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Janice’s Journal: Three Courts Issue Three Harmful Decisions

·July 13, 2018
·75 Comments

In the span of just one week, three courts have issued decisions that significantly harm registrants. Those decisions affect registrants’ marriages, homes and overseas travel. It’s a lot to absorb…

Janice’s Journal: Voting Rights Act for Registrants May Be Required

·June 5, 2018
·29 Comments

Today is election day. Today California voters will cast their ballots in a primary election that determines the nomination of candidates for offices from Insurance Commissioner to U.S. Senator as…

Janice’s Journal: Three Opportunities in Thirty Days

·April 12, 2018
·56 Comments

We have three opportunities during the next 30 days to Show Up – Stand Up – Speak Up. Our first opportunity is in Sacramento on April 24 when the Senate…

Janice’s Journal: Beware of False Prophets….and Some Lawyers’ Letters, Too

·February 26, 2018
·29 Comments

Attorneys have sent letters to registrants for many years. In the past, the rate and regularity of those letters has been slow and uneven. In the past, such letters were…

Janice’s Journal: Murder at the Hands of Vigilantes

·January 15, 2018
·70 Comments

It happened again. Another CA registrant was murdered by vigilantes for no reason other than he was required to register as a sex offender. This horror began when four men…

Janice’s Journal: To Jail and Then to Hell

·January 4, 2018
·32 Comments

A town in Connecticut passed a new law this week that bans registrants from virtually all of its public sites, including parks, recreation centers, event centers, swimming pools, trails, and…

Janice’s Journal: Why Did Senator Franken Resign?

·December 8, 2017
·52 Comments

U.S. Senator Al Franken has announced that he will soon resign. The public reason he gave for his resignation is that he has been accused of sexual misconduct. The real…

Janice’s Journal: Say “No” to the Scarlet Letter

·November 13, 2017
·115 Comments

The federal government has done it again. They have issued not one, but two, press releases that reveal both the proposed language and the placement of a “unique identifier” on…

Janice’s Journal: The Stage is Set

·October 7, 2017
·230 Comments

The stage is set. The Governor has signed the tiered registry bill into law, a law that opens a wide gap in the dam of California’s “Lifetime Registry for All”. …

Janice’s Journal: The Path Forward for CA tiered registry (SB 384)

·September 12, 2017
·178 Comments

In the most recent step of the legislative process, the Assembly’s Public Safety Committee approved the newest version of the Tiered Registry Bill (SB 384) yesterday. The bill is now…

Janice’s Journal: A Bill Fails, A New Opportunity is Created

·September 2, 2017
·103 Comments

The struggle to pass the most recent Tiered Registry Bill (Senate Bill 421) is over. The Assembly Appropriations Committee stopped the bill yesterday when it refused to release the bill…

Janice’s Journal: Shame On the San Diego City Council

·August 8, 2017
·64 Comments

The San Diego City Council took the wrong action for the wrong reason last week when they failed to repeal the city’s residency restrictions which, if enforced, would prohibit registrants…

Janice’s Journal: Freedom from Tyranny of the Registry

·July 4, 2017
·121 Comments

Today we sit on top of a mountain. We take a short rest after an arduous journey up a steep path. We gather strength. We gather numbers. We prepare for what we believe will…

Janice’s Journal: It Was a Miracle!

·June 2, 2017
·120 Comments

On the floor of the Senate yesterday, the Senate passed the Tiered Registry Bill (SB 421). It was a miracle! It was the first time, after three unsuccessful attempts, that a…

Janice’s Journal: Next Two Weeks Could Make Huge Difference

·May 22, 2017
·41 Comments

The next two weeks could make a huge difference in the lives of more than 100,000 registrants and their families. That difference could be a decision by the Senate Appropriations…

Janice’s Journal: Tiered Registry Bill is Reborn

·April 19, 2017
·34 Comments

The Tiered Registry Bill is reborn. We now have a second chance to end a 70-year-old law that requires individuals to register for a lifetime, regardless of the nature of…

Janice’s Journal: Perhaps It’s a Coincidence, Perhaps It’s Not

·March 26, 2017
·34 Comments

Perhaps it’s a coincidence, perhaps it’s not. The hearing dates for several bills, including Senate Bill 26 and Assembly Bill 558, have changed and keep changing. A single change is…

Janice’s Journal: Senate Bill 26 Has Been Stopped!

·March 3, 2017
·23 Comments

Senate Bill 26, which would have prohibited all registrants from visiting all schools for all reasons has been stopped! This early victory in the State Capitol came about, in part,…