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Restorative Action Alliance Files Amicus Brief in U.S. Supreme Court Case
The Restorative Action Alliance filed today an amicus brief in a case, Ortiz v. Breslin, for which a petition has been filed requesting review by the U. S. Supreme Court. The focus of the petition is decisions made by the New York State Department of Corrections not to release registrants on their court mandated release dates but instead to continue to imprison registrants for...
Does Banning People With Felonies From Dating Apps Actually Make Anyone Safer?
[themarshallproject.org - 5/20/21] Jason Hernandez got out of prison in 2015 and started making up for lost time. He’d done nearly 18 years on federal drug conspiracy charges, and only escaped life behind bars because then-President Barack Obama granted him clemency. He settled down near Dallas, began volunteering in schools, visited the White House and wrote a book. Then he decided to start dating,...
WA: Kelso council pauses halfway house construction for six months to develop limits on sex offender housing
[tdn.com - 5/19/21] Developers of halfway houses cannot build in Kelso for the next six months while the city council reviews how it can limit the number of registered sex offenders living in one home. ... Councilman Keenan Harvey first raised the issue in March because he said multiple sex offenders living in one area encourages additional crime and discourages people from living nearby....
Action Alert for CA: Sign the petition “California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: Prison reform: Voice for the voiceless”
Crystal B. started this petition to CALIFORNIA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: The prison system affects thousands of inmates and their loved ones including myself. There are inmates who are excluded from participating in family visits and some groups, groups that are essential to one's rehabilitation. Before I tell you what group of men I'm talking about let me say this, never judge before...
ACSOL Phone Meeting Jun 12, 2021
Please join ACSOL Executive Director and civil rights attorney Janice Bellucci as well as ACSOL President and criminal defense attorney Chance Oberstein for our next phone meeting. The meeting will be held on Saturday, June 12, beginning at 10 a.m. Pacific time and will last at least two hours. This meeting will be recorded and then posted as an audio recording within 24 hours....
CA: Coalition of district attorneys files legal challenge to new state prison good conduct credits
[lakeconews.com - 5/14/21] A group of district attorneys from across California are joining forces to challenge new emergency state regulations that could expand good conduct credits to the majority of state prison inmates. Forty-one elected district attorneys — including Lake County District Attorney Susan Krones — filed a petition with California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Kathleen Alliso to request the repeal of...
DE: Convicted Murderer Killed His Child Rapist Cellmate: Police
[lawandcrime.com - 5/12/21] A prison inmate murdered his convicted child rapist cellmate on Monday, the Delaware State Police announced Wednesday. At face value, a conviction would not change very much for defendant John Cameron, 55. He’s already serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, authorities said. Troopers responded to the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in the town of Smyrna at about 8:13 a.m....
Janice’s Journal: Two Men Required to Register Murdered This Week
Two men, who were required to register as sex offenders, were murdered this week. Each murder is a tragedy. Together the murders should serve as a wake-up call that vigilante violence against registrants has returned. The first murder took place on Monday in a Delaware prison when Phillip Langell, who was 69 years old, was stabbed, punched and strangled by his cellmate. The cellmate...
NJ: Senate Bill Would Reform Chiropractor Board, Ban Sex Offenders from All Health Care Positions
[einnews.com - 5/13/21] Acting in response to the “irresponsible” action by the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners in renewing the professional license of a convicted child sex offender, a Senate committee today approved legislation authored by Senate President Steve Sweeney, Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg and Senator Joe Vitale that would reform the board and prohibit the licensing of any health care worker convicted...
CA: Sex offender targeted in deadly Wheatland shooting, police say
[abc10.com - 5/12/21] New details are emerging surrounding a bomb scare that caused an evacuation in Wheatland. The otherwise quiet community of Wheatland was shaken Wednesday evening after a bomb scare was tied to a homicide. "All of a sudden [I] hear those initial four shots and I go on the couch in the living room with the house wide open," said Robert Kesterson....
CA: California laws go easier on rapists who attack their spouses
[UPDATE: California Legislature Stalls Efforts to End Spousal Rape Distinction - newuniversity.org - 5/15/21] [sfchronicle.com - 5/12/21] Stanford law professor Michele Dauber thought pushing for changes to the state’s spousal rape laws would be a no-brainer. After all, this is 2021. In so-called progressive California. Why would anybody support old-fashioned laws distinguishing spousal rape from rape, making the latter subject to far more serious...
OK: Law enforcement pushing to close loophole allowing sex offenders at Oklahoma school bus stops
[krmg.com - 5/12/21] TULSA, Okla. — Law enforcement says there is a loophole in the law that allows convicted sexual predators to legally be at your child’s school bus stop. After learning of the oversight, following an incident in April, FOX23 went to police and lawmakers to find out what they are doing about it. ... Adams wants to give other sex offenders a...
MT: Judge Blocks Requirement for ‘Gay Sex’ Offender Registration
[usnews.com - 5/12/21] The state of Montana has no valid reason to require a man to register as a sex offender based on his conviction for having gay sex in Idaho in 1993, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen on Tuesday prevented the state from requiring Randall Menges of Butte to register as a sex offender under Idaho's Crimes Against...
LA: House committee rejects Louisiana sex offender ID bill due to legal concerns
[theadvocate.com - 5/11/21] A bill that would require the driver's license or identification card of sex offenders to carry a special designation was narrowly rejected Tuesday in the House Transportation Committee. State Rep. Larry Bagley, R-Stonewall, said his proposal was aimed at protecting citizens while also complying with a recent ruling by the state Supreme Court. The court last year struck down a state...
New Friends Outside Publication – Improving Outcomes for Individuals with Sex Offenses
[friendsoutsidela.org - 5/11/21] Friends Outside Los Angeles County is pleased to announce the release of its publication, “Improving Outcomes for Individuals with Sex Offenses.” Written in partnership with two researchers, Luis Barrera Castanon, Ph.D., and Marco Murillo, Ph.D., the publication is our final report that to the project funder, the California Workforce Development Board. We undertook the project because of the dearth of information...
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MI: Bill to create child abuse offenders registry heads to the Michigan House [Updated 4/29/22]
4/29/22 UPDATE: Child Abuse registry bill awaits action from Governor Whitmer [fox47news.com - 5/11/21] Parents don’t always know just who is caring for or spending time with their children. ... “I believe strongly that parents have a right to know if someone who is living with their children or if someone’s taking care of their children that they’ve had a history of child abuse,”...
What makes school zones “safe” for children?
[floridaactioncommittee.org - 5/11/21] Dear Members and Advocates, What makes school zones “safe” for children? Residency restrictions and proximity ordinances preventing persons required to register as sex offenders from living or even entering within thousands of feet of a school somehow create the illusion that once inside the exclusion zone, our children will be safe from sexual assault. Nothing can be further from the truth....
WI: State Supreme Court to hear transgender sex offender registry case
[wsaw.com - 2/10/21] MADISON, Wis. - The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of a Shawano County transgender woman who has been prohibited from changing her male name due to her listing on the state sex offender registry. ... She argues that requiring her to register as a sex offender violates her First Amendment rights and forces her to identify herself...
OR: Senate Bill 499 should become law
[eastoregonian.com - 5/8/21] Earl Bain was wrongfully convicted in Malheur County in 2009 and spent six years in prison. After the complaining witness in his case recanted her story, with the help of the Oregon Innocence Project he was pardoned on the grounds of innocence by Gov. Kate Brown in August 2020. For over six years of my life, I was wrongfully incarcerated in...
Seventh Circuit: Indiana’s Sex Offender Registration Act’s ‘Other Jurisdiction Requirement’ Unconstitutional Violation of Right to Travel
by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana’s opinion that found a provision of Indiana’s Sex Offender Registration Act (“SORA”) requiring registration of Plaintiffs who relocated to Indiana after SORA’s enactment violated their right to travel because the provision wouldn’t have required them to register if they had committed their...