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CO- Software helps DA investigators nab Internet sex offenders

Posted on February 12, 2009
2-12-2009 Colorado: JEFFERSON COUNTY - It's a program designed to protect children using the Internet from sexual predators. An investigator with the Jefferson County District Attorney's office is the first law enforcement officer to use the My Mobile Watchdog program to make an arrest using the software, and he's already made more than one...

ME- Maine Supreme Cout Oral Arguments on its Registry and Ex Post Facto Clause

Posted on February 12, 2009
Great Video 30 minutes: 2-11-2009 Maine: PORTLAND (NEWS CENTER) -- The Maine Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday afternoon on whether the sex offender registry law can be applied retroactively. The man challenging the law was convicted in 1996 of a sexual offense involving a thirteen year old girl...

First Sexually Dangerous Individual Committed Under New Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act

Posted on February 12, 2009
Now we see the fight between circuits begin, if folks remember the 4th Circuit held AWA Civil Commitment unconstitutional, but here in the 1st Circuit apparently it is constitutional. Who wins? Time for an upper court to decide.. 2-12-2009 Massachusetts: BOSTON, Feb...

Internet Users Uphold First Amendment Rights

Posted on February 12, 2009
2-12-2009 Global: Human rights activists, including myself, agree that the government has no authority to decide what is censored on the internet because this is a constitutionally protected right of an individual. The government cannot decide what another person should be able to see and do on the internet, as this is a personal decision...

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WY- Wyo high court orders new sex offender sentencing

Posted on February 12, 2009
2-12-2009 Wyoming: CHEYENNE -- The Wyoming Supreme Court has ruled that a district judge should not have weighed a convicted sex offender's decision to have a jury trial in sentencing him. A jury in 2007 found Keith E. Guinn guilty of having improper sexual contact with a 9-year-old girl...

WA- Vigilante could be headed to prison

Posted on February 12, 2009
2-12-2009 Washington: Last summer, we told you the story of vigilante Tammy Gibson - who took a baseball bat to a child molestor who moved into her neighborhood. We have an update to that story - but first, here's our original story from last June: There is controversy raging about whether police should notify residents about sex offenders moving into their neighborhoods...

ND- Appeals Court Upholds Child Sex Abuse Conviction

Posted on February 12, 2009
Recognizing that a strong sentence is warranted here, but in essence, a life without parole sentence? Cases far worse than this have received less sentences. This appears excessive, but thats what the Adam Walsh Act is all about, excessivenesses, someday it will be overturned...

OH- Sex offender challenges state database

Posted on February 12, 2009
Commentary to follow:2-12-2009 Ohio:Federal probation officers are demanding that sex offenders in Ohio register their names with a state database even if the state doesn?t require it.A Cincinnati man challenged the practice in a federal lawsuit Wednesday, claiming it was unconstitutional and a waste of taxpayer dollars...

MA- SJC sees possible bias in rape case

Posted on February 11, 2009
2-11-2009 Massachusetts: Why charge only the boy? Judges bitterly divided on issue A sharply divided Supreme Judicial Court said yesterday that a 14-year-old boy accused of statutory rape may have been a victim of gender discrimination because authorities charged him and not the three underage girls with whom he allegedly had sex...

CA- Another District Court Dismisses SORNA Indictment on Commerce Clause Grounds

Posted on February 11, 2009
Heads up to: Sex Crimes Blog by Corey Rayburn Yung 2-11-2009 California: In U.S. v. Valverde, the Eastern District of California held that Congress lacked the authority to enact SORNA because the Act could not be justified under by the Commerce Clause...

ID- ID justices lift man's violent sex predator label

Posted on February 11, 2009
2-11-2009 Idaho: BOISE, Idaho ? The Idaho Supreme Court says the state's method of classifying violent sexual predators is unconstitutional and has ordered that the label be removed from a man who admitted four rapes. Tuesday's ruling from a divided court came in the case of Jason C...

MA- Mass. court strikes down civil commitment

Posted on February 11, 2009
2-11-2009 Massachusetts: BOSTON, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- A law allowing Massachusetts to keep juveniles in custody past the age of 18 gives the state too much discretion, the state's highest court says. The Supreme Judicial Court struck the law down Tuesday, The Boston Globe reported...

VT- Vermont Lawmakers Tackle 'Sexting'

Posted on February 11, 2009
2-11-2009 Vermont: Proposed Law Would Protect Teens MONTPELIER, Vt. -- Vermont's Senate Judiciary Committee is looking into changing state law to account for "sexting," a trend where young people send nude or semi-nude self portraits to each other oftentimes via cell phone text messages...

IA- Lawmakers consider changes for sex offender law

Posted on February 11, 2009
2-11-2009 Iowa: Iowa lawmakers are considering extensive changes to the state's sex offender laws to get the state into compliance with federal rules. As part of the re-write, some lawmakers want to scrap the restriction on where sex offenders live and instead, limit where they can go during the day...

TX- Bryan death probed (20 Year Old Registered Sex Offender)

Posted on February 11, 2009
2-11-2009 Texas: A preliminary autopsy report released Wednesday shows that a 20-year-old homeless man found in a vacant downtown Bryan building died from blunt force trauma. Dale Wayne Ellis was discovered in an abandoned dry cleaning business at Main and Pruitt streets less than two blocks from the homeless shelter where he had recently stayed...

MI- Teen convicted in beheading gets hearing for new trial

Posted on February 11, 2009
2-11-2009 Michigan: Plymouth Township teen convicted last year of luring a friend into a death trap where he stabbed, beheaded and burned the victim, will get a hearing later this month on his request for a new trial. Jean Pierre Orlewicz, 18, claims mistakes were made by his lawyers and the judge who presided over the original trial where a jury found him guilty of premeditated murder and

CA- Sex offender subsidies capped

Posted on February 11, 2009
The minds of lawmakers, they are not to be understood except in the context of further punishment not resolving the societal problem. 2-11-2009 California: Taxpayer-funded rent money to stop after 60 days The 69 paroled sex offenders in Shasta County who each receive a subsidy of more than $800 a month to live in apartments, trailer parks and residential motels now have 60 days to pay their

MA- More Students Accused Of 'Sexting'

Posted on February 11, 2009
2-11-2009 Massachusetts: Naked Images Discovered On Cell Phone, Police Say FALMOUTH, Mass. -- More "sexting" allegations in another Bay State town have landed six young boys in trouble. The Falmouth middle school students from the Lawrence School were accused of passing naked pictures of a fellow student on their cell phones...

NJ- Leave Megan's Law alone

Posted on February 11, 2009
The premise on which Mega's law was developed was: 1) It was thought that sex offenders had a high recidivism rate; 2) Given the propensity a system was needed to notify the public of their dangerousness. Hence, Megan's law. However, this recent study has learned that these former offenders DO NOT HAVE A HIGH RECIDIVISM RATE...

IL- Sex offender charged after failing to register MySpace account

Posted on February 10, 2009
This is absurd to the nth degree, look at the statute, it is not possible for one to remember eveyrthing from their past as technically as this statute requires; absurd. Hopefully a good lawyer will take up this case a stick it to the state, laws are not supposed to reach absurd results, this one does...

CA- State to cut back housing aid for paroled sex offenders, officials say

Posted on February 10, 2009
2-10-2009 California: The state will stop paying long-term motel and apartment rents for thousands of sex offenders across California under an order Monday from a top corrections official, who acknowledged the move likely will add to the rolls of sex offenders who become homeless to avoid the living restrictions under Jessica's Law...

ME- Maine's high court takes up sex offender laws

Posted on February 10, 2009
It is going to be interesting to see how the court views whether this law is or is not "further punishment" which is a requred element to declare a law a violation of the ex post facto clause; so many folks simply do not understand how the law decides whether a law is a violation or not...

CA- Debate Rages Over Sex Predators In San Diego

Posted on February 10, 2009
2-10-2009 California: Another sexually violent predator may soon be released in Ramona. These are sex offenders with mental disorders who have been committed to a state mental hospital. News 8 looks into why some of these predators get high levels of supervision - and others don't...

Predator panic increases risk

Posted on February 10, 2009
2-10-2009 National: I've been an Internet safety advocate since 1993 and right now I'm discouraged and angry about what's going on in this field. I'm angry because people who ought to know better are trying to mislead the public with false information about online risks which is diverting attention away from real risks...

CA- Court Orders California to Cut Prison Population

Posted on February 10, 2009
2-10-2009 California: The California prison system must reduce overcrowding by as many as 55,000 inmates within three years to provide a constitutional level of medical and mental health care, a federal three-judge panel tentatively ruled Monday. Relying on expert testimony, the court ruled that the California prison system, the nation?s largest with more than 150,000 inmates, could reduce its

ND- N.D. Legislature: Sex offender ban ... Too much time, money

Posted on February 10, 2009
2-10-2009 North Dakota: Sex offender ban bill dies The House defeated a bill Monday that would have restricted convicted sex offenders from living near or being near schools, day care centers and other areas with children. Those who opposed the bill said the state?s police departments and sheriffs testified against it, because it did not offer the protection it seemed to while making it

NY- Sex offenders: looking at the numbers

Posted on February 09, 2009
2-9-2009 New York: "No Easy Answers," is the title of a Human Rights Watch report on sex-offender laws in the United States and here's one question. How well do residency restrictions protect children? One statistic from the report jumped out at me: 87 percent of people who were arrested for sex crimes had not previously been convicted of such an offense, according to a 1997 study...

MI- Judge: Decoy's age in soccer coach's Internet sex predator case irrelevant

Posted on February 09, 2009
2-9-2009 Michigan Phase-I: GRAND RAPIDS -- A judge today refused to dismiss charges against a high school soccer coach who was arrested during an Internet sex predator sting in October. Eric Carl Wesche, 20, of Cedar Springs, asked Kent County Circuit Court Judge Mark Trusock to dismiss the charge that he used a computer to commit child sexually abusive activity...

Federal government keeps mug shots secret

Posted on February 09, 2009
Looking beyond the case cited I wonder if these laws could be used to show a valid discrimination claim in court. Sex offender photos -even federal charges- are released with regularity. Comments anyone? 2-9-2009 National: TULSA, Okla. ? An illegal immigrant held on complaints that he stabbed a Tulsa man to death...

NC- Immigrant Sex Offender May Be Released in North Carolina Untreated Due to Illegal Status

Posted on February 09, 2009
It seems that money is needed to solve all issues surrounding sex offenses and offenders, and lawmakers refuse to appropriate the funding. So is it their priority -as they profess- to prevent future victims? 2-9-2009 North Carolina: A high-risk, 18-year-old sex offender in North Carolina may soon be a free man ? because he is an illegal immigrant and the state has determined it cannot pay to

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