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Police Station Shooter's Motive Was 'Suicide By Cop'

Posted on January 25, 2011
1-25-2011 Michigan: 4 Officers Shot Sunday; 2 Still Hospitalized DETROIT -- Local 4 has learned that Detroit police believe the motive behind the 38-year-old man who opened fire inside a police station Sunday, wounding four officers, was to be killed...

Sex offender program encounters recidivism problem

Posted on January 24, 2011
1-24-2011 New York: Almost a third of New York's dangerous sex offenders released into a community-based program have been accused of a new sexual offense. Some committed new sex-related crimes, including one now accused of rape. Others violated terms of their release: Officials allege that two called telephone sex lines, three watched pornography and one created a business card advertising himself for sexual services...

Gym owner: Shocked Hydra Lacy possible suspect in police shooting

Posted on January 24, 2011
Suicide or Killed, we don't know! But we do know, apparently it was over a "Failure to Register" circumstance, as reported by the Florida Sex Offender Registry. Sex offender laws are pushing people to do things that are horrendous. Where will this insanity end...

Federal Lifetime Juvie Sex Offender Registry Contradicts State Law; Justice Grants Held at Bay

Posted on January 22, 2011
This article clearly shows all the different state programs, and likely there are many more, which receive money THROUGH Bryne Grants. Is it any wonder why some lawmakers sacrifice former sex offenders to save these grants? Advocates need to address these other state programs in commentary fighting the Adam Walsh Act...

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Court orders release of Pa. man held more than 40 years

Posted on January 22, 2011
1-22-2011 Pennsylvania: After spending more than 45 years in prison, 82-year-old Louis Mickens-Thomas will be released Tuesday, thanks to a federal court order. Mickens-Thomas was convicted of the 1964 murder of Edith Connor, 12, largely on the testimony of a crime-lab worker who was later discredited...

Cops Scrapping Registry Computer System

Posted on January 21, 2011
1-21-2011 Vermont: There are so many errors in the state?s online sex offender registry that the Department of Public Safety is replacing the computer system used to operate the registry. A new system is being purchased with funds obtained through a special federal grant...

Grand Rapids man fatally gunned down by father

Posted on January 21, 2011
1-21-2011 Michigan: In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a 31-year-old man was shot to death Wednesday evening, and the person who shot him was none other that his own father. The shooting took place at approximately 4:45pm inside a residence, located in the 1300 block of Sylvan SE...

Two Men Accused of Trying to Escape A Minn. Sex Offender Program Request Trials

Posted on January 21, 2011
1-21-2011 Minnesota: MOOSE LAKE, Minn., - Two of four patients who tried to escape from the Minnesota Sexual Offender Program in Moose Lake requested trials Wednesday. The assistant county attorney says Russell Norton,42, and Steven Housman,55, have pleaded not guilty to escape from custody charges in Carlton County...

Domestic violence offenders may be listed in on-line registry

Posted on January 21, 2011
1-21-2011 Texas: A local lawmaker is proposing a bill that would allow a domestic violence registry for those convicted of family violence. The registry would be similar to the sex offender registry. You could find out online if someone has a history of domestic violence...

Wanted Sex Offender Killed During Shootout in Durham

Posted on January 21, 2011
1-21-2011 North Carolina: DURHAM, N.C. (WGHP) ? U.S. Marshals shot and killed a wanted sex offender during a shootout on Thursday. Jerome Thompkins, 35, who was wanted for multiple sex offenses involving children, was fatally shot when U.S. Marshals returned fire to Thompkins inside a home at 404 Macon St...

Committee advances sex offender bill

Posted on January 21, 2011
A prime example of the short-sighted thinking of lawmakers. If registrants must go in to perform whatever, that means they cannot be working and may even lose a job. Now, if a registrant is paid less, due to time off, that means s/he will ultimately pay less in taxes at year end...

Tougher restrictions for Lake Charles convicted sex offenders

Posted on January 20, 2011
I'd be real surprised if this would stand a court challenge. ACLU and good lawyers, where are you? There are times when officials may eat their words, I'd bet this is one of them; let the court rule. There is little difference between a law banishing former offenders and ex post facto applied fees to accomplish the same...

Police stay busy with sex offender site

Posted on January 19, 2011
What an unbelievable waste of taxpayer money for a glorified address book w/pics that tells everyone WHERE a registrant SLEEPS for a few hours of the day or night. There isn't a single research paper that proves, knowing where a registrant SLEEPS will PREVENT further crimes, or protect the public at all...

Two plead guilty in beating death of inmate

Posted on January 19, 2011
1-19-2011 California: SANTA ANA ? Two of nine jail inmates charged in the beating death of a fellow inmate wrongly identified as a child molester pleaded guilty Tuesday to voluntary manslaughter and were each sentenced to 15 years in state prison. The October 2006 slaying of John Chamberlain, who was in jail on possession of child pornography charges, prompted an investigative report by The Orange County Register that revealed that one of the charged inmates accused a jail deputy of setting up the attack...

400 Sexual Offenders Registered Last Year

Posted on January 19, 2011
1-19-2011 West Virginia: State Police released Monday that nearly 400 people were added to the sex offender registry last year. This is up from when statistics were first recorded in 1993. The number of sex offenders in the state has doubled from 1,468 to a little more than 3,200 this year...

OFF TOPIC: Police: Derision Over Flatulence Was Stabbing Motive

Posted on January 19, 2011
It does not take much to set many off these days. Sadly so, but this is an example of what has been in the news recently. 1-19-2011 Connecticut: A 21-year-old city man charged with stabbing four people at a party Saturday night, killing one, told investigators he became enraged because people were criticizing him for passing gas, police said...

Corrections department needs to improve sex offender reporting

Posted on January 18, 2011
1-18-2011 Vermont: MONTPELIER ? State Auditor Tom Salmon, CPA, today released the results of an audit that looked at the caseloads of the Department of Corrections probation and parole officers who are designated to supervise sex offenders. Recently adopted legislative provisions limit caseloads of the Department of Corrections? (DOC) probation and parole officers (POs) assigned to supervise sex offenders to 45 cases with some exceptions...

Bill would compensate exonerated inmates

Posted on January 18, 2011
1-18-2011 Washington: Alan Northrop spent 17 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit. When he was finally exonerated, he received no compensation from Washington state. Instead, he got a six-figure child-support bill. Rep. Tina Orwall says the episode illustrates a failure on the part of the state...

New DPS ID system has some Detroit parents concerned about privacy issues

Posted on January 17, 2011
1-17-2011 Michigan: Local parents and civil liberties proponents are asking whether a new Detroit schools ID system designed to keep sex offenders out of schools is too intrusive. According to a report in community newspaper the Michigan Citizen, some parents are fearful that their names will be run through law-enforcement databases for reasons other than a sex-offender search...

As child porn activity grows, efforts to trap offenders do too

Posted on January 16, 2011
1-16-2011 Virginia: Just six years out of high school, ____ ruined his life for a perverted thrill: He downloaded pictures of children being molested. He knew what he was doing was wrong and illegal. He knew he was risking his rising Navy career. But he couldn't stop...

Cost of sex offender program shocks lawmakers

Posted on January 15, 2011
1-15-2011 Virginia: Lawmakers expressed shock Friday over the exponentially rising cost of a program to keep some sex offenders locked up after they complete their criminal sentences. The annual operating cost of Virginia's Sexually Violent Predator Program is projected to hit $32 million next year - more than a tenfold increase in eight years...

Civil commitment: N.Y.'s program to keep sex offenders off the streets is the most expensive in the nation

Posted on January 15, 2011
1-15-2011 New York: In New York, the end of a criminal sentence for a sex offender doesn't mean he's going free. In 2007, state lawmakers took steps to protect the public from sexual predators. That year they approved a civil commitment program designed to route dangerous sex offenders whose sentences are ending into treatment in secure state psychiatric facilities...

Some teens may have to register online as sex offenders

Posted on January 15, 2011
1-15-2011 Wyoming: CHEYENNE -- A House committee heard public testimony Thursday on a bill that would require certain teens to register as sex offenders. Lawmakers have been reluctant to update the state's online registry with information on juvenile offenders...

Will Texas Be Safe for Romeos and Juliets?

Posted on January 15, 2011
1-15-2011 Texas: According to the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee, the state should go its own way when it comes to the registration and monitoring of sex offenders. In its interim study report released last week, the committee, chaired by Sen...

Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee Report: "Do Not Implement the Adam Walsh Act"

Posted on January 13, 2011
1-13-2011 Texas: Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee Report: "Do Not Implement the Adam Walsh Act." That is the recommendation and in spite of the loss which would be $1,404,571, where as the cost is assessed at $38,771,924. The question now is, will all Texas lawmakers agree? The major portion of the report on sex offenders begins on this page...

BSO Wants to Know Where Homeless Sex Offenders Live, Even if It's on a Bench

Posted on January 13, 2011
Where one resides and where one sleeps are not synonymous. If the law makes them synonymous, then registrants could be arrested for sleeping anywhere one falls asleep, that is not on the registry. In Florida especially, one cannot rely on law enforcement for a proper construction, LE will construe law as they need it to fit what they want to do...

Teens apologize to alleged rape victim for online slurs

Posted on January 13, 2011
1-13-2011 Canada: A group of B.C. high school students who made tasteless comments about a suspected rape victim online decided to write apology letters to the teen after meeting with her face-to-face. After the 16-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted at a party in Pitt Meadows in September, photos of the rape circulated online and a Facebook group was formed casting doubt on the victim's story...

Bethany man jailed in wife's death says wife caught him watching pornography

Posted on January 11, 2011
Is related because of "Sexual Circumstances" which we also document. 1-10-2011 Oklahoma: Reginald Scott Bartlett, 58, told Bethany police he ?snapped? when Cathy Bartlett, 57, caught him watching pornography Saturday at their home. BETHANY ? A Bethany man jailed on a murder complaint in the Saturday stabbing death of his wife said he attacked the woman because he ?snapped? when she caught him watching pornography on his computer, according to an affidavit filed today in Oklahoma County District Court...

Staff at Monroe Correctional Complex overcomes adversity

Posted on January 10, 2011
1-10-2011 Washington: The impact of budget cuts at the Department of Corrections has been well documented, particularly at the state?s largest prison, Monroe Correctional Complex. There have been layoffs, positions have gone unfilled, and there?s a smaller administrative staff and less money for supplies, training and equipment...

Cyberspace When You?re Dead

Posted on January 10, 2011
1-10-2011 Global: Suppose that just after you finish reading this article, you keel over, dead. Perhaps you?re ready for such an eventuality, in that you have prepared a will or made some sort of arrangement for the fate of the worldly goods you leave behind: financial assets, personal effects, belongings likely to have sentimental value to others and artifacts of your life like photographs, journals, letters...

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