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CO: Audit Finds Deficiencies In How Colorado Sex Offender Management Board Carries Out Statutory Duties
[Press Release by the Colorado Office of the State Auditor - 7/28/20] Download PDFs of the reports from leg.colorado.gov/audits DENVER—The Office of the State Auditor (OSA) has released its performance audit of the 25-member Sex Offender Management Board (Board) at the Department of Public Safety (Department). The Board is not meeting its statutory charge to provide evidence-based standards for the evaluation, identification, treatment, management,...
Federal Probation and Supervised Release Violations Report by the United States Sentencing Commission July 2020
[www.ussc.gov - 7/2020] This report provides information on violations of federal probation and supervised release using data collected by the United States Sentencing Commission. For the first time, the Commission is reporting data collected from documents related to revocation hearings. Combined with data the Commission regularly collects, this report analyzes the characteristics of supervision violations and the outcomes of violation proceedings provided in documents...
House Arrest Is Touted as a Humane Punishment. It’s Not.
[gen.medium.com - 7/27/20] Electronic monitoring incarcerates people who might otherwise be on probation — and makes them pay for it themselves “If I had just done time, I would’ve been done by now.”— Patricia, under house arrest in Indiana The “crime” Patricia, mother of five, committed was an odd one: She climbed through her best friend’s window to retrieve a bottle of her own...
IL: Lawsuit dismissed after sex offenders living at Aurora ministry find new homes
[dailyherald.com - 7/27/20] Sex offenders who sued to stay at the Wayside Cross Ministries halfway house in downtown Aurora after a judge ruled it is too close to a playground have dropped their litigation after all of them found alternative housing. The lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed Friday, according to Kane County court records and their attorney, Adele Nicholas, who credited the Kane County state's...
PA: Supreme Court rules 2nd Generation Registration non-punitive
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Opinion holding that Pennsylvania's second-generation sex offense registration statute is non-punitive and thus ex post facto challenges against it fail. Case Summary and Details
Kat’s Blog: County Commissioner Seeks A New Kind of Registry in Florida
The County Commissioner in Brevard County, Florida has put this rather odd item on next week’s County Commission agenda. County Commissioner John Tobias is apparently not satisfied with the current state residency statute for those convicted of certain sexual offenses. The existing 1,000 ft. restriction of registrants from schools, daycares and playgrounds doesn’t seem to be “safe enough” for him. The Commissioner has proposed...
CA: Contact numbers for registrants living in the City of Los Angeles to call in order to register
[ACSOL] Following are contact numbers for registrants living in the City of Los Angeles to call in order to register. Registration in person is no longer required or even possible. Create a written record of the date and time that you call for possible future use. Central Division 213-833-3740 Rampart Division 213-484-3637 Hollenbeck Division 323-342-8994 Northeast Division 323-561-3270 Newton Division 323-846-6576 77th Street...
NY: Homeless Man Jailed for Failing to Put Address on Sex Offender Registry Dies at Rikers
[thecity.nyc - 7/20/20] On March 4, Hector Rodriguez was sent to Rikers Island because he failed to log his address with state’s sex offender registry — even though he had been homeless for years. Rodriguez died June 21 on his jail bed, while struggling to breathe during a severe asthma attack, according to Correction Department records and a family lawyer. He was 60 years...
TX: Texas man charged with murder of alleged sex offender near Carlsbad
[amp.currentargus.com/amp/ - 7/17/20] A Texas man was charged with first degree murder in the March 16 death of an alleged Lea County sex offender living in Eddy County, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Carlsbad Police Department. Rodney Welch, 43, is presumed to have run over Richard Radcliff with a pickup truck. He was also charged with leaving the scene of an accident...
CA: Court Grants Demurrer in Jurors Case
The Los Angeles Superior Court has granted a demurrer in ACSOL's challenge to an exclusion of all registrants from serving on a jury. The Court also scheduled a hearing to discuss the future of the case on August 11. "We are gravely disappointed that the court took this action," stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci. "By doing so, the court has made a preliminary...
Kat’s Blog: City Walk-Urban Mission Wins Preliminary Injunction
A few months ago, I wrote about a small organization called City Walk-Urban Mission in Tallahassee, Florida. The ministry was started in 2012 by Anthony and Renee Miller, it’s purpose, a faith-based, voluntary, re-entry type program to offer homeless men and ex-offenders a hand up, a chance to get back on their feet. The program accepts registrants. The original piece was written back in...
FL: Shaming alert: Jackson County’s sex offender notification changes
[wjhg.com - 7/14/20] JACKSON COUNTY, Fla. (PRESS RELEASE) - Effective immediately, all sex offenders moving into Jackson County will have their picture, address, offender status, and certain information regarding their crime(s) posted on the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page. Sexual predators moving into the area, as well as those relocating within the county, will also be posted. This measure is not for punitive...
CA: Authorities issue warning regarding release of ‘dangerous sex offender’ from Coalinga State Hospital
Officials in Orange County are issuing a warning to county residents regarding the release of a "dangerous sex offender" from Coalinga State Hospital after more than 20 years. County District Attorney Todd Spitzer and Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Michelle Steel are also urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to intervene in the release of ___ ___ ___. They're also asking that the governor reinstate the requirement...
CA: Legislature Considering Changes to Tiered Registry Law
The California legislature is considering changes to the Tiered Registry Law that, if passed, would delay when eligible individuals could petition for removal from the registry. That is, individuals would be required to wait until "on or after their next birthday after July 1, 2021, following the expiration of the person's mandated minimum registration period." For example, if an eligible individual's birthday is July...
Sheriff and Deputy Magazine: Big data software helps allocate resources to managing sex offender registry
[poffenderwatch.com - 5/30/18] [ACSOL is publishing this older article to reveal the inner workings of registrant categorizing software that may affect you] Excerpt from the article: FOCUS [software] uses complex predictive analytics to ana1yze more than 100 different risk factors on more than 1,000 variables found in a sex offender's record, as well as other state, federal, and commercial data sources. The analysis...
Bermuda: Intellectually disabled man faces sex sentence
[royalgazette.com - 7/11/20] A man who admitted two sex offences against a 13-year-old schoolgirl is be sentenced at Magistrates’ Court next week. Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe signalled that _____, 27, would probably be sentenced to time served after he spent five months on remand. _____, from Smith’s, pleaded guilty on February 17 to two counts of committing an indecent act in front of a...
FL: Dalton and Tomich Secures Injunction against Wakulla County, FL on behalf of City Walk – Urban Mission
[daltontomich.com - 7/10/20] Written by Emily on July 10, 2020 Category: Firm News, Land Use and Zoning, RLUIPA, RLUIPA Cases Court order allows City Walk to continue transition home ministry in Wakulla County. A federal court in Tallahassee has entered a preliminary injunction against Wakulla County, Florida, protecting the religious exercise of Dalton & Tomich client City Walk – Urban Mission. The order comes...
GA: Hundreds of Georgia sex offenders off ankle monitors as lawmakers seek legal fix
[tribuneledgernews.com - 7/11/20] A landmark court ruling has led to nearly half of Georgia’s most high-risk sex offenders being released from their ankle monitors over the past year, marking a legal quandary that state lawmakers fell short in addressing during the 2020 legislative session. State officials tasked with recommending how to monitor sex offenders in Georgia say legislation filed in the 2020 session would...
CA: California Will Release Up To 8,000 Prisoners Due To Coronavirus
[npr.org - 7/10/20] California will release up to 8,000 prisoners this summer in an effort to create more space and prevent the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in prisons. News of the plan comes after more than a third of the inmates and staff at the San Quentin State Prison in the San Francisco Bay Area tested positive for the coronavirus. Anyone...
Kat’s Blog: Polygraph Predicaments
It’s hard to believe that some states are still performing polygraphs during the pandemic. Some polygraph technicians are performing the exams unsafely, they’re also asking some peculiar questions as well. Case in point, as recently as a week ago, in one TN location, polygraphs were being performed by technicians from another southern state that happens to have a much higher Covid-19 population. The technician...