CD119: Angel Watch Center

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

News, Government, Politics

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Good news! A new law was signed that creates the Angel Watch Center within the Department of Homeland Security, which will coordinate travel monitoring of convicted sex offenders. In this episode, Jen discusses the new law with Tim Ballard, the Founder and CEO of Operation Underground Railroad, which is an organization dedicated to saving children from international sex slavery. Please support Congressional Dish: Click here to contribute with PayPal or Bitcoin; click the PayPal "Make it Monthly" checkbox to create a monthly subscription Click here to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Mail Contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North #4576 Crestview, FL 32536 Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Bill Outline H.R. 515: International Megan's Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders Creates the Angel Watch Center, which will be a part of the Child Exploitation Investigations Unit of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, within the Department of Homeland Security. The Center will process notifications about individuals trying to enter the United Stets who have committed sex crimes. Information received will immediately be shared with the Department of Justice and some information will shared with other Federal, State, and local agencies at the Center's discretion. The Center will use "all relevant databases and sources of information" to inform other countries if a sex offender plans to visit their country The Center will have to immediately send a correction of any inaccurate information transmitted The Center will notify the Department of State of an individual's sex offender status "when appropriate" for passport application purposes. The Center will create an in-house mechanism for receiving complaints about notifications and forward any complaints about other Federal entities. In response to complaints, the Center must confirm errors in writing, take steps not to repeat them, and inform the individual of the steps taken. The United States Marshals Service National Sex Offender Targeting Center is allowed to also transmit and receive travel information about sex offenders. The Attorney General will collect all data regarding sex offender notifications sent by the National Sex Offender Targeting Center Sex offenders will be required to provide detailed descriptions of their international travel plans to the sex offender registries, including: Dates and locations of departures and arrivals Flight numbers Purpose of travel Sex offenders who fail to report their travel will be subject to fines and possibly ten years in prison. The State Department will issue passports to sex offenders only if they contain "a unique identifier" and may revoke passports that don't include one. The sex offender can get a new passport without the identifier if they are taken off of the sex offender registry. Appropriates $6 million per year from 2017 and 2018 to implement the changes. Sound Clip Sources Hearing: Sex Trafficking Victims, House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Global Human Rights, May 14, 2015. Additional Information Article: Speaker Ryan: Not enough votes for TPP trade deal by Rebecca Kaplan, CBS News, February 11, 2016. Recommended Podcasts Subscribe in iTunes to Slave Stealer with Timothy Ballard of Operation Underground Railroad Episode 20 of The Vibin' Higher Podcast with Trevor Bryant: Interview with Jennifer Briney (Subscribe to Vibin' Higher on iTunes) Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio) Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations

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0:00.0	I am so damn tired of being like to.
0:05.0	I don't think I can't deny it anymore. You can stick to your story if you think it flies but I'm not going to buy it anymore.
0:30.0	Hey friends, thank you for tuning into the 119th episode of Congressional
0:34.8	Dish. I'm your host Jennifer Briny. For those of you who are new to this show
0:38.2	this is a show about Congress, but it's not a show about congressional elections
0:41.6	and it's not a show about campaigns. This is a show about
0:43.7	campaigns this is a show about what actually goes on in the halls of Congress and the laws that are being made and
0:48.2	longtime listeners to congressional dish and even short-term listeners to congressional dish know that the news
0:54.3	coming out of Congress lately is how do I put it mildly, not good. We've seen
0:59.5	Bill after Bill and law after law crafted to benefit wealthy campaign contributors and big
1:04.3	big companies often to the detriment of the rest of us peasants.
1:08.1	And I think that's contributing to this feeling amongst many people, especially young people, that government itself is our problem.
1:15.2	And I say this because people tell me this all the time, it makes me crazy.
1:19.2	And so today, because I need this just as much as anybody after studying the Trans-Pacific Partnership and
1:24.2	Authorization for Limitless War for the past month.
1:26.9	You know, today we're going to get a much-needed reminder that government is not just
1:30.6	something that operates on its own gobbling up our money
1:34.6	and taking our rights away just because it can. In reality government is a tool, one of
1:39.9	the most powerful tools we have to run our society and it can be and often is a force for
1:46.2	good.
1:47.2	So in today's episode you're going to hear about a new law that will help save the lives of children
1:51.8	around the world from the type of horror
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