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…
General Comments June 2021
Comments that are not specific to a certain post should go here, for the month of June 2021. Contributions should relate to the cause and goals of this organization and…
FL: DoC is Planning to Charge people in prison to Receive Mail
Orlando Sentinel, May 29 FDC will hold a public hearing June 11 at 1 p.m. Eastern Time Officials with the Florida Department of Corrections plan to almost completely digitize mail…
Seventh Circuit: Indiana’s Sex Offender Registration Act’s ‘Other Jurisdiction Requirement’ Unconstitutional Violation of Right to Travel
by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana’s opinion that found a provision of Indiana’s Sex…
General Comments May 2021
Comments that are not specific to a certain post should go here, for the month of May 2021. Contributions should relate to the cause and goals of this organization and…
Shady scam bots trick Omegle users into nonconsensual video sex recordings
[blog.malwarebytes.com - 4/16/21] 14-year old Michael (not his real name) from Scandinavia first visited Omegle, the video online chat that has become hugely popular since the start of the pandemic,…
CA: Data Driven 2: California Dragnet—New Data Set Shows Scale of Vehicle Surveillance in the Golden State
[eff.org - 4/22/21] This project is based on data processed by student journalist Olivia Ali, 2020 intern JJ Mazzucotelli, and research assistant Liam Harton, based on California Public Records Act requests filed by EFF and…
Please take this survey available for registrants and families
[ladyjusticemyth.blog - 4/21/21] Please complete the ensnarement survey for C.A.G.E. My name is Kathleen Hambrick. Some of you know me by my blog name Lady Justice Myth. I became a member…
“The Book” on registration laws becoming available for purchase
[floridaactioncommittee.org - 4/16/21] Professors Wayne Logan (Florida State University School of Law) and JJ Prescott (University of Michigan School of Law) have edited the textbook on sex offense registration laws,…
General Comments April 2021
Comments that are not specific to a certain post should go here, for the month of April 2021. Contributions should relate to the cause and goals of this organization and…
MT: Federal judge to rule on sex offender registration for ‘gay sex’ convictions
[kpvi.com - 3/30/21] The Montana Attorney General’s Office opposed removing a former Missoula man from the state’s sexual offender registry despite evidence he was designated a sex offender because he…
How you can search for bills and advocacy groups in your state
[ACSOL] How to search for state bills to call and write about: Go to LegiScan.com Scroll down to the National Legislative Search Select your state Type "sex" or any other…
General Comments March 2021
Comments that are not specific to a certain post should go here, for the month of March 2021. Contributions should relate to the cause and goals of this organization and…
The Sex Offender Law That Could’ve Broken the Government
Herman Gundy was a convicted sex offender who failed to register as one in Pennsylvania and New York, states in which he traveled and resided. Under the Sex Offender Notification…
NY: Rensselaer County proposes animal abuser registry
[news10.com - 2/23/21] TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — On Tuesday, Rensselaer County legislators filed a local law to create a local animal abuse registry. “This legislation will establish an online registry…
International Travel 2021
This post is intended as a place for discussions about International Travel ONLY. For more information and previous discussions on the topic, please see International Travel 2020 and International Travel 2019.
General Comments February 2021
Comments that are not specific to a certain post should go here, for the month of February 2021. Contributions should relate to the cause and goals of this organization and…
Are you affected by AWA Title IV because your partner, fiancé, or spouse is on the registry? Let us know your experience
[ACSOL] Congress passed the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (AWA) and President Bush signed the AWA into law on July 27, 2006. The declared purpose of…