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Coalition: Focus Mich. sex offender registry on risk

Posted on December 14, 2009
12-14-2009 Michigan:Coalition members point out that Michigan has highest ratio of citizens on state sex offender registry in the nationLANSING ? About once a month, a group of Michigan citizens sit around a table in one of the state Capitol?s ornate committee rooms and plot their uphill revolt...

The Money Tree is Picked Again, this time, 1.1 Trillion Green

Posted on December 13, 2009
12-13-2009 National:A few days ago I reminded folks that states would not lose funds if they did not pass the Adam Walsh Act because state were funded additional amounts through the America Recover and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Thats still true and those monies have been made available to the states...

Ariz. Ignores Sex Offender Law (Adam Walsh Act)

Posted on December 12, 2009
In reality since there is no proof that these laws have any preventative elements, they could be delayed forever and society would be just as safe. These are sounds-good laws, which are not directed at the truely most dangerous registrants, given that they should be repealed...

Lawyer asks court to allow homeless with sex offenses to stay at shelters near schools after Grand Rapids man died in cold last winter

Posted on December 12, 2009
12-12-2009 Michigan:GRAND RAPIDS -- When Thomas Pauli froze to death early this year next to a car in an auto salvage yard, his friends were outraged that state law prevented the convicted sex offender from taking shelter at local missions.Now, in the aftermath of the 52-year-old's death amid frigid temperatures, a move is under way to clarify a law that prohibits registered sex offenders from residing anywhere within 1,000 feet of a school or day care...

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State Supreme Court Removes Name From Sex Offender Registry

Posted on December 11, 2009
12-11-2009 Nebraska:A man convicted more than 10 years ago of using a 16-year-old girl as a prostitute will not have to register as a sex offender, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday.A man convicted more than 10 years ago of using a 16-year-old girl as a prostitute will not have to register as a sex offender, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday...

Man released after 3 years in jail for false rape charges

Posted on December 11, 2009
12-11-2009 Indiana:A construction worker imprisoned for nearly three years was cleared by an apologetic judge on Thursday after his accuser admitted she lied about being gang raped to make her friends feel sorry for her.William McCaffrey hugged his lawyer when state Supreme Court Justice Richard Carruthers ? who also presided over William McCaffrey?s rape and kidnapping trial ? threw out the conviction and dismissed the initial charges...

A disturbing legal argument

Posted on December 11, 2009
12-11-2009 New Hampshire:This week in Portsmouth District Court a man charged with eight felony counts of possessing child pornography made an extremely disturbing argument to Judge Sawako Gardner.The suspect argued there is no correlation between viewing child pornography and sexual assaults against children...

Homelessness in Quincy

Posted on December 11, 2009
Shelters prohibit registered sex offenders access even in sub-zero temperatures. Lawmakers nationally fail to resolve this issue.. We urge folks to contact your local lawmakers and shelters, and ask them to resolve this issue before another freezes to death...

Tribune Opinion: Dangers of sexting becoming evident

Posted on December 10, 2009
12-10-2009 Colorado:Remember when you had to whisper something risqu� into the basement phone and hope your parents ? or your boyfriend's or girlfriend's parents ? were too busy yelling at the contestant to buy a vowel on ?Wheel of Fortune? to care?Now, thanks to some tech geek's idea to put cameras in cell phones, our children face a new danger...

Woman Sentenced for Sending Innocent Man to Jail

Posted on December 10, 2009
What about young ladies (minors) that lie about their age, and the young man ends up in jail or prison and has to register for the rest of their lives?12-10-2009 Vermont:Tuesday was sentencing day for a former Norwich University student who framed an innocent man and sent him to prison for three months...

Big-screen TVs damaged in transfer to vets homes

Posted on December 10, 2009
12-10-2009 Wisconsin:The saga of the big-screen TVs that were removed from the Minnesota sex offender program by Gov. Tim Pawlenty is not over.More than a month after Pawlenty announced that some of the 50-inch, flat-screen TVs would be given to veterans homes across the state, the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs reports that eight of the 14 TVs it received were damaged when they arrived...

Jacques to challenge federal authority

Posted on December 10, 2009
12-10-2009 Vermont:BURLINGTON ? In a legal maneuver that could help Michael Jacques avoid the death penalty, lawyers for the Randolph Center man accused of killing his 12-year-old niece will argue that the case does not belong in federal courts.Defense lawyers indicated in a court filing Tuesday that they will challenge the jurisdictional venue in Jacques' kidnapping and murder case...

GPS devices considered to keep track of homeless sex offenders

Posted on December 10, 2009
Another dumb bill: In order for this GPS program to work, in a non discriminatory manner, police would have to apply the GPS unit ONLY for the hours that the homeless person sleeps. Remember, anyone with an address IS NOT tracked outside of the hours they sleep...

New York's Attorney General Violates Sex Offender Registry Law?

Posted on December 10, 2009
12-10-2009 New York:While this may be hard to believe, it appears so, here are the facts:AG Cuomo issues a Press Release seeking various social networking websites to begin using the NY Registry eStop listing of "Internet Identifiers" to purge NY registrants from their social networking websites...

The Adam Walsh Act is an "Unfunded Mandate," but, will the states lose any federal funding for not enacting AWA?

Posted on December 09, 2009
Has anyone wondered why ALL of Congress is not screaming about funding the Adam Walsh Act?12-9-2009 National:The answer is simple, NO, states will not lose a dime for not enacting the provisions of AWA.The states through the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" have already received an unbelievable amount of money targeted for law enforcement and crime...

Sex Offender Laws Gaining Strength In Missouri

Posted on December 09, 2009
The only purpose for the Adam Walsh Act is, it is a stimulus for law enforcement, AWA becomes a barganing tool at the contract table. The public will pay dearly to support this law that protects no child nor any adult; AWA is a replacement for Saturday night at the movies...

States Face Obstacles Adopting Sex Offender Rules

Posted on December 09, 2009
Take note: Because of the Adam Walsh Act changes made by the Ohio legislature, Ohio now has some 26,000 lawsuits running through their court system. The cost of processing those lawsuits has to be astronomical, and delaying many other court actions.12-9-2009 Illinois:WSIL-TV-- Illinois is one of forty-nine states yet to decide if they'll comply with a federal sex offender law set to take effect in 2010...

Come in from the cold: Men?s homeless shelter opens

Posted on December 09, 2009
Shelters prohibit registered sex offenders access even in sub-zero temperatures. Lawmakers nationally fail to resolve this issue.. We urge folks to contact your local lawmakers and shelters, and ask them to resolve this issue before another freezes to death...

Franklin County's homeless shelters face greater numbers, security issues

Killer Targeted Sex Offenders

Posted on December 09, 2009
Be sure to see the video in the first story. To summerize this story: Chrisopher Lunz claimed he was abused as a child by father, and that is why he killed him. However, before he was imprisoned he claims he targeted other child molesters. One is Gerald Estes -from Georgia- who is missing to this date...

Jeffersonville City Council Approves Sex Offender Ordinance

Posted on December 08, 2009
The difference between the old and the new ordinance is?12-8-2009 Indiana: Registered Sex Offenders Banned From City ParksJEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. -- The Jeffersonville City Council unanimously approved a new sex offender ordinance Monday night.The city had to change a law that banned sex offenders from entering city parks after it was ruled unconstitutional by the state court of appeals...

COLORADO SPRINGS: Snowplows struggle to reach residential areas

Posted on December 08, 2009
Shelters prohibit registered sex offenders access even in sub-zero temperatures. Lawmakers fail to resolve this issue..12-8-2009 Colorado:Up to 3 more inches of snow is expected to fall on the Pikes Peak region by Tuesday morning, continuing a fierce and bitterly cold winter storm that blew into the area over the weekend...

Freezing cold prompts Kelso church to open emergency shelter

Posted on December 08, 2009
Shelters prohibit registered sex offenders access even in sub-zero temperatures. Lawmakers fail to resolve this issue..12-8-2009 Washington:Due to this week?s freezing temperatures, a Kelso church has opened an overnight shelter for the homeless, and Community House in Longview is allowing people to sleep in its lobby...

Palm Bay woman faces charges in false-attack report

Posted on December 08, 2009
12-8-2009 Florida:A Palm Bay woman faces charges after confessing she lied about being attacked by several men because she didn?t want her husband to know she went to a bar.Kelly Lynn Burns, 45, of Palm Bay, was charged with providing false information to law enforcement officers after Palm Bay police investigated claims of a sexual battery, but found no physical evidence to match Burns? allegations...

Group That Does Good Deeds Threatened By Old Deed

Posted on December 08, 2009
12-8-2009 Connecticut:Longtime home for troubled youths locked in legal battle for landThe Connecticut Junior Republic is a fixture in Litchfield, having housed and schooled thousands of troubled youths over the years. But now the private, non-profit organization faces a new challenge...

Maggart, Black To Push For violent Juveniles To Be Placed On Sex Offender Registry

Posted on December 08, 2009
12-8-2009 Tennessee:State Rep. Debra Maggart (R-Hendersonville) and Senator Diane Black (R-Gallatin) said they will push for passage of legislation in January to place violent juvenile offenders on Tennessee?s Sex Offender Registry as required under the federal Adam Walsh Act...

Conviction

Posted on December 08, 2009
12-8-2009 New York:BIURNY PEGUERO, 27, has been indicted on multiple counts of perjury. The crimes charged in the indictment occurred on September 30, 2005 and September 26, 2006. On October 7, 2005, William McCaffrey was indicted by a New York County Grand Jury for three counts of Rape in the First Degree, and one count each of Kidnapping in the Second Degree, Unlawful Imprisonment in the First Degree, Assault in the Second Degree, and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree...

Cheating wife cried rape to hide three-month affair

Posted on December 08, 2009
12-8-2009 United Kingdom:A CHEATING wife made up a rape claim to hide an affair ? leading to two innocent men being arrested and �3,800 wasted on the police investigation.Helen Dalby sent a text to her husband to say she had been followed home by a stranger and raped in a bedroom ? because she felt guilty about having sex with her lover that day...

Alleged false rape claim woman in court

Posted on December 08, 2009
12-8-2009 United Kingdom:A WOMAN who allegedly falsely claimed she was raped at a Hampshire beauty spot has appeared in court for the first time. Gemma Mann is charged with perverting the course of justice in relation to an alleged incident at Royal Victoria Country Park in Netley on November 14, which sparked a largescale police investigation...

Teenager admits false rape claim

Posted on December 08, 2009
12-8-2009 United Kingdom:Elgin court told of huge investigationPREGNANT teenager?s mother said today she was mystified over why her daughter falsely claimed she had been raped at knifepoint.Moray College student Lucinda Hicks, of 23 Kingsmills, Elgin, told officers she had been raped by an unidentified man on a pathway near Grampian Road, Elgin, on April 9...

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