The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) is dedicated to protecting the Constitution by restoring the civil rights of registrants and their families. In order to achieve that objective, ACSOL will educate and litigate as well as support or oppose legislation.
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Feb
2022
Source: khou.com 2/21/22 HOUSTON — Some Houston-area cities are fighting crime by installing virtual gates around their communities. Dozens of cameras are taking millions of pictures of driver's license plates each month. One local police chief said the technology helped catch 25 times as many suspects in wanted vehicles as the year before. Each time a vehicle passes one of the automatic license plate...
Source: science.org 2/18/22 One in three adults in the United States has been arrested at least once, a strikingly high number compared with many other countries. Now, a new study reveals one of the implications of that figure: Nearly half of unemployed U.S. men have a criminal conviction by age 35, which makes it harder to get a job, according to an analysis of...
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Feb
2022
Source: Women Against Registry (W.A.R.) Margaret Love is the Executive Director and Editor of the Collateral Consequences Resource Center. She is a former U.S. Pardon Attorney who, in her private practice in Washington, D.C., represents applicants for executive clemency. She is lead co-author of Collateral Consequence of Criminal Conviction: Law, Policy & Practice (NACDL/West, 3rd ed. 2018-2019) Margaret created and regularly updates the Restoration...
Source: ACSOL The California Sex Offender Management Board (CASOMB) today listened to a lengthy, in-depth presentation regarding the Tiered Registry Law and its implementation. The presentation was delivered by attorneys Michele Kumaus of the San Diego Public Defenders Office and Ana Santiago of the San Diego District Attorneys Office. According to the attorneys, a total of 143 petitions for removal from the registry have...
Source: fox5sandiego.com 2/12/22 SAN DIEGO — Residents in the Arbolito neighborhood are concerned for their children’s safety after a convicted sex offender moved into their neighborhood without any notice to the community. Convicted sex offender, Spicer ____, was sentenced to eight years in state prison in 2017 for kidnapping, contact with a minor to commit a sexual offense and unlawful possession of an assault...
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Feb
2022
A lawsuit was filed this week in Sacramento Superior Court challenging the application of a tiered registry law provision that has resulted in individuals being assigned to Tier 3, the highest tier, even though their felony conviction was reduced to a misdemeanor. Specifically, the lawsuit is seeking relief for an individual convicted of a felony violation of Penal Code Section 288.2 that was later...
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Feb
2022
Source: fresnobee.com 2/14/22 A coalition of 100-plus crisis intervention agencies is once again appealing to the California Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom to set aside funding in next year’s budget to pay for programming found to prevent sexual and domestic violence. Although California has a budget surplus, Newsom did not set aside money for this work in his January budget proposal, something that did...
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Feb
2022
A recent TV news show on a completely different topic recently introduced me to the phrase, “Fear Obscures Fact.” That short phrase struck a nerve as it concisely explains one of the major obstacles in the registrant community. There is a plethora of data in studies and reports from both government and academia stating the facts. For example, the rate of re-offense for individuals...
14
Feb
2022
Source: H.E.A.L. HEAL - VA- Organizational Flyer You are invited to join H.E.A.L.'s Zoom meeting on February 20. Our purpose is to reform unjust and outdated sex crime laws. Our meeting will discuss: Explain WHAT we propose to be and WHY Explore need & rationale for “another new group” Gauge “levels of interest & effort” members want to put Define organizational mission For some...
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Feb
2022
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08
Feb
2022
Source: cjonline.com 2/8/22 Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is pushing for lawmakers to require people convicted of certain child pornography crimes to register as sex offenders. "This is a matter of the law needing to catch up with technology," Schmidt said in a statement. "Sadly, as the methods of distributing visual depictions of children being sexually abused have expanded, so too must the legal tools...
08
Feb
2022
Source: breakingnews.ie 2/8/22 An Irish man who was jailed for trying to entice a child for indecent purposes was told to “go and live in a tent” by a probation officer in the United States, the Court of Appeal was told on Tuesday. Martin ___(46) was caught in a police sting in the State of Georgia after he sent a nude selfie to an...
Source: cbc.ca 2/8/22 Edmonton lawyer asks top court to strike down sections of Canada's sex offender laws The fallout from a 2011 Edmonton sexual assault case has come before the Supreme Court of Canada. The country's top court has been asked to consider striking down two sections of Canada's sex offender laws as unconstitutional. In 2011, the Stephen Harper government altered the Criminal Code...
08
Feb
2022
Source: kshb.com 2/7/22 KANSAS CITY, KS. — On Tuesday, the Kansas State Senate is set to hear a sex offender law in Topeka. Kansas Senate Bill 385 would require people convicted of certain breach of privacy offenses, like peeping, to register as a sex offender. This is something victims and advocates have been fight for after several peeping cases here in the Kansas City...
Michigan ACLU Attorney Miriam Aukerman will be in The Room! Please pre-register here to receive your link to engage with others in the WAR Room. Hopefully, our members and supporters have opened and read the blast received yesterday regarding the on-going saga of the war being waged in Michigan between their ACLU and the state 'powers-that-be'! We will have as...
04
Feb
2022
HUNDREDS of sex offenders live in a 24-acre private, isolated community along a miles-long Florida road lined by gator-infested waters and surrounded by thousands of acres of sugar cane. The community has been self-described as a safe haven for sex offenders who need a place to live because of the state's laws that requires anyone on the registry to live between 1,000 and 2,500...
04
Feb
2022
The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) has a new mailing address: ACSOL 2110 K Street Sacramento, CA 95816 The new address is very similar to the old address. The only changes are the "house" number and the last digit of the zip code. Please address all future correspondence to the new address effective immediately. Thank you.
Source: aclumich.org 2/2/22 Civil rights organization says it’s unconstitutional to label people for life without individual review DETROIT – Today the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan (ACLU), on behalf of 10 people who all previously won federal court rulings that Michigan’s Sex Offenders Registration Act (SORA) is unconstitutional, filed a federal class action lawsuit against state officials over the latest version of the...
Source: Reason.com 2/1/22 Butts County, Georgia, Sheriff Gary Long cited no evidence to support his pre-Halloween stunt. JACOB SULLUM | 2.1.2022 6:25 PM A Georgia sheriff violated the First Amendment when he posted signs on the lawns of registered sex offenders to warn away trick-or-treaters, a federal appeals court said in a recent ruling. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th...
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Source: theglobeandmail.com 2/2/22 The U.S. government says it’s frustrated that Ottawa refuses to routinely notify Washington when Canadians convicted of sexual offences against children travel to the United States, noting that it alerts Canada when the same class of American offenders are heading here. The Americans say Canada cites federal privacy law as the reason. ... Mr. Kenney said the U.S. government would like...