My three kids should be able to play in our backyard without hearing neighbors yell obscenities about their dad. I’m their dad. What they’re hearing goes back to 1999, when I was 14 years old. I served my sentence. Twenty-seven years later, I’m a husband and a father, and the word “predator” still follows me. What I wish people understood is how much of that punishment falls on my wife and our kids. I can’t go to Disney with them. I can’t coach their youth sports teams. I’d love to sit across from one of my kids at school lunch and hear how their morning went. I can’t do that either. These are ordinary parts of being a dad, and my kids only get one childhood. I don’t believe keeping my name on Florida’s registry for life makes anyone safer. A website can tell people what I did at 14. It can’t prevent someone from committing a crime today. And…
By Jon . . . For individuals on federal supervised release and state registries, standard intake forms, registration paperwork, and third-party monitoring contracts present a profound legal fiction. Private vendors, treatment providers, software companies, and state registration offices routinely require participants to execute End User License Agreements (EULAs), HIPAA disclosures, and broad privacy waivers that explicitly state the individual is providing “free and voluntary consent.” ​However, under post-conviction supervision and mandatory registration statutes, refusing to sign a required document constitutes an immediate technical violation of release conditions—risking swift revocation and return to prison. ​Forced Consent in Federal Supervision ​In the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada (Las Vegas), proceedings before Federal District Judge Jennifer A. Dorsey highlight this systemic contradiction. When an individual attempted to maintain an accurate legal record by signing required intake forms with handwritten “compelled compliance / no consent” notations, third-party vendors—including treatment facilitators, polygraphers, and computer monitoring software providers—rejected the documents. State licensing laws…
By James . . . They are all in it together. The 13th amendment gives them slaves that they need. They will do anything to keep the prisons filled. Even if you take a plea, they get money from fines and penalties. If you cannot pay the fines and penalties you violate your probation. Everyone is in on it from the police detective and in my case my defense lawyer. After paying a $26,000 retainer with money I did not have. After my case was delayed, delayed, and delayed, she told me she could not represent me anymore because she was running for judge. She said she could talk to a public defender for me, but my best chance would be taking a plea because I would probably get an all white jury, an old white judge set in his ways, and the girl would cry and garner sympathy. So I took the plea and became very aware of the…
By Eric . . . To many of us face an up hill battle of getting our rights back, much les getting your FIREARMS rights back. I have been doing just that for over 25 years failure after failure. On May 22nd of this year, I got a letter from the Arizona Superior Court. Getting ANYTHING from the courts is scary for us. That being said, I opened up the letter and i just about lost it ! In the checked box below it says: GRANTING the application to restore civil rights AND right to possess or own a firearm!!! HOLY SHEEET!!! Now what ???
By Ed . . . I am a 76 year old and as each day goes by I become more and more concerned about what the future holds for me. I will not be able to challenge the court system concerning my registry status until I am 96 years old. First thing is I will be lucky if I reach that age, and the second thing is what will be the since of challenging it at that age anyway. The concern that haunts me the most, and I have brought this matter up with my counselor is what will happen if my cognitive state becomes a factor, or my health becomes a factor to where my family no longer will be able to care for me. Nursing homes when doing a back ground check find that you are a registered sexual offender rejects you from there facility. What is the family suppose to do when this matter arises. I have…
By Ed . . . We always expect the courts to interpret the laws and when the facts are presented and they show a direct path that they are unconstitutional on their face, and then turn a blind eye to the evidence presented by changing the wording and eliminating other cases by simply saying they are not relevant, when in fact they carry a lot of weight. The Judges that make these rational decision, always hurt the defense. We always ask ourselves are the courts basing their decisions politically because of votes, or are they being swayed by Legislators. How can SORNA ever be reformed if the courts continue to allow unconstitutional acts to go on uncorrected. We see this more and more in the state court systems and the only court out there that can correct this is the US. Supreme court. The majority of cases only reach the state supreme court and that is where the unconstitutional acts…
By Anon . . . Here’s the full story adjusted to a more direct, grounded tone—still human and reflective, but without clichĂ©s or dramatized phrases: — I live in Puerto Rico. I spent two and a half years in federal prison, and most of that time I was fixated on the law library, trying to figure out the legal rationale behind courts consistently upholding sex offender registries. I read through piles of case law. I knew that once released, I’d have exactly one year to file a legal challenge—the statute of limitations in Puerto Rico for civil rights claims is precisely one year. I’m young. I was arrested at 19, and served my prison sentence from age 21 to 24. In prison, nobody took me seriously. Most people who spent time in the Education building were jailhouse lawyers, usually sex offenders themselves, busy drafting compassionate-release motions, appeals, and disciplinary complaints for others, mainly drug offenders or immigrants. I was the…
By Crash . . . I have been a registered SO before and I know how many of you here feel. The issue with housing and jobs and what have you. It is definitely not fair and we need organizations such as NARSOL to help make a difference. Many years ago, I had been set up for death by a corrupt detective by the name of Adam Granit somewhere in Florida. I confessed to him and he manipulated me. His blonde assistant allowed him to do it and she even told him on the low, that psyche medication was found in the place. He basically swept that finding under the rug. He went and twisted up his report on me, and he along with the prosecutors got me charged with a boatload of charges regarding images and videos on my PC. The corrupt detective even lied about me “soliciting” a minor girl online, which the prosecutor deliberately played in and…
By Edward . . . The one question I have is, what is the reason to why Pennsylvania does not pay for SVP counseling and polygraph test being it is a mandatory requirement for rehabilitation? Here is Pennsylvania answering that question. ( Pennsylvania generally does not pay for SVP counseling and polygraph examinations because of legal precedent that deems such a requirement as potentially unconstitutional , as it could be seen as punitive and violate certain constitutional protections for individuals classified as SVPs essentially, the state courts have ruled that forcing an SVP to pay for their own monitoring and evaluation could be considered unfair and excessive punishment. They say that the requirement to fully fund SVP counseling and polygraph might violate certain constitutional rights. They also say that this would put a financial burden on taxpayers. There are 901 SVP individuals and a polygraph exam cost is $350.00 per person equals $315,350.00 and average monthly counseling fee is $60.00…
By Pamela . . . Hi I’m Pamela and my story is watching my husband who was military, Steve’s in Iraq and Bosnia for his country went to jail for 9 months in Germany for 35 pictures on internet that one specialist said was under age other specialist said wasn’t. No matter… what’s done is done he paid his dues kicked out of Army, lost retirement, did jail time, did therapy, lost V.A. benefits is considered tier 1 offender and been on registry for 16 years. came home in hopes of starting over and just try to pick up the pieces of his life support his family and get back on track. Though life had a different story for him. He couldn’t get anywhere looking for a job so started working as a painter then found work at a cabinet shop. Life was ok but hard we read that you could get off registry after 15 years of good behavior…
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