NARSOL has received sad news. Our dear friend and one of our faithful and extremely competent gatekeepers, Ken Roberts, died Sunday morning, June 12, from complications related to congestive heart failure. Ken was 74. In 2012, Ken was “on paper,” on probation.
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By Sandy . . . Vigilantes killing individuals required to be on a sex offender registry is nothing new. The first recorded case we found was in Utah in 2005. Since then these murders have occurred in Maine (a double murder), in
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NARSOL’s 18th conference hit the ground running Friday morning, June 26, and didn’t slow down for two and a half days. With powerball speakers such as Catherine Carpender and Miriam Auckerman, the deeply moving stories of Amber Vlangas and Shawn Barrera-Leaf, and
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By Sandy . . . Is there anything more despicable than a scam? Schemes that use fear to extract money from those already living in fear go a step beyond despicable. Scams targeting people required to be listed on sex offender registries
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Updated 4/23/2026; originally published 2/4/2025 at narsol.org as Sex offender residency restrictions: bad, bad public policy.” By Sandy . . . Residency restrictions for persons required to register as sexual offenders are often enacted for no reason other than neighboring towns
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By Sandy . . . His email was long, disjointed, confusing. I could tell he was angry with NARSOL (National Assoc. for Rational Sexual Offense Laws), but I couldn’t tell why. I emailed back asking if I could call him. “Yes,” and
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By Sandy . . . As communications director of NARSOL, I receive many calls from reporters and journalists working on stories about persons in the community who are on a sex offender registry. Occasionally the presence of the registrant is being protested
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By Sandy . . . Even though registrants are as different from one another as everyone else, they do have some commonalities. Almost all registrants report feelings of isolation and being disconnected from others. One way to help lessen these feelings is
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By Sandy . . . In the many years that we have been tracking Halloween, this one fits the pattern of the past few years. There were the semi-frequent media and sheriff’s offices who were warning—and scaring—parents about people on sex offender
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By Sandy . . . A 71-year-old man was murdered on September 18 in Fremont, CA. His killer did not know him. He didn’t kill him during a robbery. He had never seen him before. Nevertheless, he set out to kill David
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