Episode 16 2018/03/17 Larry and Andy extend a very warm welcome to NARSOL Executive Director Brenda Jones. The three cover the latest news along with how she got started in advocacy work. She is a very humble and special lady. Does she
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By Sandy . . . News bulletin: Sex offender arrested for violating his conditions and going to a school. The original header for this — and what search engines “hit” on — is “Sex offender arrested after trying to pick up children at Heber
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By Mia Armstrong . . . ASU [Arizona State University] works with local law enforcement agencies to ensure that convicted sex offenders who work or study on campus comply with sex offender registration and community notification policies as mandated by state law. Those in
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Episode 15 2018/03/10 Definition: Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech. Seems then that compelled speech is the direct opposite of freedom of speech, or expression. Are there examples where compelled speech is justified (news media carrying candidate
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Episode 14 2018/03/03 The travel ban went into effect, not at the initiation of a judge but rather by an action being filed to compel the judge to act. Judges are like umpires in baseball or referees in football or basketball. Their
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Mr. Timothy Lockwood Chief Regulatory and Policy Management Branch California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations P.O. Box 94283 Sacramento, CA 94283-0001 Comment: CDCR’s Blanket Exclusion of Inmates with Sex Offense Convictions in the Revised Sections 3177 and 3315 Dear Chief Lockwood, NARSOL
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By Shelly Stow . . . From North Carolina comes this all-too-familiar story: Law enforcement is patting itself on the back for “tracking” those on the sex offender registry. In the typical it’s-a-dirty-job-but-somebody’s-got-to-do-it style of reporting, the journalist lauds Investigator J. Moore
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By Nick Ferraro . . . West St. Paul is reworking its “predatory offender” ordinance in light of a federal judge’s ruling that a convicted sex offender is likely to succeed in his lawsuit against the city. The ordinance — passed in
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Episode 13 Recorded on 02/24/2018 Larry and Andy discuss a variety of topics: ex-post facto in reverse; remaining incarcerated due to not having a residency plan; whether registrants can ever live beyond their pasts; judges making judgmental decisions; the PA governor signing a new
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By Sandy . . . Any criminal justice system has two purposes. The first is to punish those who have broken the law. The second is to bring about rehabilitation in the lawbreaker so that he will turn his back on a
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