Major ACSOL Accomplishments and Plans

Major ACSOL Accomplishments and Plans

ACSOL has succeeded in making the lives of registrants better in very important ways!

Due to the efforts of ACSOL, California is the only state where registrants who are not on parole, probation or supervised release have no limits on where they can live, the places they can visit and how they celebrate Halloween. ACSOL accomplished this achievements during its first decade by filing more than 100 lawsuits in both state and federal courts. ACSOL was able to accomplish this and more due to the support of registrants, family members and supporters. We thank you for that support and look forward to working together during the next 10 years and beyond in order to accomplish new goals.

We can’t do it without you! You really make a difference.

  • Please donate regularly. Click the Donate button on any of our pages. Click here for additional ways to donate, such as putting us in your will
  • Please take part in our Action Alerts to write and call. The signup is on all of our pages.
  • Please come to our events, such as our yearly conference, national vigil in Washington DC in 2023, and lobbying in California.

This is what we have done nationally:

  • News
    • Post articles affecting all registrants in the nation
    • Post articles affecting individual states
  •  Litigation
  • Education
    • Annual ACSOL national conferences – Since 2017
    • Monthly meetings
    • Emotional support group meetings
    • Media relations – national

This is what we have done in California:

  • Education
    • Annual conferences – Since 2017
    • Monthly meetings
    • Emotional support group meetings
    • Media relations – local, state, national
    • Action alert email notices and text messages
  • Litigation
    • Elimination of presence restrictions!
    • Elimination of residency restrictions!
    • Elimination of Halloween restrictions!
    • Successful challenge regarding poll workers
    • Expansion of Prop. 57 benefits to registrants
  • Legislation
    • Fight Halloween signsin 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (Georgia)
    • Create Tiered Registry SB 384: Helped educate and lobby for the California tiered registry bill (but the final version had some bad things in it, which we were never warned about)
    • Support legislation SB 145 – created registration parity between straight and homosexual individuals. 
    • Stop legislation AB 884 tiered registry, AB 277 reintegration credits
    • Eliminated all California residency restrictions for people not on parole or probation
      • 2016-02-14 Opposed  SB 1021 residency restrictions
    • Eliminated all California presence restrictions for all registrants
      • 2016-01-12 Opposed AB 201 presence restrictions
      • 2015-04 Opposed SB 267 presence restrictions
    • 2015-07 Opposed SB 448 internet identifiers
    • 2021-04-12 Supported CDCR Repeal of Its Prop. 57 Exclusions
    • 2021-03-18 Opposed SB 615 – would have created disparity between straight and homosexual individuals charged with sex offense
    • 2020-09-10 Opposed violent product sales
    • 2020-05-21 Opposed SB 853 – would have extended duration of protective orders for some individuals convicted of a sex offense
    • 2018-09-17 Opposed Coalinga restrictions
    • 2018-06-20 Opposed AB 514 residency restrictions
    • 2018-04-24 Opposed SB 1143 notification
    • 2017-04-18 Opposed SB 26 –  would have prohibited all registrants, including parents, from entering K – 12 school campuses for any reason
    • 2017-04-05 Opposed AB 558 exemptions
    • 2016-06-28 Opposed AB 2569 – would have eliminated privacy rights of incest victims
    • 2016-06-21 Opposed  SB 448 identifier
    • Successful challenge regarding poll workers
    • Expansion of Prop. 57 benefits to registrants
    • Stop legislation (AB 884 tiered registry, AB 277 reintegration credits)

Ongoing and future national efforts:

  • Litigation
    • Challenge SORNA regulations
    • Ongoing fight against International Megan’s Law
  • Legislation
    • Adopt ALI’s Revised Model Penal Code (CA and other states)
  • Education
    • Forensic Mental Health Association Conference – April 2022
    • Conference and Vigil in Washington, D.C. – March 2023
    • Annual ACSOL national conferences – 2022
    • Monthly Zoom meetings
    • Emotional support Zoom group meetings
    • Media relations – national

Ongoing and future California fights:

  • Litigation
    • Continue to challenge provisions of Tiered Registry Law (CP, misdemeanors, etc)
    • Continue to challenge juror’s exclusion
    • Continue to challenge CDCR’s resentencing regulations
  • Legislation
    • Revise Tiered Registry Law
    • Adopt ALI’s Revised Model Penal Code (CA and other states)
  • Education
    • Monthly Zoom meetings
    • Emotional support Zoom group meetings