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IN- Porn Sting Goes To The Dogs

Posted on March 19, 2009
Lets see, "You have a right to remain silent etc etc etc," I'm sure she was told this. Maybe she is still drunk? Oh well, she will wake up when told she will have to register as a sex offender though.. Also check the affidavit, she is sinking herself fast...

NH- Outcry over sex offender may have peaked (Non sex offender)

Posted on March 19, 2009
First, notice how the media misreports this man's background, as he has NO sex offense whatsoever. Now, what is our criminal justice system all about? It is based on: commit a crime, you will be removed from society, but at some point you will again return to society, and then you must remain offense free or the cycle begins all over again...

Bill in Congress - HR 414

Posted on March 19, 2009
3-19-2009 National:`Camera Phone Predator Alert Act'Sponsor: Rep King, Peter T. [NY-3] Introduced 1/9/2009 Bill HR 414The intent of the bill is: To require mobile phones containing digital cameras to make a sound when a photograph is taken. First the provisions I would question:SEC...

FL- DiPatri wants Palm Bay teacher fired

Posted on March 19, 2009
3-19-2009 Florida:Brevard Superintendent Richard DiPatri recommended a Southwest Middle physical education teacher and basketball coach be fired for gross insubordination after he ignored orders to stop taking his camera-equipped cell phone into a boy's locker room...

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IA- Lawmakers try to close sex offender loophole

Posted on March 19, 2009
Effectively they are speaking of something in the nature of juvenile civil commitment, which would prevent release of the juvenile at the end of his/her sentence.3-19-2009 Iowa:Lawmakers said Wednesday they would work this year to try to close a loophole in Iowa law that allowed a teenage sex offender to "age out" of Iowa's juvenile justice system after he committed a felony and failed to

KY- Court: Sex offender ruled incompetent to stand trial

Posted on March 18, 2009
3-18-2009 Kentucky:A homeless Maysville man has been ruled incompetent to stand trial on charges he failed to register as a sex offender, a class D felony.According to Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Gary Adkins, Harold M. "Beanie" Atherton, 42, underwent a psychiatric evaluation to determine if he was competent to stand trial...

Prison population continues to grow

Posted on March 18, 2009
Click for interactive state-by-state map: 3-18-2009 National:To save money on prisons, states take a softer stanceSALINA, Kan. ? In a hushed conference room overlooking the town's main drag, eight convicted felons, including an aspiring amateur fighter, brandish bright Crayola markers...

OR- Money for tracking offenders is well spent (in whos' opinion)

Posted on March 18, 2009
The real question the public should be asking is: Does all this tracking PREVENT further sex crimes? Today the Govenor is asking for an ADDITIONAL amount of money (a similar amount of money was appropriated last year as well) to continue TRACKING systems...

Twitter - Useful for our advocacy - YES/NO

Posted on March 18, 2009
3-18-2009 National:Not wanting to miss out on a possible useful new service, can anyone think of how we could EFFECTIVELY use Twitter in our advocacy?Post comment or send me a e-mail with thoughts...Here is how others in the legal field are using it:Law School and Law Library Twitter Feeds"Rex Gradeless" at Social Media Law Student has identified some law schools and academic law libraries that

NH- Sex offender wants to live near N.H. school

Posted on March 18, 2009
No where in the story did this man say, he wanted to live near a school, instead the man said 'he wants to live with his partner and the mother of his three children.' So why does the media report something in a manner that implies a reason not expressed by the person? Sensationalism, attacking the person by misconstruing his intent...

NH- Sex Offender Challenges Housing Ordinance

Posted on March 18, 2009
Excellent factual reporting of this story.3-18-2009 New Hampshire:FRANKLIN, N.H. -- A convicted sex offender who wants to live with his partner in Franklin is challenging an ordinance that prohibits him from living within 2,500 feet of a school.Frank Singleton, III, represented by the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union, asked a judge to order the mayor and police chief not to enforce the sex

Anonymity and Privacy Should Not Add Up to Prison Time

Posted on March 17, 2009
3-17-2009 National:EFF Urges U.S. Sentencing Commission to Reject Amendments on Use of ProxiesWashington, D.C. - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today urged the United States Sentencing Commission to reject modifications to federal sentencing guidelines that would require extra prison time for people who use technology that hides one's identity or location...

CT- Ozark Police: Connecticut man behind alleged bomb threat

Posted on March 17, 2009
Now I'll be the first to admit I was wrong, if I am, but I think this story went down differently. A guy (RSO here) walks into a church probably to talk to the minister, someone sees the EpiPen and panics, a BOMB, god call the police. Police come realize its nothing but a EpiPen and plant that the guy (RSO) called about disaster information...

VA- 'Sexting' should make us rethink law and kids

Posted on March 17, 2009
3-17-2009 Virginia:This is in reference to the March 11 article about the recent "sexting" arrests in Spotsylvania County ["'Sexting' charges faced by 2 teens," March 11].As a father of two boys and two girls, I can only imagine the anguish that the parents of both the boys and the girls involved in this must be going through...

CT- Legislation will toughen and expand reporting requirements of sex offenders

Posted on March 17, 2009
Must of the additional information required is protected by federal law. Yet, there is a exception, if the person previously agrees to allow such use of it, of course the state does not tell the registrants of those protections nor that they have a right to block using personal information...

GA- Our Opinion on SB 157: Fix registry

Posted on March 17, 2009
3-13-2009 Georgia:Once legislators realized how passionately voters revile ?sex offenders,? they began to search for those offenders everywhere ? even where they don?t exist ? to make sure they are punished and stay punished.As a result, an increasing number of criminals on the state?s sex-offender registry never committed a sex crime...

FL- Homeless sexual predators sleeping in Lakeland field

Posted on March 17, 2009
3-17-2009 Florida:Lakeland, Florida - Every night around 10 p.m. the caravan of SUV's and cars start pulling into a grassy field near Interstate 4 in an industrial area of North Lakeland. Some people sleep in their cars others sleep in the tents they've erected in the area...

CO- Police: Convicted sex offender used neighbor's wireless internet to download child porn

Posted on March 17, 2009
Time to get smart, this is not smart, neither the method nor the images...3-17-2009 Colorado:A Colorado Springs man convicted of Sexual Exploitation of a Child used his neighbor's unsecured wireless internet account to download child pornography. According to Colorado Springs Police, child porn images were found on _____'s computer during a visit by his probation officer...

IL- Sex offender registry case sent back to Kane County

Posted on March 17, 2009
3-17-2009 Illinois:ELBURN ? An Elburn man could be removed from the state's sex offender registry after the 2nd District Appellate reversed a judge's decision that Parkinson's disease medication couldn't have led the man to solicit sex from a teenage girl...

'Sexting' ? adults only

Posted on March 17, 2009
3-17-2009 National:Do you ?sext?? "Sexting" involves sending or posting sexually charged messages and photos, via your cell phone. It is the 21st century tech term for what was once called phone sex. We?ve all heard of phone sex and may have done it ourselves as part of an adult couple...

MO- Missouri Supreme Court upholds Marion County man's conviction

Posted on March 17, 2009
3-17-2009 Missouri:Hannibal, MO ? The Missouri Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a Marion County sex offender.William D. Holden was charged in April 1994 with two counts of sodomy with a child under the age of 14.Before he pleaded guilty in March 1995, the state passed a law requiring sex offenders to notify sheriff?s departments within 10 days of moving to a new address...

OH- Paperless, court is motionless

Posted on March 17, 2009
3-17-2009 Ohio:A Morrow County court is going BYOP: Bring your own paper.The Municipal Court that handles civil, small claims, criminal and traffic cases won't accept new case filings starting Monday because it's almost out of supplies and has no money to re-order...

UK- Study backs jail's radical therapy for sex offenders

Posted on March 17, 2009
3-17-2009 United Kingdom:THE FIRST reliable evidence that innovative attempts to treat sex offenders can cut crime will be published next month.A study of prisoners released from the 'therapeutic community' at Grendon jail, in Buckinghamshire, found that its former inmates were twice as likely to keep a clean record as offenders released from ordinary jails...

AR- Sex Offender's Wife Seeking Private Club Liquor Permit

Posted on March 17, 2009
In another article and HERE they have misreported the reason why the husband was told to leave the bar. However, assuming he was not working, then he can remain in the bar and drink whatever he wants...He is a free man, just can't work at an establishment that serves alcohol...

WA- Washington court reverses sex offender conviction

Posted on March 16, 2009
While it appears this decision is all about "failure to register" on reviewing it, it really is all about classification of RSOs. Finally, a lawyer has approached the subject in a new light, separation of powers, and apparently effectively.3-16-2009 Washington:CHEHALIS, Wash...

How safe are your children?

Posted on March 16, 2009
3-16-2009 National:A recent article about the murder of a young teen by a sex offender has many parents wondering about the systems put into place that supposedly keeps better track of offenders when they're on probation or released from prison.Drivers use GPS monitoring to get to their destination, cell phone users have GPS services on their phones and GPS watches are being used by hikers to

IN- 'Child molester lives here' spray-painted on man's fence

Posted on March 16, 2009
Really smart reporting, explaining to whoever, hey you got the wrong house, its a few houses away...3-16-2009 Indiana:Graffiti discovered on an Evansville man's fence Sunday morning suggested falsely that a child molester lives at his residence.Roy Hall reported the graffiti on his fence at 1305 W...

IN- Are there ever mitigating circumstances when it?s a sex crime?

Posted on March 15, 2009
3-14-2009 Georgia:TERRE HAUTE ? There are people who look at the arrest of Alex J. Edwards last week and see a tidy black-and-white picture of a man accused of one of the worst crimes in our society: sexual misconduct with a minor.If Edwards, who tried to meet with a 14-year-old middle school girl, is prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to the maximum allowed, he will spend eight years in prison

KY- Nursing student sues after dismissal over blogging

Posted on March 15, 2009
3-15-2009 Kentucky:LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A woman dismissed from the University of Louisville nursing school because of posts on her personal blog sued Friday, saying her First Amendment rights were violated.Nina Yoder of Louisville asked U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson to issue an injunction that would allow her to resume classes and graduate in August...

Adults try to stop overexposed pictures sent to teens via cell phones

Posted on March 15, 2009
3-15-2009 National:One in five American teenagers likely has sent a nude or semi-naked photo of themselves to someone else via their cell phone, a recent national survey shows.While some youngsters consider it fun, the issue commonly referred to as "sexting" alarms parents and troubles educators and law enforcement officers, who warn the images are appearing on the Internet and in the hands of

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