One to See Change: 01/01/2014

Friday, January 31, 2014

Chicago Grassroots React to State of the Union--Obama, The Big Let Down

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Sex Offender Vigilantism +: Are Americans increasingly taking the law into the...

Sex Offender Vigilantism +: Are Americans increasingly taking the law into the...: 1-10-2014 National: WASHINGTON, January 8, 2014 — Instances of citizen vigilantism – citizens exercising law enforcement practices witho...

MD - How Kirk Bloodsworth, wrongfully convicted for a crime he didn't commit, escaped death row

National: Official Registry of Idiots in the U.S.

http://www.idiotsregistry.info/

Links of Interest 1/29/14

http://sexoffender-decisions.blogspot.com/2014/01/sex-offender-can-continue-to-post.html

http://congress-courts-legislation.blogspot.com/2014/01/sex-offender-fights-registry-by.html

https://www.change.org/petitions/clemency-for-my-innocent-father-daryl-kelly-sr?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=46777&alert_id=RYaSKNBpwZ_WOXqGHhotD

http://freescottymerson.com/

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/news/local/florida/2014/01/28/port-orange-sexual-predator-signs/4957159/

The White House trivializes false rape claims

New Bills in Congress: Affecting sex offender issues

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-news/sex-offender-can-continue-to-post-photos-judge-says/2014/01/28/4687f63a-8861-11e3-a5bd-844629433ba3_story.html
Sheriff's Office releases identity of man found hanged in Seville; hanging victim was sexual predator

Florida: Port Orange official wants signs placed in yards to ID sex predators

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Joint Forces with a Support Line

http://nationalrsol.org/blog/2013/11/16/the-support-help-line/

"An American Horror Love Story" Documentary

A full length documentary following a couple whose hopeful happy ending was destroyed by harsh laws and tragic misunderstandings.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/drunkinmafia/american-love-a-story-gone-wrong

Friday, January 17, 2014

Sheriff's Office releases identity of man found hanged in Seville; hanging victim was sexual predator

http://newsdaytonabeach.com/vcso-man-found-hung-in-wooded-area-in-seville/

http://newsdaytonabeach.com/deland-man-identified-as-victim-in-seville-hanging-incident/

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Around our Great Country

Florida:
Please view the following two links to see the amazing job both Gail and Dr Kline did testifying before the Senate on Tuesday (first link) and the House today (second link)
Senate Committee Meeting held at 10:00 AM on 1/14/2014

http://www.flsenate.gov/media/videoplayer?EventID=2443575804_2014011076

http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/VideoPlayer.aspx?eventID=2443575804_2014011115&committeeID=2720

Alabama:
The American Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama, and the law firm Jaffe & Drennan reached a unique settlement Friday in Doe v. Entrekin with the Etowah County Sheriff’s Office, stopping its officers from conducting unannounced, suspicionless, and warrantless searches of a family’s home. The sheriff’s office had been performing such searches at the homes of everyone registered for a sexual offense, without exception, ostensibly to verify their residence. Similar programs exist across Alabama and the nation. Under the terms of the settlement, the sheriff’s office will conduct all in-person residence verifications outside a registrant’s home. Officers may not enter the home without the registrant’s written consent at the time of the verification, unless the officers have a warrant or an emergency makes entry necessary.
http://congress-courts-legislation.blogspot.com/2014/01/aclu-stops-suspicionless-home-searches.html

California::
Orange County DA to Appeal Unlawful Ruling of Sex Offender Ban

National:
Abortion Clinic BUFFER Zones -- Sex Offender Residency - Proximity BUFFER Zones

Is there a correlation and should Advocates be watching this case in the U.S. Supreme court?

Argument recap: Buffer zones? Maybe yes, but how big?

Between the complete silence of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., on the issue on Wednesday and the very active commentary and questioning of Justice Elena Kagan seems to lie the fate of state laws that seek to protect abortion clinics, their patients, and their staffs.

It seemed apparent, in a new “buffer zone” case from Massachusetts, that the Chief Justice holds the key vote on how far such zones are likely to be restricted, but that Kagan may help provide some cover for a decisive ruling that mandated narrower zones. ..Continued.. by Lyle Denniston SCOTUS Blog

Monday, January 13, 2014

Senate Committee Meeting held at 4:00 PM on 1/13/2014 in Tallahassee, Florida

Please take a moment to view the Senate Committee Meeting held at 4:00 PM on 1/13/2014 in Tallahassee.

http://www.flsenate.gov/media/VideoPlayer?EventID=2443575804_2014011061 (Bill discussion begins at the 18:18 minute mark and Gail Colletta from Florida Action Committee appears at 20:49)

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Sex Sting Backlash

Needed: Comments for Florida Sting Article

It takes a exceptional, diligent individual to keep up a fight no matter how great the media’s attention gets. He knows, as well as us, that without exposure the truth will always stay hidden.

Now it’s time to show support with your comments to an article on the WKRG website: http://www.wkrg.com/story/24369062/sex-sting-backlash

Without support in numbers, this story will never gain national media attention and it is a worthy story; worthy of being told.

So, please, take a moment to express your view while supporting others in their fight.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Florida Lobbyist coming to Tallahassee?

Florida has gone crazy with laws regarding the sex offender issue. Let's get some sensibility with these laws that will be fair for all citizens and their families. It is up to everyone to help bring a lobbyist to educate legislators in Tallahassee.

Donate now for a Florida Lobbyist and make change!
http://www.rockethub.com/projects/33054-stop-wasting-tax-dollars-on-lifetime-registrations-of-non-violent-citizens

or donate through http://floridaactioncommittee.org

January Links of Interest

Special journal issue on sex offender treatment available online Karen Franklin, Ph.D.

This month's International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy is a special issue on current issues in sex offender treatment. The special ...

December Newsletter RSOL National

Local man illustrates state sex offender trend Santa Clarita Valley Signal

The generalized category of “other sex offenses” illustrates one of the problems with California's handling of sex offenders, one expert says. Dr. Rachyll ...

Councils to house sex offenders in radical new plan Irish Independent

... the transfer of sex offenders "due to victim and offender protection issues". It states that "wherever possible, sex offenders on release from prison ...

Sex-Offender Porn Ban Passes First Legislative Hurdle WFSU

Colletta became involved with sex offender issues after her son was convicted on child pornography charges in 2010. She said lawmakers should be focused on ...

Lawmakers seek ways to combat child sex crimes Martinsburg Journal

We have a large dollar sign on our Christmas wish list, but we think this issue is ... Since then, the number of registered sex offenders has grown from 1,675 to ...

Councils to house sex offenders in radical new plan

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.”

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