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APNewsBreak: Feds allow prison phone jamming test

Posted on February 20, 2010
2-20-2010 Maryland:ANNAPOLIS, Md. ? Equipment that jams cell phones will get its first federally sanctioned test inside a prison in Maryland this week, as state officials try to show Congress how the technology can prevent inmates from using the contraband devices to commit crimes, a governor's spokesman said Tuesday...

ACLU objects to subpoena power in Alaska sex offender bill

Posted on February 19, 2010
2-19-2010 Alaska:JUNEAU, Alaska - The ACLU of Alaska is calling a bill that seeks to crack down on sex offenders unconstitutional.The measure would allow the attorney general to subpoena phone, bank and other records that are connected to an Internet account suspected of being used in exploiting children...

Fewer sex offenders in mental health treatment concerning

Posted on February 19, 2010
Assuming the truth of this article, that, longer sentences are placing more SVPs in prison rather than in civil commitment, does that also mean, that, prisons are more sexually dangerous for the general population? Will prison rapes be increasing because of these longer sentences? 2-19-2010 Wisconsin:MADISON (WKOW) -- The number of Wisconsin's most serious sex offenders in secure, mental health

Newberry's sex offender bill moving forward

Posted on February 19, 2010
A similar GPS bill in Massachusetts -also applied retroactively as Newberry's bill is- was declared unconstitutional because it was considered punitive and violated the ex post facto clauses. See Commonwealth -v- Cory and the news item following it.Here we have a lawmaker who is not dealing with reality...

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N.H. House passes bill preventing communities from limiting sex offenders

Posted on February 19, 2010
2-19-2010 New Hampshire:CONCORD ? A bill that would prevent communities from establishing residency restrictions for sex offenders has passed the state House of Representative and is on its way to the Senate.House Bill 1484, which would prohibit any political subdivision of the state from adopting an ordinance or bylaw that restricts the residence of a sex offender or an offender against

Tougher Sex-Offender Bills Die in Committee

Posted on February 19, 2010
2-19-2010 Virginia:Four bills that would have brought tighter restrictions on registered sex offenders died in a House committee this week. The bills would have prohibited registered sex offenders from living within 500 feet of a child daycare center or school, from entering onto the property of a daycare center at any time and from being within 100 feet of a children?s museum...

Man trying to get name off sex offender list

Posted on February 18, 2010
2-18-2010 Michigan:A former Monroe restaurant owner who served time in jail for showing pornographic videos to teenaged employees is trying to have his name removed from the sex offender registry list. The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a Monroe County judge should re-address the registry issue involving Jeffrey M...

Newberry's sex offender bill moving forward

Posted on February 18, 2010
Here we have a lawmaker who is not dealing with reality. First, every GPS vendor will tell you that, GPS DOES NOT PREVENT CRIME! Gps merely keeps track of where the wearer goes, and either -real time- or -at the end of the day- tells the state where the wearer has gone...

Sex offender agency faults Megan's Law drawbacks

Posted on February 17, 2010
2-17-2010 California:SACRAMENTO ? California's free-swinging approach to laws aimed at sex offenders has made thousands of them homeless, bloated the parolee database and spawned costly programs with little evidence they make residents safer, according to members of a state board that recommended several changes Tuesday...

Prison Wives Premiers Tonight Wednesday 2-17-2010

Posted on February 17, 2010
Prison Wives Premieres Tonight at 10pm CLICK for VideoMeet the wives:See why they stay:

Davidson sheriff to use new technology to track registered sex offenders

Posted on February 16, 2010
What a sham and waste of taxpayer money. It appears there is a sucker born every minute. Some folks in Tennessee are having a problem distinguishing between the meaning of "Identification" and "Tracking." Irish scanning can only identify it cannot track offenders...

House lawmakers show support for $1B-plus bill, with key funding for sex offender treatment center

Posted on February 16, 2010
2-16-2010 Minnesota:The Minnesota House kicked its public works funding proposal to more than $1 billion Monday, adding a facility for 400 sex offenders. ST. PAUL ? The Minnesota House kicked its public works funding proposal to more than $1 billion Monday, adding a facility for 400 sex offenders...

How does a state gets around ex post facto concerns to enact Halloween restrictions?

Posted on February 16, 2010
2-16-2010 Tennessee:Two Tennessee lawmakers, thinking themselves very shrude, have introduced bills which effectively places certain registered sex offenders under arrest on October 31 of every year of their registered term. Here is the summary of Senate Bill 3290 / House Bill 3181:"This bill requires that any sexual offender whose primary or secondary residence is in Tennessee or who is a

Psychiatrists want to call being angry a mental illness. How utterly mad!

Posted on February 16, 2010
2-15-2010 United Kingdom:Do you live surrounded by clutter - ancient copies of magazines, your children?s old toys, articles you?ve clipped out of newspapers over the years? If you find it hard to throw out things of limited or no value, you could be suffering from hoarding disorder...

Sex-offender treatment facility could soon release some offenders

Posted on February 16, 2010
2-16-2010 Minnesota:Shannon Fiecke of the Shakopee Valley News reports: As Scott County tries to civilly commit a seventh resident to the state?s sex-offender treatment facility, it is preparing to possibly take one back. The county has been told it might receive one of the first waves of patients ever to be released from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program...

Sex Offender Confinement Poses Tough Questions

Posted on February 16, 2010
2-16-2010 Connecticut:Post-prison treatment programs get constitutional scrutinyIn December, an anonymous veteran corrections officer in Connecticut wrote a letter to state officials voicing his concern over the then imminent release of Brian Wright, who has been in prison the past 25 years for sexual assault...

Deaths of 24 Unnamed Former Offenders

Posted on February 16, 2010
2-16-2010 Minnesota:Today we have recognized another sex offender law that is causing the deaths of offenders: Civil Commitment LawWhile it is not possible to know the names of these offenders, we do know they have died under this law. Taken from "Locked in Limbo - Part-1" is the following:MOOSE LAKE -- In the 14 years since Minnesota's Sexually Dangerous Persons Act cleared the way for the

Officials concerned about protecting youngsters from predators in child welfare system

Posted on February 15, 2010
2-15-2010 Illinois:Spotlight on female workers in wake of recent allegationsFour times recently adult women have been investigated on allegations of sexually abusing some of the state's most vulnerable teen boys? those living in child welfare facilities where they were seeking treatment for abuse, neglect or behavioral problems...

'Sexting In America: When Privates Go Public' Explores Pitfalls Of Sexting

Posted on February 15, 2010
2-15-2010 National:MTV News special told the stories of teens burned by sharing nude photos.What seems like an innocent, flirtatious teenage gesture ? sending an explicit picture of yourself to a boyfriend ? could land you in way more trouble than you might imagine...

Low-Risk Sex Offender Harassed

Posted on February 15, 2010
When lawmakers enact a law and apply it -retroactiively- causing cases such as this, it amounts to nothing more than Vigilantism by Lawmakers. Playing "God over lives," as lawmakers do with retroactive laws, is no more than a lawmakers abusing his public office...

Boise Police Officers Taser Man on Buttocks, Threaten to Rape Him With Taser, and Then Claim No Fault in Modest Settlement

Posted on February 15, 2010
2-15-2010 Idaho:We previously followed the case of Gerald Amidon, who sued the Boise police department for allegedly threatening to sodomize him with a taser and using excessive force in his arrest, including tasering him on the buttocks. He has now settled for only $150,000 and, despite a highly disturbing tape of the incident, the police department is able to claim no fault as part of the

Bill protects employers of sex offenders

Posted on February 15, 2010
2-15-2010 Virginia:RICHMOND ? A bill making headway in the General Assembly seeks to protect employers of sex offenders by not listing the name of the offender?s workplace on Virginia?s Sex Offender Registry.Senate Bill 635, sponsored by Sen. Dave Marsden (D-Burke), would still list a sex offender?s work address...

New law would dictate where child predators could live

Posted on February 15, 2010
2-15-2010 Virginia:Del. Clifford "Clay" Athey (R-Front Royal), recently introduced a bill to the 2010 session of the Virginia General Assembly which would greatly restrict where child predators could live. Athey says the measure is necessary ?to protect the most vulnerable citizens...

Not just guilty or innocent

Posted on February 14, 2010
2-14-2010 National:Two recent Alford pleas raise questions on exactly how this legal move worksIt is a legal curly-que of sorts and it has happened twice in Lawrence County within the last 30 days: A man walks into court and agrees to surrender his freedom, while still maintaining he didn?t do what they allege he did...

Bill further restricts sex offenders

Posted on February 14, 2010
While the points made by RSOL are valid that is not how one fights such legislation. "Woe is me," type arguments get nowhere. Apparently proximity laws are currently in effect, and the intent is to expand them, so one must ask WHY? Has there been a increase in crime? Has there been some other problem with current proximity laws? If none are true why is this necessary, laws are not made "just

Mansfield: Is sex offender reputation bad for business?

Posted on February 14, 2010
2-14-2010 Ohio:MANSFIELD -- Ashland has attracted a string of big-name investments lately, including shaving cream maker Barbasol. That town up the highway has done this even as a legacy business in Mansfield -- General Motors -- hits the road.As it happens, Ashland County also has fewer felony sex offenders -- about a third the number, proportionately, that live in Richland County...

Neighbors: 'He Only Came Out When the Kids Came Out of School'

Posted on February 14, 2010
2-14-2010 Florida:ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- Directly across the street from the home FBI agents searched Thursday, a "for sale" sign points to frustration. "I moved out of here because of this," said neighbor Sandra Russell.Russell and her sister Connie Torres moving because they say Jarred Harrell who had lived in the house that was searched, scared them...

Parole logs shed light on 18-year-old mystery

Posted on February 13, 2010
2-13-2010 California:It took nearly a year for state parole agents to account for the fact Phillip Garrido was a sex offender. By then, in 2000, the first California parole agent to supervise him had recommended his discharge from a lifetime parole term from Nevada, and seemed to want him off his caseload...

Sex offenders face housing limits in Oklahoma

Posted on February 13, 2010
2-13-2010 Oklahoma:Budget restraints have officials at the state Corrections Department considering eliminating the agency?s prison sex offender treatment program. Department spokesman Jerry Massie said this means community-based treatment will be needed more than ever to keep sex offenders from committing more crimes...

Attorney General's Office: No Indication Harrell Was Connected to Somer Case

Posted on February 13, 2010
2-13-2010 Florida:Florida's Attorney General's office says Clay County authorities made no effort to fast-track the child porn investigation of the man now named as a person of interest in the kidnapping and killing of Somer Thompson.The Clay County Sheriff's Office was made aware of possible child pornography on a computer owned by Jarred Harrell, 24, on August 10th...

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