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Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies

Sex offenses, sex offender issues in prison, jail, civil commitment and the community including residency laws. Adam Walsh Act, recidivism, dangerousness, tiers, community issues, harassment, vigilantism, sex offender therapy issues.
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Last Entry: May 22, 2013 at 09:42:01

Senate passes legislation allowing Niagara County sex offender restrictions

Posted on May 22, 2013
A closer look, no mention of any problem necessitating this kind of law, so why is it being considered? OH yes, to put a feather in the cap of the Sponsor; look at what I did? These bills cause more problems for local police and many registrants than they provide any kind of safety...

Homeless sex offenders present challenge to police

Posted on May 21, 2013
5-21-2013 New Hampshire: Some address information for offenders not specific Convicted sex offenders are required to keep police informed of their whereabouts, but when sex offenders are homeless, police often need to take extra steps to keep track of them...

Pennsylvania bill would require busing where sex offenders live

Posted on May 21, 2013
You have to question how some lawmakers get elected? 5-21-2013 Pennsylvania: A Pennsylvania lawmaker has introduced a bill that would require schools to provide busing to any of their students if a registered sex offender is living in the district...

Sex offender list closer to stripping job details

Posted on May 21, 2013
5-21-2013 Texas: An online registry of convicted sex offenders in Texas would no longer include employer information under a bill inching closer to Gov. Rick Perry's desk. The House on Monday night gave tentative approval to what advocates say would mark a minor but extraordinary softening of the state's sex offender laws...

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Senator calls for access to more sex offender information

Posted on May 21, 2013
5-21-2013 Massachusetts: In the wake of charges brought in about a horrific child sex abuse case at a Wakefield home day care facility, lawmakers are considering legislation to increase information available on the state?s Sex Offender Registry. Sen...

Colorado mob attacks man falsely thought to be child molester

Posted on May 21, 2013
5-21-2013 Colorado: A group called the American Indian Movement in Pueblo said police weren?t doing enough to solve recent attacks. Residents took matters into their own hands and chased down a man they thought was a child molester, pelting him with rocks and leaving him with a bloody face, police in Colorado said earlier this week...

eAdvocate ALERT: Blog Changes

Posted on May 20, 2013
5-20-2013 National:We are deleting our OLD "Civil Commitment" blog, and replacing it with a newer designed blog titled "Civil Commitment: Sex Offenders+" which covers all 23 jurisdictions that have laws which can commit folks following a prison sentence...

Vote today on new Orlando sex offender ordinance

Posted on May 20, 2013
Vote NO, these ordinances protect no one! 5-20-2013 Florida: ORLANDO -- There may soon be new protections in Orlando to keep sex offenders away from kids. Orlando City leaders are set to vote on a new sex offender ordinance at a city council meeting this afternoon...

Florida funds sex offender database search by school

Posted on May 18, 2013
Another 18K thrown down the drain, a FREE blog could do everything and not soak taxpayers pocketbooks. What a waste of money! Knowing where people sleep for a few hours of a day, does nothing to prevent future sex crimes. 5-18-2013 Florida: Florida Legislature allocates $18K to update FDLE's Sex Offender, Predator database search Change is coming to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's Sex Offender and Predator database following a Local 10 investigation...

Sex offender coaching youth might not be illegal

Posted on May 17, 2013
5-17-2013 Missouri: CLAY COUNTY, Mo. ? It?s possible a registered sex offender accused by Clay County authorities of coaching a youth basketball team in violation of state law may not actually be doing anything illegal. Darin Mason has been on the Missouri sex offender registry for more than a decade and for the past nine years he?s been coaching a youth basketball team in Platte County with apparently no interference from authorities...

Tracking sex offenders in Mississippi

Posted on May 17, 2013
5-17-2013 Mississippi: HINDS COUNTY, MS (Mississippi News Now) - Child molestation, statutory rape, sexual battery, they're all classified as sex crimes. Those convicted will live with their felony record until they die and must remain on the state's sex-offender registry...

LawGuru Question

Posted on May 17, 2013
7-1-2012 Internet: QUESTION: I just moved to a new house. Shortly after moving in, I found out that a previous tenant had been a registered sex offender with his address (now my address) listed. Although the state sex offender registry rightfully has delisted my address, it is still listed on private Internet registries who have not responded to my request to remove my address...

Predatory sex offender not breaking law by living near school

Posted on May 16, 2013
5-16-2013 Oregon: MCMINNVILLE, Ore. ? A man listed as a registered predatory sex offender is living just hundreds of feet from an elementary school. An alert KATU viewer emailed the newsroom, saying Jeffrey Kevin Hanson lived at 936 S.W. Agee in McMinnville...

Melrose legislators lead charge to reform sex offender laws

Posted on May 16, 2013
5-16-2013 Massachusetts: State lawmakers from both political parties are lining up behind bills to allow limited public access to information on Level 1 sex offenders and give the state Sex Offender Registry Board new power to update risk levels assigned to such convicts...

Colorado corrections alerting judges of hundreds of sentencing flaws

Posted on May 15, 2013
5-15-2013 Colorado: Corrections officials are alerting judges throughout Colorado that errors appear to have resulted in early, improper release dates from prison for hundreds of prisoners they sentenced. The judges are reviewing the case files so they can decide which of those already released from incarceration should be returned to prison to serve out the longer sentences required by state law...

Police: Man Reported Near School Was Not a Registered Sex Offender

Posted on May 15, 2013
The registry is behind everyone's suspicions and thoughts! 5-15-2013 Massachusetts: Framingham Police said the man reported by Hemenway PTO parents and mentioned in an alert by the school principal has been confirmed as not a registered sex offender...

SD sex offender accused of illegal petitioning

Posted on May 15, 2013
5-15-2013 South Dakota: RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) ? A South Dakota law prohibiting convicted sex offenders from circulating petitions is being used to prosecute a Rapid City man banned from petitioning on county property more than a year ago. Dallas Krausch, 75, is on the state's Sex Offender Registry because of a conviction for having sexual contact with a 12-year-old girl in Pennington County in 1986...

Jacksonville man mistakenly labeled sex offender on Florida ID

Posted on May 13, 2013
Yes, the situation is upsetting, but when did it become a crime for a "sex offender" to TRY to access a military base? Are sex offenders now barred from watching air shows and the like if on a military base? 5-13-2013 Florida: Man says mistake was devastating, humiliating Andrew Flaherty recently moved to Jacksonville last year from out of state...

Assistant Attorney General Joee Lindbeck says Providence spent $50,000 in one year notifying schools about sex offenders living in the vicinity

Posted on May 12, 2013
5-12-2013 Rhode Island: Rhode Island state law and state Parole Board guidelines say residents in the community must be notified if a Level 2 or Level 3 (moderate or high-risk) sex offender is living in their neighborhood. Notifications are also supposed to be sent to schools, police departments, daycare centers and community organizations that might have contact with the offender...

Rhode Island State Rep. Peter Palumbo says it costs $5,000 to $6,000 to warn Cranston neighbors that a Level 3 sex offender lives in their area

Posted on May 12, 2013
5-12-2013 Rhode Island: hode Island state law requires officials to notify neighbors when dangerous sex offenders move into their community. Under a bill proposed by the attorney general?s office, the responsibility for making those notifications would move from cities and towns to the state...

Fixes to contentious Colorado sex offender treatment system pushed out

Posted on May 12, 2013
5-12-2013 Colorado: Eleven days before he was shot to death, Colorado Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements wrote a letter to the state Senate, pledging to transform the prison's highly contentious sex offender treatment program after an independent report declared it to be poorly run...

New West Virginia law pairs youth sexting ban with education efforts, diversion

Posted on May 12, 2013
5-12-2013 West Virginia: West Virginia has new rules that outlaw sexting by youths. But the state is also trying to pair the rules to education and diversion so that young people learn why it's a bad idea to sext and can fix their mistakes without having to register forever as sex offenders...

Woman, boy found dead after standoff; suspect killed

Posted on May 12, 2013
5-12-2013 New Jersey: TRENTON, N.J. -- The bodies of a woman and a 13-year-old boy were found after a dayslong standoff at a home, and a suspect was killed as officers rescued three children who had been held captive, authorities said Sunday. Police officers went to the South Trenton home Friday afternoon after reports that some of the children hadn't been to school in 12 days...

Judge rules against man in sex-related case

Posted on May 10, 2013
5-10-2013 Wisconsin: A judge has ruled that a registered sex offender wasn?t under arrest during a police interview that resulted in criminal charges, and wasn?t owed an explanation of his rights. Outagamie County Judge Michael Gage ruled this week that statements made by Christopher R...

UPDATE: 3 arrested in murder of sex offender in Meigs County

Posted on May 09, 2013
5-9-2013 Ohio: Law enforcement officials identified the victim as 57-year-old Wallace Chafin of Pomeroy, Ohio. It appears he was stabbed and assaulted, however the exact cause of death has not been released. Three are charged in connection with Chafin's murder: Ryan Cozart of Racine, Ohio who is charged with the murder; Ariel Smith of Portland, Ohio and Sara Craig also of Portland, Ohio are both charged with complicity to commit murder...

SoCal Police's Blood Money

Posted on May 09, 2013
5-9-2013 California: When the DA declines to prosecute bad cops, the only justice families can get is financial Dec. 12, 2010, was a reasonably nice day in Long Beach, hitting a high of 64 degrees. On that late-Sunday afternoon, the streets of Belmont Shore were full of people returning from the beach, shopping or just enjoying the day...

House passes ?2 strikes? child sex offender bill

Posted on May 09, 2013
5-9-2013 Texas: A bill that would deal people convicted of violent sexual crimes against children a lifetime prison sentence is in the Senate after unanimous passage Tuesday in the Texas House. ?This requires a two-strikes-and-you?re-out policy,? said Rep...

Bill requires sex offenders to notify schools

Posted on May 08, 2013
5-8-2013 Wisconsin: The Wisconsin state Assembly has passed a bill requiring registered sex offenders to notify school officials before going onto school grounds. The measure passed Tuesday on a 95-1 vote. Democratic Rep. Fred Kessler, of Milwaukee, was the lone no vote...

Adam Walsh Act ( Level 2 Sex Offender Bill) up for vote on May 7th

Posted on May 08, 2013
Misguided lawmakers thing a registry will stop/prevent crimes. Its time for relection to get them ousted. 5-8-2013 Massachusetts: On Tuesday May 7th at the State House there will be a hearing before the Joint Committee on House Bills H1171, H1174 and H1409 before the Judiciary Committee...

Mother outraged after judge grants custody of daughter to registered sex offender

Posted on May 08, 2013
5-8-2013 Missouri: A mother is outraged and shocked after a judge gives custody of her child to a registered sex offender. The mother of the 10-year-old girl is speaking out only to News 4, heartbroken her child?s biological father will get custody, even though he admitted to committing a brutal sex crime...

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