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NARSOL previously questioned whether the public conviction registries in Illinois could be on the brink of collapse as there were so many people required to register under its bursting registries while lacking the resources to maintain these various registries.   The Chicago 400 and the Illinois Voices for Reform (with Adele Nicholas serving as its Executive Director) are working toward changes

This thoroughly researched article from the The Appeal entitled HOW FLORIDA’S SLUGGISH VOTER REGISTRATION PROCESS SENT EX-PRISONERS BACK TO JAIL highlights the duplicity of the State of Florida when it publicly arrested select felons who voted, but did not qualify to have their voting right restored.  According to this research, the individuals only voted after being confirmed by the State or local

This lawsuit was filed recently in a federal district court, challenging that the First Amendment protects citizens from compelled speech. The ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci will be added as an attorney in the lawsuit once the court approves. SOURCE: ACSOL News Alert: Federal Lawsuit Challenges Missouri Halloween Sign Requirement, October 5, 2023

I was reading reviews of a new book by Nick Cave entitled Faith, Hope and Carnage.  The reviews included quotes from the book that made me stop to think.  “Hope is optimism with a broken heart” and “This is how I chose to live my life – in uncertainty.”   I recalled something I wrote to myself a few months

“A Portland man was acquitted last month after being granted a new trial on appeal, nearly five years after he was convicted in connection with an undercover child sex sting.”  (The Columbian, “Portland man arrested in Clark County sting acquitted of child sex abuse in new trial,” Becca Robbins, October 2, 2023) “His case was featured in an August 2020

NARSOL continues to fight against the harsh, barbaric laws that are passed to further punish people on the registry who have served out their sentence and are trying to reintegrate back into society as law-abiding citizens. Appearing in an article published this week concerning a situation in Illinois where research is not a priority for some policy makers, NARSOL is

The Newberry city commissioners in Alachua County considered expanding their residency restrictions beyond the state’s 1000 feet.  The city attorney said that “while a stricter code would be allowable, it may not be enforceable because the state will not prosecute a local ordinance that is not also a violation of state law, unless the city enters into an agreement with

By Catherine L. Carpenter Professor Carpenter says we are in a sex panic which “has bred widespread and ever-escalating legislation, impacted the lives of more than a million people and their families, and caused public hysteria and violence.”  (Notre Dame Journal of Legislation, “Panicked Legislation,” Catherine L. Carpenter, 49 Notre Dame J. Leg. 1 (2023)) Carpenter says that this fear

The Washington State Sex Offender Policy Board might be making some recommendations in 2024: Do away with community notifications about sex offenders when they move into neighborhoods. Make registries only available to law enforcement. Research shows that community notification and registries are ineffective.  There are also websites that let the public know who is on the registry and where each

The following information has already been posted at our site but is being posted again for those that did not see the original post. Justice Policy Journal, Spring 2016, “Bad Data: How government agencies distort statistics on sex-crime recidivism”, Alissa R. Ackerman and Marshall Burns,  http://www.cjcj.org/uploads/cjcj/documents/jpj_bad_data.pdf Ackerman and Burns looked at 287 studies of sexual recidivism rates and selected seven