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MA: High court takes up whistleblower claim that Sex Offender Registry Board violated law
[gloucestertimes.com - 5/4/21] SALEM — Lawyers for the state will be back in front of the state's highest court this week, this time trying to convince the court to find that the state's whistleblower protection law does not apply in the case of the former sex offender board chairwoman ousted by then-Governor Deval Patrick over her handling of his brother-in-law's case. The hearing Wednesday...
Australia: South Australia Wants To Set Up A Public Domestic Violence Register
[ladbible.com - 5/5/21] South Australia has outlined a new proposal to tackle domestic violence in the state. The state government has suggested a public register be established in a similar fashion to a public sex offender registry, according to the ABC. It would allow anyone, particularly potential partners, to look up a person's name to see if they have any history with domestic abuse....
TX: Kyle approves child safety zones to restrict sex offender residency within city
[communityimpact.com - 5/4/21] After several months of discussion and amending guidelines, the city of Kyle has approved implementation of child safety zones that would restrict where registered sex offenders may reside. ... City officials noted during discussion of the ordinance in February that based on its definition of common areas where children gather, residency within 95% of Kyle would be off limits for registered...
OR: Former Oregon Democrat House Majority Speaker Arrested For Human Sex Trafficking
[thegatewaypundit.com - 5/3/21] Former Oregon House Speaker and current Clackamas Community College board member Dave Hunt has been arrested and charged by Portland police in an undercover sex traffic sting operation. Hunt, a Democrat, voted for the 2011 bill that he is charged under. Read the full article Look up bad sex-related bills in your state so you can fight them!(select your state and...
WA: Lawsuit: State operation to catch sex offenders entrapped innocent men to boost arrest numbers
[spokesman.com - 5/2/21] Quentin Parker believes the sting operation that identified him as a “dangerous child predator” in 2019 failed its mission. Though charges against him were ultimately dropped, he claims in his recent lawsuit against Washington State Patrol that dishonest detectives manipulated him and “forever tainted and destroyed” his life for their own financial gain. According to the suit filed in Thurston County...
CHALLENGE MET to Provide Funds to Fight SORNA Regulations. Thanks!
[Thanks to all of you who helped meet our goal to fund our fight SORNA regulations! Of course we encourage all to continue donations to ACSOL so we can expand our fight] The sum of $1,200 has been provided to ACSOL in the form of a challenge grant in order to fight the federal government's proposed SORNA regulations. However, the sum comes with strings...
PA: What protections are in place to stop repeat sexual offenders FOX43 Reveals
[fox43.com - 5/2/21] HARRISBURG, Pa. — Most registered sex offenders are well within their rights to live close to a school or daycare—and many do. FOX43 Reveals how often it is happening and what protections are in place to stop repeat offenders. Each month, daycare supervisor Karla Rivero gets a new batch of mugshots of registered sex offenders that live near her work: Busy...
General Comments May 2021
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CA: SJ County loses $220 million because of old criminal records, legislation proposes relief in SB 731
[recordnet.com - 4/30/21] A criminal reform bill is making its way through the California State Senate that could automatically seal criminal records after a person has completed 2 full years out of the criminal justice system. This new bill – SB731 – proposes criminal record relief, where records are sealed after a person has served their time, completed their probation and parole time, and spent 2 years without no new convictions, offenses or...
MO: Jury awards $22 million judgment in civil case against sex offender
[ozarkcountytimes.com - 4/29/21] Following a three-day civil trial, a unanimous jury on Wednesday, April 21, awarded a $22 million judgment against Tracy Todd ____, a former Gainesville resident who is currently serving a 70-year sentence for coercion and enticement of a minor, and sexual exploitation of a minor. Read the full article
WA: Washington State Officials Propose Toolkit to Help People With Mental Health, Addiction Issues Find Housing
[chronline.com - 4/29/21] Almost 10 years ago, state researchers conducted a study looking at how many people in Washington state became homeless after leaving inpatient treatment for a mental health issue or substance use disorder. The results were shocking. Nearly half the people discharged from a drug or alcohol treatment facility in 2010 were homeless or didn't have stable housing within a year. For...
CA: East County is ‘dumping grounds’ for sexually violent predators, official says
[fox5sandiego.com - 4/28/21] SAN DIEGO – The fight to keep violent sexual predators out of a home on Mt. Helix intensified Wednesday as Supervisor Joel Anderson joined the effort in asking for change. “Sadly, East County has become the dumping grounds for all our sexually violent predators,” Anderson said, claiming roughly 67% of the overall predators have been placed there. “I will not allow...
UK: No stalkers’ register in domestic abuse bill an ‘insult to victims’
[theguardian.com - 4/28/21] Ministers have been accused of misleading and insulting victims after a cross-party group of peers abandoned a push to create an automatic register of dangerous domestic abusers and stalkers. The domestic abuse bill is expected to receive royal assent this week, four years after it was announced in the Queen’s speech. But it will not include a specific stalkers’ register, despite...
Janice’s Journal: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop
[4/29/21 Updated with link (see end of post)] As we approach the end of April 2021, we are waiting for the “other shoe” to drop. In fact, we are waiting for two shoes to drop. The larger shoe comes in the form of SORNA regulations proposed by the federal government nine months ago. The regulations, if finalized, would result in great uncertainty for more...
Understanding Child Sexual Abusers
[themamabeareffect.org - 4/26/21] Addressing the misconception that all child sexual offenders are pedophiles and the reasons why people commit abuse against children. Introducing the typologies of abusers to help protective adults understand that there is no set stereotype for offenders and why we need to involve all the adults and adolescents we know and trust around our children, to be educated on the issues...
CA Senate Bill 615 Temporarily Suspended
[ACSOL] Senate Bill 615, which would have limited the discretion of judges and harmed members of the LGBTQ community, has been temporarily suspended. The suspension is due to the author's removal of the bill from consideration today by the Senate Public Safety Committee. "Because Senate Bill 615 has been withdrawn from consideration by committee, the bill is suspended for the remainder of this calendar...
Reddit faces lawsuit for failing to remove child sexual abuse material
[theverge.com - 4/25/21] A woman has sued Reddit for allowing an ex-boyfriend to repeatedly post pornographic images of her as a 16-year-old. The lawsuit applies controversial measures instituted in 2018 under FOSTA-SESTA to a site that’s drawn particular criticism for child sexualization. The resulting case will test the limits of platforms’ legal shields amid ongoing efforts to pare back the law behind them. The...
Shady scam bots trick Omegle users into nonconsensual video sex recordings
[blog.malwarebytes.com - 4/16/21] 14-year old Michael (not his real name) from Scandinavia first visited Omegle, the video online chat that has become hugely popular since the start of the pandemic, after hearing about “unpredictable and weird encounters” one may experience on the site from other students in school. He was intrigued. At the end of his “session”, however, he was worried. The allure of...
CA: Data Driven 2: California Dragnet—New Data Set Shows Scale of Vehicle Surveillance in the Golden State
[eff.org - 4/22/21] This project is based on data processed by student journalist Olivia Ali, 2020 intern JJ Mazzucotelli, and research assistant Liam Harton, based on California Public Records Act requests filed by EFF and dozens of students at the University of Nevada, Reno Reynolds School of Journalism. Tiburon, California: a 13-square-mile peninsula town in Marin County, known for its glorious views of the San Francisco Bay and its...
MN: Psychologist at Minnesota sex offender program charged with sexually assaulting two clients
[startribune.com - 4/23/21] The psychologist, Michelle D. _______, 38, of Duluth, was charged with two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct involving the men, who were undergoing treatment for sexual offenses. A warrant covering Minnesota and its border states has been issued for her arrest. The assaults occurred between 2016 and early 2018 on the campus of the state's secure treatment facility in Moose...