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Action Alert for CA: Assembly Bill Would Deny Medical Licenses to Most Registrants

·January 19, 2022
·35 Comments

California Assembly member Akilah Weber (Democrat, San Diego) has introduced a bill that, if passed, would deny a medical license to anyone required to register as a sex offender with…

ACSOL February 19, 2022 Meeting

·January 17, 2022
·10 Comments

Please join ACSOL Executive Director and civil rights attorney Janice Bellucci as well as ACSOL President and criminal defense attorney Chance Oberstein for our next monthly Zoom meeting. The meeting…

Janice’s Journal: Preparing for Challenges to SORNA Regulations

·January 7, 2022
·64 Comments

The new SORNA regulations became effective today. We do not like them and yet they are here. The question is what are we going to do about it? It is…

FAC Member Contribution: The Last to Finish Can Win the Race

·January 6, 2022
·1 Comment

When I was in my late forties I ran two miles a day. It was a joy to run on the rural Georgia roads, enjoying the clouds overhead and the…

Bureau of Prisons director slated to resign amid controversy

·January 6, 2022
·3 Comments

The director of BOP is resigning after 30 years in the bureau The director of the federal Bureau of Prisons plans to resign amid reports of widespread corruption in the…

Federal Government Finalizes SORNA Regulations (and Emergency ACSOL Zoom meeting recording )

·December 8, 2021
·298 Comments

UPDATE: Read a summary of the SORNA meeting Listen to the recording of the meeting The federal government today published final SORNA regulations in the Federal Register. According to this…

National Action Alert: Write and Call! SORNA Regulations Moving Forward, Now Awaiting AG Approval

·October 28, 2021
·140 Comments

UPDATED NEWS 12/8/2021: Unfortunately, this is going to be implemented. Read more here ACSOL's Response to the proposed regulations: Download a PDF of the following letter https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Proposed-regulations-Aug-2020.pdf https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Response-to-proposed-regs-Oct-2020-FINAL.pdf

Other than prison, electronic monitoring is ‘the most restrictive form’ of control, research finds

·October 21, 2021
·6 Comments

Source: nbcnews.com 9/23/21 In the past 18 months, as the judicial system has increasingly used electronic monitoring instead of prisons to monitor inmates through the coronavirus pandemic, newly released data…

Federal Sentencing of Child Pornography: Production Offenses

·October 14, 2021
·12 Comments

Oct 13, 2021 This report updates and expands upon the Commission's 2012 Report to the Congress: Federal Child Pornography Offenses. It provides the Commission’s most in-depth study of child pornography…

FL: Former Seminole County assistant state attorney enters plea on 2 felony sex charges

·October 14, 2021
·18 Comments

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Florida. — A former Seminole County Assistant State Attorney has entered a plea on two felony charges of having sex with a minor who worked for him. There…

Friends Outside in LA County announce new employment program for PFR

·October 14, 2021
·0 Comments

https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Friends-Outside-Employment-Revised-Flyer-II.pdf

Students disciplined for engaging in sex act at an Atlanta middle school

·October 1, 2021
·17 Comments

ATLANTA (CBS46) -- Two metro Atlanta middle school students face disciplinary action for their involvement in a sex incident on school grounds. Most parents, like Patrisha Mongeon, were disturbed to…

FL: DOJ Now Investigating Florida Sheriff’s Office For Using A Federal Grant To Fund Its ‘Predictive Policing’ Harassment Programs

·September 27, 2021
·2 Comments

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…

KS: Criminal justice panel hashes out potential changes to Kansas offender registry

·September 24, 2021
·22 Comments

TOPEKA — Criminal justice advocates, experts and law enforcement are debating potential changes to the Kansas drug and sex offender registry, including whether registries should be made public and an…

MI: Changes to sex offender list cause confusion

·September 14, 2021
·84 Comments

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

·September 13, 2021
·70 Comments

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

·September 13, 2021
·7 Comments

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…

Recording of Emergency ACSOL meeting about new SORNA regulations

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FL: OPPAGA 2021 Sex Offender Registration and Monitoring Triennial Review

Action Alert for CA: Assembly Bill Would Deny Medical Licenses to Most Registrants

ACSOL February 19, 2022 Meeting

Janice’s Journal: Preparing for Challenges to SORNA Regulations

FAC Member Contribution: The Last to Finish Can Win the Race

Bureau of Prisons director slated to resign amid controversy

Federal Government Finalizes SORNA Regulations (and Emergency ACSOL Zoom meeting recording )

National Action Alert: Write and Call! SORNA Regulations Moving Forward, Now Awaiting AG Approval

Other than prison, electronic monitoring is ‘the most restrictive form’ of control, research finds

Federal Sentencing of Child Pornography: Production Offenses

FL: Former Seminole County assistant state attorney enters plea on 2 felony sex charges

Friends Outside in LA County announce new employment program for PFR

Students disciplined for engaging in sex act at an Atlanta middle school

FL: DOJ Now Investigating Florida Sheriff’s Office For Using A Federal Grant To Fund Its ‘Predictive Policing’ Harassment Programs

KS: Criminal justice panel hashes out potential changes to Kansas offender registry

MI: Changes to sex offender list cause confusion

Action Alert: Congressional Bill to Expand Reach of IML

ACSOL Executive Director to Discuss Need to Overturn U.S. Supreme Court’s Mistake on September 18