offender-myth-part-ii/2019/10/23 Part I (October 19): I often wonder why we don’t dress our kids up as sex offenders. We dress them up as serial killers, witches,…

JPMorgan Chase Hired 2,100 People With Criminal Records In 2018 (And Will Hire More)

·October 22, 2019
·4 Comments

[forbes.com - 10/21/19] Topline: JPMorgan Chase announced an expansion of its efforts to hire people with criminal backgrounds Monday, continuing the trend of big companies “banning the box” and giving…

A Q&A on Megan’s Law: Should it apply to child offenders?

·October 21, 2019
·15 Comments

Dr. Elizabeth J. Letourneau did the first study looking at the consequences of Megan’s Law on juveniles. She found that kids rarely commit a second offense, and that the people…

Kat’s Blog: Are We Collateral Damage?

·October 18, 2019
·10 Comments

Collateral Damage: Injury inflicted on someone other than an intended target. Specifically, civilian casualties of a military operation. The earliest known use of the term was in1947. Until I had…

Kat’s Blog: Time to Dispel the Halloween Myth

·October 11, 2019
·12 Comments

It’s that time again, Halloween, pumpkins, trick or treaters, candy, Stranger Danger news coverage and the registry police. It’s hard to imagine that between law enforcement and the news media,…

When Prison Is A Better Option

·October 7, 2019
·11 Comments

[Scott H. Greenfield at blog.simplejustice.us - 10/4/19] Years ago, I wrote of the creation of a permanent underclass. No, not the one woke people are willing to fight for. Rather,…

Getting Registered

·October 7, 2019
·4 Comments

He was a small man, a proud member of the Tohono Oʼodham Nation. He’d worked as a jockey in his youth, and though he had a hard life on the…

Kat’s blog: Hope

·October 5, 2019
·6 Comments

When I read the most recent “Janice’s Journal: The Big Picture” piece, it reminded me why so many of us have sought out websites like ACSOL, WAR, NARSOL and other…

General Comments October 2019

·October 5, 2019
·147 Comments

Comments that are not specific to a certain post should go here, for the month of October 2019. Contributions should relate to the cause and goals of this organization and…

November 2019
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
« Oct
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30