Thursday, December 27, 2012

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Are you a Sex Offender?

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State told to pay $292K to firm that challenged sex offender laws : News-crime

State told to pay $292K to firm that challenged sex offender laws : News-crime

RSOL Announcements

On December 20, RSOL sent a press release to 130 news outlets, and a few legislators, primarily in PA, announcing that it would soon challenge sections of Senate Bill 1183 (Pennsylvania’s new sex offender registration requirements) on multiple constitutional grounds. 

Constitutional challenges to AWA and other legislation and laws that affect our advocacy are meeting with some success. Just look at what is happening in CA and a few other states. This doesn't just affect PA or any one state. A victory anywhere is a victory for us all; we are truly all in this together. If you have considered making a donation to our legal fund, or encouraging others to do so, this is an excellent time. There is a legal fund contribution button on RSOL's website, or send your contribution to RSOL Legal Fund, PO Box 36123, Albuquerque, NM 87176. Thank you all.

Sandi
National RSOL Communications Committee
"What we are is God's gift to us.  What we become is our gift to God."

Swedish Documentary - Night of the Pedofile



It is in Swedish but you can totally get it….

Links of Interest

 
 

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Ex-con running for Jesse Jackson Jr.'s seat

Second chance in America??

OH - Web sites profiting from mug shots sued

OH - Web sites profiting from mug shots sued

Widespread Use of Plea Bargains Plays Major Role in Mass Incarceration

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12556-overwhelming-use-of-plea-bargains-plays-major-role-in-mass-incarceration?utm_source=Innocence+Network+Member+Project+Staff+and+Volunteers&utm_campaign=38f34ba4bf-Innocence_Network_Hot_Topics_Newsletter2012&utm_medium=email#.UMExbjkjalE.email


FAC: Call to Action!


Hello Warriors,
Here is your chance to use your voice.

A Call to Action!

FAC is asking for everyone to act now.
Jeffery Mitchell is a Florida man who placed the sign in his front yard reading, “A Sex Offender Lives Here.” He is wanting to call attention to the injustices of these laws and refuses to go down without a fight.

He would like as many folks as possible to reach out to John Stossel and just simply say… “I want to know more about this man, Jeffrey Mitchell, story in Florida.


PLEASE REACH OUT! The contact information is below.

Mr. Stossel’s contact pages are: https://www.facebook.com/JohnStossel

john.stossel@foxnews.com

http://www.johnstossel.com


For a bit of insight on Mr. Mitchell’s account and truth about the Registry: http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/man-puts-sign-reading-sex-offender-residence-his-f/nTN8c/
Support others that are willing to speak for you!

“With Unity Comes Change”

Friday, December 7, 2012

New law to target child sex offenders

New law to target child sex offenders

Preview of upcoming independent film project tentatively titled "Gary Blanton Jr.- Beyond The Label."

 

Massachusetts Sex Offender Resource

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 01:46 PM PST

On June 2, 2012, a career criminal named Patrick Drum killed two people and planned to kill a third along the Washington state peninsula. Because his victims were listed on the state's public "sex offender" registry, Drum was labeled a "hero" by many in the community. But they judged the victims on the label alone.

Beyond the Label looks at the life of Gary Blanton as told by his widow, Leslie Blanton. Mrs. Blanton, in her own words, goes beyond the media reports and the label given by society, showing Gary Blanton, Jr. as a devoted husband and father, a volunteer in the community, and a man who struggled to overcome the label "Registered Sex Offender."

Gary Blanton, Jr. was officially convicted of "Third Degree Rape"; however, the media failed to mention his conviction was the result of a consensual relationship when Blanton was just 17 years old, a relationship disapproved by his girlfriend's parents. Blanton lived a decade on the registry, working, volunteering, and taking care of his wife and kids, while being singled out and targeted based on the sex offender label. 

This video is restricted and copyrighted by Once Fallen working in cooperation with Leslie Blanton, the wife of Gary Blanton, Jr. This preview is not to be reproduced or redistributed without the expressed written consent of Once Fallen. The preview title and content is a work in progress and may not reflect the finished product.

For more information or to donate to this project, go to http://www.oncefallen.com/

NY - Guest column: Sex offender registry benefits are a myth

NY - Guest column: Sex offender registry benefits are a myth

LETTER: Greene County mulls myth-based policy - DailyFreeman.com

LETTER: Greene County mulls myth-based policy - DailyFreeman.com

Friday, November 30, 2012

TELL PRESIDENT OBAMA DO NOT SIGN HB 6063


Hello everyone… TELL PRESIDENT OBAMA DO NOT SIGN HB 6063

I implore each of you to place a call today to the white house 202.456.1111

Tell the President not to sign this into law!!!


The UUSC has not even had their recommendation on this issue yet.  It was on their agenda last year and its on their agenda again this year..
There is nothing in this bill that is actually going to protect any child.
Increasing the penalties for child pornography does NOTHING to stop the cycle of abuse.

As a citizen and a tax payer demand they show us the research they are using to support their position for this legislation.
It does not exist. 


TELL PRESIDENT OBAMA DO NOT SIGN HB 6063
It is horrific!!!.

202.456.1111

Experts question paper’s handling of sex offender reporter

http://www.timesargus.com/article/20121129/NEWS03/711299895

Friday, November 23, 2012

Sex-Offender Laws Doomed by Flawed Reasoning

  http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/newsArticle.aspx?articleid=1391680

OH - News outfit (WEWS-TV) claims unconstitutional laws trampling on ex-criminals rights are loopholes?



http://sexoffenderissues.blogspot.com/2012/11/oh-news-outfit-claims-unconstitutional.html#.UK_zENWd6So

OH - News outfit (WEWS-TV) claims unconstitutional laws trampling on ex-criminals rights are loopholes?

OH - News outfit (WEWS-TV) claims unconstitutional laws trampling on ex-criminals rights are loopholes?

Community of the Wrongly Accused: The 'beyond a reasonable doubt' standard of proof ...

Community of the Wrongly Accused: The 'beyond a reasonable doubt' standard of proof ...: The ignorance is appalling, and more than a little tiresome. Katelyn Sack, a writer for the UK Guardian's blog, has the American college r...

Wow, is that it???
I wish I would have figured that lame notion up and made the paper.

Loophole in law means hundreds of Ohio sex offenders can't truly be tracked

Loophole in law means hundreds of Ohio sex offenders can't truly be tracked

Has the sheriff actually considered that all those homeless aren't trying to skirt the system but can't find jobs and can't live with families?

Example??
http://www.officer.com/news/10831217/housing-an-issue-for-homeless-sex-offenders-in-pa


Statewide sweep for sex offenders in Colorado

http://www.theday.com/article/20121115/NWS01/311159496/1019&town=

Petition to sign

Videos of Interest





Texas, With Prison Health Care $50 Million in Red, Weighs More Medical Parole

Texas, With Prison Health Care $50 Million in Red, Weighs More Medical Parole

 
Just had to share...see the link below. 

1. Privacy laws prevent naming the inmate, who state officials say has been left incapacitated by a deadly, cell-eating virus.

Privacy laws for an inmate - imagine that.

2. Violent offenders such as murderers are now eligible for medical parole if they are terminally ill or require long-term health care. The law is stricter on sex offenders, who must be in a "persistent vegetative state" to qualify.

Are you kidding me???

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~Adlia Stevenson U.S. Vice President (1893–1897) and Congressman (1879–1881)

On a Personal Note

Thanks for the opportunity to express my thoughts regarding the issue of citizens’ rights, particularly addressing certain sex offenders’ crimes that do not fit the devastating, inequitable and endless punishment given.


As you know, many young men and women lives across the nation are being destroyed by incarceration, life-time registry and restrictive laws that do more harm than good. For those individuals, there is no second chance.

Below is a personal letter to President Obama:
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“Dear President Obama,

I truly agree with your sentiments that individuals, such as ex-felons, should be able to receive a second chance at life. Since we all know that one can veer off that path of life and travel along rough, rocky terrain, sometimes running off and ending up in some ditch. We all have made our fill of mistakes and sometimes those held a costly consequence that changed life forever. So we lived through it, trying harder to make things right with family, friends and those around us, but what about those who aren’t able to make things right even if they tried…because they’re labeled as too dirty, a leper, a person who is rejected from society and home.


But what if they’re a seventeen year old and had sex with a fifteen year old, consensual at that? Or they’re a teen that had gotten so enraged after a breakup that he sent out naked pictures of his girlfriend on his cell phone or email? Or an individual urinates where someone just happens to see them?


All are wrong and a travesty but do they deserve the life of no second chance with a registry that ends all. They are labeled, no jobs, no where to live…they have been deemed a menace to society, a plague. These certain circumstances, and many other situations similar to these, I believe still deserve a second change.

Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution


Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.


After my son’s early release and two years of prison, I thought I had handled that fact graciously knowing after serving his time he would be able to get that fresh start, that second chance. He was an exemplary inmate, GED, college courses and vocational classes. Little did I know that a second chance on the outside was the farthest from the truth? He now struggles and lives in a trailer park sharing a trailer with another and surrounded by others in the same rocking boat, one to float endlessly in shark infested waters. I see him little because of probation requirements (he couldn’t live with us because we were 800 feet near a school). My family is afraid of what would happen to them if he lived with them…vigilantism. My son has no other place to stay since others condemn him of his crime that is screamed from the highest rooftop. Sex offender, sex offender!

Not all sex offenders are pedophiles or predators but some are simply young kids that make one stupid and rash decision that eventually changes everything, and they have no idea what they’ve done until their life is never their own. Exactly, where is that second chance for those sex-offenders who are lumped together with pedophiles and predators? Now, it makes me sick to think of my son’s future and many like him that are on the registry and many with no second chance…ever. I am asking you as a mother and as another concerned citizen of the United States that these laws are looked at again and taken into serious consideration in what they are doing to the Constitution of the United States, not for sex offenders in general but the future rights of every citizen, before anymore are put into effect. They unjustly strip an offender of their rights and place them in a guillotine that can be easily set off by anyone and at anytime. Where is the second chance for ex-sex offenders in the present, pending and future laws?”
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What truly saddens me is the weakness and deterioration of what the sex offense issue is doing to our once, great nation. Across Europe, others are seeing the injustice and disregard of rights, but we ignore this problem and it makes me wonder where humanity is heading….

We have become a hysterical society in which our latest witch-hunt is a sex offender--no matter his/her crime.

Below is a email sent from a foreign advocate to a father of a sex offender:
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“The tragic story of your son's death is just so sad that it's difficult to explain how. It was very hard to read your letters. It seems almost unbelievable that this can take place in a democracy! From our point of view, there is no justice in this. Not in any way: not for you, your son, the former girl friend – or even the state.

It is an abusive legal system. It seems barbaric. And we are so very sorry that this takes place. That's why it's so important for us to try to neutralize the debate with this…, hopefully making some changes. ….. to show the every day life of the sex offenders, trying to show how they keep on being punished, even after served prison time…..But we will for sure tell the story of the injustice that your son has been exposed to.”
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I appreciate everyone's commitment and backing to protect everyone's civil rights, plainly as noted in the Constitution of the United States and is presupposed, giving ALL men are “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.”