What if I setup user groups for each state beneath "Registered" in the ACL? And then refer to that group's access in Kuneau?

I think I finally got it to work correctly !!

In Kunena, I changed the permissions of the categories Alabama through Florida to:
Access Level : Special
User groups ..... to post: Administrator
User groups ..... to reply: Administrator

The user joined a GJ group under Alabama and Arizona. Now when he accesses the Forum index, he gets this:



What do you think about this as a solution????


If state categories already setup in Kunena, GJ will set it up as well. So have to delete manual ones. I kept the manual Alabama category as well as the Alabama category that GJ automatically setup to test with. One was kept at registered. He was still able to see Alabama, so the lower access prevails.
Note: The forum posts he made earlier in states he shouldn't have access, no longer showed up in his profile either, just wiped away.

I was able to accomplish restricting group members to their perspective forums by using these settings:

Changed the permissions of the top categories (states):
Access Level : Special
User groups ..... to post: Administrator
User groups ..... to reply: Administrator

The integration was made when GJ created the Kuneau groups under each state.

Example:
User belongs to 3 groups in 3 different states. When user clicks on Forum Index, only the forums for these 3 groups show up. User posts in all 3 forums. In the user's profile, all 3 posts show up under their Forum tab.

User leaves one of these groups. In the user's profile, the posts made in the group user left are no longer shown under their Forum tab.