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::We may still have the chance to stop this piece of legislation. I know HR 515 passing Congress hit everyone hard, but we cannot stop fighting. I am asking you to send a note directly to the president asking him to use his veto powers. (Josh Gravens  - [[RSOL]], US, February 4, 2016)<!-- Added 2-5-16 -->
::We may still have the chance to stop this piece of legislation. I know HR 515 passing Congress hit everyone hard, but we cannot stop fighting. I am asking you to send a note directly to the president asking him to use his veto powers. (Josh Gravens  - [[RSOL]], US, February 4, 2016)<!-- Added 2-5-16 -->


*[http://nationalrsol.org/blog/2016/02/02/international-megans-law-passes-with-no-opposition/ International Megan’s Law passes with no opposition]
::The discussion in the U.S. House pertinent to [[International Megan's Law]] has ended with a vote to pass the resolution; it will now go to the [[International Megan's Law action alert|President for his signature]]. Ten legislators spoke in favor of the bill. (Sandy - [[RSOL]], US, February 2, 2016)<!-- Added 2-2-16 -->
*[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/3/bill-to-mark-sex-offender-passports-raises-ire-of-/ Bill to mark sex offender passports raises ire of criminal justice advocacy group]
*[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/3/bill-to-mark-sex-offender-passports-raises-ire-of-/ Bill to mark sex offender passports raises ire of criminal justice advocacy group]
::A criminal justice advocacy group is prepared to sue the federal government if President Obama signs into law a measure requiring child-sex offenders to be identified as such on their passports — a move they say is as hypocritical for a president pushing for broad criminal justice reform. (Andrea Noble  - The Washington Times, US, February 3, 2016)<!-- Added 2-4-16 -->
::A criminal justice advocacy group is prepared to sue the federal government if President Obama signs into law a measure requiring child-sex offenders to be identified as such on their passports — a move they say is as hypocritical for a president pushing for broad criminal justice reform. (Andrea Noble  - The Washington Times, US, February 3, 2016)<!-- Added 2-4-16 -->

Revision as of 13:51, 9 February 2016

We may still have the chance to stop this piece of legislation. I know HR 515 passing Congress hit everyone hard, but we cannot stop fighting. I am asking you to send a note directly to the president asking him to use his veto powers. (Josh Gravens - RSOL, US, February 4, 2016)
The discussion in the U.S. House pertinent to International Megan's Law has ended with a vote to pass the resolution; it will now go to the President for his signature. Ten legislators spoke in favor of the bill. (Sandy - RSOL, US, February 2, 2016)
A criminal justice advocacy group is prepared to sue the federal government if President Obama signs into law a measure requiring child-sex offenders to be identified as such on their passports — a move they say is as hypocritical for a president pushing for broad criminal justice reform. (Andrea Noble - The Washington Times, US, February 3, 2016)
After rousing themselves from the 30-plus-year bad trip that was the war on drugs — or rather, the war on drug users — many Americans in and out of elected office looked around for someone else to persecute. Someone, somewhere, must be so depraved and hateful that liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans could join in common cause to vilify them. (The Times Editorial Board - Los Angeles Times, US, February 3, 2016)
Albuquerque, N.M.— Reform Sex Offender Laws, Inc. is disappointed that the U.S.House of Representatives ​concurred with HR 515​ as amended by the Senate on February 1​. HR 515 will require, for the first time in the history of the United States, the addition of “unique​identifiers”… (Sandy - RSOL, US, February 3, 2016)
The discussion in the U.S. House pertinent to International Megan’s Law has ended with a vote to pass the resolution; it will now go to the President for his signature. Ten legislators spoke in favor of the bill.
(Sandy - RSOL, US, February 2 2016)
It took a miracle, a miracle in the form of a blizzard in Washington, D.C., to slow down Congress’ consideration of HR 515, the International Megan’s Law bill. Prior to the blizzard, the bill was on a fast track to a speedy vote under a “suspension of the rules” which would have ruled out any discussion or debate of this historic and misguided legislation.
(Janice - CA RSOL, US, January 26, 2016)
Say you slept with your girlfriend when you were a senior in high school and she was a freshman. That’s enough to get you labeled a sex offender in some states. (Lenore Skenazy - New York Post, US, January 6, 2016)
David Post has a new column in The Washington Post about the limitations and dangers of the brand-new (and little-known) International Megan’s Law making its way through Congress. The law would place a badge on all US passports of anyone previously convicted of a sex crime involving a minor. Post... (Andrew Extein - CSJ, US, January 7, 2016)
When I was growing up, in a Jewish family in Brooklyn in the 1950s, Hitler and the Holocaust were common subjects of conversation in my household. Though at the time it all seemed like…
(David Post - RSOL, US, January 7, 2016)
The International Megan's Law bill now before Congress/ a systematic effort to erode the foreign travel rights of American “registered sex offenders. (News article, David Kennerly)
See also: “HOMELAND SECURITY'S” ASSAULT ON TRAVEL and DEAD END: The International Megan's Law's Assault on Everyone's Freedom of Travel
Save U.S. taxpayers $12,000,000 and do not fund HR 515, International Megan's Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders.
The International Megan's Law to Prevent Demand for Child Sex Trafficking, also known as the International Megan's Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders, H.R. 515, is a bill that would require the notification of foreign governments when an American registered as a sex offender of children is going to be traveling to their country.