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FL- Commission Puts Sex Offender On County Board

Posted on May 06, 2009
Follow up story to: "Sex offender wanted! .... to serve on Broward task force" 5-6-2009 Florida:Martin Kiar (Rep. House District 97) is pissed. The youthful state representative is upset about one member of a newly-formed county commission task force ? a registered sex offender...

TX- Texas Bill Might Require Sex Offenders To Register Gaming Identities

Posted on May 05, 2009
5-5-2009 Texas:A bill that passed the Texas Senate today would change sex offender registration regulations in the state so convicted sex offenders would have to provide law enforcement with each ?alias, assumed name, nickname, or pseudonym, including a screen name, used by the person...

MI- Police work to track sexual offender registry absconders

Posted on May 05, 2009
5-5-2009 Michigan:Some sexual predators have been known to move methodically through communities, patiently singling out their victims while blending in with society. From the child molester to the date rapist, offenders often target and attack those with whom they're familiar; occasionally they strike randomly...

VT- House approves expanded sex offender legislation

Posted on May 05, 2009
5-5-2009 Vermont:(Host) The House has approved legislation that expands Vermont's sex offender registry. The bill also outlaws "sexting". That's when a person sends a sexually explicit photograph to someone else using a cell phone or a computer. VPR's Bob Kinzel has more...

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PA- Spring Grove grandmother sues police

Posted on May 05, 2009
This is what folks need to do when mistreated, file a complaint, tie up the courts over police brutality. I love the police comment "Drop your sandwhich" likely with guns drawn. I hope she is able to get damages as she does deserve them.5-5-2009 Pennsylvania:Donna Dull said she was shocked...

MI- DOC looks at releasing some prisoners

Posted on May 05, 2009
5-5-2009 Michigan:Local prosecutor says letting sex offenders out is dangerous (This prosecutor has no idea what the actual recidivism rates are for Michigan sex offfenders.)TUSCOLA COUNTY (WJRT) -- (05/05/09)--Major budget cuts were announced Tuesday in state government...

WA- Washington Joins Iran in Criminalizing Sex Between Consenting Adults

Posted on May 05, 2009
5-5-2009 Washington:You may remember the school sex bill that set off our unconstitutionality alarm earlier this year?the one that criminalizes sex between high school employees and consenting adult students. Well, the Senate version died, but a House version passed both chambers by a wide margin and was signed by the Governor on Monday...

IN- UPDATED BREAKING NEWS: Charges against Patterson have been dismissed

Posted on May 05, 2009
5-5-2009 Indiana:The case against Robert "Bobby" Patterson of Bloomfield was dismissed Tuesday after both the defense and the prosecution had filed motions in Greene Superior Court requesting the case be dropped. Patterson was charged in late March with failure to register as a sex or violent offender, a class D felony...

DC- Feds Sign More Agreements With Social Networking Sites

Posted on May 05, 2009
5-5-2009 Washington DC:Last week, the U.S. General Services Administration announced it had signed a service agreement with Facebook, and in recent months reached agreements with Blist which provides a consumer focused service for publishing data on the Web, Slideshare a site for sharing of PowerPoint, Word and PDF documents and AddThis, a bookmarking and sharing platform...

DC- Future Dangerousness

Posted on May 05, 2009
5-5-2009 Washington DC:The tricky sex offender case that could trip up one of the judges on the short list to replace Souter.Barack Obama has said he wants a Supreme Court nominee who will think hard about how his or her rulings will affect people's daily lives...

TX- Texas Attorney General Abbott, Senator Shapiro, Representative Pena Mark Texas Senate?s Passage of E-mail Registration Bill

Posted on May 05, 2009
State Attorney General again goes after the wrong persons committing online crimes against minors. The AG refuses to review the actual crimes, if he did he would find it is NEW offenders and not PRIOR offenders. These new requirements waste law enforcement resources and violate the rights of registrants; where are the lawyers willing to fight these senseless feel-good sounds-good laws?5-5-2009

TX- 10 years out of cell, he?s still not free

Posted on May 04, 2009
4-4-2009 Texas:Convicted of child rape in ?81, former inmate wants DNA to clear his nameDonald R. Burke III, 61, a convicted child rapist and registered sex offender, has spent half his life trying to clear his name through a DNA test. The evidence samples, now nearly 30 years old, wait at a local lab...

The Justice Myth in America

Posted on May 04, 2009
4-4-2009 National:In Colorado, a young family man went to lie down on the couch after a long day. Up at 5:30 for work, then home to prepare the barbeque he and his wife were giving to celebrate their youngest daughter's first birthday with a few friends and neighbors...

FL- Sex offender wanted! .... to serve on Broward task force

Posted on May 04, 2009
4-4-2009 Florida:Broward County is looking for folks to serve on a task force about sex offender residency rules -- including a sex offender.Sex offenders, and other community members, can send a resume to clorber@broward.org or fax to 954-357-6573 for consideration for membership by May 1...

CT- Parenting teens: ?Sexting? is this generation?s streaking, skinny-dipping

Posted on May 04, 2009
In one sense, it would be great, on certain days, for my 13-year-old to have a cell phone. Until I heard from his school, I was uncertain if he would be staying afterward for an activity. I worried incessantly that he get picked up at the right time and not be stranded...

UT- Probation and parole officers stretched thinner

Posted on May 04, 2009
"You have to separate the crime from the person ..." says the parole officer, and that is exactly what lawmakers do not want the public to do which is why they continue with hysterical rants and fearmongering. Lawmakers refuse to accept that prison and programs do change offenders, but they do not want the public to know that...

Saudi Arabian Girl (8 years old) Wins Divorce

Posted on May 03, 2009
4-3-2009 Saudi Arabia:An eight-year-old Saudi Arabian girl has divorced her 47 year-old husband in an arrangement made out of court. Saudi Arabian judge Sheikh Habib Al-Habib twice refused to annul the girl's arranged marriage on the condition that the marriage not be consummated until she reached puberty...

NJ- NEW JERSEY ONE OF 20 STATES TO RECEIVE JUSTICE ASSISTANCE GRANT (JAG) FUNDING

Posted on May 03, 2009
4-3-2009 New Jersey:TRENTON ? Governor Jon S. Corzine announced today that the Department of Law and Public Safety will receive $29.7 million in Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) funding to support New Jersey?s Safe Streets and Neighborhoods program. The grants are part of $424...

GA- More than 500 people have been banished from Houston County

Posted on May 03, 2009
Banishment, good punishment or bad? Did you ever really think about it, what does banishment do? Well, it forces the offender to stay away from your community, or said another way, it forces the offender to go commit crimes in another county! In other words, the offender is left with no one to monitor them, no one to make sure they are not committing further crimes...

FL- A life of tension, fear for sexual predators living under Miami bridge

Posted on May 03, 2009
4-3-2009 Florida:On an ever-shrinking patch of sand at the underbelly of the Julia Tuttle Causeway, tents and shacks are filling with those who have raped, touched and fondled. A colony of convicts who can do little more than create a community of their own...

Nude hiking banned in Swiss Alps to stop Germans

Posted on May 03, 2009
4-3-2009 Switzerland:VOTERS in the heart of the Swiss Alps have passed legislation banning naked hiking after dozens of mostly German nudists started rambling through their picturesque region.By a show of hands citizens of the tiny canton (state) of Appenzell Inner Rhodes voted overwhelmingly on Sunday at their traditional open-air annual assembly to impose a 200 Swiss franc ($A245) fine on

AL- Death sentence given in child slayings

Posted on May 02, 2009
5-1-2009 Alabama:MOBILE, Ala. - A judge yesterday ordered a death sentence for an Alabama man convicted of murdering four young children by tossing them from a bridge to "torture" his wife.Mobile County Circuit Judge Charles Graddick also ordered that prison officials show Lam Luong photos of the children each day he spends on death row awaiting lethal injection...

FL- Bill to aid tracking of career criminals hits dead end

Posted on May 02, 2009
5-1-2009 Florida:TAMPA - A bill that could give police the authority to arrest anyone who hinders their efforts in tracking career criminals will not pass the Senate today.Similar to the Jessica Lunsford Act, the bill would allow police to charge with a third-degree felony anyone who gives them false information about a career criminal's whereabouts...

VT- ACLU eyes Barre sex offender case

Posted on May 02, 2009
5-2-2009 Vermont:BARRE ? The clock is ticking on Christopher Hagan, and the Vermont Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is seriously considering representing the man who recently ran afoul of Barre's controversial "Child Safety Ordinance."Barring some legal relief, Hagan, 29, has until next Friday to vacate the Kent Street apartment where he has been living with his wife, Amy, and

IN- Rulings affect sex offender state registry

Posted on May 02, 2009
5-2-2009 Indiana:Court decision might remove namesA pair of rulings by the Indiana Supreme Court might bring dramatic changes to who is listed on Indiana?s Sex and Violent Offender Registry.One ruling deals with sex offenders who committed their crimes and were sentenced before the state?s sex offender registry laws existed...

FL- Defense: Perverted Justice denies access to computer evidence

Posted on May 02, 2009
5-2-2009 Florida:BUNNELL -- Charges against a former police officer snared in a Dateline NBC "To Catch a Predator" sex sting in Flagler Beach should be dropped, in part, because a vigilante group didn't allow its computer to be examined, according to a court document...

Congress has many smart people, but.....

Posted on May 02, 2009
Sometimes I wonder about folks in Congress and the following confirms my thoughts: CLICK HEREEnjoy,eAdvocate

GA- Governor signs bill prohbiting sex offenders on school boards

Posted on May 02, 2009
5-2-2009 Georgia:A Georgia legislative bill designed to keep convicted sex offenders off school boards was was signed into law on April 30 by Governor Sonny Perdue.SB 14, co-sponsored by state Senator John Douglas (R-Social Circle), will become effective July 1...

LA- Jindal's sex offender ideas scaled back after blunt questions from House speaker

Posted on May 02, 2009
To obtain a copy of the letter, try contacting the AP journalist to see if they will reveal it.5-2-2009 Louisiana:BATON ROUGE, La. -- Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has scaled back plans for toughening sex offender laws.House Speaker Jim Tucker and another lawmaker sent Jindal an unusually blunt letter questioning whether the proposals were constitutional and how they would be paid for in a

CA- California's juvenile injustice system

Posted on May 02, 2009
The editorial blow was from 4-29-09 and speaks about the unjust juvenile justice system. One day after the editorial was published one person ( ANTONIO DE JESUS NU�EZ ) mentioned received a court opinion declaring that the system is unconstitutional...

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