ACSOL: IML Lawsuit Filed

A lawsuit was filed today in the Central District of the U.S. District Court of California challenging regulations issued by the State Department that announced the addition of a “unique identifier” to the passports of some registrants. Addition of the identifier to passports could affect more than 500,000 Americans and their families. “The State Department violated the requirements of the

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A Hypothetical…

If the following hypothetical makes little sense at first, read on and see if it makes a point. Skin cancer is a public health concern. One person dies of melanoma every 54 minutes. An estimated 87,110 new cases of invasive melanoma were diagnosed in the U.S. in 2017. Politician “LB” sponsors a bill that will mandate windows in all commercial

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Florida Prison Strike Planned

Inmates in Florida Prisons are planning a strike. The peaceful demonstration, called “Operation Push” will protest the inhumane and unconscionable conditions in Florida Prisons. The strike is scheduled to begin Monday, January 15th, to coincide with Martin Luther King Day. For too long, Florida prisons have subjected its inmates to barbarous conditions. Most have no air conditioning, despite Florida summer

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Senator Lauren Book – Bills to watch out for and oppose.

Lauren Book, Daughter of Lobbyist Ron Book, Founder of ‘Lauren’s Kids’ one of the State’s highest funded charities, advocate for punitive sex offender registration laws and State Senator, has sponsored some bills that will be on our radar and we will be opposing this legislative session. SB 1214 Creates a Rebittable presumption of dangerousness to a child if a parent

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Police chief arrested in undercover child sex sting

(CNN) The online ad was pretty blunt: “Dominate [sic] male police officer seeks fun, discreet, sub playmate — m4w.” Before long, that officer got a response from a purported 14-year-old girl. And the age didn’t dissuade him, authorities said. “… everyone has to have a first time,” the officer responded, according to a criminal complaint. “… you will just have

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Leo Carroll: Base sex offender laws on facts rather than myths

Two decades of research regarding the effects of sex offender laws have produced no evidence that such laws achieve their stated purposes. A recent review of research on community notification and residency restriction laws in the Oxford Handbook of Sex Offences and Sex Offenders concludes that such legislation is “misinformed and simply incorrect.” These laws are knee-jerk reactions to hysteria

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