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O'Malley activates sex offender advisory board

Posted on January 27, 2010
1-27-2010 Maryland:Governor plans to reconstitute panel that never metGov. Martin O'Malley has activated the state's dormant Sexual Offender Advisory Board - a decision that comes after state lawmakers learned this month that the board they created four years ago never met and failed to produce a required report on the state's sex offender policies...

Swimming pool users banned from showering naked 'in case children are offended'

Posted on January 26, 2010
1-26-2010 United Kingdom:Swimmers have been banned from showering naked at their local pool - in case they offend children.Bathers have been told to keep their swimming costumes on while using the showers following complaints from local schools that pupils were offended by 'open nudity' and needed 'a certain amount of privacy...

O'Malley Vows To Crack Down On Child Sex Offenders

Posted on January 26, 2010
1-26-2010 Maryland:Governor Martin O'Malley wants to crack down on child sex offenders. New legislation introduced Monday would keep them under surveillance for life. Political reporter Pat Warren explains this is only one of several pieces of legislation being considered this session...

Boys who watch porn 'think sexual harassment is acceptable'

Posted on January 26, 2010
1-26-2010 United Kingdom: Boys who look at porn grow up to be men who think sexual harassment is acceptable, a new study has found. Research into pornography in a dozen countries found that boys who are exposed to pornography found it more difficult to form successful relationships when older, while they were more likely to have casual sexual intercourse...

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Judge denies bail for Desert Hot Springs man suspected of killing sex offender

Posted on January 26, 2010
1-26-2010 California:A judge today denied bail for a self-avowed white supremacist accused of using California's Megan's Law registry to track down and kill a convicted sex offender.Steven Banister, 28, of Desert Hot Springs, faces a first-degree murder charge in the Aug...

Pervert in court over cartoon porn

Posted on January 26, 2010
1-26-2010 Australia:AN IPSWICH man has admitted downloading graphic cartoon porn images featuring child characters from The Simpsons and The Powerpuff Girls TV shows.The 28-year-old is now a registered sex offender and will have to report to police after pleading guilty in Ipswich District Court to having the bizarre images on his computer...

Inmate charged with murdering fellow inmate

Posted on January 26, 2010
1-26-2010 Georgia:VALDOSTA, GA (WALB) ?Authorities have now charged a Valdosta State Prison inmate with murdering a fellow inmate.Anthony Rogers is accused of killing John Arnett last Wednesday night (1-20-2010) at the Prison.Rogers is already serving a life sentence for a 1997 Murder in Savannah...

Sex Offenders After Prison: Any Place to Call Home?

Posted on January 26, 2010
1-26-2010 National:States are required to keep tabs on registered sex offenders. That means states need to be informed about where sex offenders live and where they've found a place to call home.For example, California's Megan's Law requires law enforcement agencies to track where sex offenders live and provide community notifications...

Man escapes lifetime sex offender probation through legal loophole

Posted on January 26, 2010
1-26-2010 Arizona:A man who was convicted of attempted molestation of a child under the age of 15 and sexual abuse was released from serving a lifetime sex offender probation term Dec. 16 due to a legal loophole.Ronald Glen Marble, 59, of Safford was charged in 1994 with one count of molestation of a child under the age of 15 ? a class-2 felony ? and one count of sexual abuse ? a class-5 felony.

Follow any website in Google Reader

Posted on January 26, 2010
Follow changes to any website Monday, January 25, 2010 by Brian Shih At Google we're always looking for ways to take advantage of work being done in other parts of the organization. So when a team approached us with a way to follow changes from websites without feeds, we jumped at the opportunity...

Woman accused of attacking MySpace acquaintance pleads guilty to sex charge

Posted on January 26, 2010
Hark, do I hear lawmakers trying to make MySpace a safer place for adults? No, I wonder why? Could it be because a case like this gets them no votes to keep them in office (the real goal of sex offender laws). 1-26-2010 Ohio:DAYTON ? A woman accused of sexually assaulting another woman she met through the MySpace social networking website will be sentenced Feb...

Sex offender tries to hide status on driver's license

Posted on January 26, 2010
Except for the fact that this happened in Florida, I cannot see how they can criminalize his action, assuming he placed a red marker over a portion of the words on the license. Once a license is issued, the physical license is OWNED by the person it is issued to; it is private property...

Bill would expand registry data

Posted on January 26, 2010
Talk about DUMB LAWS, this is the worst I have ever seen: A law to require LINKS to other state registries (49 states) so folks can check all 49, for what? None of them would say he is about to kill a child! This guy (if he is the killer of this little girl) was already registered in Maryland, how would LINKS to other state registries have prevented her death? This lawmaker gets the award for

Ruining Kids in Order to Save Them

Posted on January 25, 2010
1-25-2010 National:The boneheaded logic behind treating "sexting" teens as child pornographers.That the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals would even need to hear oral arguments in the case of Miller, et al. v. Skumanick last week is a pretty good indication that law enforcement officials in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania have lost their collective minds...

Be Neighborly: Get to Know Your Local Sex Offenders

Posted on January 25, 2010
1-25-2010 Oklahoma:You get a flyer in your mailbox: There's a sex offender two blocks away. My God -- your kids pass his house every day! What should you do?Well, he's your neighbor. Be neighborly. Pay a call."With another adult, go to this gentleman's home and visit with him...

Proposed expansion of sex offender facility raises questions

Posted on January 25, 2010
1-25-2010 Minnesota:St. Paul, Minn. ? A proposed expansion of the Moose Lake sex offender facility is raising questions about the state's civil commitment policy. Legislators are considering an $89 million bonding bill request that would double the capacity of a sex offender treatment program...

State High Court Asked To Denounce TV Campaign Ad

Posted on January 25, 2010
1-25-2010 Wisconsin:MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Wisconsin?s chief public defender wants the State Supreme Court to denounce a TV ad Justice Michael Gableman ran in his election campaign 2 years ago. The court has been asked to decide if Gableman violated the state?s judicial code in running the ad ? which attacked incumbent Justice Louis Butler who was defeated...

Court adjourns case against young Pittsfield Township sex offender until February

Posted on January 25, 2010
1-25-2010 Michigan:An attorney for a young man accused of living near a school after being convicted of having sex with an underage high school girlfriend plans to review video of his client?s 2003 guilty plea.That's the latest step as the attorney investigates a school safety zone residency violation levied against Matthew Freeman, 23, of Pittsfield Township...

Quasi-governmental missing kids center enjoys key exemptions from federal rules

Posted on January 25, 2010
1-25-2010 National:In many ways, the National� Center for Missing and Exploited Children is a quasi-government agency.Mandated by Congress, the center has access to the FBI's missing, wanted and unidentified persons files. It operates tip lines for the Justice Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

Virtual Sexual Assault?

Posted on January 25, 2010
1-25-2010 National:On Monday, Australia's Daily Telegraph reported that a woman had been the victim of an "online sexual assault" while playing the Playstation game, Home.The story broke after her roommate complained on the game's online forum: "This morning I learned that my roommate was sexually assaulted near the Festive Tree ...

No place for vigilante justice

Posted on January 25, 2010
1-25-2010 Florida:VIGILANTE justice, in whatever form it takes, should never be condoned.The actions of one ? or several ? people in the hinterland town of Beerwah over the past couple of days should be condemned by everyone living in the area.The flyers distributed around the town, pinpointing the name and address of a man charged with a child sex offence, were rightfully quickly taken down by

Man cleared of 1981 rape wins $7.5 million settlement

Posted on January 25, 2010
1-25-2010 Kansas:MANHATTAN, Kan. | An attorney for a man who spent 10 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit says his client wants his case to make a difference and improve the quality of justice in the state.Eddie James Lowery was convicted in 1981 of raping an Ogden woman...

Voters may ?regulate? sex offenders

Posted on January 25, 2010
Even constitutional amendments cannot violate the constitution. So, this lawmakers -like a child who doesn't get his way- ought to be careful because there are other constitutionals provisions whiuch would have to be rewritten as well, and that could change many things for many people...

Fake electrocution of prisoner detailed in internal Corrections Department report

Posted on January 24, 2010
1-24-2010 New Jersey:One week before Javier Tabora?s release from the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel, a specialized prison for sex offenders, he was summoned to an examination room.Once there, Tabora later told investigators, a sergeant instructed him to sit in an electronic chair used to scan inmates for contraband and pretend to be electrocuted...

Inmate killed at Pendleton facility

Posted on January 24, 2010
1-24-2010 Indiana:PENDLETON ? The Pendleton Correctional Facility was put on lockdown Saturday afternoon after an inmate fatally stabbed another inmate, according to authorities.The prison said in a press release that Charles L. Jackson, 52, was stabbed at about 1:30 p...

Elderly sex offender dies in civil commitment

Posted on January 23, 2010
Public hysteria prevented his release, even though he had met the requirements of law. While old age had set in, I wonder if he would have received better medical care outside of civil commitment? 1-8-2010 Wisconsin:A Milwaukee County sex offender who made headlines for multiple bids to leave civil commitment has died in state custody...

Fed. judge addresses challenges to statutes

Posted on January 23, 2010
1-23-2010 Nebraska:On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Kopf consolidated the actions taken by various attorneys across the state to challenge the constitutionality of the new sex offender statutes that took effect Jan. 1.During the teleconference with the involved parties, at least two attorneys attempted to argue that the case should be moved back to state court...

Lawmaker Wants Sex Offenders To Wear Tracking Devices

Posted on January 22, 2010
Here we go again, a lawmaker who wants to PROTECT the PUBLIC from "Sex Offenders" by TRACKING those offenders. Think about what he is saying, "after the amber alert is issued, we will know who did it" hey isn't that after the crime? So how does TRACKING PROTECT the public from new crimes? It doesn't, TRACKING is NOT PREVENTION!Tracking simply makes the prosecution of crimes easier (i...

Murphy doesn't care what Bruning says

Posted on January 22, 2010
The ultimate decision rendered in Nebraska cannot be anything but a disaster because of all the bad blood between judge and lawyers, and the main issue of a judge trying to control everyone in the world (not permitting state judges to rule with their opinions allowed by the Adam Walsh Act) sex offenders will suffer...

The police want to talk to you, what do you do?

Posted on January 22, 2010
1-22-2010 National:Folks, I just watched two videos -approximately 45 minutes- which answers the question. If you do nothing else today spend the time to watch these videos.I STRONGLY ADVISE every parent to watch these, and to have their kids watch them as well...

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