A QUICK LOOK AT THE AGENCY TASKED WITH PROMOTING THE ADAM WALSH ACT The Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (aka the “SMART Office”) is hosting a symposium in Chicago on July 17th and 18th. After…
No Havens for Registered Persons: Why “Most ‘Sex Offenders’ Per Capita” is a Meaningless Statistic
A Patch.com article entitled “Sex Offenders: How Illinois Ranks On Registry,” published June 27, 2019, proclaims that Illinois ranks 25th, smack dab in the middle of the list for most registered persons per capita. The article cited ASecureLife, a private…
Words have Power.
It’s time for a fact check. All advocates need to get on the same page. Our information is misleading and many times incorrect. For example of the new sex crimes that are committed those that are done by first-time offenders,…
Tempos and Cavaliers
The 1980s brought us many great things. Good music, MTV, HBO, lots of things we all had to have as soon as it was available. The 1980s fell short, however, in the car industry. OK, you can admit it, we…
History Repeats itself; The Shameful Tactics of Pseudo-Science and Legislative Action.
We all know about segregation in our recent history. We know how state governments across the nation passed laws, rules and regulations treating people differently, these laws not only included blacks, but Asians, Latinos and other ethnic groups as well,…
CASTRATION LAWS ACROSS THE USA AS OF JUNE 2019
After 12 years, Alabama Republican Representative Steve Hurst passed a mandatory chemical castration law; he had failed to pass a mandatory surgical castration law in 11 previous attempts. Alabama’s law is unique among the states in that it is the…