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Texas Sorna case
Seems to be a win https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10581925/sammy-tawakkol-v-sheila-vasquez-in-her-official-capacity-as-manager-of/?q=Sorna&type=o&order_by=dateFiled+desc&stat_Published=on
Hard to follow some of this.
I have been unable to find any examples of sex crimes that have been committed ,that living near a school had anything to do with whether this crime was committed.or not. Has anyone else? More and more states are trying to to pass more of these laws ,with no evidence or reason why.
Just read this from The Appeal
Trump DOJ Defunds National Prison Rape Resource Center
A letter obtained exclusively by The Appeal says Trump’s Department of Justice has cut all funding to the Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center.
Apr 23, 2025
The Department of Justice has terminated all funding for the National Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Resource Center, according to a letter from the National PREA Resource Center obtained by The Appeal. Among other activities, the group had previously trained prison sexual assault auditors, tracked the results of PREA investigations, and provided resources to imprisoned sexual abuse survivors. The cuts take effect immediately.
When asked for comment, a DOJ spokesperson told The Appeal in an email that “discretionary funds that are no longer aligned with the administration’s priorities are subject to review and reallocation.” The administration’s priorities are “prosecuting criminals, getting illegal drugs off of the streets, and protecting American institutions from toxic DEI and sanctuary city policies.”
Impact Justice operates the National PREA Resource Center through a cooperative agreement with the Department of Justice. The organization said in a statement that it “is heartbroken about the Administration’s decision to cease funding.”
“The Justice Department in 2012 adopted statutorily required regulations to guide facilities so they can live up to their responsibilities to protect people in their care, and they set up a system of auditing to hold agencies accountable to the promise of PREA,” said Michela Bowman, Vice President and Senior Project Advisor at Impact Justice said in a statement. “Defunding supports for agencies to do that work and of the systems needed to operate the audit function suggest, dismayingly, that DOJ has abandoned its statutory responsibilities to protect the most vulnerable people in confinement from sexual abuse as required by PREA.”
Experts and advocates working to end prison sexual assault were uniformly aghast at the news.
“The actions by the Department of Justice to immediately zero out all funding of PREA investigations and audits will tragically make it even more challenging to hold prison and jail officials responsible for the sexual assaults of the people who they have locked up,” Corene Kendrick, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project, told The Appeal in an email.
Congress unanimously passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, known as PREA, in 2003. The legislation sought to “provide for the analysis of the incidence and effects of prison rape in federal, state, and local institutions and to provide information, resources, recommendations and funding to protect individuals from prison rape.” It also created a commission to create standards for eliminating sexual violence in carceral settings.
According to the center’s website, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance created the National PREA Resource Center in 2010 to “provide federally funded training and technical assistance to states and localities, and to serve as a single-stop resource for research and tools for all those in the field working to come into compliance with the federal standards.”
What is going on here?
Logic suggests SORNA is next on the chopping block.
This program was designed to prevent and control and etc…. Must have failed? Why the elimination?
Please explain to me and the world how much money was saved and spent for this program and how it was allocated.
Same for SORNA. 20-30 billion could be saved.
I have a story that’s going to blow your minds. I live in Apollo Beach Florida my brother lives beside me.
He’s gone crazy, and is torturing his wife and family. He ties her up in the shed and tortures her, and yells at her grandson. This is going on almost six months. I called sheriff three times, and because I’m a sexoffender they won’t listen to me. The last time, they insinuated I was filing a false report. Meanwhile these poor people are going through hell. I was told by him that he talked to the law and if I leave the house I would be arrested. Thank you for your consideration..
Homeless article research paper. https://ml.globenewswire.com/Resource/Download/9939c511-1175-496b-9d5a-0004380f7d75
Have sex with an inmate, get put on the membership card https://www.al.com/news/2025/04/alabama-prison-officer-must-register-as-sex-offender-after-consensual-sex-with-inmate-court-says.html?outputType=amp