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India’s Trains Will Use AI-Based Facial Recognition At Railway Stations to Identify Sex Offenders
Source: freepressjournal.in 7/21/25 AI-powered facial recognition will be deployed at major Indian railway stations, including Mumbai CST and New Delhi, to identify known sex offenders. The initiative aims to enhance safety, particularly for women, by integrating AI tools with national offender databases under the Safe City project. The Indian government will soon begin using artificial intelligence-based facial recognition systems at major railway stations,...
CASOMB Juvenile Registration Addendum: Registration is Counterproductive for Youth Who Have Offended Sexually
Source: casomb.org California Sex Offender Management Board 7/17/25 In 2018, the Board was tasked by the legislature with making policy recommendations about the management of juveniles who have offended sexually. CASOMB continues to monitor the research and discussions related to the management of youth who commit sexual based offenses and provides this updated addendum, on Juvenile Registration, to continue to provide expertise on this...
New Lawsuit Challenges CDCR Policy Harming Female Registrants
ACSOL filed a new lawsuit yesterday that challenges a CDCR policy which allows the agency to use a tool that has not been validated to assess the risk of re-offense for women required to register. The name of that tool is the Female Sex Offender Risk Assessment (FSORA). The lawsuit was filed in Sacramento Superior Court and includes a declaration by Dr. Franca Cortoni,...
CA Public Safety Committee Approves Senate Bill 680
Source: ACSOL The Assembly's Public Safety Committee today approved an amended version of Senate Bill (SB) 680, which if enacted, would require individuals convicted of statutory rape to register for 10 years. Unlike the original version of the bill, the current version of SB 680 would not be applied retroactively. Instead, the bill would apply only to those convicted of PC 261.5 on or...
Sex Crimes Laws as Moral Panic. The goal of these policies is public safety, but is that attainable?
Alissa R. Ackerman Jul 15 Moral panic occurs when people react to a societal problem with intense fear or outrage toward something they perceive as a threat to their values or safety. Moral panics can happen whether a perceived threat is real or exaggerated. Media accounts fuel and amplify our emotions, and our feelings then turn certain people into villains or monsters. Nowhere is...
Publishing Private Phone Number May Be Tortious, Says Court in Case Brought by Shark Tank’s Mr. Wonderful (Kevin O’Leary)
Defendant had 100K X followers, and as a result O'Leary "was flooded with unwanted communications." Reason: Eugene Volokh | 7.14.2025 5:01 PM From Judge Beth Bloom's order today granting default judgment in O'Leary v. Armstrong: Defendant posted on X Plaintiff's private cell phone number and encouraged the public to harass Plaintiff, stating "[h]ave you ever wanted to call a real life murderer?! You can NOW! @kevinoleartyv is...
ACSOL Online Meeting August 16, 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 August 16 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...
ICE uses inflammatory, biased language and fear to describe sex-related arrests
Source: dhs.gov 7/9/25 [ACSOL is posting this as a warning] WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) St. Paul arrested criminal illegal aliens, all of whom are convicted sexual predators, during a coordinated targeted enforcement operation in the Minneapolis area between June 6 and June 11, 2025. Under Tim Walz’s leadership, these depraved individuals have been walking freely around Minneapolis with impunity terrorizing...
Male victims of intimate partner violence: Insights from twenty years of research
Source: openaccessgovernment.org 5/30/25 Denise A. Hines, Ph.D., Enochs Endowed Professor of Social Work at the College of Public Health, George Mason University, explores the often-overlooked issue of male victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) Men’s victimization from intimate partner violence (IPV) has been documented since the first US population-based study in 1975. (1) A review of 246 studies (2011–2022) found that 11.8% of men experience physical...
N.J. court just made it harder for sex offenders to get off Megan’s Law registry
Source: nj.com 7/7/25 The New Jersey Appellate Division issued a ruling clarifying that sex offenders must prove they pose no threat to public safety—not just that they’re unlikely to reoffend sexually. A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that individuals seeking removal from the state’s sex offender registry must prove they are not a danger to the public in any way, not just that they...
ACSOL Board Cancels 2025 Conference
The ACSOL board of directors has decided to cancel this year's conference in order to protect registrants, their families and those who support them. The conference was previously scheduled to be held on September 26 and September 27. "Cancellation of this year's conference was a difficult decision to make for the ACSOL board of directors," stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci. "Cancellation was necessary,...
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...