Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Nebraska Sex Offender Website Guideline #5

The Nebraska Legislature’s finding from the 1990s that all sex offenders are dangerous was not based on any scientific, empirical evidence. It was a politically-motivated “made up” finding that was based on popular myth. There is a vast and growing body of evidence that the reverse is actually true – that sex offenders are among the least likely to reoffend. The Legislative Finding is made up in the same way that the oft-repeated “50,000 online predators” number was made up. This narrative shows how this round, easy-to-remember number (which is just a lie) was fabricated by the network that brought you “To Catch a Predator.”

FEARLESS Folk Pack the House

Packed house for FEARLESS last evening. We even split into two groups for a portion of the meeting: Spouses and friends talked with one another, and registered citizens did the same.

Some of us were there for our second meeting, and we welcomed new faces. We shared about the tactics that have helped us survive and thrive despite Nebraska's hate website, despite mindless news media fear-mongering, despite clueless politicians.

Those who propagate Nebraska's hate-former-offenders-and-their-families laws are counting on your isolation, shame and fear to keep us splintered and powerless. But we are FEARLESS. We are strong. We will not go away. Join us.

If you wish to meet with and learn from people who are in or have been in circumstances similar to yours, this is the place for you.

FEARLESS next meets at 7 p.m. on Monday, October 20, at Saint Michael Lutheran Church, 13232 Blondo Street, Omaha. Park in the lot located on the east side of the building. Come in through the east entrance, which is just off that lot. We hope you will join us, and we hope you will bring with you someone else who will benefit from being part of our network.

FEARLESS is exclusively for registered citizens and family members or friends who wish to accompany them to our meeting. We do not permit law enforcement, therapists, probation/parole officers or other representatives of the sex-offender industry to attend.

Forget the Haters and Move On


Monday, September 29, 2014

Nebraska Sex Offender Website Guideline #4

The Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website prior to Jan. 1, 2010, included only individuals who were at high risk to reoffend. Since Jan. 1, 2010, the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website has included people who are not dangerous as well as people who are innocent of what they were accused of doing. These are individuals who accepted plea agreements rather than deal with our society’s “guilty until proven innocent” attitude toward sexual offenses. By listing them on the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website, the state violated their plea agreements and legal action is being pursued to hold the state accountable.

FEARLESS Tonight!

The topic for discussion at tonight's FEARLESS is "Successful Tactics for Surviving -- and Thriving -- Even if You're on Nebraska's State-sanctioned Hate Website". 

Ever think of forgiveness as a tactic? If not, you might after tonight's gathering at 7 p.m. at Saint Michael Lutheran Church, 13232 Blondo Street, Omaha. Park in the lot located on the east side of the building. Come in through the east entrance, which is just off that lot. We hope you will join us, and we hope you will bring with you someone else who would benefit from being part of our network.

FEARLESS is exclusively for registered citizens and family members or friends who wish to accompany them to our meeting. We do not permit law enforcement, therapists, probation/parole officers or other representatives of the sex-offender industry to attend.

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Did Anyone Watching the Nebraska Corrections Mess Catch This Part? -- NO NEW SEX OFFENSES!

Understand this: Failure to register as a sex offender is NOT a sex offense. It could mean that a registered citizen failed to understand Nebraska's nearly incomprehensible laws on former offenders. Or it could mean the state messed up and entered wrong info about an offender (we have documented cases where that happens).

So when you hear about a registered citizen charged with "failure to register," think of it as kind of like the Nebraska Corrections Department's failure to abide by Nebraska Supreme Court rulings. Except the registered citizen might have just made a mistake -- or the state or the sheriff might have. Failure to register is not costing you hundreds of thousands of tax dollars.

The Omaha World-Herald continues to report on the hot mess that is the Nebraska Department of Corrections. Latest story recounts the new crimes committed by those who were released early in defiance of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

GET THIS: THE SEX OFFENDERS DID NOT COMMIT ANY NEW SEX OFFENSES. There were five failure-to-register offenses. If convicted, those poor guys probably will go back to prison, even if the mistake was the state's. 

What do you think might happen to the lying and cheating Nebraska state employees who think they are above the law? Think they'll go to prison.

Yeah. We don't, either.

Nebraska Sex Offender Website Guideline #3

The Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website includes some people who have been evaluated and deemed to be at high risk to reoffend, but you cannot tell who those people are. Under Nebraska law, some of them are on the registry for only 10 years because Nebraska no longer pays any attention to risk of reoffense.

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Nebraska Sex Offender Website Guideline #2

The Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website includes many people who were evaluated and deemed to be of low risk to reoffend, and thus were not on the website prior to Jan. 1, 2010. Some of those people are now on the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website for life even though their offenses were committed years ago and they long ago completed their sentences.

Friday, September 26, 2014

Nebraska Sex Offender Website Guideline #1

The majority of the people on the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website are not dangerous. The Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website is not based on any scientific risk of reoffense.

'A Principle of Ancient Origin'

The Supreme Court of New Jersey has ruled that adding new punishments to registered citizens violates both the state and the U.S. Constitutions.

“A well established principle of ancient origin is that the Legislature cannot increase the punishment for a crime after it has been committed,” wrote Justice Barry Albin in this week's decision.

(Isn't it amazing that the Nebraska Legislature doesn't get a "principle of ancient origin"?)

Full story.

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Inspiring Newsletter This Month

The September 2014 issue of Ninety-Five%, our newsletter for those who support us financially, has been mailed.

It tells a couple of inspiring stories:

One is about a registered citizen who succeeded in getting his time on the registry reduced to 10 years, meaning he dropped off the state's hate website. The second is about a registered citizen who found housing after telling prospective landlords exactly why and how he landed on the hate site.

We send Ninety-Five% to people who make gifts of $5 a month or more to Nebraskans Unafraid. Click here to give online.

Tell Us Again How Sex-Offender Laws Protect Children?


One day, sex offender laws will become so preposterous that even the mother of the "Megan" of Megan's Law will denounce them.

Oh, wait. That day is here.

Maureen Kanka of New Jersey, whose daughter became the law's namesake, blasted prosecutors who have charged a 14-year-old girl who posted some nude photos of herself to her MySpace page. The child, charged with producing child porn under New Jersey's sex-offender statutes, would have to register as a sex offender if convicted.

The child needs help, not legal problems, Maureen Kanka said.

“This shouldn’t fall under Megan’s Law in any way, shape or form. She should  have an intervention and counseling, because the only person she exploited was  herself,” she said.

Harsh sex-offender laws are sold to a frightened gullible public as a means to protect children. Research, including work done recently in Nebraska, shows that the laws do not protect children and in fact make communities more dangerous.

Ironic, isn't it, that out-of-control prosecutors now are using these laws against little children?

What Kind of Society 'Registers' Its Citizens?

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Be FEARLESS: Learn What is Working for Others on the State-Sanctioned Hate Website

Would you like to know how other registered citizens are finding work, housing and supportive networks?

Have you successfully employed a tactic that discourages law enforcement's invasions of your home for so-called compliance checks?

How are you dealing with anger or loneliness?

The topic for discussion at the next meeting of FEARLESS is "Successful Tactics for Surviving -- and Thriving -- Even if You're on Nebraska's State-sanctioned Hate Website". 

FEARLESS meets Monday, September 29, at 7 p.m. at Saint Michael Lutheran Church, 13232 Blondo Street, Omaha. Park in the lot located on the east side of the building. Come in through the east entrance, which is just off that lot. We hope you will join us, and we hope you will bring with you someone else who would benefit from being part of our network.

FEARLESS is exclusively for registered citizens and family members or friends who wish to accompany them to our meeting. We do not permit law enforcement, therapists, probation/parole officers or other representatives of the sex-offender industry to attend.

Monday, September 8, 2014

N.Y. News Media Expose Residency Restrictions as Useless Politicians' Trick

New York news media are on top of the latest information about residency restrictions, and they're not holding back in reporting it.

Residency restrictions -- which are common in Nebraska -- are now shown by research to accomplish NOTHING for public safety, and might in fact make your community more dangerous.

We don't see anything on this from Nebraska news media. So take some time to look at the material coming out of New York. Here's an excerpt:
The unfortunate thing about this situation is that laws designed to restrict where sex offenders can live are really and truly useless, except as a means of politicians scoring easy political points by ratcheting up hysteria. There are many tricky social-scientific issues on which there are a range of opinions and some degree of debate among experts, but this isn't one of them. Among those whose job it is to figure out how to reduce the rate at which sex offenders commit crimes (as opposed to those whose job it is to get reelected, in part by hammering away at phantom threats), there is zero controversy: These laws don't work, and may actually increase sexual offenders' recidivism rates.
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Friday, September 5, 2014

THESE People Run Nebraska's Corrections System?????????????

These are the people running Nebraska's corrections system? (Click here).

Remember that this system is overseen by the very elected officials, like the governor and the attorney general, who are now pointing fingers of blame and trying to dodge responsibility for this mess.

We have legal counsel for the system that does not read State Supreme Court rulings. And never forget that the 2009 law that placed you and your family on the state's public shaming website was not read by the senators who passed it. My own representative in the Legislature does not give a damn about the damage done by this law.

All of this -- all of it -- has to change. An election is coming up. If you are eligible to vote and you do not turn out to throw these incompetents out of office, you give up your right to complain (in my opinion).

If you completed your sentence more than two years ago and you have not reoffended, you are eligible to vote in Nebraska. Get registered. To vote, I mean.

Never forget that voting registered citizens, their family members and friends helped to kick Jon Bruning to the curb. Good. But that's just a start.

Thursday, September 4, 2014

What's It Like to Be Fearless?

We have received some great guidance from our counterpart organization in Texas, which is called Texas Voices, regarding groups like Fearless. A number of these groups are up and running in Texas.

Fearless is distinctive, but it also borrows from the Texas model. By viewing the video below, you will gain some insight into what it would be like to attend Fearless.

Fearless meets at 7 p.m. on Monday, September 29, at Saint Michael Lutheran Church, 13232 Blondo Street, Omaha. Park in the lot located on the east side of the building. Come in through the east entrance, which is just off that lot. We hope you will join us.

For a fair idea of what we are about, watch this video: