WI: Convicted sex offender sues Muskego for rejecting his move into the city

July 29, 2020, 6:48 am A convicted sex offender has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Muskego’s rules that restrict where he can live, or whether he can live in the city at all. In the lawsuit filed in U.S.

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IL: Lawsuit dismissed after sex offenders living at Aurora ministry find new homes

July 28, 2020, 6:20 am Sex offenders who sued to stay at the Wayside Cross Ministries halfway house in downtown Aurora after a judge ruled it is too close to a playground have dropped their litigation after all

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Covid-19 in Texas Prison: A Son Suffers Alone

Her  37-year-old son had sepsis, kidney failure, and had been intubated due to respiratory failure caused by Covid-19 in a Texas prison, according to his mother in correspondence with WAR. She heard about his severe illness only after

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Scam Alert: “Impact Legal Research” soliciting registrants.

July 24, 2020, 8:57 am There’s nothing that gets my blood boiling more than individuals who try to cash in on the vulnerability of registrants and who use the public registry as a marketing database for their racket.

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Katie & Charlie’s Story: Disruption of Family Life

My story is one of a family who has suffered through ongoing harassment by the police, my neighbors, and the community at large.  The registry has been used to put a target on our backs – all of

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Post-Incarceration Commitment: Injustice & Waste

Virginia State Senator Joe Morrissey and Delegate Patrick Hope discussed their effort to end laws that impact individuals categorized as violent sexual predators. Their proposed legislation would seek to end the costly practice of civilly committing these people

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Analogies: A Powerful Way To Change Perception

When an entrapment case, a one-time lapse of judgment, prison time/probation/parole, and lifelong monitoring come under discussion, a veteran Registered Citizen suggests an analogy may help put things in perspective when emotions are in the way. He offers

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English Family’s Upheaval: The nuances of law

A woman in the United Kingdom reports that since that fateful knock on the door to the present, life, indeed has been difficult.  With the goal of protecting her husband’s emotional state and normalizing life for herself and

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Weekly Update 2020-07-22 Ref#99

July 23, 2020, 1:46 pm Dear Members and Advocates, This week a “fire” erupted and we saw an example of why it is so important we stay organized and able to mobilize quickly. Brevard County is seeking to

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Pay up or lockup

July 22, 2020, 7:16 pm David, 28, was counting the days until January 6, 2012, when his prison sentence would end and he would be released on parole. He had earned his GED diploma inside and lined up

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U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division

July 22, 2020, 6:13 pm The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division claims they uphold the Constitutional rights of all people in the United States (note the emphasis on “all” was theirs, not ours). Let’s see if

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Public Safety Research: Facts To Replace Hysteria

It takes guts to sift through the data about the hot-button political issue of sex offender recidivism and look calmly and methodically for the truth about recidivism rates.  One of the original creators of the well-known Static-99/Static-99R, R.

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The Dobbs Wire: It didn’t have to end this way

The Dobbs Wire:  It didn’t have to end this way.  One month ago today, Hector Rodriguez died in a New York City jail.  He was homeless and locked up for failing to keep his sex offense registration updated.  Reuven Blau

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Feds kept quiet reports of ‘staff-on-child’ sex abuse at Miami-Dade detention center

July 20, 2020, 5:53 pm At least four Central American immigrant children reported being sexually abused by staff members at the privately run Homestead detention center for unaccompanied minors, the Miami Herald reports. No one went to prison

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UPDATED CALL TO ACTION: Brevard County. Oppose proposed ordinance

July 20, 2020, 12:08 pm [FAC NOTE: This is turning on absurd. Now businesses will be able to order persons forced to register can’t go within 1000 feet of their business?!?!] As it stands, any person convicted of

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Another murder of someone on the registry: Texas man charged with murder of alleged sex offender near Carlsbad

July 20, 2020, 11:34 am A Texas man was charged with first degree murder in the March 16 death of an alleged Lea County sex offender living in Eddy County, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Carlsbad

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Frightening number of Coronavirus cases in Florida prisons

July 17, 2020, 7:50 pm Union officials at Federal Correctional Complex Coleman and Federal Correctional Institution Miami sounded the alarm on just how bad the conditions are inside the facilities. Kareen Troitino, the FCI Miami corrections officer union

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SCOTUS declines to intervene in Florida voting dispute

July 16, 2020, 7:47 pm Not that it matters to our population, since Amendment 4 discriminates against people with past convictions for sexual offenses, but today the Supreme Court declined to intervene in a ping pong match between

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