ACSOL 2021 Monthly Phone Conference Meetings
ACSOL holds monthly phone conference meetings, usually the third Saturday of each month at 10 am Pacific Time. They last 2 to 3 hours. They are recorded and posted here within…
CO: Sex Offender’s Indeterminate Sentence Upheld as Constitutional
Source: bloomberglaw.com 9/29/21 The indeterminate sentence a Colorado sex offender received didn’t violate his equal protection or due process rights even though he has served 37 years for a crime…
CO: Mandatory lifetime juvenile sex offense registration is unconstitutional, Colorado Supreme Court rules
Source: denverpost.com 6/28/21 Juveniles cannot be mandated to register as lifelong "sex offenders" in Colorado if there is no way for offenders to be individually assessed or to later be…
CO: Bill To Transform Management of people listed on the registry Pulled After Claims It Would Hurt Public Safety
[denver.cbslocal.com - 6/3/21] DENVER (CBS4) — A bill to revamp how people listed on the registry are managed in Colorado was pulled after prosecutors accused the bill’s sponsors of putting…
CO: Colorado District Attorneys Sound The Alarm Over Bill To Revamp Sex Offender Management
UPDATED: CO: Bill To Transform Sex Offender Management Pulled After Claims It Would Hurt Public Safety [denver.cbslocal.com - 6/3/21] [denver.cbslocal.com - 5/24/21] DENVER (CBS4) – A bill dealing with sex…
CO: Sex abuse bill SB 73 easily clears House committee following lengthy negotiations
[coloradopolitics.com - 3/23/21] A bill to give future survivors of childhood sexual abuse and other types of misconduct unlimited time to take their perpetrators to court passed out of the…
CO: Justices consider ramifications of declaring sex offender sentences illegal
[coloradopolitics.com - 3/11/21] Colorado’s 23-year-old sex offender sentencing law is in the hands of the state Supreme Court, as the justices on Wednesday considered whether the Court should strike down…
CO: State Supreme Court bars multiple convictions based on quantity of pornographic images
[coloradopolitics.com - 12/14/20] The Colorado Supreme Court has clarified that no matter how many pornographic images an individual possesses, sexual exploitation of a child merits a single charge, which prosecutors…
CO: The Onerous Burdens of Sex Offender Registration Are Not Punishment, the 10th Circuit Rules. They Just Feel That Way.
Online sex offender registries, which all 50 states maintain as a condition of federal funding, stigmatize the people listed in them long after they have completed their sentences, creating obstacles…
CO: Decision in Millard v. Rankin (10th Circuit US Court of Appeals)
Plaintiff-Appellees David Millard, Eugene Knight, and Arturo Vega challenge the constitutionality of Colorado’s Sex Offender Registration Act (CSORA). The district court held CSORA was unconstitutional as applied to the Appellees…
CO: New law closes loophole regarding sex offender treatment
[koaa.com - 8/12/20] SOUTHERN COLORADO — Colorado legislators have closed a loophole in state law that allowed certain sex offenders to get out of prison early and transfer to community…
CO: Audit Finds Deficiencies In How Colorado Sex Offender Management Board Carries Out Statutory Duties
[Press Release by the Colorado Office of the State Auditor - 7/28/20] Download PDFs of the reports from leg.colorado.gov/audits DENVER—The Office of the State Auditor (OSA) has released its performance…
CO: Divided state Supreme Court ruling allows convicted man to terminate sex offender registration
[coloradopolitics.com - 5/19/20] In a 4-3 decision, the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that a criminal defendant was entitled to his request to de-register as a sex offender because he completed…
CO: Colorado Governor Stops In-Person Registration During Pandemic
[ACSOL] The Governor of Colorado has issued an Executive Order that temporarily suspends the requirement to register in person during the pandemic. Specifically, the Order suspends the requirement that registrants…
CO: Lawmakers consider changes to Colorado’s juvenile sex offender registry
[9news.com - 1/24/20] DENVER — It's not often you see prosecutors and public defenders working together on the same team. But Thursday night, representatives from both groups spoke before state…
CO: Mom’s Lawyer Rebukes ‘Unfair’ Utah Law that Could Make Her Client Register as Sex Offender for Being Topless at Home
[newsweek.com - 11/20/19] A woman could be forced to register as a sex offender after prosecutors charged her with a crime related to going topless in her own home. On…
CO: Colorado considers keeping some juvenile sex offenders off registry
[thedenverchannel.com - 10/12/10] DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers have advanced a proposal to place fewer convicted juveniles on the state sex offender registry and partially seal the list from the…
CO: State and local laws push more registered sex offenders into low-income communities
The laws requiring the names of convicted sex offenders nationwide to be catalogued, and available to the public, bear the names of children sexually assaulted and murdered by predators who…