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Justice Department Announces Bulletin on Juveniles Who Sexually Victimize Other Youth

Posted on December 01, 2009
12-1-2009 National:WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today announced the release of a bulletin reporting on youth who commit sexual offenses against minors. The latest in the Crimes Against Children Series from OJP's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the bulletin draws on data from the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System to describe the characteristics of the juvenile sex offender population coming to the attention of law enforcement...

Nursing homes: Most sex offenders living in nursing homes aren't listed on state police's online registry

Posted on December 01, 2009
12-1-2009 Illinois:Under Illinois law, families researching nursing homes are directed to search a state police Web site for critical information about sex offenders living in the facilities.But only 59 of the 192 sex offenders in Illinois nursing homes -- or less than one in three -- were listed on that online state registry, a Tribune investigation found...

Chicago nursing homes: Slaying of nursing-home resident in nearby motel shows how violence can spill into neighborhoods

Posted on December 01, 2009
Rarely mentioned is, the MAJORITY of nursing home residents are TEMPORARY, there to rehabilitate following some sort of surgery. Most people erroneously think nursing homes house LONG TERM residents only. No matter who the person is, or what the person's background is, there are times when they need the services of a nursing home...

Offender registry sees lots of traffic

Posted on December 01, 2009
12-1-2009 West Virginia:CHARLESTON, W.Va.--The numbers are startling.Startling, that is, unless you're one of the 2,000 to 4,000 persons a day who check the online sex offender registry maintained by the West Virginia State Police.If so, you may realize that 3,163 registered sex offenders live or work in the state and that 19 of those offenders are sexually violent predators...

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Sexual predator shot dead in Town 'N Country

Posted on December 01, 2009
12-1-2009 Florida:TAMPA ? A registered sexual predator was shot dead steps from his home Monday morning in the middle of a residential street in Town 'N Country. Hillsborough sheriff's deputies are searching for three young men suspected of killing him...

Pedophile treatment centre lowers risk to society

Posted on November 30, 2009
11-30-2009 Canada:Dismantling Phoenix Program would be short-sightedConsiderable time, worry and research is spent on the question of whether pedophiles are born or made.Is sexual deviancy a natural, albeit abhorrent, outcome of the genetic lottery? Or the unsettling consequence of childhood trauma?Whatever its origin, pedophilia is part of the human record, across time and civilizations...

Residents want sex offenders banned from town

Posted on November 30, 2009
It is quite clear this town needs someone who understands law, banishment -after sentencing- is unconstitutional. Further, there isn't a lick of proof that residency laws protect anyone. I do believe thats what the judge said in the Colonie decision...

Dunn v. The State: A Picayune Ruling

Posted on November 29, 2009
11-29-2009 Georgia:Derrick Todd Dunn can't catch a break, and the good people of Georgia will make sure he never does.Dunn was convicted of statutory rape in 1996. In other words, he had sexual contact with a person deemed unable to give consent. This can mean any number of things...

Federal judges argue for reduced sentences for child-porn convicts

Posted on November 29, 2009
11-29-2009 National:In a nationwide series of hearings, members of the U.S. Sentencing Commission have heard from federal judges seeking reduced sentences for a group of defendants one would think unlikely to get sympathy from the bench: possessors of child pornography...

Nearly 100 Removed From Maine Sex Offender List

Posted on November 29, 2009
11-29-2009 Maine:AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) ? Maine officials say nearly 100 people have been removed from the state's sex offender registry two months after of a new law went into effect changing the registry's rules.People convicted of sex offenses dating back to 1982 were previously listed on the registry...

With no place to stay, he could go to prison

Posted on November 29, 2009
Winter is coming and folks would not want to see a repeat of last year, where Michigan's Tom Pauli froze to death because he did not have a place to stay due to residency laws.11-29-2009 Georgia:He?s a handy, articulate and well-dressed 27-year-old man...

Jessica?s Law too vague to enforce?

Posted on November 29, 2009
This is what results when lawmakers refuse to represent all of their constituents and ignore constitutional protections. Lawmakers want chaos because it satisfies their individual hatreds, biases and prejudices. Lawmakers misuse their powers costing taxpayers far more than doing what is right by all constituents...

When Prisoners Phone Home

Posted on November 28, 2009
Corrections purpose? Recidivism is caused by? Justice means? I'm confused!11-28-2009 New York:New York State?s highest court has rejected the last vestiges of a lawsuit by families of inmates who claimed that the prison system overcharged them for telephone calls from their loved ones...

OH- Coroner: Suspected Rapist Died From Gunshot Wounds

Posted on July 10, 2009
7-10-2009 Ohio:COLUMBUS, Ohio ? A suspected serial rapist from Los Angeles died after being shot several times by police officers along Interstate 70 earlier this week, the Fairfield County Coroner ruled Thursday.According to the coroner, Abram Bynum died after suffering gunshot wounds to his head, trunk and extremities, 10TV's Lindsey Seavert reported...

IN- CPD says rape e-mail is untrue

Posted on July 10, 2009
7-10-2009 Indiana:An e-mail circulating the Internet that warns about an alleged rape in the parking lot of a west-side Columbus business has been discredited by police.Columbus Police Department believes the e-mail is related to a report received Monday alleging a rape in the parking lot in the 2000 block of Merchants Mile...

TN- KKK Recruiting with Sex Offender Flyers

Posted on July 10, 2009
7-10-2009 Tennessee:MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Some Olive Branch residents are outraged about flyers, littering their yards.The flyers warned of a convicted sex offender, living in the neighborhood, but they were distributed by a group with a racist, violent history toward Jews and blacks...

IN- Sex offender ID law misapplied, higher court says

Posted on July 10, 2009
7-10-2009 Indiana:Enhancements to Indiana's Sex and Violent Offender Registry that took effect on July 1, 2006, are continuing to cause snarls for law enforcement.The Indiana Court of Appeals on Thursday reversed two convictions against a Lafayette man who assumed a dead man's identity -- allegedly to avoid being listed on the state's sex offender registry...

Pelosi Slams Door on Jackson Resolution

Posted on July 10, 2009
Is this further proof that some in Congress have no respect for the principle "innocent until proven guilty" I guess that goes along with their disrespect for the "ex post facto" clause. Further, Congress recognizes many for less contributions to society than Michael Jackson demonstrated throughout his life...

MA- WENDY MURPHY: Convicts shouldn?t expect ?privacy? rights

Posted on July 10, 2009
7-10-2009 Massachusetts:The ACLU in Massachusetts has been scaring people with a fear-mongering claim that cops are violating CORI (Criminal Offender Record Information) laws by searching through the state?s criminal records database to see whether certain celebrities have rap sheets...

NY- Sex Offender Assessment Tool Held Inadmissible

Posted on July 10, 2009
7-10-2009 New York:A recent decision out of New York holds the Static-99, a common actuarial measure of sex offender recidivism, as inadmissible under Frye. In State v. Rosado, 2009 NY Slip Op 29290 , Judge Riviezzo holds: In the immediate case, respondent's STATIC-99 score of "4" is considered to be a medium-high risk of reoffending...

SD- Loopholes closed in sex-offender registry

Posted on July 09, 2009
This makes no sense whatsoever!7-9-2009 South Dakota:PIERRE ? A new state law expands the circumstances when sex offenders must list themselves on South Dakota?s sex-offender registry. Now they must sign up if they obtain a driver license, license a motor vehicle, get a postal address or register to vote in South Dakota...

IN- Prison Visits Go ?Pay-Per-View?

Posted on July 09, 2009
7-9-2009 Indiana:Candace McCann, an inmate at the Rockville Correctional Facility in Rockville, Ind., talks to her aunt from her prison unit.MIAMI (CBS/AP) There?s still no place like home, but for the prison population, "being there" on the Web is becoming the next best thing...

OR- Clackamas teen faces charges in scheme to extort nude pictures

Posted on July 09, 2009
7-9-2009 Oregon:A 16-year-old Clackamas boy is accused of taking over the MySpace and Facebook pages of two female college students and threatening not to relinquish control unless they sent him nude photographs of themselves.An Oregon State Police trooper based at Oregon State University investigated the case...

IN- South Bend father charged in shooting of daughter's boyfriend

Posted on July 09, 2009
7-9-2009 Indiana:SOUTH BEND ? A 61-year-old man accused of shooting at his daughter's boyfriend after catching him partially undressed in his home has been charged in the incident.Michael Falls is facing two counts of criminal recklessness, Class D felonies, following the events that took place at his house in the 60100 block of Cedar Road...

NY- Police: Dad sets up registered sex offender

Posted on July 09, 2009
7-9-2009 New York:GLENS FALLS -- A registered sex offender who tried to set up a meeting with a 15-year-old girl behind a bar in the middle of the night was arrested late Wednesday after the girl's father intercepted the text message he sent the teen, police said...

FL- A fading oasis for sex offenders in Broward County

Posted on July 09, 2009
Any reasonable review of just the maps shows, that the intent is BANISHMENT as both a residency laws and proximity laws protects ONLY those WITHIN the protected place (i.e., school, day care, playground, etc.) and overwhelming studies show, those places ARE NOT where over 93% of kids are sexually abused...

MI- Michigan Man sentenced to 1-20 years in prison for Internet crime in underage sex sting

Posted on July 09, 2009
7-9-2009 Michigan: Phase-IGRAND RAPIDS -- Another of the 20 men swept up in an undercover police sting that set up men who allegedly were seeking underage sex was sentenced to one to 20 years behind bars.____, 29, pleaded guilty in May to using a computer and the Internet to commit a crime...

FL- Lawsuits Fly Over Sex Offenders' Encampment

Posted on July 09, 2009
Click to read lawsuit:7-9-2009 Florida:Miami Sues State To Clear Out Camp By The BayACLU Sues County Over "Not In My Back Yard" OrdinanceHard by world-famous Biscayne Bay, scores of convicted sex offenders live beneath the bulkheads and along the grassy shoulders of the Julia Tuttle causeway, one of the main gateways to Miami Beach...

FL- Sex offenders could live in industrial zones, Broward County task force suggests

Posted on July 09, 2009
7-9-2009 Florida:FORT LAUDERDALE ? A Broward task force studying the problem of where convicted sex offenders can live once they are released from prison has recommended that the county study the possibility of establishing special residential exceptions in industrial zones...

GA- Woman in center of sex registry debate arrested on drug charges

Posted on July 09, 2009
Now we see the results of putting registrants under severe stress with these useless sex offender laws! Every human being has a breaking point, unfortunately drugs give a person a temporary haven from stress, but long term is no answer, yet what can these folks do to relieve the stress?7-9-2009 Georgia:A Harlem woman who was the focus of a Georgia's sex offender registry law was arrested

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