Another Successful NARSOL Conference Completed
NARSOL has completed its 2025 conference, its 17th consecutive one. It was a wonderful conference. So many thanks go to our conference committees; our attendees, both in-person and livestream; our speakers and workshop presenters; the hotel and its staff; our law enforcement and security teams; and our opposition, who have given us the opportunity to show what we are made of and that we will NOT go away!
Speeches and presentations were of the high quality that is expected at
NARSOL conferences, beginning with Guy Hamilton-Smith’s kick-off speech on Friday morning, through Joshua Hoe’s Saturday night awards banquet speech, concluding with Danielle Bailey’s brilliant presentation Sunday morning.
Conference attendees—both in-person and livestream—may watch any presentation given in the main room again by using your original identification. As soon as possible, those presentations and also many of the others will be available to everyone for viewing on NARSOL’s YouTube channel.
At the awards banquet, the most prestigious award, the Paul Shannon Lifetime Achievement Award, went to Pat Borden of AZRSOL. Pat graciously accepted it on behalf of not only herself but also her family and the Arizona organization.
This successfully completed conference sends a message: We are here; we are still here; we will continue to be here.
NARSOL not only stands for National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws. NARSOL stands for an organization that expects those who have caused harm to accept responsibility for that harm. NARSOL then stands with them as they navigate life on a sex offender registry. We will fight:
- for their dignity and respectful treatment;
- that their constitutional rights are not violated by law enforcement or legislation;
- for their protection from vigilantism, both physical violence and online intimidation;
- for removal of impediments to their rehabilitation;
- for policy and legislative decisions that are grounded in solid research.
This 2025 conference in Atlanta has been a “second chance” conference, and in summing up what NARSOL stands for and what it fights for on behalf of those we represent, is that not it? Both the ability and the right to seek and to be granted an attainable second chance.
