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AI-generated child pornography is surging − a legal scholar explains why the fight against it is complicated and how the law could catch up
Source: theconversation.com 2/11/25 The Internet Watch Foundation, an organization that tracks child sexual abuse material posted online, has documented a surge over the first half of 2025 in AI-generated, realistic sexually explicit videos depicting minors. Some of the material was derived from images of real minors, and some was wholly synthetic. The Supreme Court has implicitly concluded that computer-generated pornographic images that are based on images of real...
Tucker Carlson Says He Doesn’t Own a Computer Because the CIA Plants ‘Kiddie Porn’
Source: gizmodo.com 7/11/25 Tucker Carlson consistently ranks among the top 20 podcasts on platforms like Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. But the far-right influencer made a rather bizarre admission about technology on his show this past Tuesday. The former Fox News host claims he doesn’t own a computer. Why? Carlson says he doesn’t want the CIA to plant “kiddie porn” on it. The topic came up...
Action Alert: Volunteer to speak about the registry and introducing a related film
Source: metamorafilms.org 7/8/25 Metamora Films is having an online film festival in Pueblo, CO March 2026 that will feature some film projects about the registry. We are looking for a special "guest" or speaker during one of the days of the festival to talk for about 30 minutes about the registry, then intro to a film that's related. If you are interested, please contact...
ACSOL Website Blocked for Some Registrants on Federal Supervised Release
According to several reports, some individuals on federal supervised release whose phones or computers are monitored by the federal government were blocked from using the ACSOL website. If you are one of those people, please call the monitoring company at 855-855-6278 or 484-222-3301. After the call is answered, use Option 5 in order to speak to a customer representative. Tell that person that you...
Ellingburg v. United States Brief: Criminal Restitution Counts as Criminal Punishment
Source: cato.org 6/30/25 [This is the case that the Supreme court will hear in the fall term. This friend of the court in favor of the defendant is asking for a wider scope of view that includes revisiting issues like sex-offense registration, monetary penalties, and civil asset forfeiture.] In 1995, when petitioner Holsey Ellingburg, Jr., robbed a bank, federal criminal restitution was governed by...
IA: Protestors Defend Vigilante Murderer of Registrant
Source: wndu.com 7/2/25 GOSHEN, Ind. (WNDU) - Protestors rallied outside of the Elkhart County Courthouse in downtown Goshen on Wednesday afternoon to call for stricter penalties for child sex offenders and show their support for a man who is charged with murdering a sex offender last week at an Elkhart motel. 35-year-old Nicholas Stanley is accused of killing 35-year-old Allen Cogswell back on June 24 at the...
FL: Ex-CA Politician Tries to Whip Up Hysteria to Make His Registrant Neighbor Homeless
Source: sjcitizen.com 6/18/25 Brian Pepin, a father of three and former member of the Poway City Council in California, publicly called for stricter sex offender residency restrictions during Tuesday’s St. Johns County Board of Commissioners meeting. Now a political consultant, Pepin recently moved to St. Augustine with his family and said that a registered sex offender moved directly across the street from their home. He...
Action Alert for CA: Fight Senate Bill 680! Call by 7/11 and then Show Up to Assembly Public Safety Committee on July 15
The Assembly's Public Safety Committee will consider Senate Bill (SB) 680 on July 15 during a hearing that is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. in Room 126 of the State Capitol building. If SB 680 becomes law, individuals convicted on or after January 1, 2026, of unlawful intercourse in violation of Penal Code Section 261.5 would be required to register. No one convicted...
$10,000 Challenge Grant Offered in Support of Two New Lawsuits
An anonymous donor has offered to match up to $10,000 for donations made in support of two new lawsuits that will challenge significant mistakes made by the California Department of Corrections (CDC). The lawsuits will focus upon the agency's failure to implement treatment regulations as well as the agency's unlawful identification of women as high risk offenders. "These two lawsuits are necessary in...
General Comments July 2025
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Janice’s Journal: The Mountain Climb Just Got Steeper
As an advocate and litigator, I often compare my efforts to restore the civil rights of registrants to climbing up a steep mountain. Unfortunately, the mountain I must now climb is steeper due to a U.S. Supreme Court decision issued a few days ago. In that decision, a majority of the Court’s nine justices overturned relief granted by district court judges in three different...
NE: A Better Way Forward: Smarter Public Safety Investments for Douglas County
Source: Nebraskans Unafraid Douglas County Sheriff Aaron Hanson’s recent announcement of a new “investigator” position tasked with verifying the addresses of people on Nebraska’s sex offender registry might make headlines, but it won’t make our communities safer. It’s an initiative based on optics rather than outcomes, intended to project action, not produce impact. Instead of allocating taxpayer-funded resources toward a symbolic gesture with no measurable public...
IA: Man accused of killing sex offender after he was released from prison
Source: azfamily.com 6/26/25 ELKHART, Ind. (WNDU/Gray News) - An Indiana man has been charged with murder after investigators say he shot and killed a sex offender who had recently been released from prison. Nicholas Stanley, 35, is accused of killing 35-year-old Allen Cogswell early Tuesday morning at the Daylite Inn on Cassopolis Street. According to The Goshen News, police confirmed that Cogswell was a sex offender who...
IL: New Joliet Park Created to Force 11 Sexual Offenders To Vacate ‘Pedophile Palace’ On Cora Street
Source: msn.com 6/26/25 JOLIET, IL — Three years after concerned citizens of Joliet raised awareness regarding the opening of a two-story apartment building in the Cunningham Neighborhood to provide shelter for several mostly out of town registered sexual predators and convicted offenders, efforts by the city of Joliet to get rid of the so-called "Pedophile Palace" are finally coming to fruition. This week, for the...
TX: US Supreme Court backs Texas online porn age-check law
Source: tech.yahoo.com 6/27/25 WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday against challengers to a Texas law that requires pornographic websites to verify the age of users in an effort to protect minors after the adult entertainment industry argued that the measure violates the free speech rights of adults. The justices, in a 6-3 ruling authored by conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, upheld a...
FL: New Volusia County’s short-sighted ordinance makes it harder to track down homeless sex offenders
Source: wesh.com 6/25/25 VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. —A new ordinance in Volusia County has resulted in an increase among the homeless sex offender and predator population on the streets. Deputies aren't just checking on suspects, they're surprising convicted sex offenders. However, the deputies don't know where to look if the offenders are homeless and not showing up for check-ins. Nearly 1,000 offenders live in the...
WA: Feds seek to block WA law requiring clergy to report child abuse
Source: washingtonstatestandard.com 6/23/25 Washington bishops sued last month to prevent the law from taking effect. Now, the Trump administration is looking to back their lawsuit. The Trump Administration moved Monday to join a legal fight to overturn a new Washington law requiring religious leaders to report child abuse or neglect even when it is disclosed in confession. A motion filed in federal court by the Department...
FL: Florida proposes another law named after a child victim
Source: thecapitolist.com 6/24/25 Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Tuesday announced that he will propose legislation aimed at eliminating judicial discretion in cases involving convicted sexual offenders and violent criminals who remain free on bond following a guilty verdict. ... Uthmeier said the measure would require mandatory revocation of bail immediately upon a guilty verdict in cases involving sexual offenses, sexual predators, or violent crimes, preventing...
ACSOL Online Meeting July 12, 2025
You are invited to join ACSOL Executive Director and civil rights attorney Janice Bellucci and an ACSOL board member for our next meeting. The meeting will be held on Saturday July 12 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...
These States Are Debating Castration for Sex Crimes. Experts Call It Cruel and Pointless.
Source: themarshallproject.org 6/21/25 Critics say there’s no evidence that castration prevents future sex offenses. Yet several states are weighing such measures. Last year, Louisiana sparked a slew of sensational headlines when state legislators passed a law allowing surgical castration as punishment for people convicted of sex crimes against children. That was the first successful legislation in a new wave of bills proposing both chemical and...