WomenAgainstRegistry.org ~ Arizona Chapter
What should forgiveness look like? This is a question over 912,000 men, women and children (6, 8 and 10 in some states) are asking. Approximately 2.7 to 3.0 million family members of those required to register have a clear ongoing and fearful understanding of punitiveness and annihilation. The US District Court of Colorado ruling in […]
Recently people have been receiving scammer phone calls where the caller pretends to be law enforcement. Be cautious with anyone who claims to be law enforcement on the phone. The scammer begins with the threat of registration problems, typically with failure to provide a DNA sample and the registrant is out of compliance. One registrant’s […]
When a sex offender calls, she’s there to listen As advocates reevaluate the value of offender registries, a women-led support line vows to offer help to those who feel shunned by their communities.By Serena Solomon The following excerpt is from the ezine Vox. Please follow the link below to read the full article. Thanks folks. And […]
Carol Nesteikis, 66, has never committed a crime. But for two years, from six in the evening to six in the morning the next day, she lived under de facto house arrest with her 32-year-old son, Adam. It wasn’t because she wanted to. The home itself was a kind of punishment, she says. Adam was […]
An unnamed 16-year-old teenager called her 17-year-old brother and told him that an elderly man sexually assaulted her on a bus. The teen said that the man — later identified as Michael Fife — assaulted her while the two were riding a city bus. Just minutes after hearing about the alleged incident — which took […]
If I were to title this article, my title would have been: “Bad Acting Prosecutors and Evil Judges” William Hetherington says he’s still being punished after paying his debt for a crime he didn’t commit. Hetherington, 65, made national headlines after his 1986 conviction for a new Michigan crime, spousal rape. Innocence advocates raised questions about the conviction, […]
Shane [name redacted to avoid vigilante worshiping] started the online vigilante operation POPSquad, one of many similar groups tapping into a hunger for vengeance. On a cool evening in October, Alain Malcolm, 20, walked into a vacant two-story colonial house in Bristol, Connecticut. Two members of a local internet vigilante group — who regularly try […]
FACT: More people are now listed on sex-offender registries than are currently in jail in the US. It’s an amazing statistic that illuminates one of the darkest corners of our criminal justice system: our fear-based approach to dealing with sex offenders. So why do we have these massive lists? Are they fair? Do they keep us safe? Untouchable, the […]
Kern County has been sued by an anonymous registered sex offender, who says the county’s restrictive housing laws for sex offenders have violated his civil rights. The plaintiff, identified only as John Doe in court filings, says in the lawsuit that he is not able to find reasonable housing due to an ordinance passed by […]
Until very recently, Missouri’s sex-offender registry functioned like a factory with a single product. Regardless of the crime they’d committed, the state treated everyone on it like a potential predator, placing thousands of people on a single lifetime registry with strict 90-day check-ins, residency restrictions and virtually no chance of removal. That system changed in […]
