California RSOL is rebranding itself to service registrants beyond California.
CaliforniaRSOL, one of the most successful advocacy group for reform of sex offender registration and management has decided to change it’s name to the “Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws.”
This morning, California RSOL President, Janice Bellucci, circulated an email informing members and associates of the new name and their Board’s reason for changing it:
California Reform Sex Offender Laws (CA RSOL) has a new name — Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL). The new name is significant in two ways: (1) it no longer uses the name of the state in which it was incorporated and (2) it uses the term “sex offense” instead of “sex offender”.
The CA RSOL board of directors determined that these changes are necessary because the organization has outgrown the borders of the State of California. For example, individuals in many states utilize the organization’s website on a regular basis and contact the organization to request information on topics outside the state’s borders such as international travel and legal strategies.
The CA RSOL board of directors determined that these changes are desirable in order to change the focus of the organization’s work from individuals who have been labeled as “sex offenders” for the rest of their lives based upon an offense they committed often decades ago. The new focus is upon laws that address “sex offenses” and the punishing collateral consequences that accompany them.
Although the name of the organization has changed, its mission has not. Like CA RSOL, ACSOL will continue to protect the Constitution by restoring the civil rights of registrants. Like CA RSOL, ACSOL will continue to urge registrants, family members and supporters to Show Up – Stand Up – Speak Up.
im from new jersey and would like to help as much as i can since this issue concerns me as well
Hello, what i want to know is these registry laws we’re made because they thought that recidivism rate was 80% and since the person who did the study has since retracted his study and has done another study and his new study has shown recidivism rate is under 5% and every single state in the US has done a study on recidivism and the US government has done a study and every single study has shown recidivism rate is under 5% and i mean every single study is under 5%, so that being the case then why not go after all of that an get the registry taken down, and that recidivism rate is lower than any other crime so why are we walking on egg shells and get this done, the government don’t want this to happen because every peron on the registry can sue in every state they live in! So i hope you redirect your focus in this direction because if you don’t i am going to put together a group to collect all of these studies and blast it on the media and the government, i hope you do go in this direction an if you do i would like to join the cause, Thank you