By Ronald . . . Like every other inmate being released at Missouri’s Farmington Correctional Center, I received a voter registration card and instructions on how to restore voting rights as a felon. The instructions said, “The right to vote is automatically
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By Sandy . . . Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 12226 was opened in the fall of 2023. There were roughly 5,000 such posts in the United States at that time, but this was the first—and so far only–one established inside
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By Sandy . . . Everyone loves a good protest. Most of us can look back to younger days, college or early job perhaps, and recall the excitement of being part of something we believed in. The right to protest is enshrined
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By Sandy . . . Follow the money trail. How often has this advice been given, and how often has the heeding of it led to the unraveling of an enigma or a crime. The sex offender industry is both an enigma
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By Sandy . . . Texas HB 3499 , authored by Rep. Vincent Perez, will remove the homestead exemption from the property tax responsibility of Texas’ registered citizens—every one of them homeowners occupying the property. This piece includes what was sent to
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By Sandy . . . “I am just one person,” he wrote. “I have been trying to find a place to live for ten months and it’s nigh impossible. . . I’m paroled to Milwaukee, a place I’m not legally allowed to
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By Sandy . . . Residency restrictions for persons required to register as sexual offenders are often enacted for no reason other than neighboring towns have implemented them. They spread like wildfire, and like that destructive force, they wreak their own form
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By Sandy . . . The Jacob Wetterling Registration Act, which created the sex offender registry; Megan’s Law, which mandates public disclosure; the Adam Walsh Act, which sets new guidelines: Each name evokes the image of a child and, for those required
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NARSOL is proud to announce its officers for 2025 and the new board member who have joined its ranks. Organizational officers are Brenda Jones as executive director, Robin Vanderwall as board chair, and Paul Shannon as board vice-chair. Sandy Rozek is secretary,
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By Sandy . . . It started with Chris Hanson and To Catch a Predator, a mainstream television program where potential online sexual predators lured by a civilian sting operation were “busted” by police officers, often with tasers drawn and pointed and terrifyingly
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