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State Cops Admit to Screw Up in Sex Offender Case

By "eAdvocate"

See earlier story 3-18-2011 Illinois: Years after blaming a Shorewood cop for mistakenly placing a Joliet man on the sex offender registry, the state police say it was their fault. A state police employee admitted under oath that her agency screwed up when they mistakenly put a Joliet man on the sex offender registry in 2008. The deposition testimony from Tracie Newton, the supervisor of the state police's sex offender registration unit, contradicts the claims of a state police captain who put the blame squarely on a Shorewood cop who ended up getting sued for the mistake. The state police captain, Scott Compton, denied that his agency bore any responsibility for putting Ibarra on the sex offender registry when asked about the matter in October 2009...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on March 18, 2011 (boomark / email).