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Posting #29 –The State Police Sex Offender Task Force Representative at the 2009 General Assembly

By:RSOL of Virginia
Date:  01/29/2009

Delegates Cline, Athey, Poindexter, Gilbert and Shuler,

Good afternoon.

After this mornings meeting of the House Sub-Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety, I returned home to inform my husband (who had to leave early for work) of the outcome.

We’d like to know……. Is there no legal requirement for a witness/spokesperson in a sub-committee vote to be truthful?

I was appalled that the Virginia State Police Sex Offender Task Force Representative was at best idealistic and at worst an out and out liar.

We request that you have an aide check the Virginia State Police web-site today, for the information that the representative claimed is available on the site. Your aide will discover that none of the information regarding restrictions and regulations including the new 2008 laws is anywhere listed.

We also request that you have an aide visit two or more State Police barracks and ask for the registration handout; they will find there is no hand-out that informs the registrant to what they can and can not do.

We also request that you ask for a copy of the so-called letter that was mailed out in July 2008 to every offender in the state to inform them of the new laws, as we contest it does not exist.

In fact once you have verified that the State Police Sex Offender Task Force Representative mis-lead all of you when he stated that the much needed information is already on their web-site, that they have a hand-out for people registering and re-registering, that a hand-to is given during the home visits and that there was a mass letter sent out in July 2008, he should be relieved of his position.

He represents a Task Force that you rely on for factual information and he in fact is a completely unreliable source.

From the very beginning (May 2008) everything I have shared and asked of the Delegates and Senators of Virginia as a wife and now as the organizer of the RSOL of Virginia is the complete truth.
We believe that  by supplying  you with documented facts and only the truth, will the new laws and revisions to existing laws make this a just and safe state.

I also understand that by your definition of your job, you need to believe that everyone listed on the Virginia Sex Offender Registry is guilty by definition, but reality would dictate otherwise. Our system is not perfect.

I was offended by the committees multiple references to all registered sex offenders being predators who are continually looking for a new victim and are unable to ever be rehabilitated.

Those comments prove that you are not voting based on facts, but opinion.

We look forward to a bill in 2010 that will provide the necessary Dissemination of Information that HB2225 and HB2511 would have done.

Thank you.

RSOL of Virginia Organizers

 

1st Response to Posting #29

From:  Ellen
Date:  01/29/2009

Dear Mr. Cline,
This morning in the Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee meeting you had a representative from the State Police Sex Offenders Registry. I             would like to get a copy of the handout and web link that he mentioned in this meeting. Can you give me his contact name? I have gone to the Sex Offender web link and I don’t see the information that he referenced.

Thank you,
Ellen

 

From:  Ellen
Date:  02/03/2009
                               

Dear Lt. ________,

Ben Cline’s office called me and gave me your name and office phone number. Del Cline’s office was not able to provide me with the sex offender’s rules and regulations handout that you mentioned in your presentation on Jan. 29; although they had attempted to secure same from your office. Your secretary told me that she, too, did not know “where to begin” to look for that. She advised me to email you directly.

If you would be so kind as to respond to this request for the hand out I would be appreciative. I have already researched same on the sex offender’s web site and that document does not exist there.

I am interested in staying abreast of this type of information.
Your attention to my request would be greatly appreciated.   

Regards,
Ellen

 

From:  Lt.  ________ Virginia State Police Sex Offender Task Force
Date:  02/03/2009

Ellen,

Thank you for your recent Internet message.  The document that you are looking for is located on our State Police website in the publication section.

I have included a link to the location of all State Police Publications:                                 http://www.vsp.state.va.us/FormsPublications.shtm as well as a link to the document you have requested:                                                                                                                             http://www.vsp.state.va.us/downloads/Sex_Offender_Selected_Acts_2008.pdf

This publication reflects all of the significant changes that affected registered sexual offenders as a result of the 2008 Virginia General Assembly.  As I indicated in the committee, we are going to also add a link  
to this publication in the Registry’s website.

Feel free to contact me or the Sex Offender Helpdesk (804) 674-2825

 

From:  Ellen
Date:  02/03/2009
Lt _________,

Do you have something in layman terms that an average person can understand? Maybe something like this:

Offense: Residence within x.ft of y
Consequence: abc...

Ellen

 

From:  Lt.  ________ Virginia State Police Sex Offender Task Force
Date:  02/04/2009

Ellen,

No we don’t.  As you know registration requirements and prohibitions are offense and conviction date specific.  This would require the re-statement of what exists in the Code of Virginia.  However, based on the comments of the sub-committee, we are going to review the information that we have available to an offender.

If you have a particular scenario that causes you concern, please feel free to contact me or the Sex Offender Helpdesk.

 

In summary

By:  RSOL of Virginia
Date:  02/05/2009

During the January 29 sub-committee meeting the Lt. told the committee all of this information was available on the web-site, handed out during re-registration, handed out during the in-home visits and that a mass letter went out to all the registered in July 2008 advising them of the new laws. But when asked to provide this “already available” information, the Lt. can not do it. Because of the Lt’s. mis-leading information to the sub-committee proposed bill HB 2551 was deemed unnecessary and failed to be passed.