ACSOL 2021 Monthly Phone Conference Meetings
ACSOL holds monthly phone conference meetings, usually the third Saturday of each month at 10 am Pacific Time. They last 2 to 3 hours. They are recorded and posted here within…
FL: DOJ Now Investigating Florida Sheriff’s Office For Using A Federal Grant To Fund Its ‘Predictive Policing’ Harassment Programs
Source: techdirt.com 9/21/21 The Pasco County (FL) Sheriff's Office believes in "intelligence-led policing." This is its formal slang for harassing residents until (in the office's own words) "they sue or…
MI: Changes to sex offender list cause confusion
Source: upmatters.com 9/14/21 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Nearly nine months after the state made court-ordered changes to the sex offender registry, there’s still a lot of confusion and questions…
Action Alert: Congressional Bill to Expand Reach of IML
A new piece of federal legislation (HR 5150), if passed and signed into law, would expand the reach of the International Megan's Law (IML). The new legislation was introduced by…
ACSOL Executive Director to Discuss Need to Overturn U.S. Supreme Court’s Mistake on September 18
ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci will discuss the need to overturn a significant and harmful decision made by the U.S. Supreme Court, Smith v. Doe, during the ACSOL conference on…
Bill honoring abolitionist aims to expand human trafficking prevention
CLEVELAND (Catholic News Service) — Two members of Congress have introduced a bill to expand successful trafficking prevention efforts in schools and businesses. Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Karen Bass…
States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2021
Louisiana once again has the highest incarceration rate in the U.S., (Rates calculated per 100,000 people) unseating Oklahoma to return to its long-held position as “the world’s prison capital.” By…
Critics seek reform of Colorado sex offense laws they say can do more harm than good
Lawmakers, researchers and even some victims seek reform of Colorado’s Sex Offense Management Board. By ALEX BURNESS | aburness@denverpost.com | The Denver Post September 6, 2021 Close to 30 years…
Indecent exposure charges filed against trans woman over L.A. spa incident
Prosecutors filed multiple counts of indecent exposure this week against a transgender woman whose alleged conduct was at the center of a viral video that sparked a pair of violent…
An old arrest can follow you forever online. Some newspapers want to fix that.
Source: washingtonpost.com 8/31/21 The Boston Globe has joined a handful of newsrooms around the country doing something once unthinkable: changing old articles because they are ruining a person’s life. The…
Kansas Supreme Court Ruling: City Conviction Requires Sex Offender Registration
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that a man's municipal conviction for sexual battery requires him to register as a sex offender. The 5-2 decision comes in the case of…
Action Alert: Call before Aug 26 to support the Jeremy Rose family against job discrimination
Women Against Registry (W.A.R.) 8/24/21 NATIONWIDE CALL TO ACTION! We are all in this together so please take action as soon as possible and certainly before the program airs on…
FL: Three Disney World employees along with 17 arrested in child sex sting
Three Walt Disney World employees in Orlando were along with 17 suspects arrested in a massive child sex sting in Florida. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrests as part of…
Apple to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse
Apple is planning to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could…
General Comments Aug 2021
Comments that are not specific to a certain post should go here, for the month of Aug 2021. Contributions should relate to the cause and goals of this organization and…
Budget breakdown: Minnesota to review sex offense registry program 30 years after it became law
A Minnesota group will study the laws that govern people convicted of a sex offense this year and provide a report to the Legislature in January. The state budget includes…
MN: OCEAN Community Conference and Rally — July 18, 2021
OCEAN is hosting their Community Conference at Capital Mall in St. Paul, Sunday, July 18, 2021. At this gathering, a lineup of speakers will educate the public on the…
NE: James Fairbanks sentenced: 40–70 years in murder of person listed on the registry
OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — James Fairbanks, who pleaded no contest to second-degree murder in the killing of Mattieo Condoluci last year, was sentenced in a Douglas County on Wednesday morning.…