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“Building Your Advocacy Tool Kit” – A NARSOL Live Webcast June 19, 2021

May 27, 2021 — 1 Comment

NARSOL Conference Oct 8-10, 2021

March 9, 2021 — 0 Comments

Constitutionality, Judicial, Laws, NARSOL, News, SORNA

NARSOL LIVE Litiation Summit Nov 19 & 21

October 19, 2020 — 0 Comments

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

NARSOL Live 2020 Conference Videos Now Available to the Public

August 2, 2020 — 0 Comments

NARSOL, News, Resources

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

July 25, 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 — 2 Comments

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

“Not guilty,” said court martial jury, but he was put on sex offense registry anyway December 4, 2021
By Sandy . . . Starting in the early 1990’s, several high-profile cases of sexual assault in military academies brought to a climax previous years’ concerns about military sexual harassment and sexual assault. The culmination was when, according to Wikipedia, “In an attempt to deal with this problem, the Department of Defense issued the Department of Defense […]
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U.S. judge in Tennessee orders men removed from sex offense registry citing “retroactive punishment” December 4, 2021
By Ayumi Davis . . . U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger ordered the removal of eight men from the sex offender registry to end their retroactive punishments. “Tennessee officials continue to flout the Constitution’s guarantees,” Trauger wrote in her ruling Friday. “The federal district courts of this state have repeatedly concluded that the same analysis appl […]
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Connecticut Supreme Court delivers hopeful verdict December 2, 2021
Anthony A. v. Department of Correction By Larry . . . This is a lingering case that has gone on for several years. NARSOL has decided to use fewer quotes from the court’s opinion than we normally do because some of the language is very graphic in terms of the sexual acts alleged. In 2017, the Connecticut Supreme Court affirmed…
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Emily Horowitz’s take on the wrongful rape conviction in the Alice Sebold case December 1, 2021
Originally published at Reason 11/29/21. Reprinted in full with permission. By Emily Horowitz . . . Alice Sebold’s bestselling 1999 memoir Lucky tells the story of a young woman raped by a stranger while attending Syracuse University. In the book, the rapist is caught and convicted. After writing about the experience, Sebold went on to write the bestseller T […]
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Time to decide: Will we settle for “feel-good” laws? November 30, 2021
Originally published at the Times-Union, Albany, New York 11/30/21 Reprinted in full with permission. By Sandy . . . Approximately 180,000 individuals are incarcerated in the United States for a sexual crime. The offenses range from violent rape to exhibitionism. The vast majority will be released into the community to complete the sentence under probation o […]
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Virginia professor to step down after backlash to research on ‘minor-attracted’ people November 30, 2021
An academic in Virginia whose research on “minor-attracted people” sparked threats and a petition calling for their removal announced their resignation Wednesday, university officials and the scholar said in a joint statement. Allyn Walker will remain on leave until they step down as an assistant professor of criminal justice and sociology at […] [Read More] […]
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Conviction overturned in 1981 rape of ‘Lovely Bones’ author Alice Sebold November 30, 2021
A rape conviction at the center of a memoir by award-winning author Alice Sebold has been overturned because of what authorities determined were serious flaws with the 1982 prosecution and concerns the wrong man had been sent to jail. Anthony Broadwater, who spent 16 years in prison, was cleared Monday […] [Read More]
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Serena’s Law: Closing a loophole that allowed sexual abusers to continue working with kids November 26, 2021
There’s a loophole that allows sexual abusers to continue working with children been if an organization does a background check. But, because of one young woman’s bravery, the system is fixed. … Now, “Serena’s Law” requires each clerk of court to post the identity online of someone who has an injunction or […] [Read More]
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My own pupils targeted me in the TikTok paedophile craze – now I can’t go back to our school November 26, 2021
Teachers have always had to expect a certain amount of stick from their pupils. It’s part of the job; normally we don’t grumble too much about it. Over my 14 years in the profession I’ve worked across nine secondary schools, teaching history in Wales, Blackpool, and Liverpool. Sometimes, I encountered challenging behavioural […] [Read More]
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Iowa SC declines registrants’ petition; says constitutional rights not violated November 24, 2021
By Erin Jordan . . . The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld a district-court decision that the state is not wrongfully denying liberty to sex offenders who aren’t eligible for parole because they haven’t been able to get into a required treatment program in Iowa’s prison system. The opinion filed Tuesday said the Iowa Department of Corrections has not violated th […]
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