Robin Vander Wall

Cumberland county sheriff not serving or protecting registered people

Board of Historic Morganton Festival stands by courageous decision . . . for now

North Carolina’s sex offense registry prevents meaningful reentry

Eleventh Circuit reverses lower court in Halloween sign case

Entrapment stings are superficial, misdirected, and ineffective

Registries do not reduce sexual or non-sexual recidivism at all

Who are the real predators in online sting operations?

July 29, 2022 Robin Vander Wall 7050 Views 1 Comment cumberland county, homeless felons, homeless sex offenders, public safety, sheriff ennis wright

Also posted on the Fort Bragg Patch and the Fayetteville Observer By Sandy . . . In Fayetteville, North Carolina, what could and should have been a warm, human-interest story was

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May 26, 2022 Robin Vander Wall 11488 Views 3 Comments artimus pyle, false accusations, lynyrd skynyrd, morganton, public shaming, sex offense

By Sandy . . . In this age of “Everything is relative,” there are very few, if any, universal truths, very few ideas about which everyone, or at least almost

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April 13, 2022April 13, 2022 Robin Vander Wall 8340 Views 1 Comment employment, housing, ketanji brown jackson, redirection nc, reentry, sex offense registries, stigma

Republished in full with permission from NC Health News By Elizabeth Thompson . . . Chris Budnick is in an impossible position. As the leader of Healing Transitions, a peer-based recovery-oriented service

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January 19, 2022 Robin Vander Wall 14153 Views 5 Comments Butts County, compelled speech, eleventh circuit, First Amendment, forced speech, Georgia, sheriff gary long

By Larry . . . NARSOL is excited to announce that the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals handed Butts County Sheriff Gary Long a stinging defeat today. The case is

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January 4, 2022 Robin Vander Wall 8658 Views 1 Comment catch a predator, entrapment, proactive entrapment stings, sex stings, sting operations

By Lois . . . Proactive electronic stings are about public image and self-congratulations for law enforcement entities and politicians, a false banner under which they can make claims about

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December 17, 2021 Robin Vander Wall 8552 Views 1 Comment dehumanization, notification, registrants, registration, sex offender registries, sex offense

By Meghan M. Mitchell, Kristen M. Zgoba, & Alex R. Piquero . . . There are roughly half a million sexual assault incidents in the United States every year — and more

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22 1:00 pm: ACSOL April 22, 2023 Online Meeting 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm April 22, 2023 Please join ACSOL Executive Director and civil rights attorney Janice Bellucci as well as ACSOL board member and criminal defense attorney Chance Oberstein for our next meeting. The meeting will be held on Saturday, April 22, online on Zoom beginning at 10 a.m. Pacific time, 1:00 PM Eastern, and will last at least two hours. You can use the Zoom app or call in using a Zoom phone number. There is no registration needed for this meeting. You can use the Zoom app to see Janice and Chance and choose to show or hide yourself, or you can use the Zoom phone number to call in to the meeting. This meeting will be recorded and then posted here as an audio recording within a couple of days. A link to the recording will be at the top of our pages. Discussion topics will include: SORNA California Lobby Day 2023 When does treatment and counseling end for registrants on parole? meet a board member the California Tiered Registry (now effective) challenges to California Tiered Registry Law domestic and overseas travel other current topics and pending legal action throughout the nation. Please Show Up, Stand Up and Speak Up! To join our Zoom meeting with your Zoom app, click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83273166148 Or you can call in to one of the phone numbers below, then specify: Meeting ID: 832 7316 6148 Here is one Zoom number +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Or find your local number from around the world: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcQ8fXsCtM More information Read more, 1:00 pm: ACSOL April 22, 2023 Online Meeting 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm April 22, 2023 Please join ACSOL Executive Director and civil rights attorney Janice Bellucci as well as ACSOL board member and criminal defense attorney Chance Oberstein for our next meeting. The meeting will be held on Saturday, April 22, online on Zoom beginning at 10 a.m. Pacific time, 1:00 PM Eastern, and will last at least two hours. You can use the Zoom app or call in using a Zoom phone number. There is no registration needed for this meeting. You can use the Zoom app to see Janice and Chance and choose to show or hide yourself, or you can use the Zoom phone number to call in to the meeting. This meeting will be recorded and then posted here as an audio recording within a couple of days. A link to the recording will be at the top of our pages. Discussion topics will include: SORNA California Lobby Day 2023 When does treatment and counseling end for registrants on parole? meet a board member the California Tiered Registry (now effective) challenges to California Tiered Registry Law domestic and overseas travel other current topics and pending legal action throughout the nation. Please Show Up, Stand Up and Speak Up! To join our Zoom meeting with your Zoom app, click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83273166148 Or you can call in to one of the phone numbers below, then specify: Meeting ID: 832 7316 6148 Here is one Zoom number +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Or find your local number from around the world: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcQ8fXsCtM More information Read more

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021 Robin Vander Wall 15155 Views 5 Comments bonnie burkhardt, entrapment, illegal wiretapping, online stings, police, sex offense registries, victimless crime, virginia

By LOIS . . . Bonnie Burkrhardt’s 2020 book, Manufacturing Criminals, Fourth Amendment Decay in the Electronic Age is compelling for anyone interested in criminal justice matters – but it’s