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• ACT NOW: The Safe Shelters Act: Unsafe, Unjust, and Cruel
  December 17, 2024 by Sandy Rozek
  By Sandy Rozek, NARSOL Communications Director & John Dawe, NARSOL Marketing DirectorWhen families face emergencies and are driven from their homes, they need quick and equitable access to emergency facilities. Families should be allowed to stay together during crises. However, a new bill, The Safe Shelters Act, proposed by Nancy Mace, a former South Carolina […] The post ACT NOW: The Safe Shelters Act: Unsafe, Unjust, and Cruel first appeared on NARSOL.
• The case against capital punishment for child sex abuse
  December 14, 2024 by a guest writer
  By Josiah and Randall . . . We are writing on behalf of the statewide Pennsylvania Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws to express our deep concern over State Representative Ryan Warner’s proposal to allow the death penalty for individuals convicted of child sexual offenses. While protecting children is a cause we all share, this proposal is fraught […] The post The case against capital punishment for child sex abuse first appeared on NARSOL.
• A prison by any other name is still a prison
  December 7, 2024 by Sandy Rozek
  By Sandy . . . They were married in a Texas county jail with a bulletproof pane of glass between them. The paths that took them to that point were twisted and tortuous, and the paths leading from it are even more so. He was convicted of two sexual offenses many years ago and served […] The post A prison by any other name is still a prison first appeared on NARSOL.
• The perils of moving to another state – even after you’re removed from your own state’s registry
  November 25, 2024 by a guest writer
  By Bruce, a.k.a. Atwo Zee, Registered Traveler. . . A recent NARSOL Digest (Oct/Nov 2024) “Legal Corner” article (Page 5) discussed the case of a man who successfully had himself removed from Michigan’s registry, then moved to Alabama.  Three years later he was arrested in Alabama on a failure to register felony. Now he asks […] The post The perils of moving to another state – even after you’re removed from your own state’s registry first appeared on NARSOL.
• Halloween, 2024–an anomoly or a new beginning?
  November 7, 2024 by Sandy Rozek
  By Sandy . . . Halloween 2024 is behind us. This Halloween was same-old, same-old in some respects and something of an anomaly in others. Once again, no children were snatched by registrants—or by anyone, apparently–as they walked the streets, and none were lured into the homes of registrants with promises of candy and then harmed. […] The post Halloween, 2024–an anomoly or a new beginning? first appeared on NARSOL.
• Why are “fiscally responsible” politicians spending taxpayer money to make people homeless?
  October 21, 2024 by Sandy Rozek
  This piece, including the title, has been edited to correct inaccuracies. Distributed to Illinois media By Sandy . . . Everyone needs a place to live, including people with past convictions. The government shouldn’t be spending taxpayer money to kick people out of their homes. Beginning in 2020, Bob O’Dekirk, then-mayor of Joliet, Illinois,  put […] The post Why are “fiscally responsible” politicians spending taxpayer money to make people homeless? first appeared on NARSOL.
• Halloween 50 years ago and now
  October 9, 2024 by Sandy Rozek
  By Sandy . . . Looking at some of the headers of the articles sent in today’s alerts, I cannot help but shake my head in wonder. “Communities explore other Halloween plans after sex offender law abolished,” announces a Missouri news outlet. This is in regard to the Missouri Supreme Court’s recent ruling that requiring […] The post Halloween 50 years ago and now first appeared on NARSOL.
• AZRSOL’s first conference a success
  October 5, 2024 by a guest writer
  AZRSOL . . . The inaugural public policy conference “New Directions in Sexual Offense Policy,” hosted by Arizonans for Rational Sex Offense Laws (AZRSOL), brought together a diverse group of experts, policymakers, and justice professionals to explore evidence-based approaches to sexual offense policy. Held in an academic setting, the conference aimed to challenge the status quo […] The post AZRSOL’s first conference a success first appeared on NARSOL.
• NARSOL’s new case fights for parolees’ rights to bring civil rights challenges over parole conditions
  October 4, 2024 by Mark Weinberg
  By Mark . . . NARSOL announces the filing of its opening appellate brief  in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the case NARSOL et. al. v. Latoya Hughes, No. 24-2103. NARSOL is the lead plaintiff in the case. The case involves a challenge to the constitutionality of a parole restriction imposed on individuals […] The post NARSOL’s new case fights for parolees’ rights to bring civil rights challenges over parole conditions first appeared on NARSOL.
• And the loser is—free speech!
  October 3, 2024 by Sandy Rozek
  October 3, 2024 . . . CorrLinks, a private company that manages the federal prison email system, began as a pilot program in 2005. It has since then served as the primary method by which persons in custody in the federal Bureau of Prison (BOP) system send and receive emails from family and friends as […] The post And the loser is—free speech! first appeared on NARSOL.