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CA: Number of CA Registrants Continues to Drop Although at Slower Than Expected Rate
Source: ACSOL The Tiered Registry Law was passed by the California state legislature and signed into law by the Governor in 2017. That law became effective more than four years later in January 2021. An integral part of the Tiered Registry Law is the ability of some, but not all, registrants to petition for removal from the registry starting on July 1, 2022. According...
FL: Florida sex-offender registry challenge rejected
Source: cbsnews.com 9/14/22 TALLAHASSEE - In at least the third similar case filed by out-of-state residents, a federal appeals court Wednesday rejected an Oklahoma man's constitutional challenge to being kept on a Florida sex offender registry. A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected arguments by Douglas Lindsey, who was convicted in 1999 of statutory rape, sodomy, and lewd molestation in Oklahoma...
CA: 140+ arrested in massive California child sex crimes sweep
Source: ktla.com 9/14/22 In a span of just seven days, law enforcement agents in California arrested 141 people in a wide-ranging crackdown on child sex predators, authorities announced Wednesday. The operation, dubbed “Protect the Innocent,” involved 64 agencies across five California counties. “The goal of Operation Protect the Innocent was to conduct investigations and arrests by utilizing (CyberTips) received, identifying suspects for arrest, and...
Emily Horowitz: 18-Year-Old Faces Possible 70 Years in Federal Prison for Snapchat Sexting Crime
Source: reason.com 9/14/22 by ACSOL board member Emily Horowitz "I'm not saying my kid should get nothing," says Eric Beyer Jr.'s mother. "But to take an 18-year-old kid and put him in jail for longer than he's been alive?" Teens using Snapchat. (Franviser | Dreamstime.com) Let's say you're a 17-year-old boy asking two 16-year-old girls to sext you on Snapchat—well, that's pretty normal these...
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Warns About Unsafe ‘Back-to-Schooling’
Source: reason.com 9/9/22 You're more likely to be struck by a meteor than to have your kid abducted by a stranger. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) gets about $40 million a year in federal funding. It spends at least a few of those bucks crafting unnecessary emails like the one I got last week with the subject line: "Are your...
Rebecca Myers: “I have spent 25 years treating serious sexual offenders – this is what I’ve learned”
"Sexual offenders can be deceitful and cruel. But they may also be ashamed and desperate to change. Helping them is the only way to prevent more victims." " 'I’ve got a list of questions I’d like to ask you about your sexual offending against children, if that’s OK,' I say. 'You might find some of them … ' I pause, unable to find the...
CA: Lakeside neighbors furious over home housing sex offenders
SAN DIEGO — Frustration and worry have grown in Lakeside over a home that is housing a group of registered sex offenders in a family neighborhood. Neighbors say they checked the California Megan's Law website, and were surprised to learn five sex offenders were living in the home. Some reached out to CBS 8 for answers as to why they weren't notified. “I'm so...
Court to Rule on SORNA Regulations Motion Without Hearing
The Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) decided today to waive oral argument regarding its pending Motion for Preliminary Injunction filed in the SORNA regulations challenge. The decision to waive oral argument was made by PLF after the court delayed six times the date of the hearing on that motion. In the absence of oral argument regarding the motion, the court will make its decision based...
Uncivil Commitment: How The DOC Can Keep You Past Your Sentence
By Matthew Feeley, One of the foundations of a civilized society is the concept that people who do wrong need to be held accountable for their crimes. What naturally follows from that precept is that once a person has successfully paid society back by serving their prison sentence, they have earned the right to be free and return home. What would you think about a...
Illinois Civil Rights Attorney Adele Nicholas to Join ACSOL Conference
Illinois civil rights attorney Adele Nicholas will join the ACSOL conference on October 1 in a presentation regarding her recent significant legal victory in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. In that decision, the Court reversed a prior ruling and determined that a city law that limited the number of registrants who could live there had been applied retroactively. Ms. Nicholas will join ACSOL...
OK: Grove sex offender files lawsuit against sheriff; seeking $1 million in damages
Source: fourstateshomepage.com 9/10/22 GROVE, Okla. – A Grove sex offender has filed a civil lawsuit seeking $1 million against a Kansas sheriff saying his “good reputation” was ruined after a social media site post alerted the public to the man’s activities. Kirk William ____, 65, is being held in the Beaver County, Oklahoma jail on no bail on an application to revoke a suspended...
VA: Youthful offender law nixes sex assault prosecution
Source: rutlandherald.com 9/10/22 A man charged with sexual assault on a 14-year-old got the charges against him dismissed due to a gap in Vermont’s youthful offender law, prosecutors said this week. In a decision handed down Friday in a case that originated in Rutland County, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that the state could not appeal the family court’s dismissal of a juvenile delinquency...
NC: Central Prison on lockdown after inmates beat convicted sex offender to death
Source: wral.com 9/9/22 Local News Central Prison on lockdown after inmates beat convicted sex offender to death Tags:assault, Central Prison, sex offender Posted September 9, 2022 2:37 p.m. EDT Updated September 9, 2022 5:16 p.m. EDT Raleigh, N.C. — An inmate at Central Prison in Raleigh died after being assaulted with a weapon on Friday. Ronald Rhodes was beaten by other inmates on...
SORNA Regulations Hearing Postponed Again. Now it is on September 26
Source: ACSOL The federal district court has once again postponed the date of the hearing during which arguments in support of and in opposition to a pending Motion for Preliminary Injunction (PI) was to take place. The new hearing date is September 26. The location remains the same -- U.S. District Court in Riverside, California. This is the sixth scheduled hearing date for the...
CA: Friends Outside in Los Angeles county will pay registrants for an employment research project
Friends Outside in Los Angeles county will pay registrants for an employment research project (Deadline 12/31/22) ELIGIBILITY: 1. Must be a registrant 2. Must have received services from an America's Job Center of California within the last 3 years 3. Must participate in an anonymous and confidential interview COMPENSATION PROVIDED CONTACT: [email protected] (818) 975-0630 (ask for Marco) Program is available: September 9, 2022 -...
NC: Teacher busted for sex with student invited same student over while on house arrest
Source: nypost.com 9/7/22 A North Carolina teacher who was charged with having sex with one of her students was arrested again after investigators learned she’d had the same student over her home nine times since she was placed under house arrest, police said. Elizabeth Suzanne ____, 36, was originally arrested on three felony sex charges, including statutory rape of a victim 15 years old...
NY: Broome County Registrant Sentenced for Failing to Register an Email Account
Source: justice.gov 9/6/22 SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Thomas E. Cargill, age 56, of Endicott, New York was sentenced today to 18 months in prison, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release, for failing to update his sex offender registration by maintaining an unregistered email account. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and David L. McNulty, United States...
WI: Man who had sex in park with 13-year-old girl to serve 90 days in jail
Source: yahoo.com 9/5/22 Sep. 5—CHIPPEWA FALLS — A 21-year-old Fairchild man accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl at a park in Chippewa Falls in July 2021 will serve 90 days in jail. Dylan J. ____ pleaded no contest Friday in Chippewa County Court to an amended felony count of third-degree sexual assault. He was originally charged with three counts of second-degree sexual...
TX: Man wrongfully convicted of molesting a child 30 years ago sues for the impact the case has had on his life
Source: kvue.com 8/31/22 AUSTIN, Texas — A petition was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court to allow Troy Mansfield, the man wrongfully convicted of molesting a child 30 years ago, to sue Williamson County for the impact the case has had on his life. ... Then, in 2016, a judge overturned Mansfield's conviction, ruling that prosecutors had violated his constitutional rights by not disclosing...
GA: Georgia deputy police chief arrested in Florida for soliciting prostitution
Source: foxnews.com 9/2/22 A Georgia deputy police chief was arrested in Florida after he allegedly solicited prostitution in the Sunshine State. Cartersville Deputy Police Chief Jason DiPrima was arrested Thursday in Polk County, Florida. He faces charges of soliciting another for prostitution, lewdness or assignation. Read the full article