Weekly Updates

Weekly update for November 18, 2025. This is recording number 339. Dear Members and Advocates,   One of my favorite movie quotes comes from the Mel Brooks classic Blazing Saddles: “Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!” — itself a nod to the original line from the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Over the years, the phrase has

Weekly update for November 10, 2025. This is recording number 338. Dear Members and Advocates, On July 27, 1981, Adam Walsh was abducted from a Sears store in Hollywood, Florida. On June 21, 2013, Cherish Perrywinkle was kidnapped from a Walmart in Jacksonville, Florida. Both of these tragedies are every parent’s worst nightmare and both became the emotional catalysts for laws

Weekly update for October 28, 2025. This is recording number 335. Dear Members and Advocates, It’s that time of year again! There will always be dates or times that are particularly stressful or traumatic for certain people. As a kid, I remember seeing “back to school” commercials on TV and feeling anxiety knowing the first day is coming. For accountants, that

Weekly update for October 22, 2025. This is recording number 334. Dear Members and Advocates, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke at the University of Vermont this week, and her message could not be more relevant to the work we do. “We are in a difficult part of American history,” she said, warning that “we have great risk right now

Weekly update for October 14, 2025. This is recording number 333. Dear Members and Advocates, When the Union County ordinance described sexual offense recidivism rates as “alarmingly high,” it raised an obvious question — what does that even mean? There is no legal or scientifically accepted threshold for what constitutes a “high” recidivism rate — whether “frighteningly high,” “alarmingly high,” or simply “high.”