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IN: Beware of Halloween Stranger Danger, Know Your Local Sex Offender Registry
Source: wevv.com 10/30/21 Halloween is nearly here. Soon thousands of Tri-State children will flock to the streets for their fill of candy and frights, but while costumes monsters and villains are out in good fun, there's a fear real predators might be lurking in the shadows. "You don't know what situation you're going to be faced with, which can be scary," Trish Crawford said....
ACSOL to Conduct SORNA Regulations Meeting on November 1 at 3pm PT
The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) will conduct a meeting on Monday, November 1 starting at 3 p.m. (Pacific) to discuss the proposed SORNA regulations. ACSOL President Chance Oberstein and ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci will lead that meeting using Zoom technology. The recording of the meeting is now available here. Click here to learn how to fight these terrible SORNA regulations...
Janice’s Journal: Proposed SORNA Regulations Can Be Defeated
Perhaps it is fitting that the proposed SORNA regulations, which were dormant for more than a year, have resurfaced during the week before Halloween. That is because the proposed regulations can be viewed as a creature often reported to be seen on Halloween, that is, a vampire. Vampires come in many shapes and sizes. For example, there are vampire bats which are small in...
The sexually violent predator next door
Source: latimes.com 10/29/21 Lawtis Donald _____ sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl in Florida in 1969 and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. When he got out — but while still on parole — he came to California, where he sexually assaulted three more underage girls, separately, luring them each into his car by posing as a fashion photographer. Then, while he was being...
CA: 3 men receive 15 years to life for killing registered sex offender in Redondo Beach
Source: dailybreeze.com 10/28/21 Three men were sentenced to 15 years to life in prison after pleading no contest this week to killing a registered sex offender during a home-invasion robbery in his Redondo Beach apartment in 2017, authorities said. Taylor John Cervantes, 26, of Hawthorne, Myles Jorge Sawyer, 28, and his brother, Brandon Scott Takeo Sawyer, 27, both of Torrance, were handed their sentences...
National Action Alert: Write and Call! SORNA Regulations Moving Forward, Now Awaiting AG Approval
UPDATED NEWS 12/8/2021: Unfortunately, this is going to be implemented. Read more here ACSOL's Response to the proposed regulations: Download a PDF of the following letter https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Proposed-regulations-Aug-2020.pdf https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Response-to-proposed-regs-Oct-2020-FINAL.pdf
IL: Landlords want shared risk to rent to risky tenants in Bloomington-Normal
Source: wglt.org 10/27/21 McLean County social service leaders say they aren’t yet seeing the impact of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic eviction moratorium – but they’ve been preparing. During a McLean County League of Women Voters forum about homelessness Tuesday night, Matt Burgess, chief executive officer of Home Sweet Home Ministries (HSHM), said he’s already been in talks with a property management company...
TN: Tennessee sex offender registry gets online ‘overhaul’ of data, resources
Source: wjhl.com 10/27/21 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The overhauled online registry of sex offenders in the state launched this week and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says it gives the public valuable resources related to personal and digital safety. The new sex offender registry shares personal information; not only for where they live but also where they work. Near the top of the new...
Sex Offenders: Fear vs. Fact on Halloween
Source: thecrimereport.org 10/26/21 Media fearmongering over “Registered Sex Offenders” in the community has become an annual Halloween tradition in the same way as razor blades and poison in candy. Wendy Murphy (who famously stated she “never met a false rape claim” during the Duke Lacrosse case) declared in the Boston Herald that “Halloween is like Christmas for sex offenders,” and local news outlets are...
SEPTA rape case is latest in a U.S. pandemic of police lying. There must be consequences.
Source: inquirer.com 10/24/21 The police disinformation about passengers watching the SEPTA rape is just one of a series of cop lies rocking the U.S. political debate. Enough is enough! You know the old adage that a lie travels halfway around the world before the truth gets a chance to put its pants on. In the aftermath of a shocking rape aboard a SEPTA El...
CA: New Phone Scam Targets Local Registered Sex Offenders, Sheriff’s Office Says
Source: lostcoastoutpost.com 10/14/21 The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has recently received reports of a phone scam targeting local PC 290 Registrants. As part of this scam, the caller claims they are from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office and tells the victim that due to “new laws”, they are now out of compliance with current PC 290 registration requirements. The scammer tells the victim that...
She Poses as Teen Girls to Catch Pedophiles Online
Source: thedailybeast.com 10/26/21 The new Discovery+ series “Undercover Underage” trails Roo Powell, who regularly poses as young girls—employing a variety of disguises—to catch child sexual predators online. Filling the vacuum left by NBC’s popular To Catch a Predator (which last aired in 2007), Undercover Underage charts the efforts of intrepid activists to identify and gather evidence on child predators so that local law enforcement...
IL: First female mayor of Illinois village sparks outrage after hiring registered child sex offender who spent 24 years in prison for brutal gang rape to be town’s code enforcement officer – which requires him to enter homes
Source: dailymail.co.uk 10/25/21 The new mayor of a village in a Chicago suburb unleashed a firestorm after it has emerged that she hired a registered child sex offender who worked on her campaign to be the town's code enforcement officer - a job that requires him to inspect inside homes and businesses. Trustees in the Village of Dolton - a community of 23,000 located...
What Led a Well-off Israeli Teen to Seduce and Murder a Sex Offender?
Source: haaretz.com 10/25/21 'A very sensitive kid' is how classmates describe the 16-year-old accused of murdering a convicted sex offender, after seducing him using Instagram. In a journal, he recounts the murder in detail, including carving a swastika with a knife About two months ago, the central district of the Israeli State Prosecutor’s Office filed an official indictment on the charge of aggravated murder....
Virgin Islands: $400,000 Award from the U.S. Department of Justice in Support of SORNA
Source: justice.gov 10/25/21 ST. THOMAS, USVI – U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that the Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands has received a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice in support of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. The award from the DOJ’s Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART) supports the vital work of...
States Can Shorten Probation and Protect Public Safety
Source: pewtrusts.org 12/3/20 More than 3.5 million, or 1 in 72, adults were on probation in the United States at the end of 2018—the most recent year for which U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) data is available—more than triple the number in 1980.1 Nationwide, on any given day, more people are on probation than in prisons and jails and on parole combined. At...
IN: Community raises concerns on operator of new business run by a registrant
Source: washtimesherald.com 10/13/21 LOOGOOTEE – The fact that a convicted sex offender has opened a tattoo shop near a preschool brought out an overflow crowd of more than 30 to Tuesday’s Loogootee City Council meeting. Makenzie Wagoner, 19, made an impassioned plea for city officials and the public at large to take action to protect young children. She does not want the business closed,...
W.A.R. Room: Alex Gittinger leads a discussion of Registry, Public Scrutiny, Cocooning and Mental Health on Oct 26
Source email from Women Against Registry 10/25/21 Our next guest in The WAR Room will be Alex Gittinger on Tuesday, Oct 26, 2021 at 5 PM Pacific Time, 7 PM Central Time. Alex will share his story and insights into how the registry can impact mental health. Pre-registration is required! Alex is Group Lead and Board Member with Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws...
India Shocked to Discover that 96 percent of sexual abusers of minors in India are relatives or friends of the family
Source: goachronicle.com 10/23/21 Sexual abuse of a child is a horrific and heinous crime. Everyday in different parts of India cases of child sexual abuse are being reported, many however, continue to remain unreported. The most shocking truth about child sexual abuse in India is that in all child sexual abuse case reported in the country which is part of the National Crime Records...