Motion Filed to Stop Implementation of International Megan’s Law
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.
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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