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Jul
2013
California Reform Sex Offender Laws (CA RSOL) filed a lawsuit today challenging the El Dorado County ordinance that prohibits all registrants from entering the county's parks, schools and other areas where children congregate. The lawsuit requests that the court declare that the ordinance is unconstitutional and prohibit the county from enforcing that ordinance. "It is important to stop the El Dorado County ordinance as...
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Jul
2013
From 2006: Hofsheier Decision (Equal Protection) From 2012: Case that said 311.11a cases weren't subject to the Hofsheier Motion because there is no violation of the Equal Protection doctrine
It is against Pinterest's terms of use to post personal information of another person - yet they are blatantly ignoring this policy by ignoring multiple reports of the four Pinterest boards owned by the Albany Times Union, which post the photographs and personal information of people on the registry and by proxy, their family members and children. There is no evidence to suggest this...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas judge has ordered law enforcement agencies to remove a man's name from the state's offender registry, saying an amended law ostracizes offenders and requires them to remain registered longer than necessary. Tuesday's decision by Shawnee County Judge Larry Hendricks addressed only the case of the man who sued to end his registering requirement, but it could extend to others in his...
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Jul
2013
The Court of Appeal will hear oral argument in the Hugo Godinez case on July 22 in Santa Ana. At issue in that case is whether the Orange County ordinance which prohibited all sex offenders from entering public places such as parks, beaches and hiking trails is preempted by the state constitution. The court's decision is expected within 30 days. The Orange County ordinance,...
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Jul
2013
STATE HOUSE – The General Assembly has approved legislation that will prohibit prospective employers for including questions on job applications regarding arrests, charges or criminal convictions.The legislation provides exceptions to that rule in certain cases: if a federal or state law or regulation creates a mandatory or presumptive disqualification based on a person’s conviction of one or more specified criminal offenses, or if a...
The technological phenomenon of “sexting” has seen such a dramatic increase in popularity that it is now defined in the Merriam Webster Dictionary: “the sending of sexually explicit messages or images by cell phone.” Moreover, if you ask a high school student to describe sexting, you may be surprised to hear it is a social norm. In a 2009 survey conducted by the National Campaign to Prevent...
Discounts for the national RSOL conference, including registration and hotel, will end on July 31. In order to take advantage of those discounts, please register for the conference and hotel no later than that date. After July 31, the conference rate will increase from $90 to $100 and the hotel rate will increase from $89 to $130 per night. It's easy to register online at www.nationalrsol.org....
Lawmakers rushed to approve the final pieces of a two-year budget and leave Salem after 155 days — five shy of the constitutional deadline to finish their work.One of their final acts was passing an $800 million bonding package to fund construction projects around the state, including a 174-bed psychiatric hospital in Junction City. Some Republican legislators criticized the project because of the high...
Defense attorney David McDonald had no problem with his client being required to register every three months with the sheriff's office as a violent offender. However, the recent sentence that client ___ ____ ____, 33, received — 22 years and eight months tied to two Shawnee County cases for failing to register as an offender — is excessive, McDonald said. No one objects to...
Guest Columnist Jill Levenson of Lynn University criticizes the reliance of the Supreme Court and others on inaccurate sex offender data... In the US Supreme Court's recent decision upholding sex offender registration requirements (SORNA) under the Adam Walsh Act [PDF], the Court's opinion [PDF] included the following statement: "SORNA's general changes were designed to make more uniform what had remained "a patchwork of federal and 50 individual state registration systems ... with loopholes and...
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Jul
2013
Progressives in America are rightly concerned about increasing signs of fascism in this country, such as a so-called war on terrorism thatallows massive invasion of privacy and wholesale imprisonment without charge; such as state manufacture of propaganda for its ownpeople; such as the assertion that anyone who challenges government policies on these matters is a traitor; such as a "great leader" who puts himself...
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Jul
2013
The most telling predictor of whether an ex-offender will reenter the community as a law-abiding and productive member, or whether instead he or she will return to jail or prison, is employment. Former inmates with steady jobs have fairly high success rates. For those who can't find work, prospects are dismal. Full Article
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A judge in Oklahoma City awarded custody of a child to 55-year-old _____ _____, who is a registered sex offender from Bakersfield. The child is _____'s 6-year-old daughter. The ruling left the girl's mother bewildered, she said. Full Article More on this story: Registered sex offender has daughter taken away after bullet arrest
02
Jul
2013
A 2004 state law requires the names and addresses of all registered sex offenders to be made public. On Monday, the state Supreme Court ruled that the law could apply to a Bay Area man who admitted molesting a child in 1991, when sex offender registrations were confidential. Full Article
A California Court of Appeal that last month rebuked a Huntington Beach Police Department (HBPD) sting operation targeting adults in pursuit of minors for sex on Craigslist has refused a California Attorney General's office request to reconsider its decision, but nonetheless softened it stance in the case. Full Article
01
Jul
2013
Comments that are not specific to a certain post should go here, for the month of July 2013. Contributions should relate to the cause and goals of this organization and please, keep it courteous and civil.
01
Jul
2013
DOVER, Del. - The state House has given final legislative approval to a bill giving Family Court judges the discretion to determine whether certain juvenile offenders should be declared sex offenders subject to inclusion on the state's sex offender registry. Full Article
01
Jul
2013
"... requiring the parties' compliance with changes in the law made retroactive to them does not violate the terms of the plea agreement, nor does the failure of a plea agreement to reference the possibility the law might change translate into an implied promise the defendant will be unaffected by a change in the statutory consequences attending his or her conviction. To that extent, then, the terms of the plea agreement...
After more than seven years and a move 2,800 miles across the country, ____ ____ thought he'd left behind reminders of the arrest that capped a bitter break-up. That was, until he searched the Internet last month and came face-to-face with his 2006 police mug shot. Full Article