The California Reform Sex Offender Laws organization is dedicated to restoring civil rights for those accused and / or convicted of sex crimes.
In order to achieve that objective, CA RSOL will initiate and support legal action, legislation and public outreach.
"INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE" Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
California RSOL will return to Los Angeles on June 16 for a regular monthly meeting. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. and be held at the ACLU Building, 1313 W. 8th Street, Los Angeles. The meeting is open to registrants, family members and supporters only. The meeting will include presentations by attorneys, psychologists and registrants who have successfully… More
City Council Meeting
May 21, 2012, 6 pm
60 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, California
First Reading to adopt an ordinance to the Santa Ana Municipal Code pertaining to the proximity restrictions of registered sex offenders to children’s facilities. (The Main Library is to be included in the list of children’s facilities. )
Agenda –… More
The controversy surrounding city elections in a town in the Texas Panhandle continues. That’s because one of the newly elected city council members has a checkered past. A pair of two-year terms on Skellytown’s city council were up for grabs Saturday. The results are in now and not everyone is happy. That’s because one of those spots is now… More
Lake County prosecutors on Tuesday dropped sexual assault charges against a man accused in a decades-old Waukegan rape. “I’m feeling great,” said Bennie Starks. “The fight is not over yet. We still have one more hurdle, but it’s a great day.”
Starks, convicted in 1986 of assaulting a 68-year-old woman, had served 20 years of a 60-year sentence… More
JEFFERSON CITY • The Missouri House is sending a bill to the Senate that could drastically cut back the state’s sex offender registry rolls.
After giving initial approval Tuesday night, the chamber took a second vote on the issue Thursday, advancing it to the other chamber. House Bill 1700 received near unanimous and overwhelmingly bi-partisan… More
NATIONAL CITY, Calif. — The nude, bloodied body of a South Bay apartment manager — reportedly a registered sex offender — was found early Tuesday on the doorstep of his residence, where he’d been stabbed to death by an unidentified assailant. A tenant of the complex in the 300 block of Norton Avenue in National City reported discovering… More
It’s estimated 65 million Americans with criminal records face barriers when looking for work. Some of those barriers are within the law, but new federal guidelines want to prevent unreasonable screening out of job seekers.
– Includes a call from a registrant offering a relevant perspective.
Full Article / Audio… More
America has a lot of harsh laws against sex offenders that shame and banish this unpopular group. Miami sends them to live in the swamps with the poisonous snakes and boa constrictors. Georgia bars them from living or working within 1,000 feet of a school bus stop. Pretty much the whole state is off limits for employment or domicile. California bans them from living… More
(CNN) — Christine Smith will never forget the moment she watched her 21-year-old son being led out of a Florida courtroom in handcuffs.
“This is not happening, this is not happening, this is not happening,” she recalls thinking at the time. “Take me instead.”
She sobbed because there was nothing she could do. Matthew, the second… More
This is the twenty-sixth in a series of articles about Auburn-area homeless people, written by local attorney, author, and Sierra College Instructor, Bob Litchfield .
The young man looks to be about twenty years old. But it turns out that he is actually 28. He has been homeless for about two years. Since he is a 290 registered sex offender, we will not use his real… More
Posting photos of sex offenders on the Internet and lumping all of those convicted of the crimes into one category is probably not keeping anyone safer, according to a member of the California board tasked with managing sex offenders.
The question of how California deals with sex offenders was under scrutiny Thursday, as dozens of professionals from social… More
