A Motion for Preliminary Injunction was filed on February 19 asking the U.S. District Court to stop implementation of International Megan’s Law (formerly HR 515 and now Public Law 114-119). If granted, the motion would temporarily prohibit the federal government from both adding a conspicuous, unique identifier to the passports of registrants and notifying foreign countries of registrants’ plans to travel internationally.
Six declarations were Included with the Motion, including declarations from the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA), Dr. Tom Tobin of Sharper Future and criminal defense attorney Alex Landon. The declarations of by ATSA and Dr. Tobin included statements that International Megan’s Law will not halt child sex trafficking and could result in significant harm to hundreds of thousands of registrants.
“We are grateful for the support of ATSA in our efforts to stop implementation of International Megan’s Law,” stated CA RSOL president Janice Bellucci. ATSA is an international organization dedicated to preventing sexual abuse through research, evidence-based practice, public policy and community strategies that lead to the effective assessment, treatment, and management of individuals who have sexually abused or are at risk to abuse.
A hearing date of March 30 was requested when the motion was filed. The federal government’s response to the motion is currently due on March 4, however, both dates could be postponed if the government requests a delay.
It’s sad and unfortunate that “treatment” schemes like Sharper Future exist. The fact that few have spoken out about this corrupt organization is a mockery of the “justice” system.
Sharper future is sham “treatment.” It’s all a big joke. All the “doctors” in these registrant type offender shams should be blacklisted from “practicing” psychology anywhere else. Sharper future “doctors” should have their licenses pulled and forced to flee to Argentina like the Nazis.
Or maybe have all sharper future scam artists spend 5 yrs in prison for each “patient” / “client” complaint that they get. Then have all of them register as Registered Doctor Imposters for life.
Sharper future, and programs like it, is on the wrong side of history. People that work there should be ashamed of themselves.
The SARATSO scam is the official term that the California legislature, along with dirty CASOMB, used to embellish and cover-up the Static-99R. It supposedly stands for state authorized risk assessment tools.
Yes, corruption is the motive behind those intent in defending and selling these “sciences.” Flawed risk assessments are infecting our courts.
We must unite against these Minority Report shams whenever we can! Static-99R tests are pseudo science… in the same field as the lie detector and ABEL. Shame on all the Fake Doctors and Fake Therapists who try to sell these scams!
All I can say is Sharper Future is an absolute scam. Sharper Future is pretty much sleazy police interrogation dressed up as Fake Treatment. Everything Sharper Future does seems so questionable. Employing unlicensed clinicians or trainees. Polygraph, which is also an absolute sham. ABEL, which is also unproven.
Sharper Future Fake Doctors ought to be ashamed of themselves.
If you’re interested, this is the type of “evidence-based” practice that Dirty CASOMB approves of:
It should be seen as an index of the true horror of our marginalization that even Sharper Futures/Tom Tobin, now represent a more enlightened position than that of the average person on the street. We need to take whatever support is on offer, I’m afraid, even if it comes from those who directly benefited from the sex offender hysteria juggernaut.
How is TOM TOBIN helping? TOBIN isn’t because his whole emphasis on a ‘risk’ assessment registry is grounded in those static ‘tests’ designed to increase enrollment in his sharper future scheme. Even though I’ve read that TOBIN isn’t on CA SOMB anymore, he is still CEO of said sharper future scheme. Also, keep in mind that through the years TOBIN has probably developed a lot of business relationships in gov’t… which is what happens after decades of conflicts of interests… so I don’t think it would be far out to say TOBIN can still pull strings with DOJ and DOC.
In the end, TOBIN’s ‘enlightened position’ is at the expense of everyone that scores “high” on the bogus static-XX test… while not surprisingly, also ramps up more treatment business into Tobin’s program… since gov’t will say people who score high need more bogus treatment. I say bogus because from what I read here, it looks like sharper future’s ‘treatment’ consists of polygraph, a lot of no confidentiality waivers, unlicensed psychs, and I’m going to guess a lot of exaggerations in report writing.
Then remember that CA’s tiering has a shady petitioning process that will probably not be cheap to anyone that the prosecutors force to go through the wringer. Add to that that I remember some sort of treatment completion as being a factor for being able to get off the registry… which I’m going to guess includes the sharper future scheme as a qualifying ‘treatment.’ Again… TOBIN pushed for something he could monetize from… all at the expense of everyone the bill harms financially or… even worse… pushes up to TIER III (making people seem more ‘dangerous’ than they are… while hurting their chances at jobs, housing, finding mates, and so on… so idk how labeling anyone ‘TIER III’ helps anyone).
Nope. TOBIN deserves no credit. In fact, since TOBIN pushed for a dumb bill that might end up hurting a lot of people (again, financially and people being leveled up), all under the veil of TOBIN being some type of hero (let’s not kid ourselves), I think TOM TOBIN is the real villain here. Just one man’s opinion here but TOBIN’S got lots of blood on his hands!!!! To give TOBIN any credit whatsoever is ignoring all the wrong that he’s done in present… as well as past. You gotta wonder how many RIGHTS Tobin’s violated over the years…
Never met TOBIN personally… but you don’t gotta be an Einstein to guess the kind of person TOBIN is… with the kind of shenanigan business model he runs. Again… how many RIGHTS has TOBIN violated over the years?? Everyone in CA has done their time and paid the price club membership fee. Let’s not give TOBIN any credit for the crap he’s introduced into the system.
You know it…the $ex offender business brings out the parasites like this and Ron and Lauren Book. Those who profit from the misery of others are nothing more than opportunistic parasites.
I was doing some Google searching regarding Tom Tobin and the conflict of interest with his Sharper Future scheme and the CASOMB (California Sex Offender Management Board).
Troublingly, while Tobin appears to be in charge of CASOMB, a District Attorney named Nancy O’Malley is also in charge of CASOMB. Recently, it was discovered that O’Malley accepted what is essentially a $10,000 bribe in exchange for clearing police officers in murdering a pregnant teenager. It is especially disgusting that O’Malley tries to rationalize her accepting $10,000, in what is a clear conflict of interest, as perfectly acceptable. It’s amazing that pseudo “doctors” such as Tobin, as well as public SERVANTS such as O’Malley, can have so much undeserved influence on the Justice system.
This just shows that CASOMB is run by a bunch of dirty thugs:
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/03/20/da-accepted-10000-donation-from-fremont-cops-while-investigating-them/
Just came across this thread this morning, as I know someone that’s enrolled in this Sharper Future scheme. Does anyone have complaints against someone named Stacey Samaro. Stacey Samaro claims to be a psychologist. Seeing as there are so many complaints against Sharper Future, what’s being done?
Also, does anyone have plans to sue either CDCR or Sharper Future? There is rumor that a lawsuit has been filed against parole agents, but I can’t seem to find any info. The person I’m inquiring for is stuck in a dilemma and he can use all the help he can.
no, but I can ask around. a lot of the people that work at sharper future are hucksters to begin with, so it wouldn’t surprise me that that “psychologist” is up to no good. if you work at sharper future, you aren’t a “doctor.” but yeah, I will ask around.
As far as a lawsuit, there is a fairly large one filed against a few CDCR parole agents and CDCR itself. I don’t know if Sharper Future is a named defendant; but if you do some Googling, you’ll see that there have already been sporadic lawsuits against Sharper Future and individual “doctors.” It’s just a matter of time before Sharper Future gets on the bigger radar and the truth comes out of its practices. . . and deservedly so! In Colorado, there is a guy named Jeff Jenks who holds similar power in its sex offender board. Jenks also owns a private company that is in conflict of interest. The Denver Post did a good news story exposing the corruption going on there. Sharper Future is a giant scam imo. The only reason it got its many government contracts is because its owner Tom Tobin is also ca somb vice-chair. What should be illegal and a conflict of interest aside, these “treatment” scams are largely unproven: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/health/sexual-harassment-addiction-treatment.html
The lawsuit you talk about is being filed in Federal Court against CDCR. It is brought by a client, with the help of the ACLU. To my knowledge, Sharper Future is not a named defendant (unfortunately).
I do agree with most here… someone needs to sue Sharper Future and its employees. They’ve gotten away with too much.
Stacey Samaro! Stacey Samaro is probably one of the most awful “human being” I have ever come across in my entire life. (By the way, why do people use quotation marks so much when it comes to pointing out the hypocrisy and injustices of the “sex offender” industrial complex?)
Anyway, for some odd reason, I was thinking about Sharper Future earlier this morning, despite no longer being on parole, and randomly thought about Stacey Samaro. A Google search led me to her LinkedIn and this very informative thread of discussion regarding the scam that is Sharper Future. I feel for any of you still stuck in that alleged “treatment” program. IF God exists, I would think he/she/it/them would recognize Sharper Future as a horrific place that should never be called treatment. I normally don’t wish Bad Karma upon anyone, but I believe “Doctor” Samaro will one day, in some random higher-power-type manner, feel the injustices that she perpetrated upon her “clients,” “patients,” or whatever their victims (because what Stacey was doing in that program was borderline, if not completely, illegal). The fact that Sharper Future wasn’t shut down, and Stacey Samaro’s license was not revoked a long time ago, is proof that the “justice” system is an accessory to everyday injustices.
Apparently, according to her LinkedIn, Stacey Samaro claims to be a Licensed Psychologist, at Deer Oaks – A Behavioral Health Organization, in Colorado. What’s funny is that she liked a bunch of LinkedIn posts that makes her come off as a caring, social justice type. But obviously, as many of us know, she is anything but. We all know Stacey is a fake, two-bit personality, and a fraud. Stacey Samaro: A true conniving chameleon.
Watch out Colorado! Shifty Stacey is hiding among you!
Wow, I remember Stacey Samaro. She is a complete villain. My personal experience is that Samaro is the type to add fuel to the fire. When I came across her, she was very hot tempered, unprofessional and Samaro was always on a power trip. I wonder if there is a way we can exchange contact information because I find these comments very troubling, and even tho I got discharged from parole months ago that is def sum thing that needs to be brought up with higher ups if possible. How do these people get away with this shit? It’s also amazing how small the treatment world is, and how many of us went through the same “therapists.” But I literally just looked her up now and saw she works for a place called Crossroads Turning Points and not the place you say. But it def looks like it moved to CO tho, Pueblo to be exact? Which is funny because I have sum fam there, in Pueblo to be exact, and it’s pretty conservative there. Might explain some of the sickening behavior. I wonder why Samaro fled California. Was it because of her history of professional misconduct catching up on her or because of cost of living?? That’s the real question!
Either way, American government is proving to be completely inept and incompetent not only when it comes to sex offender laws, but also how our leaders are pretty much leading us to World War III. Earlier, Kamala Harris didn’t even know Ukraine is part of NATO and she was laughing through the press conference. What a disaster. Not even going to bring up orange man. The sheep and masses don’t realize we’re being fu**** by both sides and it’s our future generations, the kids, that are going to pay heavy prices because the boomer generation couldn’t do their job properly. All the boomers in government ended up selling out to corporations, bigotry and the mainstream media.
Another thing that proves to me that government is incompetent is that there are now over one million sex offenders in the United States. Like wtf, I thought this was the “land of the free.” Not even going to go into how this country has the biggest jail and prison population in the fu***** world. Anyway, I’m convinced this thing is a house of cards about to collapse. People are sick of the corruption and how our public officials waste our tax money to donate equipment to the Taliban, lose wars and enforce stupid sex offender laws. At this point, what’s the difference between America, China and Russia?? Russia doesn’t even have a sex offender registry lol.
I mean the new Model Penal Code was released a few days ago. The new Model Penal Code only recommends sex offender registration for 11 violent crimes. And even for those crimes 15 YEARS MAXIMUM registration periods. Yet we’re all mostly being forced to register for life unless we “petition.” Complete bullshit. How many of us aren’t even required to register as sex offenders under the new Model Penal Code? I bet you a million bucks the federal and state governments will completely ignore the Model Penal Code, even though about 100 federal judges and scholars recommended overhauling sex offender registration to only those 11 violent sex crimes.
We’re all being abused by our own government. At the rate we’re going with over one million AMERICAN CITIZENS being classified as sex offenders, our dirty government is going to require everyone to have to register for something. And the sheep are walking right into it, just like we’re walking right into World War III. Don’t fool yourselves, these numbers are only gonna go up over time too. And as more people have to register, and as their family, friends and community realize how much the criminal “justice” system is a big scam, I doubt there will be many citizens left to support what America supposedly stands for. I’m just being realistic here.
Watch, when World War III comes up, and the US government is desperate to draft for bodies, assuming it gets that bad, they’re eventually going to have to lower standards to recruit felons and even sex offenders. That’s what America had to do in WWII, Vietnam, and even as recently as the Iraq/Afghan wars.
But kind of like how Biden, ironically the father of the 1994 crime bill that brought us Megan’s Law, is trying to get oil from the countries America screwed over and labeled “terrorists” (Venezuela, Iran, OPEC), we should maybe follow those countries in ignoring the calls for help (which is hilariously what they’re doing because they’re also sick of America being two-faced and stabbing people behind their backs).
Why are we supposed to support a country that screws people over and has no loyalty even to their very own American citizens? Remember, the people in government, who govern us, swore an oath to uphold the constitution. So far, they’ve done a piss poor job. 😠
living in pueblo, co is a prison sentence in and of itself. literally an armpit of america. extreme cold weather, high crime, high employment, drug problem and lots of racists there. so time to move on people. i had to go to “treatment” too and completely agree that people who run those programs are scum bags. yea, they probably get a kick from the power they have over “lesser people.” but at some point ya’ll have to move on. not even worth pursing justice or holding anyone accountable. at the end of the day, ya’ll will just waste your time. just gotta work on yourself and believe the rotten fruit will fall themselves. ain’t up to you tho, tat up to the man upstairs. all out of your power.
but ya’ll do have a good point about the sex offender population breaking 1 million. that’s probably why the new model penal code cuts the sex crimes that require registration to only 11. once the sex offender population hits 1.5, 2 million, even 3 million in a few decades, it’s going to be a bad look for the government and courts. even as it is, 1 million is bad enough. i’m surprised the alphabet networks haven’t picked it up either.
anyway, i don’t think the states or feds are going to adopt the model penal code, at least when it comes to the sex offender section. too much corruption and money to be made with having 1 million sex offenders register. i do foresee us reaching something like 2 million sex offenders in maybe 20 years. at that point, i think lots more people will start to get upset because it’s not just 2 million affected, but also a ripple effect with families. as it is, or so i’ve been told, you can check out the megan’s law website and sex offenders are all over neighborhoods.
that’s one of the reason why i think we shouldn’t be surprised that one day, we might have a sex offender elected to a political office, maybe at the senate or house of rep level. the media ain’t talking about this storm yet. but just watch and see. we’re still in the #metoo phase, but the pendulum always swings the other way.
I remember Stacey Samaro. She’s a complete sleezeball. Stacey is a very unethical person, a complete gaslighter, and the perfect example of the wrong people working in the healthcare industry. I’m just surprised and pissed off that many of you have had similar experiences. I’m also surprised that Stacey is still licensed, would have thought she would have had a shit ton of complaints against her by now!
IF I came out of that program learning anything, it’s that not all treatment programs and psychologists/therapists are good. The ones contracted or operated by the government are particularly evil.
Lucy, I think you need to realize that most of the “clients” enrolled in this SHARPER FUTURE SCAM are in no position to file complaints w/ the BBS or Board of Psychology. Nor are most in a position to file lawsuits against SHARPER FUTURE. Doing so may put themselves in a position of being retaliated against. One of my best buds is in this “program.” Just picked him up from it this past Sat. I am also a licensed psych assistant. When my bud tells me the stories that go on in SHARPER FUTURE, with all of its questionable contracts and what not, it really concerns me. Is it REALLY “treatment?”
No it’s not treatment. Anyhow, does any person have any info on what diploma mill Tom “The Scam” Tobin bought his doctorate degree from? Considering the unfair weight his “expert” opinion has on people (via casomb and sharpest future), we should be expecting credentials from top tier universities. I did A LOT of searching. No information on where Tobin bought his credentials from. Tobin is a quack for sure. Quack! Quack! Quack!
IF Sharper Future or CDCR try to retaliate for a person standing up for their rights then, if the retaliation can be proved, Sharper Future and CDCR DESERVE to get sued. Seems like they are long due for a big lawsuit. With the “sex offenders” starting to stand up for their rights to move on from PAST mistakes (and starting to realize they have a right NOT to be treated like human guinea pigs), I have a feeling Sharper Future and CDCR will be held accountable for the dirty pseudo science they use. Mr. Tobin: Justice is not a one-way street.
You are all complaining about this Sharper Future disaster. Talk is cheap. How about you all walk the talk. File lawsuits against Sharper Future and California’s Department of Corrections. Initiate complaints with California’s professional licensing boards. What Sharper Future is doing to people is wrong. You can’t veil tyranny and civil rights violations under the umbrella of phony treatment. Judging from some I’ve talked to, the Sharper Future scum are great at playing 2 face. The workers at this phony place have the duty to be honest and not 2 face. Especially when Sharper Future advertises itself as “treatment.” GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL
I was looking into CASOMB. Its ranks are filled with law enforcement, prosecutors and of course the now infamous Tom The Scam Tobin. But I must ask, do those CASOMB prosecutors and law enforcement just sit around while their buddy, Tom The Scam Tobin, operates a so called sex offender treatment program while serving as the CASOMB “vice chair” (which I will just assume, given his leadership title, that Tobin is second in command). Tom The Scam Tobin is clearly in conflict of interest. But with Tobin’s buddies in law enforcement/prosecution, Tobin is clearly (and troublingly) protected with impunity. This is a clear case of our government officials engaging in, or at least enabling, corruption. I was hoping that Florida would also creat its own sex offense management board to help research and advocate for more fair laws. But after reading and seeing the mess that they have in California, with Tom The Scam Tobin at the helm, we are probably much better off without an equivalent to CA’s CASOMB disaster.
Regardless of whatever contrary finding, Tom Tobin is in conflict of interest. Pure and simple. It just shows how government is so corrupt as to allow this blatantly obvious conflict of interest to continue for what appears to be OVER A DECADE. A double standard and evidence of the “anything goes” attitude when it comes to either dirty government contracts and (or) the sex offender ‘treatment’ industry. I hate to join mobs in villifying others, but this Tobin person just seems like a pathetic crook. I mean how can a person have the gall to impose unscientific methods on people under the umbrella of conflict of interest?
Personally, I’m just interested in seeing the bidding process to how Sharper Future won its CDCR contracts. It does seem very strange that the vice chair of the California Sex Offender Management Board also happens to be the CEO of Sharper Future. This clear conflict of interest sure seems illegal. With all the negative things being said about this Tom Tobin character (along with all his efforts at lies and manipulation), we should all be demanding accountability from our government officials. We should not tolerate double standards.
Almost 30 yrs ago I was in Tom Tobin’s “treatment” program (if I can even call it that). You see, he along with Mary Perry Miller ran another scam hilariously called The Center for Special Problems in San Francisco. There were many times in group that people would criticize the sex offender registry. Tom Tobin would personally defend the registry, shut us down, minimize the collateral effects of the registration penalty and make it seem like it was a failure of ourselves to not take responsibility for our crime. I am guessing it was his advocacy of suspect treatment tactics and registry laws that ultimately won him friends in law enforcement that has led to the current (bogus) CDCR contracts his new Sharper Future program has. I was a young 20 yr old back in the 1980s. Looking back, Tobin’s program was completely demeaning and not necessary. About 30 yrs later it seems strange that he now makes himself out to be a psychologist for the easing of harsh laws. Don’t buy into Tobin’s conniving manipulation!
Sharper future should really be shut down. They make their money because of blood money and CEO/CASOMB vice chair Tobin’s corruption and lies.
There are a lot of people complaining of Sharper Future. Has anyone bothered to file a complaint with the California Board of Psychology or California Board of Behavioral Sciences?
Here is a link to another discussion regarding Sharper Future. As usual, the “comments” section is far more interesting:
http://all4consolaws.org/2016/01/sex-offender-rehab-center-moving-to-former-out-of-the-closet-space/
Thank you for the link. Very informative (but disturbing and concerning) content!
Indeed a very concerning program run by a bunch of fraudsters who use scam science like the lie detector. I remember talking to their so called “clinician.” He listened and said what seemed to be comforting and nice things (which really was just a sugarcoat of reality). The at the end of the “therapy” session, he says: “By the way, you are setup for a polygraph test in a few days.” Then he coldly hands me a slip to sign and washes his hands. Sharper Future is a disgusting and unethical program, funded by the corrupt CDCR budget, that has no other concern than keeping its government contracts. Dr. R, thank you for the link.
Dr R:
I appreciate the link. I have read through it. It is deeply disturbing that this is the trend of sex offender treatment (IF one can even call it “treatment).
It just shows you how so much unethical behavior can be justified because of sex offender hysteria. I have personally heard stories about Sharper Future’s clients having their constitutional rights trampled by less-than-qualified “clinicians.”
People should really be filing complaints with the California Board of Psychology, as well as the Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Pseudo psychologist Tom Tobin is one of many charlatans that profit from “treatment” that label through the troublingly flawed Static 99 and Static 99R. The Static “instrument” is a big part of a cottage industry that has sprung from bogus actuarial “risk assessments” that venture into the realm of fortune telling. The Static-99R is sometimes correct, but inacccurate and wrong most of the time. Its false-positive flag for HRSO individuals is particularly troubling, considering Tobin — in his CASOMB vice chair position (which clearly pose an unethical conflict of interest with Tobin as CEO of Sharper Future — perhaps having influence in Sharper Future not coincidentally acquiring millions of dollars in state CDCR contracts) — has advocated the Static 99R’s integration in a potential “tiered” registry. A tier based not solely on the objective fact of a crime conviction; but Tom Tobin has the shameless, and unethical, audacity to propose tiers based on foreseeing the future with less than chance accuracy.
Ha! Tobin “unethical?” Tell me something I don’t know. Like how much Sharper Future paid Berg Davis to do its shady bidding.
Excellent input with regard to the static 99 scam. Also note that neither the static or its “revised” version take the SEVERITY of future offense into account. The static test purport to predict future human behavior, but do not specify as to the alleged severity of a future offense that may or may not occur. Exhibitionism or voyeurism is not equal to violent (contact) sex crimes. Yet the static scam makes this terrible assumption, assumimg the worst, and perversely scoring “non contact” offenses w/ greater severity. Where is the logic or intelligence in this?
That is a troubling point. The Static 99 and Static 99R do not differentiate in the accusation to the severity of future sex crime. A sex crime that, even by the Static “developers” own numbers, probably will NOT happen. Even to the “highest” scoring people that are inaccurately flagged HRSO by the Static 99 and Static 99R scams… they too are not likely to sexually recidivate. I won’t even get into the low recidivism figures that incorporate 10 and 17 years after an HRSO has been offense-free while in the community. Tobin’s support for lifetime and even 20 year tier levels, based on alleged “risk,” may have a hidden agenda associated, coupled with dishonest intent, with it. After all, the Duboce and San Francisco crowd will overwhelmingly testify that Tobin and Mary-Perry Miller were liars who twisted and obfuscated even the most simple facts.
True that Sharper Future must be discredited for its polygraph and Static-99R use alone. After all, the lie detector and Static-99R are “instruments” that have accuracy of less than chance and are notorious for false-positives (i.e. Static-99R only about 20 to 29 percent accurate in flagging HRSO). But what is most concerning is the seeming lack of tranparency this sex offender “treatment” program operates in. Seeing that there are convicted sex offender “rehab” sites operated by Sharper Future in at least Concord, Los Angeles, Oakland, Palm Desert, Pico Rivera, Pleasant Hill, Richmond, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego and San Jose… it is the right for taxpayers to know the details to how much Tom Tobin is charging the State of California. We need details to the CDCR contract.
The 20 to 29 percent accuracy is only good up to the 5 year mark. Then at 10 years, so called “high risk” — HRSO — labeled people have the same reoffense rate as someone never given the “high risk” label (about 5 percent). So you can argue that the Static-99R scam is only about 5 percent accurate in labeling a person “high risk” when that person has remained offense free while free in the community. The Static tests are absolute scams.
At 17 years, using the static 99 scam artist “developers” own pseudo statistical “math” (lol), even so-called High Risk Sex Offenders (HRSO) are not likely to reoffend compared to anyone else never convicted of a sex crime. So despite what heinous scam artists like CASOMB and Sharper Future Tom Tobin tells us, the Static-99R ought not be incorporated into a lifetime “tiered” registry. How do people like Tom Tobin gain credibility? Proves that it’s about who you know, not what you know. IMHO Tobin is a shallow empty suit filled with dishonest and corrupt intent. Look no further than his corrupt business enterprise as the evidence.
I’ve been reading a lot about what you guys are talking about. For those of you who hate Sharper Future, it’s dirty CEO Tom Tobin, and what they stand for, here is another good article. The “comments” section is far more interesting:
http://californiarsol.org/2016/01/sex-offender-rehab-center-moving-to-former-out-of-the-closet-space/
Good luck to all!!!!!
A lot of these comments are spot on. I discharged months ago & wish I had read more on what Sharper Future was all about. Always be skeptical of “therapy” that mandates the polygraph as part of what the “doctor” ordered. It was troubling to see the fakers (psychologists & therapists) at Sharper Future scare the parolees into thinking the polygraph was at all scientific. It was also troubling to deal with the polygraph examiner con man who was 100% full of himself. Sharper Future was not at all transparent in their “treatment” plans. The psychologists & therapists at Sharper Future were among the most dishonest people I have met. Even more dishonest than most of the prisoners I met while in prison… which should say a lot. I am just glad to be done with the Sharper Future scam. If anything I learned that psychologists & therapists can be complete fakers. It’s all about who pays the bill (CDCR).
LOOKS LIKE TOBIN MIGHT BE IN CONFLICT OF INTEREST!
here is another review: http://www.yelp.com/biz/sharper-future-oakland
If Tom Tobin & Mary Perry Miller are a reflection of the work psychologists do, then the field of Psychology is a big fraud. Having been to the meetings at Duboce in San Francisco, I must say that the two fraudster psychologists did not inspire much confidence. Tobin and Perry Miller were indirect with explanations. Actually, Tobin and Mary Perry Miller outright lied to many facts! Tom Tobin and Mary Perry Miller are liars! Regardless, our neighborhood closely monitors Sharper Future’s next moves. We know that they contracted a firm called BergDavis to do its manipulation.
I replied to a staff clinician ad on Craigslist. Being a licensed marriage family therapist (LMFT), I was called for an interview. When I asked the management for a copy of papers specifying to whom therapy work would be open to, I was shocked to learn that the state can have so much say and knowledge to a person’s private therapy detail. Needless to say, I rejected the job offer (though the pay is decent for my experience level). Call me idealistic, but I am not going to be bribed by a shady company. Walk, no run, from Sharper Future and its parent company: Pacific Forensic Psychology Associates Inc.
Hope you found a better job. You are proof that not all people in Psychology are not frauds. Trust me, judging from the manner Tom Tobin and Mary Perry Miller have twisted facts to the public and news outlets, they would not have been good people to work for.
Anything goes when it comes to sex offenders. When the public and their politicians hear the word “sex offender,” they generally want harsher laws. Sharper Future capitalizes on the sex offender hysteria — which is why it is able to commit civil rights violations with little to no checks and balances (or even accountability for that matter). Tom Tobin, not unlike a war monger on the war on sex offenders, was able to capitalize and leverage from this hysteria. The polygraph, Static 99 actuarial instruments and no confidentiality “treatment” with CDCR — however lacking in empirical efficacy and logical reason — are not unlike a war monger’s guns and ammunition used to seize power and money, evident in his CASOMB vice chair position -and- CEO of a company with millions in CDCR contracts. It is truly a shame that the mental health ‘treatment’ industry is too often watered-down into pseudo-science advocated by charlatans like Tom Tobin.
I was in this program. It is run by a bunch of cold hearted crooks. Good luck if you are forced into this bogus program. They were less than honest to me, so take what these fakers say with a grain of salt.
I can relate. Many shady people who work for this company.
If they are so audacious to lie to a large crowd from a neighborhood they wish to do business in, I can only imagine the dishonesty they subject you, the customers, to. It is troubling our state would do business with Sharper Future. Corruption tends to flock together.
I don’t understand how the California Department of Corrections and REHABILITATION can get away with all of its unethical and unprofessional conduct in allowing Sharper Future to impose seriously questionable “therapy” abuses on its patients. There is so much corruption in this justice system. The people at the top only care about money, power and maintaining the bureaucracy supporting their fraudulant existence (even if it means spreading rumors, lies and exaggerations to keep themselves in positions of power). I’m not just talking about Tom *The Scam* Tobin and Mary Perry *The Phony* Miller (thanks A.F. for the fitting nicknames) but also all the people beneath them. And I won’t even mention the crooked politicians and judges that create and enforce these over the top laws. I’m just talking about those scammed into the Sharper Future internship.
Dishonesty & crooked agenda plague this company. Not at all surprising as its leadership are flagrant, shameless liars (just look at the Duboce Triangle mishap in San Francisco to see how many lies were told by Tom “The Scam” Tobin & Mary-Perry “The Phony” Miller). 100% of this program is based on fake instruments (lie detector, Static 99R, & ABEL) & potentially unlimited disclosure to CDCR. Sorry Tobin & Miller, sharing client secrets w/ the state is not real “treatment.” Then again, these are corrupt people that will not take advice, as they can’t even see the basic wrong in Tom Tobin as vice chair of the California Sex Offender Management Board (CASOMB) & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Pacific Forensic Psychology Associates, Inc. (dba. Sharper Future). An incontrovertible conflict of interest that guarantees the only “sharper future” in this scheme will be the bank accounts of the scam artist executives of Pacific Forensic Psychology Associates, Inc.
I had to borrow the nicknames for Tobin and Miller because I also think they are BOTH absolute scam masters and phonies. It doesn’t take a genius (just someone informed) to see what they profit from is complete bogus bunk junk. Poly, Static 99/R scores and absence of confidentiality in therapy sessions with CDCR are all marks of a fraud, deceptive organization!!! If you believe that Sharper Future is even remotely a half decent organization, then I have some beach front property in Palm Desert to sell you. BTW, I think there is even a Sharper Future chain location in Palm Desert.
Google Sharper Future and you’ll find many complaints. Sharper Future reviews (most of which negative) are not exactly rare to find. Truth should come out about this place.
The truth, though slowly, is beginning to come out.
Sharper Future seems engaged in unethical business practices. Very troubling and concerning… and I would NOT trust a company that hides behind 2 names… the other being Pacific Forensic Psychology Associates, Inc.
LOL Sharper Future (now going by the moniker Pacific Forensic Psychology Associates, Inc. [probably because Sharper Future has been getting some deservably bad and negative publicity]) is a phony baloney “treatment” sham. It has the potential to do good work; but any good is cancelled-out by polygraph and lie detector abuse, ABEL, Static 99 junk labeling, and no confidentiality with law enforcement (i.e. the corrupt people paid big bucks to arrest and prosecute you so that they themselves can look better). I won’t even mention the dubiously attained CDCR state contracts and how the vice chair of the California Sex Offender Management Board (CASOMB) also just happens, by mere coincidence, to be CEO of said contracted company. Or how said company is really technically a “training site” so that it can exploit poor interns and use cheap labor to reduce operating costs and maximize profit.
I thing those are very strong, succint arguments against Sharper Future.
What kind of example does Sharper Future (AKA. Pacific Forensic Psychology Associates, Inc.) set for its “sex offender” clients when I hear from a friend that he is treated very badly? They know that their clients (who are not really clients it seems) are left with very few rights and the clinicians at this place (at least from what he has told all of us) have no problem to exploit their position by making them go through unethical foolery like the lie detector, static score, lack of confidential privilege because the corrections department can interfere w/ treatment at anytime and have their good progress inaccurately reported. It’s hard to believe it happens, but I believe what he tells us. So how does Sharper Future set a good example for these folks forced into their program?
Apparenly Sharper Future, a division of Pacific Forensic Psychology Associates, Inc., is not interested in setting a “good example.” It’s a clear double-standard in which the “client” must obey many special conditions. Yet this company, Sharper Future, cannot even behave in an ethical manner. From the top, with the conflict of interest and corrupt state contracts… use of polygraph and questionable static score accuracy… all the way down to no confidentiality/lack of respect for scheduling/sneaking into neighborhoods (Duboce Triangle). So ya… they aren’t interested in profit. All Sharper Future is concerned with is doing CDCR’s corrupt work so that they (Sharper Future) can keep their contracts and pull in the BIG BUCKS for CEO Tobin and President Mary Miller.
correction… They aren’t interested in setting good examples. They ARE interested in profit, however.
Sharper Future does not seek to set good examples for its “clients.” They only seek to retain their CDCR contracts. And like any loyal contractor, they will do anything to please the person or entity financing the agreement — which in this case is the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Sharper Future will do anything to please their master. Even if it means using dehumanizing labels to classify people, imposing hocus-pocus science, and carrying on the flag and torch of dishonesty used by CDCR and its adult parole division.
Bottom line is people who work for the system want to keep their jobs. They will do anything to look good for those in power, even if it isn’t right. So no… SF in not concerned in setting ‘good examples’ for its clients. SF “clinicians” will demean and disparage their sex offender clients because it furthers CDCR’s corrupt and dishonest narrative. Sharper Future simply will do anything to retain the million-dollar CDCR contract because it keeps everyone employed and happily paid. Always follow the money. It’s not always pleasant, but at least it’s the truth.
Sharper Future Static 99 inseparable hoax for sure. Many proclaim california sex offender management board credible, but they are not. Casomb made up of self serving power players, like Tom Tobin, who love scams designed to mislead. Polygraph / lie detector one. Static 99 the other big shenanigan. Fortune telling doesn’t exist, no matter how much its sold as an “instrument.” CDCR and coconspirator Sharper Future are as much to blame for the mess we have with sex offenders and the “therapy” culture behind them. But like almost everyone says here: Tom Tobin and Mary Perry Miller found it necessary not only to sell, but to profit from, a terribly unethical therapy strategy. Hope it bites them in the butt for sure.
I don’t know anything about this Tom Tobin guy. But a person who profits from the blood money of the “sex offender treatment” industry, via a conflict of interest as chair of the CA Sex Offender Management Board, is probably an unethical scam artist and con man with a hidden agenda. IF this Tobin guy and his Sharper Future scheme really trusts Static 99 scores and lie detector use in his so-called therapy sessions (all with no confidentiality with the state and government) then I think the standard for scam artist and con man have been made.
Sharper Future Static 99 is phony baloney. I finished parole last year and they put a lot of weight on stuff that didn’t make sense. Sharper Future and CDCR both corrupt power players working together to destroy civil rights, sell bad science and treat people in the most dehumanizing them. They love giving labels that make them appear credible (examples… sex offender, high risk sex offender, HRSO, EOP, CCCMS, etc., etc., etc.). Sharper Future and CDCR would win the gold metal at the olympics for giving fictitious labels to people. Too bad they aren’t good at anything else (except milking taxpayer$).
13 years is a long time to be labeled by our criminal justice system, especially IF you haven’t since been convicted of a crime. You make a good argument that the incompetent leadership at Sharper Future stress the importance on relying on moronic labels: HRSO, CCCMS, EOP, “high risk sex offender,” “sex offender,” “290,” etc. The real question ought to be the subliminal message imposing such ridiculous labels on human beings may have — and how doing so may actually increase recidivism. Rather, the self serving idiots at CDCR and Sharper Future would much rather further impose labels of classification that perpetuate CDCR and Sharper Future’s false sense of credibility, as well as further the Sharper Future-CDCR money-making machine. Make no mistake about it: it’s all about the bureaucracy of CDCR, Sharper Future… and peddling labels that are both dehumanizing and self serving to validate the sellout, ignorant, frauds at CDCR and Sharper Future. Little of it is really about “public safety.”
Little of it is about public safety because most of it is about “job security.” Do you know how many people’s salaries & pay rely on this sex offender hysteria? The CDCR agents making tons in benefits/salaries, the phony Sharper Future frauds making benefits/salaries, polygraph con artists making big bucks, Tobin & Miller raking in the conflict of interest state contracts. Everyone wins, right?
Everyone but the average taxpayer.
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I don’t know too much about Mary Perry Miller; but I have heard from other registrants from as far back as 20+ years who have complained of the degrading manner Tom Tobin has treated, errr… rather, mistreated them. Any protest or objection to Tobin’s methods (however unethical or wrong) or sex offender laws were met with reports to probation officers and/or removal from group “treatment” setting. Tobin just can’t pretend he wants to change the laws for the better after the guy’s got (God only knows) a ton of blood on his hands. I mean look at the tiered registry Tom Tobin cheers for; its based on tons of exceptions that would still require lifetime registration periods for many people. IF Tom Tobin wants to help registered citizens, it will never be solely to help them. Tom Tobin, like a true selfish coward, will only support law and/or policy when it helps his interests: whether for Tobin’s profit and/or power.
I have heard from a few others, when Tom Tobin and Mary Perry Miller were at The Center for Special Problems (before it closed) and now at Sharper Future, that removal from the group setting was (and is) a common practice anytime a person objects to the unfairness or mistreatment under their company or unfair law. It’s really an abridgment to free speech and a violation of civil rights when you think about it. Of course Tobin and Miller could care less to the slippery slope practices they partake in, so long as they retain their befouled state contracts. But Sharper Future often rationalizes removal for fear that one might have a “contaminating influence” on other group members. I have also heard removal is also rationalized with less than honest testimony from the “clinicians” from The Center for Special Problems and Sharper Future. I have heard inaccurate exaggerations and nitpicking a common unethical practice of those at both companies. Again, I have heard this from much more than 1 person.
So if Tom Tobin is so eager to sell the Static-99R as accurate, then what is the purpose of his unethical “treatment” methods to begin with? The fact is Tobin’s degrading “treatment” methods are not necessary to help people (as Tobin may actually be harming people; but certainly infringing their rights) and are testament to Tobin’s modus operandi to pander to politicians so that he can make $$$ from the mob hysteria than anything else. Even if it means conflict of interest and selling fake science such as lie detector and Static tests. As for the Static-99R, it is statistically more INACCURATE than accurate. The Static-99R “developers” (a label they coined to make themselves only SEEM more credible than they really are) are not statisticians. Andrew Harris, Amy Phenix, R. Karl Hanson, and David Thornton are snakeoil fraudsters, mostly from Canada, who earned their credentials from places I’ve never heard of.
True. If it’s assumed people are “static,” as the Static 99R claims on its risk factors, and people don’t change: what is the purpose of Tom Tobin and Mary-Perry Miller’s business scheme to begin with? People learn and mature: the Static 99R does not take this into account. It appears Tobin advertises the Static 99R to help boost his ostensible credibility by making the Static seem scientific. It also puts a flavor of science, albeit fake, behind Tobin’s misleading tiered registry. The accuracy of the Static 99R, as well as the special interests and dirty money behind it, must be challenged! The stats behind the Static test are misleading and plainly inaccurate. This all proves our government will lie, cheat, misrepresent when it comes to dealing with people labeled “sex offenders.” What is the reason for this (aside for politicians wanting to get elected by exploiting fear, business interests, and bureaucratic career interests of law enforcement, prosecutors, and judges)?
I think you poked a logical fallacy in Tobin’s many contradicting opinions. Listen, Tobin is a fraud, so I would take anything he says with ZERO worth. I am thankful to never have encountered Tobin in any treatment setting (nor any of his companies). In fact, it’s been 12 years since my only offense and the only treatment I’ve had was about three months worth of therapy from who I consider a great psychologist NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE STATE IN ANY WAY. Good job, happily married 5 years now, homeowner and I got a kid of my own. Not bad, though I appear an exception. I go to the CARSOL and SAA meetings, have to hear about the unnecessary crap seemingly decent people have to go through because of others in government wanting to get ahead and it gets me upset.
Jonathan, very true. Dr. Tom Tobin (is he a real doctor BTW?) shoots himself in the foot when he sells the Static scores as credible and at the same time sells a fraud “treatment” scam. The Static 99 scores don’t take into account treatment or even rehabilitative effort(s). Which is why I stand behind my family member, as well as any other person, wrongfully “treated,” as well as labeled by Pacific Forensic Psychology Associates, dba Sharper Future.
Conniving licensed clinical psychologists (who in my opinion, ought to have their psychologist license revoked) Mary Perry Miller and Thomas Joseph Tobin, President and CEO of the morally-deprived Sharper Future (a “division” of the rotten Pacific Forensic Psychologist Associates Inc.), are nothing but trash people. Mary Perry Miller and Tom Tobin are trash profiteering opportunist who have used the political hysteria against people labeled “sex offenders” to anchor their dirty and corrupt CDCR state “treatment” contracts worth millions of dollars. As many others have said, Tobin ought not be allowed to hold a CEO position of his private company while positioned as vice chair of the California Sex Offender Management Board (“CASOMB”). Tobin’s seeming conflict-of-interest gives the clear impression of government sanctioned corruption. Add insult to injury, Tom Tobin supports a fictitious tiered registry. The tiered registry relies on Minority-Report-style science, premised on the very flawed Static 99R.
Back in 2004 when I was sentenced it was still the original Static99 (no Static99R yet). I don’t know too much about the test but all I can guess is that it’s the same crap. The thing called me a high risk sex offender. 12 years later, the Static99 is proved wrong. No reoffense, as the Static99 predicted. The state should really not be so sloppy to wrongly predict someone’s future. We are talking about life and liberty here and wrongly calling someone high risk is like defamation.
Static 99 & Static 99R are bunk junk statistics. The static scores are sometimes right, sometimes wrong. Sort of like a random guess. The Sharper Future psychologists who defend the static score system are simply ignorant frauds who have not delved any deeper than the superficial propaganda fed by the steeple of Sharper Future.
“Bunk junk” is absolutely right! There is an Orwellian quality to what the Static 99/R hopes to achieve. Except the Static lacks any intelligence or sophistication making it of any use in an Orwell novel. I think the Static 99 is more fitting for the Jerry Springer Show (since all the trash TV loves the lie detector). The poly and Static 99… fit for trash TV.
Corrupt Pacific Forensic Psychology Associates Inc. (alleged) licensed clinical psychologist and Sharper Future President Mary Perry Miller, along with Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Tom Tobin seem to have proportionate visual indicators that may be indicative of their dirty company’s success in gaining its questionable CDCR contracts. For Mary Perry Miller, it’s her thick-rimmed glasses and flamboyant red attire. The thicker rim the glasses and the more red the clothes, the more blood money the pigs at Sharper Future are seeing. As for Tobin, the larger his potbelly grows, the more he eats food purchased by the blood money earned by unethical, civil rights crushing, “therapy” tactics. Or Tobin’s potbelly may be symbolic of the b*!!$*!* Tobin eats. After all, Tom Tobin seems to buy into the Static-99R, polygraph, ABEL, and no confidentiality in treatment fake baloney. It takes a lot of lying to oneself to think Sharper Future’s tactics are not wrong-headed.
So if Tom Tobin’s practices include junk methods, such as polygraph and Static 99R, that prove unscientific and flawed… what does it say about Tom Tobin as a man? He is not the credible source portrayed by media. Tom Tobin and Sharper Future, as I have mentioned, are made up of profiteering opportunists that anchor the political hysteria against people labeled “sex offender.” They are like ambulance chasers, but worse: as their (Tobin, Mary Perry Miller, etcetera) business model has the added component of relying on questionably attained “treatment” contracts financed by the dishonest crooks at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”). Tobin and Miller have used the political climate against sex offenders in their (for-profit) favor. Now, we must use cold hard facts to force fraudster psychologists, such as Tom Tobin and Mary Perry Miller (as well as equally deprived politicians), into a submission of shame.
LOL their ego and self entitlement are so high that they can never be shamed. As for the other enablers. . . their high salaries and gross pensions are secured by mud slinging, savage unions so you can never shame these people. Even though the politicians, law enforcement and judges ARE wrong they are too deep in their mob mentality, reaping the benefits of misinformed and corrupt power to be shamed. Everyone in power are sitting pretty, milking Uncle Sam so they will not rock the boat. . . even if ignoring the truth is at the cost of TRUE justice. When you look the grand scheme of things, very few people nowadays have good morals. And those that do don’t seem to be the ones in power in government.
Every comment here regarding Sharper Future, Tom Tobin, Mary Perry Miller, the California Sex Offender Management Board, and CDCR state parole are so true. Corrupt business and government special interests based off of fraud science and inaccurate statistics peddled by dirty self-serving politicians.
It’s pretty sick Sharper Future is free to use what is said in supposed “confidential” therapy (both in group and individual session) against a person. And how the so called “therapists” and “psychologists” portray events in a manner not reflective of reality, but too often in a twisted narrative fit to further their perverted agenda. An agenda too often at odds at the best interest of public safety, the “client,” basic civil rights — and driven to further the corrupt and greedy for-profit nature of Tom Tobin, Mary Perry Miller, their shell company and its employees (Pacific Forensic Psychology Associates, Inc.), the California Sex Offender Management Board (casomb), the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (cdcr), as well as the political-hack scam artist jerks at Kamala Harris’ Department of Justice. As for Sharper Future: the conflict of interest between Tom Tobin as CEO of Sharper Future and vice chair of casomb should be troubling in and of itself.
The “Inc.” in Pacific Forensic Psychology Associates INC. should scream questions in private for-profit enterpises intermingling in public affairs that are santioned by probably unconstitutional laws. While Tobin, Mary Perry Miller and other profiting psychologists and therapists make money from sex offenders and draconic laws, our Constitution (as well as the God given civil rights of people who have served their criminal sentence) is further eroded. This is a very important factor the Sharper Future cons and lie detector examiners conveniently ignore. But as some others mention, history will prove dirty therapy methods wrong. For Tom Tobin, his support in the challenge against IML has come too late, as the people who have at least a half decent memory will remember the sex offender hysteria Tobin not only helped create, but the money and unscientific methods (polygraph, Static 99R, ABEL, no confidentiality in treatment, etc.) Tobin propped.
Props. Not past tense. Props. As in Tom Tobin and his unethical employess still “prop” static 99R, lie detector and (as equally unethical Mary Perry Miller put it) “no secrets” type (zero confidentiality) “therapy,” “treatment” … or whatever the hell the corrupt, self-serving CDCR losers (paying the multi million $$$ contract to Tom Tobin, via his concurrent California Sex Offender Management vice chair sham-position) put it as. By paying Tobin, Perry Miller and company big bucks, CDCR can convieniently outsource their oppressive, bad-karma-laden, jobs to the Sharper Future “clinicians” who have sold their soul to corrupt and dirty causes. Most troubling is that most probably see little wrong in the terrible, slippery slope work that they do. It earns a decent paycheck after all.
Arnold. . . what you say seems to be the pattern I hear when I go to all the meetings. When people go to what is claimed as treatment with the hopes of being somehow helped, and they are otherwised backstabbed by psychologists or whoever. . . who can they REALLY trust? But yea. . . at the meetings I go to people complaining that sex offender treatment psychologists are not at all accurate but exaggerate and nitpick.
Wow these “Sharper Future” people seem like real big jerks. Seems like these Tom Tobin and Mary Perry-Miller shysters created a program without regard to your guys’ civil rights. Then to add the cherry on top (so to speak) Tobin in the conflict of interest? Then trying to sneak into a neighborhood in San Francisco? What else are they hiding? What self-entitled dirtbags Tobin and Perry-Miller are. Totally scandalous. I am guessing karma eventually catches up to these types?
In my opinion, Sharper Future and Tom Tobin hide a lot. I have spoken to quite a few people forced to enter Tobin-style “treatment.” The many people have said Sharper Future has been very dishonest. They tell you one thing, then make you sign away many rights. A common verbal promise they make is a promise of confidentiality. Then Sharper Future lies and makes a person sign away his or her right from confidentiality. Everything is open to the UNprofessionals of CDCR parole. The corrupt employees that operate under Sharper Future are the worst: as they are complete enablers who have sold out from helping people in order to further their self-interests. It’s a true disgrace that Tom Tobin and Mary Perry Miller have created a landscape of unethical “treatment.” May karma, as you mention, find its way.
Just finished reading the International Megan’s Law filings and was surprised to see the “declaration” by Tom Tobin of the California Sex Offender Management Board and Sharper Future. Not surprisingly, the shady two face imposter doctor shamelessly plugged the Static-99/R scam in his declaration. I am convinced, as are many of you, that the Static-99 tests are complete fraud. I read elsewhere of someone humorously comparing the Static-99/R to a pile of junk numbers being dug by fraud licensed clinical psychologists, such as Tom Tobin and Mary Perry Miller, ultimately leading to a bottomless pit into the abyss of junk science. ABEL testing? Junk. Polygraph? Junk. Static-99R? Junk. No confidentiality in therapy (or as fake Dr. Mary Perry Miller says, “no secrets”)? An insult to the basic premise of client confidentiality. History will prove Tobin and Perry Miller terribly wrong in their unethical practices in mistreating people and abusing civil rights. I am fairly certain of this.
It’s the worst that they (California Sex Offender Management Board Tom Tobin and Sharper Future Mary Perry Miller scam partner) are making profit from their civil rights abuses, veiled by draconic and misinformed laws. Someone stop these pigs!
Pigs can be adorable and are actually very clean animals. There is nothing adorable and nothing clean about Tobin and Perry Miller. Just a duo of scam artists who if were not so very good at manipulating their way into selling their containment model baloney, would probably be sitting in federal prison for selling some other scam.
In a very dishonest Hoodline article, “Sharper Future Answers Your Questions About Its Church & Duboce Plans,” “Dr.” Mary Perry Miller — an alleged licensed clinical psychologist with an alleged “Ph.D” — mentioned “containment boundary,” derived from Tom Tobin’s Containment Model scam, in which Sharper Future does not “keep secrets from one another — everyone knows everything. No secrets.” But is the very nature of a “boundary” not to mark a distinction between what is and what is not emotionally harmful? The fact this “Dr.” Mary Perry Miller fraud sells therapy without confidentiality, in which ‘no secrets’ are kept within the confines of client-therapist privilege, is not representative of a ‘boundary,’ but rather oxymoronic of the very definition of a true boundary. The Sharper Future scam artists will do anything, including pervert the term “boundary,” to further their profit motive.
Very well said. Even you name, invoking the 1st Amendment Right to free speech must be recognized by all. Even if you have poor grammar or can’t write well spread the word about your experience on review sites such as Yelp.com. I was reading the California Reform Sex Offender Laws website and a few hyperlinks to Sharper Future Yelp reviews were included. They have, more or less, 20 Sharper Future training sites so we have a lot of writing to do.
1st Amendment, very true. If Dr. Mary Perry Miller, Psy.D is so audacious to sell “no secrets,” Tom Tobin-brand, “therapy” — then label it as part of the “containment BOUNDARY” or containment model — I must ask where the true “boundary” is? It seems as an alleged licensed clinical psychologist and president of Pacific Forensic Psychology Associates Inc. Mary Perry Miller should be familiar with the term boundary and should also be well aware that she has perverted (as you say) the term “boundary” in order to further her interests. Too bad, as it seems she is in cahoots with the dishonest, pension-squeezing crooks at CDCR. As psychologists (at least the licensed ones), the frauds at Sharper Future should be well aware that sharing personal “treatment” info with CDCR is NOT REAL TREATMENT.
Many fear that Tom Tobin and his Sharper Future Containment Model propaganda will spread like a cancer in the “treatment” management of people imposed the label of registered sex offender. I would submit the argument that Sharper Future does not provide true treatment, but rather a form of veiled effort to get a person to make self-incriminating remarks. The entire premise of Tobin’s Containment Model and Sharper Future rests on the lie detector. The polygraph is not scientific; it is not approved by the American Psychological Association AND American Medical Association (among the overwhelming many other experts). Further, what type of therapy has no confidentiality? The very nature of Tobin’s Containment Meeting rests onprivate therapy-related detail open to probation and parole officers. So Tom Tobin and Mary Perry Miller are in the business of tricking people into believing they are in what therapy should be? Because it sure seems like it. Are they even licensed clinical psychologist?
Unfortunately yes. Mary Perry Miller and Tom Tobin are licensed clinical psychologists that operate under, in my opinion, a very very very shady company called Pacific Forensic Psychologist Associates (to which Sharper Future is a “division” of).
IF Cheng is right, then the standard to become a licensed clinical psychologist must not be very high. I just finished reading the comments here, other websites and some Yelp reviews concerning Sharper Future and am surprised to learn that another licensed clinical psychologist, Mary Perry Miller, is actually the President, with Tom Tobin the CEO, of the Sharper Future scheme. Some others are pointing out that SF also goes by the name Pacific Forensic Psychology Associates, Inc. Any company of this nature that seems to hide behind 2 names start to raise questions in my mind.
The containment model just seems like a cheap marketing tool that Tobin and Miller have managed to pitch to our genius government officials in Sacramento. Proof that Sacramento will listen to even the dumbest idiots!
I have lost faith in our government having seen what our government has done to my brother, many years after his only criminal offense. To read of Tom Tobin, operating as vice chair of the California Sex Offender Management Board, being quoted as a credible source by news, newspapers and media is all the more infuriating knowing what Tom Tobin has REALLY done in profiting from a very shady company with a conflict of interest that seems very wrong and fishy. Tobin is not knowledgeable. If he is, he is playing us all for fools having proved two-faced in pushing for worse laws and at the same time pretending to fight against the International Megan’s Law. I hope Tobin’s legacy, along with his Mary Perry Miller fraud, is rightfully exposed as unethical profiteers from the prison industrial complex. The First Amendment can be powerful and you need to speak up against injustice!
Ken Colwell, a misinformed real estate broker with Paragon Commercial Brokerage, calls clients Mary-Perry Miller and Tom Tobin “two of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.” In “The Snitch” article, Sharper Future — a division of Pacific Forensic Psychology Associates — is erroneously described a “nonprofit” when Sharper Future IS clearly a for-profit business. Lies all around. “Nice people” don’t profit from imposing unethical “therapy” and “treatment” tactics imposed on people forced to attend under threat of parole violation. Sharper Future makes people sign their rights away. People are labeled with the STATIC-99R scam. They are forced to undergo polygraph and lie detector abuse. ZERO confidentiality. No patient-therapist privilege. Then Tom Tobin’s conflict of interest issues described by others (simultaneously holding California Sex Offender Management Board and Sharper Future executive positions). Hardly “nice people.” Hardly behavior one would expect from a Licensed Clinical Psychologist.
Well, if Ken Colwell of Paragon Commercial Brokerage would blatantly lie to misrepresent Sharper Future as a non-profit when Sharper Future is indeed a for profit enterprise, it would bring question the ethics (or lack thereof) and dishonesty that Colwell may bring into other real estate transactions. It seems Mary Perry Miller, Tom Tobin and Ken Colwell will do just about anything (including lie) to further their selfish business interests. This also shows how the media will quote inaccurate statements and portray them as true. Let’s not be mistaken that the media and corrupt business interests are big players that have caused the sex offender hysteria we now find ourselves in.
Thank God others have mentioned Sharper Future contracting BergDavis Public Affairs to do its dirty work. I am of the opinion that if Sharper Future, Tom Tobin and Mary Perry-Miller can’t explain themselves to the public, and sees necessary to contract a firm like BergDavis, just how effective are Tobin and Perry-Miller at doing the “important work” they allegedly provide? Because judging from the endless sea of Sharper Future complaints and criticism on the web, Tobin and Mary Perry-Miller are just a duo of snakeoil salesmen, masquerading as psychologists, who may or may not have used Tom Tobin’s casomb vice chair position to procure a disproportionate amount of state contracts. Equally alarming is how does Tom Tobin not see the inherit wrong in his casomb and CEO positions? My wife, as well as my neighbors in Duboce Triangle, don’t want Sharper Future here. And we certainly do NOT need the hired guns at BergDavis to “educate” us to the ‘important work’ that Sharper Future does not seem to provide.
I am not one to knock-down other people, but the California Sex Offender Management Board is not exactly an ethical bunch. Jerry Powers, “Chief” of L.A. County Probation, was once a CASOMB member and he resigned due to alleged misconduct. Tom Tobin is “vice chair” of CASOMB, yet he happens to also be CEO of Sharper Future which has millions worth in state parole contracts? I don’t think this is coincidence but a clear case of conflict of interest, lol. Who in government will take action against Tom Tobin when the 10+ members of CASOMB are law enforcement themselves? Tobin is clearly protected in his unethical “treatment” and “therapy” tactics. It’s up to us to stop the Tobin-types from imposing their greed and wrath on other humans. It won’t be easy, however. And it requires that registrants take a stand against abusive sex offender “treatment” tactics.
I am familiar with the Duboce Triangle, Sharper Future, Out of the Closet incident. I too searched “Tom Tobin California Sex Offender Management Board” and was directed to this post. My wife and I were in attendance at the meeting. Tom Tobin and Mary Perry-Miller were indirect and avoidant with their answers. My wife mentioned Tom Tobin resembled the appearance of a rabid chipmunk. But it was not Tobin’s chipmunk resemblance most disconcerting, but Tobin and Perry-Miller’s self-entitled arrogance directed at my neighbors and I. Not to mention Tobin having lied about not servicing high risk sex offenders. High risk or not, I don’t care because I think people deserve a chance to work on their issues free of judgement. But I think many are so caught up in “sex offender” hysteria that we are remiss to notice the likes of Tom Tobin — who happens to be CEO of Sharper Future (with millions in state contracts), while in a leadership capacity of CASOMB (a state agency). This seems like corruption in plain view folks!
There is only one Rob (and his wife) that I know of that would make an accurate comparison to Tobin looking like a rabid chipmunk. (A.C.)
It isn’t just Sharper Future CEO Tom Tobin who is responsible for the corruption and unethical therapy described in this post. Because Mary Perry-Miller jointly owns Sharper Future. I know this first hand because I helped protest Sharper Future trying to sneak into my neighborhood in January/February of this year. There was a big meeting in which Tom Tobin and Mary Perry-Miller outright lied — on many different topics — to several hundred of my neighbors. My neighbors and I yelled “liar” to Tobin as he spoke in stark contrast to the research we had done about Tobin and Perry-Miller’s Sharper Future scam. Now Tobin has hired a public relations company called Berg Davis to “educate” my neighborhood. The hiring of Berg Davis reminds me of corrupt SuperPACs that do the dirty work of special interests. In this case, Tom Tobin and his Mary Perry-Miller sidekick have allocated their state government contract money, funded by us taxpayers, to push propaganda. IMHO, Tobin and Perry-Miller are greedy frauds!!!
I agree that Tom Tobin & Sharper Future epitomize corruption in the worst way. Tom Tobin has cultivated a so called registered sex offender “treatment” program (Sharper Future) that relies on unethical tactics (no confidentiality in treatment, reliance on the inaccurate Static-99 scam, use of polygraph abuse, unlicensed “clinicians,”). Then on top of Tobin’s unethical shenanigans, Tobin exploits his leadership positions as CASOMB chair & Sharper Future CEO that pose a clear conflict of interest. I think I am not alone in saying Tobin should be stripped of his psychologist license, stripped of his fake Ph.D & sent to prison for being a corrupt hypocrite. It’s absolutely disgusting that Tobin now pretends to care of RSO civil rights, when even as far as the 1980s Tobin helped cultivate hate & worsening laws in order to make himself profit & power. Make no mistake: Tobin only protects himself. Tom Tobin, like a true coward, will do anything to protect his self-interests as RSOs begin to stand up for Rights!!!
Thomas Joseph Tobin is a fraud, two-faced, psychologist. Tom Tobin is CEO of Sharper Future. Sharper Future holds multi-million dollar sex offender “treatment” contracts with CDCR worth millions of dollars. “Dr.” Tom Tobin is also vice chair of the California Sex Offender Management Board (CA SOMB). Tom Tobin’s dual relationship as CEO of Sharper Future -AND- vice chair of CA SOMB pose a clear conflict-of-interest tantamount to corruption. It is no wonder Tobin’s Sharper Future has monopolized CDCR contracts; it’s a result of an unfair competitive advantage! Tom Tobin has spent his fraud career advocating the inaccurrate Static-99/R scam, lie detector exam, and no confidentiality in therapy. Tobin only supports CARSOL in its fight against IML because Tobin aims to protect his corrupt self-interest. Tobin fears being sued! Fact is Tom Tobin is a narcissistic psychopath who has spent his fraudulent career cultivating relationships with law enforcement to peddle an unethically abusive “treatment” culture.
I Googled Tom Tobin Sharper Future and came across this, as well as many other posts critical of Tom Tobin. Personally, I can see how Tom Tobin thinks by supporting CARSOL and Janice Bellucci against IML, he can create a sort-of impunity from the growing political power of Bellucci and CARSOL. I just hope Bellucci and CARSOL don’t play into the manipulative tactics of Tom Tobin, who is a complete con man. I speak from experience, as I had the unfortunate displeasure of dealing with Tobin on a professional level and as said above, Tobin has long been a proponent of worsening sex offender laws. Now, all of a sudden, Tobin pretends to take a stand defending registered citizens. However, do not be fooled! Tom Tobin is acting disingenuously. Tobin only wrote the declaration in hopes to protect himself, his CASOMB power, and his for-profit Sharper Future company from the wrath of CARSOL’s might. There are many more credible experts than Tom Tobin. Why CARSOL decided to rely on Tobin’s “expert” opinion is beyond me.
Pure speculation, but maybe Tom “The Scam” Tobin offered his declarative opinion for free. Certainly CARSOL must operate on a limited budget, and it would probably have been irresistible to have the vice chair of the California Sex Offender Management Board (CASOMB) on CARSOL’s side. Problem is Tom Tobin used his International Megan’s Law declaration to plug his Static 99 scam. And now CARSOL may feel obligated never to call Tom Tobin, Mary Perry Miller, and Sharper Future out as unethical fraudsters pushing questionable “treatment” tactics whist milking taxpayers via CDCR contracts from a conflict of interest between Tom Tobin as vice chair of CASOMB AND president or CEO of Sharper Future (Pacific Forensic Psychology Associates). But nonetheless it is agreed that there were many more credible experts (other than Tobin) that would not have placed CARSOL in a bad position of owing favor to the Sharper Future (PFPA, Inc.) leader. But it’s too late and CARSOL should never feel obligated to owe any favors to a phony degenerate like Tom Tobin. Just my opinion after hearing of Tobin’s dirty business from a family member.
interesting theory.
Dishonest manipulation and hidden intent seems to be a favorite tactic of Tom Tobin. What a creepy guy.