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NARSOL Organizes Halloween Cop-Watch Hotline

October 29, 2018 — 0 Comments

NARSOL conference 2021 on the horizon January 27, 2021
By Robin . . . Out of an abundance of caution and consideration for your health and safety, the national conference has been rescheduled for October 8-10, 2021. The theme and location for the conference will not change, and we are excited about the line-up of speakers and presenters who have already committed to be with us in Houston, Texas…
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NARSOL announces exciting new project January 25, 2021
Lives on the Registry is a new project spearheaded by NARSOL; this time, we hear directly from the people whose lives are affected by the registry in short documentary-style films. It is well documented that the registry has included people from all walks of life; most of these people have suffered in silence for one simple fact – very few…
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Coming soon; Lives on the Registry January 22, 2021
Coming soon! Watch https://youtu.be/8mHGd_D1tww and visit https://lives.narsol.org to learn more and follow the channel.
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Sex offenders at Moose Lake protest harsh conditions after deaths from COVID-19 January 21, 2021
A group of sex offenders at a northern Minnesota treatment center is refusing to attend therapy sessions, while others are wearing black clothing as a show of solidarity, amid growing unrest after three men housed there died and scores more were sickened by the novel coronavirus. The acts of defiance were organized to call attention to what offenders see as… […]
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VIRGINIA BILL WOULD END CIVIL COMMITMENT OF SEX OFFENDERS January 21, 2021
[abcnews.go.com – 1/19/21] RICHMOND, Va. — Two Virginia Democratic lawmakers are spearheading a push to repeal a decades-old law that allows the state to hold certain sex offenders at psychiatric facilities indefinitely after their criminal sentences if they are deemed “sexually violent predators.” Critics say civil commitment laws are fundamentally unfair a […]
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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…
Sandy Rozek
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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