Iowa Governor Restores Voting Rights to Former Felons (other than those convicted of crime involving homicide).

August 6, 2020, 8:22 am The Governor of Iowa has signed an executive order restoring the voting rights and the right to hold public office, to most people who have committed criminal offenses. https://governor.iowa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/EO7%20-%20Voting%20Restoration.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery The good is that

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TX: Officials discuss sex offender problem

August 5, 2020, 7:05 pm The number of registered sex offenders residing in unincorporated areas of Johnson County increased from 370 in 2017 to 597 today, JCSO Chief Deputy Mark Reinhardt said. One residence that served as home

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Our System Is Not Doing the Thing It Says It Intends to Do

August 5, 2020, 8:56 am The whole idea was that we are going to protect children. But because most abuse of children happens inside the family, the registry doesn’t affect that. It just creates more “stranger danger” fear.

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UK: Online naming and shaming ‘threatening offender rehabilitation’

August 5, 2020, 8:37 am According to Detective Superintendent Stewart Gull, the recent spate of ‘naming and shaming’ local offenders online after their sentences have been carried out is posing serious problems for their ability to reintegrate into

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Judge Salas speaks out against too much public information

August 5, 2020, 8:33 am Federal Judge Esther Salas, whose son was tragically killed last week, spoke out for the first time since the incident. As she explained in a video published by the Savoy Show, “A madman

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Weekly Update 2020-08-04 Ref#102

August 5, 2020, 7:37 am Dear Members and Advocates, This past month we lost the last of the “Big Six”, when Representative John Lewis died. The Big Six were leaders of six civil rights organizations who helped organize

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Colorado Sex Offender Management Board Members Caught: Contracts Worth Millions of Dollars Annually

Colorado Watch writes that a “scathing” State Auditor’s report put a spotlight on contracts worth millions of dollars. Certain members of the Sex Offender Management Board were found to have benefited their own firms by making standards and

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NOVA: Looking for Interview Subjects

The popular PBS program NOVA  series is looking for interview subjects.   NOVA reporter Michael Pope is looking for people who were sentenced to jail or prison based on a mandatory minimum, particularly sentences that seem “outrageous” or “significant.” 

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Weekly Update 2020-07-29 Ref#101

July 31, 2020, 8:04 pm Dear Members and Advocates, We start this week’s update with an apology to “Pariah.oo1″, who had posted a comment to our discussion on the proposed amendment to the Brevard Ordinance. The proposed amendment

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SEO Expertise Needed: Do Something You Love To Promote Justice and Safeguard Family Life

 The War Call Newsletter is seeking a Volunteer with Search Engine Optimization talent to pull us into the 21st Century.  We use WordPress.  We’d like your help getting noticed by using SEO Yoast, and to facilitate social media

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MI: Man wrongly imprisoned for FTR can’t sue state

July 31, 2020, 8:25 am The Michigan Supreme Court has stopped a man from suing the state after he spent more than a year in prison for a crime that wasn’t a crime. The man was behind bars

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Virginia

Attention Virginians: Action Needed ASAP

A Special Session of the Virginia State Legislature is taking up justice reform legislation.  Contact your Senators and Delegates quickly to register your support for HB1532 which “Establishes a four-level classification system for the awarding and calculation of

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De-Stigmatizing Language: Use It. Spread It.

Society refers to those who have committed a sex offense as a sex offender: as if that person always has been and always will be an offender.  If you stole a candy bar from a convenience store as

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Justice Roundtable. As High as 88% COVID-19 Infection Rate Reported at Some Facilities

Protecting vulnerable populations, including people incarcerated in the range of carceral settings nationwide, is paramount during the Covid-19 assault.  The criminal legal system disproportionately impacts Black, Latinx, and low-income communities as well as other underrepresented and marginalized groups,

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Shadow Prisoners: Involuntarily Committed Risking Covid-19 in Overcrowded Facilities

The  coronavirus pandemic is a global emergency. Persons in overcrowded facilities are in peril as Covid-19 quietly invades. Human rights organizations have called on officials to release persons from the traditional legal system but have overlooked people confined

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Tropical Storm Isaias heading towards Florida

July 30, 2020, 12:24 pm News stations in South Florida are beginning to report on Tropical Storm Isaias, which could hit our state as soon as Saturday. We hope none of our members or loved ones will be

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Colorado board that writes rules for management of sex offenders rife with conflicts, state audit finds

July 29, 2020, 2:39 pm Members of a state board that writes the rules for how Colorado sex offenders are supervised voted on policy revisions that benefited their firms, which held state contracts worth millions of dollars annually,

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Stetson University Researcher Says Porn Does Not Cause Violent Sex Crimes

July 29, 2020, 2:36 pm “During the past few years, many states have declared that pornography is a public health crisis,” said Ferguson. “Dr. Hartley and I were curious to see if evidence could support such claims, at

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Some Brevard County Talking Points

July 29, 2020, 2:13 pm Brevard County currently has an ordinance that makes it illegal for registrants to enter into or remain within the 1000-foot buffer zone surrounding any school, daycare center, park or playground, with only a

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