Sex Offender, Registrant or Registered Citizen: Does Society Care About The Label?
First I struggled with the label “sex offender”. The words sit in the mouth like a heavy after-taste. Then “registrant”
Read moreWitch Hunt Mentality Equals A Win For Registrants
Because of a hysteria driven, over-zealous mother, the New York State Senate recently passed legislation that prohibits placing school bus
Read moreFoxes Guarding the Henhouse in Colorado and Tennessee
Colorado’s House Bill 18-1427 to eliminate conflicts of interests within the state’s Sex Offender Management Board seemed like a sure
Read moreSummertime and the Livin’ Ain’t Easy!
Knoxville, Tennessee. The South. Home of plantation porches and sweet tea. Land of greenways, rivers, lakes, mountains, parks and bike
Read moreThe Dating Debacle for Registrants
Who do you tell, what do you say and when do you say it? That’s just one of the many
Read moreWest Virginia’s Fake News Regarding Sex Offenders
I thought it started out as a good news article from The Exponent Telegram in West Virginia. A judge was
Read moreA Heartless Man Without A Soul
CBS/ South Florida recently had Ron Book/Chairman of Miami-Dade Homeless Trust debating with host and investigative reporter Jim DeFede about
Read moreCheck Your State’s Sex Offender Treatment Board For Conflicts of Interest
A few weeks ago I wrote about registrants being used as what amounts to “uncompensated lab rats” for VASI/Visual Assessment
Read moreNeighborhood Hysteria: This Time It’s Not Over A Sex Offender!
77 year old Carl Reimann gets out of prison. He has served his sentence for the 1972 Yorkville murders of
Read moreTaxpayer’s Money Wasted on Duplicate Registry Compliance Checks
For those registrants that are out on parole, home visits by a parole officer come with the territory. Let’s just
Read moreRegistry Restrictions VS Parental Rights
Recently I wrote a piece on Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin’s denying and then limiting a father who also happens to
Read moreHow To Eat An Elephant
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. That’s how solving an enormous problem has often been
Read moreChildren’s Hospital of Wisconsin RX Is “Cruel & Unusual Punishment”
Having a seriously ill child is heartbreak enough, but a father prevented from visiting his sick child makes this story even
Read moreRegistrants: Uncompensated Research Subjects
Are registrants uncompensated lab rats? TN sex offender treatment includes the use of VASI/Visual Assessment of Sexual Interest screening. From
Read moreDo Conditions of Parole Violate the First Amendment?
For those registrants under parole, commonly referred to as “supervision”, it comes as quite a shock when you are first
Read moreYou’ve Got A Friend, But It’s Not U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions !
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke at a conference for the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Nashville, TN
Read moreTN Sexual Offender Treatment: A Conflict of Interest
When TN registrants are court-mandated to attend therapy, you would assume that therapy is being delivered by a professional, unbiased
Read moreAging on the Registry Can Be Hazardous To Your Health and Freedom
One of the hazards of aging is memory lapses. If we’re fortunate enough to make it into our 50’s,60’s and
Read moreSex Offense + Civil Commitment = A Second Prison Sentence
Time served should be just that, a sentence of time decided by the court that has a beginning and an
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