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CA: California shrank prisons with sentencing changes. A new study shows how that’s working
Source: calmatters.org 9/25/25 California over the past dozen years enacted a series of criminal justice laws that were meant to give more people an opportunity to be resentenced and thin out the state’s severely overcrowded prisons. This week a state agency released the most-comprehensive look yet at how those changes are playing out among formerly incarcerated people. The report found low recidivism rates among people who...
The Sex Offender Registry Shouldn’t Mean We’re Unwelcome at Church
Source: filtermag.org 9/25/25 In the Bible Belt, there’s basically a church on every corner—especially here in Nashville. It feels like there should be so many options to choose from if you want to join a faith community. But the church doors are often closed to people on the sex offender registry, including myself. Sex offender registries are designed so that society treats you like a...
Janice’s Journal: Fraud, Deceit, Murder
The registrant community is in shock today after learning that a 71-year-old registrant was brutally murdered by a 29-year-old stranger. The violent attack that led to murder began in the registrant’s own home after the stranger falsely identified himself as a CPA going door-to-door looking for new business. Tragically, the registrant opened the front door of his home, giving the stranger an opportunity to...
CA: Fremont murder suspect allegedly admits to targeting sex offenders
Source: kron4.com 9/23/25 A man accused in a deadly Fremont stabbing last week allegedly admitted to police that he was targeting registered sex offenders as potential victims. Varun Suresh, 29, of Fremont, has been charged with murder in connection to the stabbing death of a 71-year-old man that occurred Thursday in the 600 block of Upper Vintners Circle. He also faces charges for residential burglary and...
MO: Missouri defends Halloween sex offender sign requirement at Eighth Circuit
Source: courthousenews.com 9/16/25 Missouri is trying to revive a mandate for sex offenders to post a sign on Halloween stating they don't have candy or treats at their residence after the law was blocked last October. ST. LOUIS (CN) — An Eighth Circuit judge compared a Missouri law requiring sex offenders to post signs on Halloween saying they don’t have candy to a...
ACSOL Online Meeting October 18, 2025
You are invited to join ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci, President attorney Elie Miller, and board members Roger Hunnicutt and Sherri Moreno for our next meeting. The meeting will be held on Saturday, October 18 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...
CA: CASOMB 9/18/25 Agency Reports Show Increase in Registrants in Custody, Petitions Filed and Granted
The California Sex Offender Management Board (CASOMB) met today and during that meeting, several state agency reports were presented. The reports reflect increases in almost every category including the number of registrants in prison as well as the number of petitions granted. Below is a chart listing those and other statistics presented during today's meeting. Please note that the former category on this chart...
General Comments Sep 2025
Comments that are not specific to a certain post should go here, for the month of Sep 2025. Contributions should relate to the cause and goals of this organization and please, keep it courteous and civil. This section is not intended for posting links to news articles without additional relevant comment. Other months General Comments
FL: Video Vigilantes Star In “To Catch A Case”
SEPTEMBER 16--A group of five young Florida men is facing an assortment of criminal charges for battering and falsely imprisoning a man who they targeted in a “To Catch a Predator”-style sting that was recorded and “uploaded to a website for public viewing for profit,” according to court records. As alleged in arrest affidavits, the video vigilantism occurred around 2 AM Friday at a home...
AL: Pastor and people on the sex offense registry arrested after car wash
BALDWIN COUNTY, AL. (WALA) - A local pastor is speaking out after court documents show he allowed People Forced to Register (PFR) to volunteer at a car wash that was too close to a school or daycare. According to the documents, Dennis Potter is accused of allowing six PFR to volunteer to help wash cars on Sept. 14. The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office said...
Should Paying for Sex Be a Crime? A debate between Melanie Thompson and Kaytlin Bailey
Source: reason.com 9/16/25 Melanie Thompson of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Kaytlin Bailey of Old Pros debate the resolution, "Paying for sex should be a crime." Thompson is arguing in favor of the resolution. She is the chief advocacy and outreach officer at the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women International, an organization working against the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls. Bailey is arguing against the...
Attorneys Present Arguments Regarding Missouri Halloween Sign Law Before 8th Circuit Court of Appeals
Source: ACSOL Attorneys representing Thomas Sanderson, a person required to register, and the State of Missouri formally presented oral arguments yesterday before three judges of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. The focus of the oral arguments was a state law that requires all persons required to register to post a sign on their home on Halloween. During oral argument, the State of Missouri...
WI: Amber Alert cancelled for Ruby Lehmann, suspect in custody
Source: wisn.com 9/13/25 Authorities have cancelled the Amber Alert for 6-year-old Ruby Lehmann on Sept. 13, just before 6 p.m. Lehmann is safe, according to the Portage County Sheriff's Office and the suspect, Jordan Coyle, is in custody. The Amber Alert for Lehmann went out Thursday, after she went missing from her grandmother's house in Almond, Wisconsin. Officials in Portage County believed Ruby was...
UK: Sex offender chemical castration pilot expands
Source: bbc.com 9/16/25 Chemical suppressants for sexual offenders will be trialled in north-west and north-east England as part of efforts to cut reoffending, the justice secretary has said. The government had pledged to widen the existing pilot in four prisons in the south-west to 20 prisons following recommendations from the independent sentencing review to explore its use in May. The medication limits "problematic sexual arousal" and restrains offenders...
MI: Michigan GOP bill aims to ban pornography online, including content on “disconnection between biology and gender”
Source: cbsnews.com 9/15/25 A group of House Republicans has introduced a bill in Lansing that intends to ban all pornography online, including descriptions of "a disconnection between biology and gender." House Bill 4938, named the "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act," was introduced Thursday and has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee. "Don't make it, don't share it, don't view it," lead sponsor Rep....
ME: AI-generated child sexual abuse images are being created in Maine. Police can’t investigate
Source: themainemonitor.org 9/15/25 Across the country, 43 states have outlawed sexual deepfakes, and 28 banned AI-generated child sexual abuse material. A Maine man went to watch a children’s soccer game. He snapped photos of kids playing. Then he went home and used artificial intelligence to take the otherwise innocuous pictures and turn them into sexually explicit images. Police know who he is. But...
FL: Putnam County passes one of Florida’s toughest sex offender ordinances after ‘Predator Camp’ outcry
Source: Florida Action Committee re: actionnewsjax.com 9/12/25 Months after a storm of community outrage over what neighbors called a “predator camp,” Putnam County has enacted one of the strictest sex offender ordinances in the state of Florida. The controversial park at the center of it all — CCM Park on Balsam Street — once housed more than 22 registered sex offenders living in proximity....
FL: Florida Supreme Court to Review “Sexual Predator” Driver’s License Labeling
Source: Florida Action Committee 9/9/25 A case with major implications for the constitutional rights of those on the registry is now headed to the Florida Supreme Court. Attorneys for Michael Crist have filed a notice seeking review of an appellate decision that upheld Florida’s requirement that people classified as “sexual predators” have that exact phrase printed in bold letters on their driver’s licenses. Crist,...
CA: Bay Area sex offender with cancer denied mercy release
Source: mercurynews.com 9/9/25 A state inmate convicted of child molestation in Marin County in 1989 has been denied early medical release because of terminal cancer. Victor Wayne Cooper, 69, lived in Novato when the crimes occurred. He allegedly molested a 6-year-old Novato girl, the daughter of an acquaintance, over a five-month period. Cooper was convicted of four counts of lewd acts against the girl....
AL: Alabama defends law limiting where sex offenders can go
Source: courthousenews.com 8/1/25 An Alabama law restricting sex offenders’ movements is under legal scrutiny after a federal appeals court hearing Friday that could reshape how the state regulates their interactions with minors. The case centers on a provision of the Alabama Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act that restricts where registrants can be present, potentially criminalizing routine activities like work, attending church or...