News & Updates

Get a cup of coffee and settle back to listen to Catherine Carpenter, JD speak at the 2013 RSOL conference in Los Angeles.  It gives a good overview of how we went from the original “barely-constitutional registry” to today’s “clearly-unconstitutional” status. You will hear her refer to Gail (FAC), Dr Erik Imhoff, and Dr.  Suzanne Kline who presented together at

A July report issued by the US Department of Justice’s SMART office (Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking) backed up most of what advocacy groups such as the Florida Action Committee have been saying for years; that the current sex offender management policies largely ignore empirical evidence as to what works and what does not and

In 2007 the Nevada state legislature passed a law to bring it’s state into compliance with the 2006 Adam Walsh Act. In the almost decade that has since followed, several low level offenders remained off the public registry as a lawsuit brought by a couple of dozen of those offenders progressed through the courts. This year, however, the Nevada Supreme

Our attorneys are still screening potential plaintiffs for our Internet Identifier challenge which will be filed next month. We are looking to intake as many prospective plaintiffs as possible. If you are (a) no longer on probation/parole, (b) committed an offense prior to the passage of the restriction in 2014, (c) use the internet for work, to communicate with friends/family,

One sentence in a 1986 mass-market magazine continues to sway court cases involving sex offenders. By Steven Yoder In the early 1980s, rehabilitation counselor Robert Longo could hardly have known that his work with convicted sex offenders would make him a minor celebrity. At the time, he was running a program at the Oregon State Hospital to treat and rehabilitate

Join California RSOL in protesting International Megan’s Law (IML), the law to prevent Registrant international travel, at the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, July 27, 2016. The government has led a motion to dismiss our lawsuit against IML, the recently signed law by President Obama, to keep Registered citizens in permanent internal exile. The court hearing for that motion