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NARSOL LIVE Litiation Summit Nov 19 & 21

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NARSOL Conference 2021

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Advocacy, Judicial, Life on the SO Registry, Media, NARSOL, Organizations

NARSOL Live 2020 Conference Videos Now Available to the Public

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Test your Registry Knowledge on the NARSOL Resources Site

July 25, 2020 — 0 Comments

Advocacy, Judicial, Laws, Life on the SO Registry, Organizations

Two New Informative Videos from NARSOL

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Financial Literacy for the Justice-Impacted

January 18, 2020 — 0 Comments

Opinion, Scams, Vigilantism

When the Scammers Do More Than Call

November 15, 2019 — 0 Comments

Opposing the Registry With Humor

July 25, 2019 — 1 Comment

SCOTUS Rules on Gundy

June 20, 2019 — 0 Comments

We Need a Tornado Registry

May 30, 2019 — 2 Comments

Austism and the Registry: One Man’s Story

May 19, 2019 — 0 Comments

Hysteria, Media, News, Opinion

The Gender Bias in Sex Crime Reporting

April 24, 2019 — 0 Comments

Juvenile Offenders, Michigan, Vigilantism

Dad Executed His 15-Year Old Son for Touching Sister

March 26, 2019 — 1 Comment

Capital Punishment

Are There Acceptable Levels of Human Sacrifice?

March 23, 2019 — 0 Comments

Coping Skills, facebook, Harassment, Life on the SO Registry, Opinion, Scams, Social Media, Vigilantism

How the Scammers Get Your Number

March 16, 2019 — 0 Comments

Laws based on inaccuracies lead to lifetime of shame for those who offended as juveniles January 12, 2021
By Kristan N. Russell and Shawn C. Marsh . . . Few crimes stimulate such visceral reactions and deep-seated fears as sexual offenses. Accordingly, societal responses to sexual offending such as registration and notification laws tend to be quite punitive and highly stigmatizing for the offender. Yet these social control practices are widely considered by the […]
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4th Circuit Strikes Bans on Internet, Legal Pornography For Sex Offender January 11, 2021
[fd.org – 1/10/21] The Fourth Circuit held (link is external) that conditions of supervised release banning legal pornography and internet access are too restrictive and cannot be sustained as “reasonably related” under 18 U.S.C. 3583(d)(1) and are overbroad under 18 U.S.C. 3583(d)(2). The court explained that the district court abused its discretion in impo […]
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NARSOL and Vivante boards hold annual planning session January 11, 2021
By Sandy . . . The NARSOL and Vivante boards, for the past several years, have met the first or second weekend in January to analyze their programs and progress of the previous year and to agree on the priorities for the new year. January 2021 differed in only one respect; rather than gathering together from the many different states…
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Shame — Part III January 11, 2021
By a daughter seeking kindness See also Part I See also Part II Part III — What will the future be? Dad is still going through the court system. They want him to take a plea, but he will not. He is not going to be intimated to…
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Seventh Circuit orders names of six Indiana registrants removed from registry January 8, 2021
By Olivia Covington . . . Six men required to register as sex offenders after moving to Indiana can have their names removed from the sex offender registry, the 7th Circuit has held, finding that the state’s registration law discriminates between offenders who have consistently lived in Indiana and those who more recently moved into the state. A dissenting j […]
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Shame — Part II January 6, 2021
By a daughter seeking kindness Also see Part I “How it started” Part II – What it is now Page forward to March 2019. My dad had a new accusation against him and immediately was placed in handcuffs at age 71 while eating dinner. He was taken away without shoes and without his medications…
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Announcing the NARSOL National Speakers Bureau January 4, 2021
NARSOL is pleased to announce that it has launched its national speakers bureau with the following goals: To open a path to new constituents for its vision, mission, and research by providing qualified speakers on various related reform topics, and To facilitate getting its perspective out to the larger general public, enabling them to become part of the pub […]
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Michigan SORA changes signed into law January 1, 2021
By Beth LaBlanc . . . Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday signed a bill that would eliminate school safety zones and certain appearance requirements in Michigan’s Sex Offender Registration Act. The changes, made to comply with federal court orders that called the current law unenforceable, were among 80 bills passed by the Legislature during its lame duck sessi […]
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Those on registry can’t be categorically excluded rules CA Supreme Court January 1, 2021
In re Gadlin, S254599 (CASC) Opinion Released 12-28-20 By Larry . . . This appeal was handled by Janice Bellucci, an attorney in California, who is well known for her work on behalf of those required to register. The case arose as a result of a ballot proposition approved by California voters in 2016. Proposition 57, known as the Public…
Larry Neely
Shame January 1, 2021
By a daughter seeking kindness Part I: How it started If you have a parent or sibling convicted of a crime that requires them to have their name with personal information listed on a sex offense registry, you at some point will almost certainly be in danger or shamed beyond comprehension. I have suffered silently from shame for 37 years,…
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