The following is a conference sponsored by the US Department of Justice.
2019 National Symposium on Sex Offender Management and Accountability
July 17–18, 2019 | Chicago
Join us to learn about tools, techniques and information vital to monitoring sex offenders and combatting sexual assault and child sexual abuse. Take advantage of this opportunity to network with sex offender registry personnel, law enforcement and prosecutors working in these areas across the country. Hosted by the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking, the 2019 symposium will support state, local and tribal partners’ initiatives and efforts to prevent and respond to sexual offenses.
About
The 2019 National Symposium on Sex Offender Management and Accountability will bring together law enforcement personnel, prosecutors, registry personnel and other community stakeholders from states, territories and Indian Country across the U.S. engaged in registering and monitoring sex offenders, and investigating and prosecuting sex offenses.
- Psychopathy of Sex Offenders
- Registrars: Recruiting, Retaining and Safety
- Case Law Presentations
- Prosecuting 18 U.S. Code § 2250 Cases in Indian Country
- Interdiction of Child Trafficking
- International Tracking of Sex Offenders
- Information Sharing
- Interplay of TLOA, VAWA and SORNA
Jurisdictions with active Adam Walsh Act grant awards may use grant funds to send two attendees to the symposium. Contact your SMART grant manager for more information. Unfortunately, no travel scholarships are available for this event.
Venue
Palmer House (Hilton)
17 E. Monroe St.
Chicago, IL 60603
Look folks, even if you are on the registry, the event is only 2 days long, you can spend two nights there and leave on the third day, or even just get there the morning of day 1 and leave after the last event on day 2. . Stop trying to act like it is such a barrier to going.
This is obviously going to be a one-sided affair unless we go and start peppering them with the facts.
Agreed! Admission is free and the hotel is $180 something/night. You can get by with one night and find another advocate to share a room with.
Everyone who can attend, should attend.
I’m wondering if ANYONE with a differing viewpoint (FAC?)
will be in attendance, or is this a “preaching to the choir” type of meeting??
If anyone would like to attend, we should organize a group. The event is FREE, the hotel is roughly $180/night and people can share rooms. Flights to ORD are ???.
There are hotels that prostitution and drug deals take place that never get raided by police. One is probably safe from being outed at one of these places, especially if registered under the name of a friend. Perhaps the best bet is to fly into MKE Milwaukee, WI (Just over an hour north of O’Hare airport). Allegiant Air if you can stay a week has round trip from Tampa to Milwaukee for $156. Register in Milwaukee, WI and when conference starts, register in Kenosha, WI. There is a train from Kenosha, WI to Chicago. That way, you never actually spend any nights in Illinois! Make certain on your trip you bring your friend’s prepaid phone. There is no point to bringing your own phone. Have your travel companion rent a car if you don’t take the train from Kenosha, WI to Chicago, IL.
The rooms for appx $180.00 – are those at the Palmer House (Hilton)? Even on expedia, etc. those rooms are upwards of $350.00 unless you share with someone.
If you are looking to save a few dollars and are on a budget you can stay at the Motel 6 in Villa Park or the Holiday Inn in Oak Brook Terrace and I will be able to drive you to the event. The Motel 6 is less than $70 and if booked through a travel site, the Holiday Inn in Oak Brook Terrace will be less than $100. Room in my vehicle is limited to 3 guests.
Illinois is VERY tricky for traveling RCs (if any would dare enter this lion’s den). According to their interpretation of their own law, one must register if in IL for three days within a calendar year.
The conference is only 2 days. Get in, get out.
Foundation for The Police State.
This is creepy AF, even by DOJ standards.
95.8% of all reported sex offenses are perpetrated by people who have never been convicted of a crime and are unregistered. Among those that HAVE been convicted, sexual re-offense rates are what, in the single digits for those recently released and the same as the community at large for those who’ve remained offense free.
Given that these are DOJ’s own statistics, is the DOJ really as retrograde and evidence-free as the conference description suggests?
Excluded from the conference: researchers, treatment providers, and defense attorneys (prosecutors only).
At least three of the symposium topics, including “Information Sharing,” “International Tracking,” and “Interplay,” are DOJ euphemisms for government surveillance of law-abiding private citizens. “Psychopathy of Sex Offenders,” if it’s an intellectually honest symposium, will at least acknowledge that psychopathy is equally prevalent among the registered and the general population.
What do these people— conference organizers and participants— really want??
I mean that as a serious question. They ARE human beings. But if they were serious about protecting children from sexual harm, the conference would not look at all like this.
How do we counter them?
We counter them by being at the conference!
FAC should send a contingent.
I am SO glad!
If some other NARSOL state affiliates are doing the same, so much the better.
FAC and NARSOL representatives can be QUITE persuasive!
I’ve been scouring the web for almost three years to find ANY crime – outside of registry or parole/probation violations – where the registry played any role whatsoever in the identification, arrest, or prosecution of the accused and have come up empty. In the relatively few crimes committed by registrants, the accused’s status as a registrant is never known until after identification or arrest.
If FAC or NARSOL does attend, I’d like them to challenge all participants to find and provide verifiable details of one such crime.
The Batting average of Nancy Grace
Warning about going to Illinois: Under Illinois law, unless you have registered there prior to 2012 and already been classified as a sexual offender (and not a predator), ALL out-of-state offenders who must register there — which happens upon spending only 3 days or more in the aggregate per year or 3 or more days continuously, just like in Florida — are classified as sexual PREDATORS and required to register there for life, regardless of the crime of conviction, EVEN if the crime of conviction is not even an offense in the state of Illinois, where the age of consent is 17.
I realize that this sounds unbelievable but it is true. A similar provision in Pennsylvania was struck down by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court a few years ago. Also, under Florida law (The Florida Sexual Predators Act, F.S. 775.21), a person who has been declared a sexual predator under the laws of another jurisdiction can be declared a sexual predator in Florida based on the adjudication of the other jurisdiction. This means that it is possible that a person required to register “only” as a sexual offender in Florida for an offense that is not even a crime in Illinois could end up, solely by virtue of having traveled to Illinois and properly registered there, being declared a sexual predator in Florida upon his or her return.
Although this should seem to be completely impossible, it unfortunately is not and is part of the Alice in Wonderland world of today’s free-for-all sex offender laws. I urge in the strongest of terms that no one required to register ever visit the state of Illinois for any reason. You can just Google their laws and read it, in amazement, for yourselves.
It turns out that the provision of the Illinois sex offender law that deemed all out-of-state offenders sexual predators regardless of their offense of conviction was declared unconstitutional by a federal court in January of this year. The Court required the State of Illinois to treat the out-of-state registrant the same way he would have been treated had he committed his offense in Illinois. The ruling of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois can be found here:
http://www.ilvoices.org/uploads/8/6/5/8/8658422/01_22_19_winter_permanent_injunction.pdf
The problem with treating people from outside IL like those inside IL is that in IL all new offenders are required to register as predators, regardless of the offense.
FAC’s representation should consist of non-SO’s due to the ridiculous laws in Chicago. Would Anita/Gail, etc be able to attend?