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Foxes 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 thing. The measure had not only bipartisan support but also support of D.A.’s that prosecute sex offenders and the ACLU.…
How 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 described. You just keep at it, taking one small bite at a time until the entire problem is devoured. That’s…
Do 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 informed that you can’t have a smartphone or access to the internet, all violations of parole for most registrants. Access…
Aging 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 beyond, we may start noticing that we forget little things, where you left the car keys, where you put your…
One More Suicide Is One Too Many
Fear of life on the registry may be responsible for another life cut short. On Tuesday, 1/30/2018 the news reported that former “Glee” TV show” actor, Mark Salling died of an apparent suicide. Mark had been found guilty of possession…
TN TBI Blames Partial Budget Shortfall on “Uncollected Sex Offender Fees”
Thank you TN for dropping this blog piece right in my lap, it makes my job so much easier! The state of TN Comptroller of the Treasury/ Jan.2018 Audit is complete and it’s not looking good for TBI. Although there’s…
Does Social Justice Exist for Registrants?
There are dozens of definitions of Social Justice. Wikipedia defines it as the concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society. This is measured by the explicit and tacit terms for the distribution of wealth, opportunities…
Changing the Question “IS” the Answer
Have you had any contact with children? That’s the standard question to registrants from P.O.’s and polygraph technicians. Shouldn’t the question be, “Have you had any “Inappropriate” contact with children?” Wouldn’t that solve a lot of the registry woes? It’s…
Sex Offense: An Unpayable Debt?
“No matter how much time you’ve spent in prison, you haven’t exactly paid your debt to society.” This was recently told to a group of registrants by a counselor in a sex offender therapy group. So, are sex offenses an…
Registrants Forced to Wear “Imaginary Blinders”
I sure you’ve seen horses wearing blinders. Their purpose is to keep the horse looking straight ahead and focused, keep the horse’s side view blinded so that it doesn’t become distracted by anything in it’s peripheral vision. It prevents the…
This site is now a secure .org
We have moved this blog from being a .com to being a .org website. We have also enabled SSL so the site should be visited by going to https://blog.womenagainstregistry.org . If you tried to visit the old website it should have automatically…
Bonds, Parolee’s and Sex Offenders
You’ve journeyed through Hell. You’ve traveled the long road of court dates and jail/prison sentences. Done your time. And now, finally, you’re out. Free, Semi-Free, On Supervision,whatever you want to call it. Time to get on with your life, right?…
Things That Go “Bump” In The Night
Does the idea of an audit scare you? How about an audit where states lose track of registrants? Out of the Boston Globe, Sept 27 is a great article by Jeremy C. Fox regarding Massachusetts having lost track of nearly…
Sex Offender Sentencing : The Eighth Wonder of the World
It’s one of those things that make you say “Hmmmmm, How do they do that?” It’s a mystery to me how sex offender sentencing is calculated. Here’s two recent examples of sex offender cases and their outcomes. Does it make…
One Picture’s Worth A Thousand Words!
According to one Missouri resident, the county has apparently made a few changes to their SO Registration policies. One of the changes is where one registers, it used to be at the jail, behind closed, locked doors and now it’s…
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
I didn’t think I could do it. I didn’t think I was strong enough. I thought it would kill me. I was sure I would break down, fall apart into a million pieces and just die. And so, I waited.…
Colorado Sex Offender Registration Statute Unconstitutional 8-31-2017
Colorado Sex Offender Registration Statute Unconstitutional 8-31-2017 MILLARD et al. v. Rankin A win following the Packingham v. North Carolina win Packingham v. North Carolina: Justice Kennedy writing for the majority noted parenthetically that “the troubling fact that the law imposes severe restrictions…
Registration Fees “Nothin’ From Nothin’ Leaves Nothin’!”
Some of you may recall an old song by Billy Preston, Nothin’ From Nothin’ Leaves Nothin’. That’s what I think of when I hear about the registry fees and the other fees that registrants pay. There are membership fees associated…
Registrant Restrictions: Maybe SCOTUS “Just Doesn’t Know”
Here’s a question for you- Before you became a member or unofficial member of the circus nightmare we call “The Registry”, (cue the scary music), how much did you actually know about it? If you’re like me, probably little to…