From The Admin Team

The Administrative Team continues to meet by telephone approximately every month, including its new member Robin Vanderwall.  Jane Cantral has not yet joined the meetings due to her health problems, but we hope to have her on the next call.    

The most important activity of June was of course the generally successful RSOL national conference on lobbying in Washington, DC, June 26-28.  Despite some problems with organization of the conference, and perhaps a lack of coordination in lobby efforts until the last minute, the extreme heat in DC at the time and an unairconditioned site, as well as a lack of national media coverage,  over 80 people attended the conference from 23 states and the District of Columbia.  People generally praised the  terrific speakers at the conference.  The DC Planninig Committee is to be congratulated for a hard job, mostly well done!  We are determined to do better next time.   The DC Planning committee included Dolley and James Madison of Ohio RSOL, Donna and Dennis Conlin of Missouri, Lloyd Swartz of New Mexico, Brenda of Maryland, Thomas of Maryland, Kelly Piercy and Paul Shannon - all of whom did incredible amounts of work with little time and few resources.  The conference has accrued a considerable debt, and RSOL is appealing yet again for contributions to cover this.

Members of the Admin Team are ALL busy in other functions:

Kelly Piercy  is a whirlwind of activity, despite his own health problems -  he leads one of RSOL's most dynamic state groups, Georgians for Reform, and also edits the rsolcc.org e-Magazine which publishes the monthly rsol digest.  Somehow he also managed to MC and otherwise orchestrate the recent RSOL national conference in Washington.

Mary Sue Molnar likewise has many hats - she is coordinator of Texas Voices, another of RSOL'S dynamic groups (http://www.txvoices.com). and she also attended the DC conference.

Marshall Burns continues to add material to the RSOL research site, solresearch.org.  He also just completed an amazing 6-week barnstorming trip across the US, visiting RSOL members and other sex offenders and families in many states, as he headed for the DC conference.  He has video footage, which he'll edit (after getting permissions for use) and eventually let us post on the rsol site.

Paul Shannon, of course, continues as the Pillar of Wisdom - having attended the RSOL conference despite the serious illness of his dear friend and companion.

Robin Vanderwall, the newest member, continues to organize the RSOL minutemen, and works in many other ways with RSOL.

Alain Levesque, manages somehow to contiinue organizing more than 30 state groups, and he, too, came all the way down from his Canadian home to the conference

Joel Pentlarge also attended the conference, coming down from Boston, where he heads the Mass. rsol group, Massachusetts Citizens Working for Reform.  As a former attorney, he monitors recent sex-offender-law court decisions for RSOL.

The Admin Team expects to have a conference call in early July.  Please send agenda items and questions to Alex Marbury, alexm60@fastmail.fm