Update on RTAG Trip to Washington DC

The following were notes from Registrant Travel Action Group (RTAG – registranttag.org) trip to Washington, D.C.

On November 14th,  traveled to DC with the following objectives:

1. Meet with congressional staff representatives on the foreign services and judicairy committees to present a white paper and initial results of registrant travel experiences subsequent to the establishment of the Angel Watch Center and implementation of International Megan’s Law (IML).

2. Establish representatives in place who will represent RTAG and other groups as required to achieve our goals.

3.    Meet with appropriate Embassy staff personnel at the Mexican, Filipino, and Thai

Embassies.

4.  Potentially connect with human rights organizations whom are DC based.

Results:

1. We were able to meet with 15 staff members to present our white paper and our results of registering travel.   We are attempting face to face for another trip.   Here some of the representative offices:

Chris Smith

Paul Ryan

Eliot Engel

Judiciary and Foreign Affairs staff

Sheila Jackson Lee

“Bobby” Scott

2.  We have a team establish.  I want to organize their efforts better before we  pass on

names.

3.  We only had time meet with the Mexican Embassy.  I will send a separate email to discuss

this.   We must establish communication with other embassies.

4.  There is much  more work to done the Human Rights aspect of our efforts.

There was a lot that was discussed in our efforts.  I will try to do a tel-econ in the future.

Paul Rigney