General News – ACSOL

Sex Offender Laws Are Broken. These Women Are Working To Fix Them.

·January 19, 2020
·8 Comments

Sandy Rozek is the polar opposite of what comes to mind when you hear the word activist. A 78-year-old great-grandmother and retired high school English teacher who lives in Houston, Rozek…

Kat’s Blog: People Will Try Anything to Get Off the Registry

·January 19, 2020
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In Jefferson County, Tennessee this week, 2 people were charged with forging the signature of a mental health counselor in order to get one of them removed from the North…

FL: NPR Station to discuss sex offender issues at 1:00PM today.

·January 16, 2020
·6 Comments

Today at 1:00PM on South Florida’s NPR affiliate 91.3, they will be running a story on sex offenders. For those in the South Florida area, you can listen live on…

NY: Why Keeping People With Sex Offense Convictions Off Social Media Sites Does Little To Make Those Sites Safe

·January 14, 2020
·6 Comments

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal purports to take sexual violence seriously, but it aggressively ignores reality in favor of lazy solutions. Full Opinion Piece By Guy Hamilton-Smith, ACSOL Board…

Kat’s Blog: The Side Effects of Law

·January 11, 2020
·2 Comments

Less than 2 weeks into the New Year and already 2020 is turning out to be a year that will be fraught with court battles. And the side effects, if…

When a sex offender calls, she’s there to listen

·January 9, 2020
·5 Comments

Vicki Henry sits at the desk in her two-bedroom duplex on a recent Sunday morning and adjusts her phone headset, which she has nestled on hair with a deep magenta…

Participate in our study on veterans who have been convicted of a sex crime

·January 9, 2020
·2 Comments

[Note from Janice: I recommend this. Emily is a part of ACSOL] Dear Veterans, There is still time to participate in our study on veterans who have been convicted of…

Kat’s Blog: Polygraphs and Integrity

·January 6, 2020
·16 Comments

Watching one of those forensic tv shows, a police officer was accused of murdering his wife. All the evidence pointed to him as the killer. He took a polygraph and…

General Comments January 2020

·January 2, 2020
·93 Comments

Comments that are not specific to a certain post should go here, for the month of January 2020. Contributions should relate to the cause and goals of this organization and…

Kat’s Blog: Pardons and Commutations

·December 27, 2019
·6 Comments

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin spent some of his last days in office/2019 issuing pardons and commutations. A fine gift of “peace on earth and good will towards men” if you…

Kat’s Blog: No Excuse for Disrespect

·December 20, 2019
·15 Comments

As the family members of registrants, it’s often hard to hear the stories of the disrespect that our loved ones endure on a daily basis. They are often disrespected by…

What is the Purpose of Sex Offense Registries?

·December 11, 2019
·6 Comments

Two days ago, the Union-Recorder in Georgia published a bizarre editorial. The editorial board noted that the state’s sex offender registry system drives people into homelessness and deprived them of…

Kat’s Blog: This Is How It Starts

·December 6, 2019
·7 Comments

“Beware of men in white vans traveling the country, abducting young women and children, using them for human sex trafficking or selling them for body parts.” According to a recent…

Black victims demeaned in named violent crime laws

·December 4, 2019
·6 Comments

The slayings of Reagan Tokes and Alianna DeFreeze had much in common. Both were abducted, raped and killed in Ohio in 2017. Tokes was a 21-year-old college student, DeFreeze a…

Tinder Lets Known Sex Offenders Use the App. It’s Not the Only One.

·December 3, 2019
·14 Comments

Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match — but not on Tinder, OkCupid or PlentyofFish. A spokesperson said, “There are definitely registered…

General Comments December 2019

·December 1, 2019
·111 Comments

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

Kat’s blog: The Flaw in Meghan’s Law

·December 1, 2019
·8 Comments

Our hearts go out to the Pennsylvania father who happened to be a registrant and who missed the birth of his third child for no reason other than the fact…

Kat’s Blog: Registrants Left Out in the Cold, Again

·November 21, 2019
·6 Comments

Great News! Fremont, Ohio in Sandusky County has a homeless shelter. A homeless shelter that denies access to registrants, but a homeless shelter none the less. I can’t help but…

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