No one can get Keeley Olson's name right because she can't get anything right

Keeley Olson of STAR Alaska (or "Keely" Olson as it was printed in the article) is your typical victim industry mouthpiece. Therein lies the problem-- these victim industry blowhards spew the same tired talking points. Normally I'd say it is not even Shiitake-worthy other than the fact that this idiot was responding to the facts presented by a group trying to reform registry laws.

Whatever her name is -- Keeley, Keely, Kelly, Kylie, Kunty, etc., she's still getting a nomination. 

https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2022/11/23/national-organization-works-eliminate-sex-offender-registries/

"Others say that the sex offender registry is a vital tool designed to help people protect themselves. Some sexual assault convictions can lead to a sentence of life in prison. Some who advocate for keeping the registries consider serious sex offenses as malicious and evil as murder, such as Executive Director of Standing Together Against Rape — or STAR Alaska — Keely Olson.

“Child sexual assault, kidnapping, those kinds of things; they’re unclassified felonies and they’re going to be treated akin to a homicide,” Olson said.

STAR Alaska provides free services to survivors of sexual trauma, which they say is a critical component of their recovery. Olson feels sex offender registries are especially important in Alaska.

“Alaska has the highest rates of adult sexual assault in the nation, almost four times higher than any other state in the nation, and it has been the highest in the nation for over 30 years,” Olson says. “For children, the rates of child sexual abuse are six times higher than anywhere else in the nation.”

Sex offender registries serve an important role, providing information so the public can stay informed and be aware of an offender’s location, according to STAR Alaska...

“I think that they don’t take into consideration the lifelong penalty that a survivor pays,” Olson contends, “or the family members of those who do not survive"...

“Regardless of what this group says, they do tend to reoffend,” Olson said. “And when they do reoffend, they tend to reoffend against multiple victims.”

Illinois State Senator Steve McClure: Registrants struggling to find housing under IL's draconian restrictions should just "try harder"

Illinois has a housing crisis and is one of a handful of states that keep homeless registrants incarcerated beyond their sentences. What many don't know is that, as noted on the Illinois State Police website,  "Public Act 094-0161 establishes that the Illinois State Police identify details on the Sex Offender Registration Information website of transitional housing facilities licensed by the Illinois Department of Corrections." But I'll save you a click by posting a screenshot of this list:

And that page I screenshot? It has not had a single place listed for roughly five years!

That is why this exchange between Republican Illinois State Senator Steve McClure and a reporter from Vice News makes my blood boil. I think Mcclure should be sent to prison and not be released until he can find housing that meets residency restriction requirements for Registered Persons.

Reporter: Are siome of these laws just kind of absurd, like, are they actually making people safe or do they just make people feel safe?

Steve McClure: There are a lot of laws and there are some that many could say are a little bit over the top. However, it's all based around the fact that these victims never get to recover from these crimes, and if you commit these crimes you should also have to face consequences for the rest of your life.

Reporter: So in Illinois right now, there are currently over 500 people who are serving time beyond their sentences and that's because there's no housing that meets the requirements. What do you think should be done about the housing problem for people on the sex offense registry?

Steve McClure: I think they have to expand their search to other parts of the state, you know, I mean, if there's a region that they want to live that doesn't meet these requirements, there are plenty of other places in this state--a lot of rural places where they could live if they wanted to.

Reporter: So you don't think there's actually a problem?

Steve McClure: I don't think there's a problem.

Reporter: Why would people be serving time beyond their sentence if there's not a problem, and I mean it costs taxpayers millions of dollars a year.

Steve McClure: It does but I think public safety trumps cost.

Reporter: So you're basically saying you think that people who are looking for housing who aren't finding it need to try harder?

Steve McClure: Yes. 

See Rep. McClure spew his bullshit at 16:25

Santa Rosa Co FL Sheriff Bob Johnson promotes the worst kind of fearmongering after entrapment operation

 “If you have kids out there, under the age of 18, this should scare you to death,” Johnson said. It only goes downhill from here in the interview about his entrapment sting. 

https://www.wkrg.com/northwest-florida/santa-rosa-county/12-arrests-in-florida-child-sex-investigation/

“You should monitor what websites they go to and stay on them,” Johnson said. “They don’t have privacy in your home, they belong to you and if you don’t keep track of what they’re doing, this is what’s coming for them. Scumbags like this. This is all they do. They are looking for little girls and little boys to have sex with and they will travel to do it. You can incarcerate them forever, they can die, or you can cut off a certain appendage. That’s the only way it’s going to get fixed. These guys are predators, and they are coming for your children.”

Mike McDonnell, SNAP Communications Manager, says hearing the term "Minor Attracted Person" is a "slap in the face"

People like Mike McConnell is why I have no respect for professional victim advocates, but it seems many in the anti-registry movement believe she should kiss up to these people. 

SNAP has a history of exploitation it needs to address. Maybe Mikey didn't get the memo because he was apparently too busy getting "gut punched" and "face slapped" by words he does not like. 

It is obvious he thinks everyone who uses the term MAP is a child abuser. 

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/08/prison-sex-therapist-defends-pedophiles-as-minor-attracted-persons-outraging-victim-advocates.html

Advocates for victims of childhood sexual abuse are excoriating a licensed sex therapist with the Commonwealth who is advocating that pedophiles be referred to as “minor-attracted persons.”

Miranda Galbreath, a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections sex therapist and counselor, this week engendered pushback after posting a video on social media seeming to defend pedophiles and calling on them to be referred to as “minor-attracted persons.”

“She is helping to minimize the problem,” said Mike McDonnell, survivor of clergy sexual abuse and a leader of the state Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. “She’s helping to minimize the truth, the depth and the scope and gravity of the crime itself.”

In a YouTube video titled “Let’s talk about minor-attracted persons”, Galbreath said pedophiles were “probably the most vilified population of folks in our culture.”

“The term pedophile has moved from being a diagnostic label to being a judgmental, hurtful insult that we hurl at people in order to harm them or slander them,” Galbreath said. “I also like to use person-first language that recognizes that any label we apply to a person is only part of who they are and doesn’t represent everything that they are.”

PennLive reached out to the Department of Corrections for comment. Press Secretary Maria Bevins indicated she would respond to the inquiry, but had not done so by Friday afternoon.

McDonnell, who was abused by two priests when he was between the ages of 11 and 12 and who has for years advocated for victims of clergy sex abuse, pushed back on Galbreath’s suggestion.

“When I hear the term pedophilia I get a punch in the gut and I have to pay attention because I want to know more about that individual,” said, McDonnell, who testified in the investigation into clergy sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

“I want to know if the community is going to be safe where he or she is going to be allowed to return to after serving time. Minor attracted individual absolutely is a slap in the face to sexual abuse victims globally. We were victimized. We were targeted by predators who had groomed us and who had used us as their bait and as their play. That is the crime and it needs to remain named a crime.”

Galbreath claimed that “many minor-attracted persons never act on their attraction”. She pointed to incorrect assumptions about child sex offenders and referred to them as an “already marginalized population.”

Kristine Zonka of the Brevard Co FL Commission proves ill intent of law by expressing hatred of Registered Persons

The Brevard County Commission in FloriDUH have made their intentions clear with promoting a local ordinance. It is a law based upon pure hatred. 

But since we are in the subject of calling people what they really are, I think "Karen" would be a fitting name. Maybe Kunty. 

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2022/08/08/sex-offender-restrictions-reaffirmed-brevard-county-commission/10235575002/

“I think I have spoken pretty passionately on this item,” Commission Chair Kristine Zonka said. “I just wish people would stop calling themselves registered citizens and call themselves registered sex offenders or registered predators, which is really what they are. They are so proud to be here and demand rights.”

I think Butts Co GA Sheriff Gary Long is still "Butts"-hurt over losing the yard sign case

He's no stranger to the Shiitake Awards, and I think he's still smarting over getting rebuked by the courts over his blatantly unconstitutional yard signs. 

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/ga-sheriff-says-sex-offender-should-spend-rest-his-natural-born-life-caged/5MFB5OODIJATVCQWBGB6ZEJ3VA/

“I am a firm believer in rehabilitation, but a person convicted of committing the act of child molestation, in my opinion, can not, and will not be rehabilitated,” (Sheriff Gary) Long said.

The sheriff showed his disdain for those who victimize children, saying that he believed drug addicts, alcoholics and thieves could be rehabilitated, but not those “capable of victimizing a child.”

Pastor Dillon Awes of Stedfast Baptist Church in Watauga, Texas problaims "all gays are pedophiles" and "should be executed" to protect children

Just in time for "Pride Month," we have another false prophet proclaiming every gay person is a "pedophile" who should be "put to death."

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/texas-pastor-says-gay-people-shot-back-head-shocking-sermon-rcna32748

A Texas baptist church — labeled an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center — has caused outrage after a pastor said gay people should be "lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head."

Pastor Dillon Awes of Stedfast Baptist Church in Watauga, a suburb of Fort Worth, made the comment and other controversial remarks during a Sunday morning sermon titled "Why We Won’t Shut Up."

"I’m angry this morning because our entire country is celebrating the worse sin in the Bible," Awes said during the sermon referring to Pride Month, which commemorates the LGBTQ+ community every June.

"You know a lot of pastors have this stupid idea where it’s just like, 'oh you know God loves everyone. And God hates the sin but loves the sinner.' But people have taken this to such an extreme where they’re saying celebrate the sin, not just tolerate it, celebrate it," he continued. "Let me show what the Bible says about these people."

Awes read several passages from the Bible and condemned homosexuality as a sin. 

At one point, he told the congregation that gay people "are dangerous to society" and said that "all homosexuals are pedophiles." "I’m not saying that every single homosexual that’s alive right now has committed that act with a child already because it could be they haven’t had the opportunity yet and they will at some point later in their life," he said. "This is why we need to put these people to death through the proper channels of the government. ... These people are not normal. They’re not your average everyday sinners. ... They have no hope of salvation."

At certain times during the sermon people from the crowd could be heard cheering in agreement. Awes told the room that he thinks the "solution for the homosexual in 2022" is the death penalty.

"These people should be put to death. Every single homosexual in our country should be charged with a crime. The abomination of homosexuality that they have, they should be convicted in a lawful trial. They should be sentenced with death. They should be lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head," he said.

Marjorie Taylor Green's Twitter meltdown includes claim Republican Senators voting to confirm SCOTUS pick are "pro-pedophile"

 

Marjorie Taylor Green's comptriots include Matt Gaetz (under investigation for sex trafficking with minors) and Lauren Boebert (whose husband was busted for flashing minors but dodged the SOR). So her bold claims just make her look even dumber than she already appears. 

https://news.yahoo.com/susan-collins-says-marjorie-taylor-171053483.html

Susan Collins says Marjorie Taylor Greene calling GOP senators 'pro-pedophile is 'obviously ludicrous' and 'typical’

Nicole Gaudiano

Tue, April 5, 2022, 12:10 PM

Sen. Susan Collins laughed when asked about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene calling her and other Republican senators "pro-pedophile" for supporting Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court.

"Frankly, this is what we've come to expect from her," the Maine Republican told Insider as she left the Senate chamber on Tuesday. "So it doesn't trouble me. It's obviously ludicrous and typical."

Greene's comments came after Republican Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Murkowski of Alaska announced Monday that they would join fellow Collins in voting to approve Jackson's nomination, President Joe Biden's nominee for the vacancy on the court.

"Murkowski, Collins, and Romney are pro-pedophile," the Georgia Republican tweeted. "They just voted for #KBJ."

Greene appears to be referencing criticism from Republican senators during Jackson's confirmation hearing that she was lenient in sentencing for those guilty of possessing child abuse images, but legal experts said the attack is misleading and false.

Critics have interpreted Greene's attack on Twitter as an appeal to the far-right QAnon conspiracy theorist movement, which believes without evidence that Democratic elites run child-trafficking networks. She has been accused of having ties to the movement.

Greene's closest ally in Congress is Rep. Matt Gaetz who is being investigated by federal authorities for whether he engaged in sex trafficking and had a sexual relationship with a minor, which he denies.

Greene also has owned stock in Walt Disney Co., which she has called "pro-child predator" because the company criticized a Florida education law that critics have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

With Collins, Murkowski and Romney joining Democrats in support of Jackson, it means she'll likely get confirmed by the end of this week and become the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

South Carolina State Senator Greg Hembree likens reforming the registry to "playing with live rounds"

At least he didn't quote Lauren Book's "ticking time bombs" shtick, but it is close enough.  

https://www.wspa.com/news/state-news/bill-sets-parameters-for-south-carolina-sex-offenders-to-get-off-registry/

Bill sets parameters for South Carolina sex offenders to get off registry

by: Braley Dodson

Posted: Feb 25, 2022 / 02:57 PM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WBTW) — A proposed bill in the South Carolina Senate would set out guidelines for convicted rapists to petition a court to be removed from the sex offender registry.

The bill is in response to a South Carolina Supreme Court ruling last year stating that it’s unconstitutional for the state to not have a process that would allow sex offenders to be removed from the registry.

The bill was proposed by Sen. Greg Hembree (R-Horry County) on Feb. 16 and remains in the Senate Committee on Judiciary. No other senators are listed as sponsors on the bill.

That judicial ruling, Hembree said, has created a race against time to create a bill.

“The thing that is so dangerous about this — and we are kind of playing with live rounds — is the court says, ‘If you don’t have a law in place at this point, then everybody is going to get put off the sex offender registry,'” Hembree said.

He said that there are “dangerous, scary people” who need to be kept on the registry.

“The clock is ticking against law and order, and in favor of those who would do away with this,” Hembree said.

The deadline to pass a bill is June 9.

Various stakeholders, including prosecutors and public defenders, met to draft the legislation. As an attorney, Hembree said he was a good fit to take up the bill.

Depending on how the offense is categorized, people convicted of sexual offenses can petition a court to get off the registry either 15 or 30 years after their conviction.

The proposed three-tier system of offenses is as follows:

Tier I

Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree

Kidnapping of a person 18 years of age or older, unless the offenses included a criminal sexual offense or an attempted sexual offense

Incest

Buggery

Peeping, voyeurism or aggravated voyeurism

Indecent exposure

Sexual intercourse with a patient or trainee

Administering, distributing, dispensing, delivering or aiding, abetting, attempting or conspiring to administer, distribute, dispense or deliver a controlled substance or gamma hydroxy butyrate to an individual with the intent to commit a crime listed in Section 44-53-370(f) of state code (except petit larceny or grand larceny or any other offense required by Title I of the federal Adam Walsh Child Protection or Safety Act of 2006, the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act)

Tier II

Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree

Engaging a child for sexual performance

Producing, directing or promoting sexual performance by a child

Trafficking in persons, except when it did not include a criminal sexual offense or an attempted criminal sexual offense

Criminal sexual conduct with minors, second degree, if evidence presented at the criminal proceeding and the court makes a finding that the conviction for the offense resulted from a consensual sexual conduct if the offender was 18 years or younger at the time, or there was consensual sexual conduct between persons under the age of 16, the convicted person is not an offender and is not required to register pursuant to the provisions of the article

Criminal sexual conduct with minors, third degree

Criminal solicitation of a minor if the purpose of the solicitation or attempted solicitation was to persuade, induce, entice or coerce the person solicited to engage or participate in sexual activity, or if it was to perform a sexual activity in the presence of the person who was solicited

Tier III

Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree

Criminal sexual conduct with minors, first degree

Criminal sexual conduct: assault with intent to commit

Kidnapping of a person under 18 years of age, except for when the offense is committed by the child’s parent

Criminal sexual conduct when the victim is a spouse

Sexual battery of a spouse

Any Tier III committed after the offender becomes a Tier I or Tier II offender

Under current law, those who are convicted of sexual offenses — and aren’t found not guilty by reason of insanity — are required to be on the registry.

A Tier I offender can petition a circuit court to be removed from the sex offender registry 15 years after they were discharged from jail without supervision, or after their probation, parole or other alternative to incarceration ends.

Tier II and Tier III offenders can apply after 30 years from when they’re released from prison or jail without supervision, or when their supervision, parole or other alternative to incarceration ends.

The court may ask for South Carolina Department of Mental Health to evaluate the offender to see if they post a risk of committing another sex crime.

“The court must make a determination upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence that the offender is no longer a foreseeable risk to re-offend and that it is in the best interest of justice to grant the motion for removal from the requirement of registration,” the bill reads.

If the request to be removed from the registry is denied, then then the person who was convicted has to wait five years to apply again.

If passed, the act would be retroactive.

In South Carolina, those convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct — the highest sexual offense — are sentenced to up to 30 years of incarceration. Second-degree sexual conduct can lead to up to 20 years, and third-degree criminal sexual conduct can come with a sentence of up to 10 years.

In the ruling for the case, Dennis J. Powell vs. the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, Chief Justice Donald Beatty wrote the Powell’s argument that being on the sex offender list for life “is punitive under the Eighth Amendment” and violates Powell’s “rights to due process and equal protection.”

The ruling states that it’s unconstitutional to not have an opportunity for a judicial review to see if an offender would re-offend.

Powell was arrested for criminal solicitation of a minor in February 2008 after having “graphically sexual” conversations on the internet with an undercover police officer posing as a 12-year-old girl. Powell pleaded guilty in 2009 and sentenced to two years in prison, suspended to one year of probation.

Powell completed his probationary sentence, finished outpatient psychiatric treatment and was accessed by two mental health professionals who said he had a low risk of re-offending.

Hembree doesn’t expect his proposal to be the final form of the bill. He’s hopeful it will receive a hearing soon.

“It doesn’t have to be perfect,” he said. “We don’t perfect to be the end of good, here.”

News13 has reached out to the South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault for comment and have not heard back.

American "Accountability" Foundation founder Thomas Jones disses SCOTUS pick because she's skeptical of the sex offense registry

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Biden's pick to replace Justice Breyer on SCOTUS, wrote an article way back in 1996, saying what we all know about the registry -- the registry increases vigilante violence and is punishment as well as bad public policy. 

It seems this right wing nut is triggered by the TRUTH. 

https://www.theblaze.com/news/bidens-pick-for-supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson-once-argued-judicial-system-is-unfair-to-sex-offenders

Biden's pick for Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, once argued judicial system is 'unfair' to sex offenders

Chris Pandolfo, Feb. 25, 2022

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson once argued in an article that the judicial system in America is "unfair" to sexual predators.

Jackson, whom President Joe Biden has nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court, authored an unsigned "Note" for the Harvard Law Review in 1996 calling for judges to change their analytical framework for evaluating the constitutionality of certain state sex offender statutes. She disclosed authorship of the article to the Senate Judiciary Committee after she was nominated to serve as U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia by President Barack Obama in 2012.

In the article, Jackson wrote, "In the current climate of fear, hatred, and revenge associated with the release of convicted sex criminals, courts must be especially atten­tive to legislative enactments that 'use[ ] public health and safety rhetoric to justify procedures that are, in essence, punishment and detention.'"

Her article took issue with how some state legislatures at the time enacted laws to regulate the release of sex offenders. Examples she cited include requirements for sex offenders to register with local law enforcement officials, notify community members of their presence, undergo DNA testing, and submit to civil confinement for an indefinite term.

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"Although many courts and commentators herald these laws as valid regulatory measures, others reject them as punitive enactments that violate the rights of individuals who already have been sanctioned for their crimes," Jackson wrote. "Under existing doctrine, the constitutionality of sex offender statutes depends upon their characterization as essentially 'preventive' rather than 'punitive,' yet courts have been unable to devise a consistent, coherent, and principled means of making this determination."

The article discusses this distinction between "preventive" and "punitive" legislation and criticizes how judges have previously approached the constitutionality of certain sex offender statutes.

"This Note maintains that, even in the face of understandable public outrage over repeat sexual predators, a principled prevention/punishment analysis evaluates the effect of challenged legislation in a manner that reinforces constitutional safeguards against unfair and unnecessarily burdensome legislative action," Jackson wrote.

She argued that judges should not "rely on legislative intent" to determine whether a state sex offender statute violates the Constitution, and she rejected other analytical frameworks established by court precedent at the time.

"Although '[a precise] analytical solution is almost impossible to construct,' this Note suggests that such a principled approach in­volves assessing the impact of sex offender statutes and deeming the laws 'punitive' to the extent that they operate to deprive sex criminals of a legal right in a manner that primarily has retributive or general­ deterrent effects," she wrote in her conclusion.

The note authored by Jackson was unearthed by the American Accountability Foundation, a conservative nonprofit watchdog group that has scrutinized several of Biden's nominees.

“Once again, Joe Biden’s White House has failed in the vetting process by nominating a radical Leftist like Judge Brown Jackson to the highest court in the land,” AAF founder Tom Jones said in a statement. “Americans want our judicial system to protect children and citizens from sexual predators. Judge Brown Jackson’s radical position raises questions on her suitability to serve on the court. Is she more interested in social justice engineering or administering justice?”

President Joe Biden on Friday announced that Jackson will be his nominee to serve on the United States Supreme Court after Justice Stephen Breyer retires this year.

Roxanne Hammond of the Pennington Co (SD) Persecutor's Office makes blatantly false claim before the SD state legislature

If you willfully misrepresent a fact to a legislature, is that not fraud? If so, then why is this isiot prosecutor not being arrested for FRAUD? Especially given she apparently can't even handle her job for long? Lying can be stressful too, Roxanne. 

As an aside, we've never feautured anyone from South Dakota before. 

https://listen.sdpb.org/crime-courts/2022-02-03/bill-disallows-misdemeanor-for-registered-sex-offenders

Roxanne Hammond is a Pennington County prosecutor. She testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier in the session to explain the reasoning behind Senate Bill 77.

“And what we know of sex offenders, what we know of sex crimes, is they are one of the most difficult individuals to rehabilitate,” Hammond said. “And so that’s largely why we have the sex offender registry, to keep tabs essentially on people that are more likely to re-offend.”

Bigoted FloriDUH State Rep. Randy Fine is the first Shiitake Awards nominee for 2022

In case you're trying to figure out which grinning idiot is Randy Fine, it is the dumbass on the right.

I guess I can't expect anything less from a person who calls himself a "conservative Republican" with ethical concerns on race relations, especially one who broke the very cyberbullying law he helped pass. Even his fellow Jewish community is not safe from this man's inane rants. 

Randy Fine? More like Randy SWINE. 

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2022/01/03/homeless-registrants-space-coast-struggle-find-resources-and-shelter/6492934001/

Fine said he imagines sex offenders run into the most issues with housing in terms of renting from private property owners.

“I own an apartment complex, and I do a background check, and I do a criminal check, and I go, ‘this isn’t the sort of person I want to live here,’” he said. “(I) guess it’s a good reason not to be a sex offender.”