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ID: Idaho Put Her on New Child Protection Registry for 10 Years for Using Marijuana for Morning Sickness
Source: huffpost.com 1/2/26 Keeva Rossow is one of hundreds of women who have been punished for purported "child abuse" of a fetus — despite giving birth to a healthy baby. Keeva Rossow had no idea when she arrived at an Idaho hospital to give birth in December 2021 that she may not leave with her daughter. Shortly after Rossow gave birth, a social worker...
MO: Major Court Victory! 8th Circuit Finds Halloween Signs Unconstitutional
Source: ACSOL The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision today declaring that a Missouri state law that required registrants to post a sign on their home on Halloween violates the First Amendment and is therefore unconstitutional. In its decision, the Court agreed that the sign requirement is both compelled speech and not narrowly tailored. As a result, the Court applied strict scrutiny...
NV: Unregistered sex offender dies while being transported to jail for technical violation
Source: kolotv.com 12/31/25 SILVER SPRINGS, Nev. (KOLO) - An unregistered sex offender died while being transported to jail on Wednesday, Dec. 31, according to a Lyon County Sheriff’s Facebook post. The Sheriff’s Office Sex Offender Task Force responded to a Dayton area home following an anonymous tip about a sex offender who had failed to register as required by law. Task force members arrested...
International Living 2026
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Domestic Travel 2026
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International Travel 2026
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General Comments Jan 2026
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WA: Bill proposes changes to sex offender registration for Net Nanny cases in Washington [good news!]
Source: nbcrightnow.com 12/29/25 [Washington state residents, write, call, and show up to support this bill!] OLYMPIA, Wash. - A new bill under consideration in Olympia could impact those convicted in Net Nanny operations involving fictitious minors. SB 5312 proposes to reduce the sex offender registration requirement for individuals convicted in these operations to five years, provided they have no prior sex offense or kidnapping convictions. ...
FL: Questions about how Florida tracks sex offenders who do not have a permanent place to live
Source: winknews.com 12/26/25 The man arrested in connection with the disappearance of a teenager near Fort Myers Beach over the weekend has been released from jail after posting bond early Friday morning. Worden Bourn was arrested on charges of marijuana possession and providing drugs to a minor. He is also a registered sex offender. Bourn’s arrest has raised questions about how Florida tracks sex...
LA: Judge dismisses lawsuit against St. Tammany Parish over their extremely anti-registrant housing ordinance
Source: nola.com 12/29/25 A federal judge in New Orleans has dismissed a lawsuit that two landlords filed against St. Tammany Parish government over a parish law that strictly regulates housing for registered sex offenders, after the parish and landlord indicated they had reached a settlement and "agreed to resolve this dispute amicably." Following the St. Tammany Parish Council's April 2024 adoption of sweeping regulations of housing for registered sex...
IL: Chicago bans unhoused registrants from seeking shelter on public buses and trains
Source: chicagoreader.com 12/28/25 Terrance has followed the same routine for years. Once a week, he gets in his car around 7 AM and drives to the Second District police station, a rectangular, two-story building of beige bricks at 51st and Wentworth in Chicago’s Fuller Park neighborhood. Inside, he joins a handful of other people sitting on worn wooden benches in the dimly lit waiting...
WI: Sex offenders who are homeless would have to wear GPS monitors under Republican bill
Source: wpr.org 12/22/25 Legislation comes as 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals considers constitutionality of Wisconsin's GPS requirement for repeat sex offenders Several Republican legislators say they want to close a “gap” in the state’s sex offender registry law they contend leaves communities in the dark about the whereabouts of convicted offenders who are homeless. The bill would require any registered sex offender in Wisconsin...
LA: Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled
Source: yahoo.com 12/21/25 THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — The teasing was relentless. Nude images of a 13-year-old girl and her friends, generated by artificial intelligence, were circulating on social media and had become the talk of a Louisiana middle school. The girls begged for help, first from a school guidance counselor and then from a sheriff’s deputy assigned to their school. But the images were shared...
ACSOL Online Meeting January 17, 2026
You are invited to join ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci and President attorney Elie Miller to our next meeting. The meeting will be held on Saturday, January 17 online on Zoom beginning at 10 a.m. Pacific time, 1:00 PM Eastern, and will last at least two hours. You can use the Zoom app or you can call in using a Zoom phone number. There...
TX: ‘Caught in the middle’: Raymondville police helped by, but can’t encourage, online predator hunters
Source: valleycentral.com 12/16/25 RAYMONDVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — On Thursday, Raymondville police arrested Christian Tijerina, who now faces 15 counts of possession of child pornography. Authorities were called to Tijerina’s residence after the online group Predator Poachers confronted him there. “We’re caught in the middle,” said Sgt. Detective Denise Gomez with the Raymondville Police Department. Gomez specializes in child sex abuse cases and has spent...
LA: News Reporter Shames Dead Registrants In Article on Murderer’s Conviction
Source: local12.com 12/18/25 [Note: Showing what we are up against, you can see that immediately after quickly reporting the conviction this article shames the registrants with a list of past crimes and then horrific comments below the article] SABINE PARISH, La. (WKRC) - A man was found guilty of killing two sex offenders. A Sabine Parish jury has found Blake Joseph Kendall guilty on...
WI: Convicted sex offenders challenge Wisconsin’s lifetime GPS tracking at Seventh Circuit
Source: courthousenews.com 12/16/25 A class of convicted sex offenders in Wisconsin say the state's ankle monitor requirement for repeat offenders infringes on their Fourth Amendment rights. CHICAGO (CN) — A class of convicted sex offenders in Wisconsin maintained to a Seventh Circuit panel Tuesday that the state’s lifetime GPS monitoring requirement runs afoul of the Fourth Amendment. The Wisconsin Department of Corrections requires...
PA: Hysteria and fear reign as residents rally to halt proposed transitional home for sex offenders in Jackson Township
Source: wjactv.com 12/15/25 A transitional home for sex offenders was proposed in a Huntingdon County community, which led to dozens of residents showing up to a special meeting about it Monday night. At the meeting, several Jackson Township residents shared their concerns about potential transitional housing in the community. However, township and nonprofit leaders reassured the public that this will not be happening. “Right...
PA: ‘Predator protector police?’ Lewistown P.D. responds to calls to arrest alleged pedophile
Source: local21news.com 12/13/25 LEWISTOWN, Pa. (WHP) — Angry comments, messages, and calls are flooding the inbox of the Lewistown Police Department, over an arrest police say they're not sure they can legally make. The department said the calls started this past week after YouTuber posted the contact information for the department because it didn't arrest someone the content creator claimed was a child sex predator....
CA: Fresno County Supervisor’s Hate-Filled Rant: Registrants Should be Convicted, Then Executed
Source: omny.fm 12/11/25 Fresno County Supervisor Garry Bredefeld stated recently on a radio talk show that registrants should first be convicted, then executed. The supervisor made this comment about 15 minutes and 20 minutes into a lengthy interview about a Fresno county ordinance that would limit the number of registrants who can live in a single family home. The link to the interview is...