The Community Room:
Mission and Deeper Purpose The Community Room is a vision of eAdvocate and is a Humanitarian Educational Project, and is not legal advice. The initial phase of the Community Room is to:
Phase-1: Identify the needs of former sex offenders by learning from their daily lives (Gatherng needs from former offenders and their family members);
Phase-2: Develop appropriate responses to needs, and creating a "Topic List (See right side of blog)" so others may learn from them. The former sex offender community is over 700,000 strong according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (2010 figures).
Further, because persons who have committed sex crimes come from all sorts of backgrounds and from every type of industry known to mankind, that community is clearly loaded with talent. The intent of the Community Room is to seek talents from that group, and their family members, to develop responses to the overall group needs;
Phase-3: Identify the Advocates who are addressing issues of former sex offenders, list and provide access to their sites and blogs so visitors may easily find them. Ask Advocates to utilize and assist in developing Community Room resources.
Phase-4: Once Advocates have been identified, review their sites to see if any Resource Guides have already been developed and link to the best of those Guides, giving full credit to those who have developed them;
Phase-5: Once the Community Room "Topic Lists" and links to resources, then newer former offenders -now visitors- may learn from those resources, hence, helping them in their daily lives, and hopefully solve some of their problems; such will reduce recidivism and make society a safer place for all;
Phase-6: Following development of the above (Especially the "Topic List") develop the next phase of the Community Room as laid out in the Community Room goals.
This site is a advocacy central repository of information about sex offender issues, founded under Project Anonymity. Accordingly, we do not reveal any information about visitors or volunteers (See here). The information found on these sites is not "Legal Advice." If anyone needs legal advice, please seek legal counsel where you live, as those lawyers know your local laws best. Our information comes from many folks, professionals and nonprofessionals in many fields, ex-offenders, their friends and family, and research we do on issues and concerns raised.
While our advocacy keeps folks updated, it is intended to be educational for criminal justice and mental health professionals, and public policy decision makers, as well as former offenders, their families and friends. Our mission of education and elimination of sexual abuse is accomplished through our deeper purpose, see below.
The Community Room intent is, to create a respectful environment for understanding and healing, "a Discussion-Safety-Zone for related topics" while preserving our "Visitors' Zones-of-Privacy" and to interact without judgment. Today far too many communities fail to create such safety-zones!
Our deeper purpose centers around the spirit and fundamental meaning of the United Nations, Declaration of Human Rights. We believe laws that have been -and are being enacted- to control former sex offenders, violate both the spirit and intent of the Declaration of Human Rights.
While recognizing past acts of former sex offenders, we do not condone or try to justify them. Their acts are embedded in emotional history. For healing to begin society, victims, the offenders and their families must create an environment conducive to healing and restoration. Such an environment has followed every major war, and today society needs to rebuild itself; creating a LifeAfter Sex Abuses one case at a time.
Unfortunately many folks believe in the hatred, the vindictiveness, the further retribution, the "separate them from us" colonizing the former sex offender; societal relegation. This isolationism -a division of sorts- is precisely what perpetuates abuses. Society fails to recognize this. Today's laws are perpetuating isolationism preventing healing, and eroding fundamental rights of everyone.
Our deeper purpose leans toward exposing myths and misconceptions, and revealing what masks truths about former sex offenders. We foster understanding, promotion of healing and stop the witch-hunting that causes people to isolate, which furthers cycles of abuse.
Society in general, is buried in hatred, and is unaware of what is happening in the name of public safety. The hysteria caused by misinformation about former sex offenders is fueling vigilantism, harassment, protests, media frenzy, and feel-good legislation. This drives the untreated sex offender underground into deeper isolation and triggers cycles of abuse.
Society feels it should, divide and isolate themselves from former sex offenders. However, that act perpetuates abuse cycles. Many psychiatrists and other professionals have recognized this. So our deeper purpose is to show society the errors caused by misinformation, and to integrate former sex offenders into mainstream society, rather than isolate them to a place where sex abuses may occur.
We are a "Human Rights" Advocacy website. Advocating for the former offender's LifeAfter and their "Zone of Associations." They are family, friends, associates, and many others who through life's circumstances cross paths with offenders. Registry and community notification laws collaterally affect them as well.
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Community Room - Legal Disclaimer Unfortunately we now have to get into the legal mumbo jumbo. OK, do I (eAdvocate) support every Advocate's Mission and what they say on their sites and blogs: NO. I simply have not had the time to review the entire content of all Advocate sites, which is the only reason why I cannot broadly say, I agree with their Mission and what they say.
However, with that said, I do support every Advocate's right to take a stance on some topic affecting sex offenses or former sex offenders (past, present, and future) and to respectfully say what they believe, respecting rights of others. As to what Advocates say -on this blog- I have to take responsibility for that, which is why I must reserve the right to not publish something I feel is inappropriate. Libel and Slander issues control my thinking.
Typos will occur and I will strive to fix them when they occur.
Here is where I have a problem: If an Advocate Shouts something in the Community Room, but then says something totally different on their site, I consider that a misuse of the Community Room. Should that occur, I will make adjustments to this CR blog to set the record straight. If I feel it is especially egregious, then, and I hope this never happens, I will no longer post Advocate Shouts for that Advocate. However, this too is not cast in stone, if there is a valid reason why such happened.
NOTHING ON THIS BLOG IS TO BE CONSIDERED LEGAL ADVICE! Only lawyers provide that, so please see a local lawyer and present your issues to him/her.
For now, have a great day and a better tomorrow.
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