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NH- Judge drops Merrifield (Mayor) from lawsuit over sex offender residency curb

Posted on April 23, 2009
4-23-2009 New Hampshire:A Merrimack County judge has decided that Franklin's mayor is not a proper party to the lawsuit filed to stop the city from enforcing its sex offender registry restrictions.In his original suit, Frank Singleton III named Mayor Kenneth Merrifield and Acting Police Chief David Goldstein as respondents in his attempt to stop the enforcement of City Code 247...

ME- Revisiting The Sex Offender Registry Law

Posted on April 22, 2009
4-21-2009 Maine:In the four years that have passed since the Maine Legislature made sweeping changes to the Sex Offender Registration Notification Act, the state has found itself in the eye of a controversy that pits public protection against individual constitutional rights...

MI- Sheriff's department to acquire

Posted on April 22, 2009
Folks, think about this, every place of registration in Michigan will have to have such a machine; and, every place in the nation! Someone is going to get rich via the Adam Walsh Act...4-22-2009 Michigan:The Isabella County Sheriff's Department will soon be able to store electronic palm impressions with the purchase of a Palm Live Scan Device (ID Networks) using grant money from the State of

NE- Neb. seeks exception to law for teens who 'sext'

Posted on April 22, 2009
4-22-2009 Nebraska:LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska lawmakers are taking care not to trap teen "sexters" in a widened net meant to catch sex offenders.Teenagers' habit of distributing nude self-portraits electronically is often called "sexting" if it's done by cell phone...

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IA- Iowa appeals court grants sex offenders new trial

Posted on April 22, 2009
4-22-2009 Iowa:DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa Court of Appeals has upheld rulings that grant two sex offenders new trials after a key witness against them admitted an addiction to child pornography.The cases involve Paul Blaise, committed as a sexually violent predator in 2005 in Lee County, and Clay Spears, committed as a sexually violent predator in 2007 in Scott County...

MN- St. Peter escape rulings allowed to stand

Posted on April 22, 2009
4-22-2009 Minnesota:James Martinelli argued that rare necessity defense applied to caseA St. Peter Regional Treatment Center patient?s effort to avoid escape charges after breaking out of a Minnesota Sex Offender Program facility has been rejected by the Minnesota Court of Appeals...

Judge to Rule on Domestic Spying

Posted on April 22, 2009
4-22-2009 National:A federal judge will rule on the merits of a legal challenge weighing whether a U.S. president may bypass Congress, as President George W. Bush did, and establish a program of eavesdropping on Americans without warrants.U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled similarly in January and February, but entertained and rejected (...

NH- Legislature pushed to fix sex offender law

Posted on April 22, 2009
4-22-2009 New Hampshire:CONCORD ? A state prosecutor and human services official said Tuesday the Legislature needs to address a Supreme Court ruling that ordered three violent sexual offenders to be released because judges had missed deadlines to keep them behind bars...

ME- Maine lawmakers worried about sex offender housing

Posted on April 22, 2009
4-22-2009 Maine:PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ? The Maine Legislature's Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee is considering a bill that would prohibit communities from passing ordinances governing where registered sex offenders can live and work.Rep. Anne Haskell of Portland, the bill's sponsor, says her fear is that offenders who get bounced from location to location will eventually "go

MS- Supes want AG opinion on sex offender laws

Posted on April 21, 2009
4-21-2009 Mississippi:DESOTO COUNTY ? DeSoto County officials will seek a State Attorney General?s opinion as to whether they can expand the arc of protection that buffers schools and daycare centers from convicted sexual predators.County Attorney Tony Nowak said in his opinion, the board does have the ability to adopt its own sexual offender laws separate and distinct from the State of

SD- Sentence delayed in sex case for mentally disabled man

Posted on April 21, 2009
Hats off to this judge, now how do we get him into the U.S. Supreme court? Why is it that judges see that treatment is the way to go, but, lawmakers IGNORE this and in so doing make sociiety less safe?4-21-2009 South Dakota:A federal judge in Sioux Falls has delayed the sentencing of a mentally disabled man who has pleaded guilty to traveling to South Dakota to have sex with a person he believed

NC- Sex offender rules not clearly stated

Posted on April 21, 2009
WOW, gotta love this person going after the locals; hire her! If the Sheriff's office explanation is correct and permits excluding a RSO from that library, then where on earth can a RSO live or be since children learn everywhere they are or go?4-21-2009 North Carolina:A friend of ours is a sex offender...

OH- Appeals court upholds sex offender registration law

Posted on April 21, 2009
Hummm, first see my comments below. Then I wonder if the justices did this to force the issues to a higher court?4-21-2009 Ohio:AKRON ? The 9th District Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a state sex offender registration and notification law that is being challenged by four Lorain County men...

DC- Strip searches in middle school? Top court to decide.

Posted on April 21, 2009
To decide which direction the court will go as to "person strip-searches" I think this answers the question: Can a parent strip search their own child if they suspect similar things? The case will turn on the custodial connection, and here the answer is no! It is one thing to search property and another to search the private parts of a person especially a juvenile which under law is a crime...

VA- Four Bedford County teens charged in ?sexting? case

Posted on April 21, 2009
4-21-2009 Virginia: Four Staunton River high school students, all underage, are charged with misdemeanors after an alleged ?sexting? case.?Sexting? is basically slang for when teens take nude, or in this case partially nude, photos on camera phones.One of the teens is also accused of sending at least one of the pictures through a text message, making it a felony child pornography charge...

SC- Berkeley County man accused of ?sexting? an 11-year-old girl

Posted on April 21, 2009
4-21-2009 South Carolina:Berkeley County Sheriff?s deputies arrested a 27-year-old man for allegedly ?sexting? an 11-year-old girl. According to authorities, the girl received a missed call on her phone so she sent a text back thinking it was friend calling from a different phone number...

TN- Sex Offender Pleads Guilty To Not Registering In Tenn.

Posted on April 21, 2009
Notice the purposeful misconstruction of the facts of this case in order to claim that the Adam Walsh Act was instrumental and necessary for this type of FTR offense. Reality is: 1) The man paroled in Washington and failed to register; 2) He traveled to Tennessee, failed to register and was caught...

IA- Attorney General?s Office Statement Regarding Sex Offender Legislation

Posted on April 21, 2009
4-21-2009 Iowa:The Attorney General?s Office strives on many fronts to keep all Iowans safe from sexual violence, and especially to protect our children from sexual predators. Attorney General Tom Miller fully supports this legislation as a major step toward more effective monitoring of sex offenders who live in our state, and toward deterring future sex offenders from threatening our most

RELEASED: The Bush Administration's Secret Legal Memos

Posted on April 20, 2009
4-20-2009 National:For more than five years, the ACLU and other advocacy organizations have been seeking the release of Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memos that supplied the basis for the Bush administration's interrogation, detention, rendition, and warrantless surveillance policies...

VA- My Students. My Cellphone. My Ordeal.

Posted on April 20, 2009
4-20-2009 Virginia:The Channel 4 Newsbreak was meant to shock: "High school assistant principal in Loudoun County arrested for child pornography," announced WRC's Jim Vance. "Details following the Olympics." That was last Aug. 20. The assistant principal was me...

What compels female molesters remains largely a mystery

Posted on April 20, 2009
4-20-2009 National:Women have been arrested this month in connection with two shocking child molestation incidents ? one that ended in murder. The cases, which surfaced last week, are particularly notable because both are so unusual, experts say.For one thing, only about 5% of adults who molest minors are women, says David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the

NC- Judge's ruling in Chatham leads counties to butt heads

Posted on April 20, 2009
A war between officials (court and sheriff) over a sex offender, who needs sex offender treatment, in a locked down facility, which is in a proscribed area due to a residency law; who will win? Unfortunately logic plays no part in the sheriff's thinking related to residency laws...

AL- Law would make inappropriate teacher-student relationships a felony

Posted on April 20, 2009
4-20-2009 Alabama:Houston County District Attorney Doug Valeska had a solid case against Andrew Sewell.Valeska had text messages sent by the former Dothan High principal to a student saying he loved her and wanted to marry her. He had phone records of calls exchanged between the two and excuses for absences written for the student by Sewell...

PA- Man jailed for trying to torch home

Posted on April 20, 2009
4-20-2009 Pennsylvania:Three endangered in Fulton Township George Sheets Jr. claimed he targeted a convicted sex offender when he tried to set fire to a Fulton Township mobile home while three people slept inside.Prosecutors argued Sheets was a jilted ex-lover when he committed the attempted arson in April 2007...

IA- Law enforcement favors offender bill

Posted on April 20, 2009
Excellent, ignore the public by denying them input. Aren't lawmakers smart? Guess thats one way to eliminate any opposition. Funny, didn't things get to be a mess because lawmakers would not listen? Business as usual..4-20-2009 Iowa:A bipartisan plan aimed at better monitoring child sex offenders and scaling back the mandates of a controversial residency law won wide support tonight from law

PA- A Lawyer, Some Teens and a Fight Over 'Sexting'

Posted on April 20, 2009
4-20-2009 Pennsylvania:Revealing Images Sent Via Cellphones Prompt District Attorney to Offer Seminars but Threaten Felony ChargesThe group of anxious parents crowded around District Attorney George Skumanick Jr. as he sat behind a table in a courtroom here and presented them with an ultimatum...

OH- Court: Teen accused of texting nude photos violated deal

Posted on April 20, 2009
4-20-2009 Ohio:NEWARK ? A teenager whose case attracted national publicity when she was facing potential sex offender status for transmitting nude photos of herself was in court again last week, according to records at the Juvenile Division of the Licking County Court of Common Pleas...

VT- Lawmakers: Include Education in Sexting Bill

Posted on April 20, 2009
4-20-2009 Vermont:Members of a Vermont House panel say legislation that would decriminalize teenage "sexting" should include education requirements.Sexting is when people use their cell phones to send sexually explicit pictures and messages to each other...

LA- Death penalty hearing starts for Barry Ferguson

Posted on April 20, 2009
4-20-2009 Louisiana:Today, Orleans Parish prosecutors will ask a jury to give the death penalty to Barry Ferguson, the Kenner man convicted Saturday night of raping and strangling his 16-year-old daughter during a drunken binge in May 2003.Ferguson, 45, raped and killed Brandy Ferguson, a special education student left in his care when her mother left in 1990, after they had spent an evening

UT- Help teen realize ramifications of 'sexting'

Posted on April 20, 2009
Question: Dear Dr. Scott, I recently got the shock of my ... life. I found out that my teenage daughter has been "sexting" her friends. We took her phone and internet privileges away, and explained to her how dangerous/ dumb/stupid it was of her to do that...

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