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CA- Feds: Meeting On Xbox Live Led To Sex Crime

Posted on February 09, 2009
2-9-2009 California: Missouri Man Met California Teen On Video Game System, U.S. Attorney's Office Says FRESNO, Calif. -- A 27-year-old Missouri man who drove almost nonstop to California to meet a teenager he met on Xbox LIVE was indicted Thursday in federal court...

NH- N.H. House bill seeks to ease sex offender registry rules

Posted on February 09, 2009
It appears one lawmakers questions the other suggesting only personal reasons for the bill. The more I think about his comment the more egregious I think it is, here is why.. If lawmakers are willing to listen to victims of crimes to frame laws, why should they not listen to those affected by the laws they enact especially when the laws -as in this case- are unjustly destroying the lives (after

TX- Inmate who died in 1999 declared innocent of rape

Posted on February 09, 2009
2-9-2009 Texas: AUSTIN, Texas ? A Texas judge has tossed out rape charges against a Fort Worth, Texas, man who died in prison, proclaiming his innocence to the end. Travis County State District Judge Charlie Baird ordered Friday that any mention of Timothy Cole's 1986 conviction in Lubbock County for aggravated sexual assault be expunged from any criminal record...

Sex offenders not a threat to MySpace

Posted on February 08, 2009
In a shocking move, the networking site MySpace recently removed over 90 000 users that they had identified as sex offenders in an attempt to make the site safer for children. The number of culled accounts is undoubtedly shocking, and has been used by the likes of Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal as evidence to the fact that ?social networking sites remain rife with sexual

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Wake Up Call: Facebook Isn?t A Safe Haven

Posted on February 08, 2009
Another step in the demonization of registered sex offenders based purely on the dislike of such persons not on any new acts by such persons. What I find interesting is, again we see the pretext of protecting children, but ignoring all other crime types -including murder- which also affect children...

Effort to Track Sex Offenders Prompts States? Resistance

Posted on February 08, 2009
Please pay particular attention to comments made by John Walsh which imply that, a registration law such as The Adam Walsh Act would have prevented the murderous acts of Joseph E. Duncan III, is not recognizing that, tracking follows criminals and does nothing to prevent such acts...

TX- Hundreds who posted views on sex assault trial targeted in Tarrant suit

Posted on February 08, 2009
2-8-2009 Texas: FORT WORTH ? Hundreds of people who posted their opinions of a sexual assault trial in an online forum are now the targets of a lawsuit. The authors of those comments on a Web site thought they were anonymous, but this week, a judge ruled their names should be revealed...

Megans law, The Jacob Wetterling Act, and The Adam Walsh Act

Posted on February 07, 2009
2-7-2009 National: Each of these laws was patterned after the former and each merely tightened the former procedural requirements for registrants and making more and more of registrants' personal information public. Lawmakers claiming -each time- that the controls of the former law were insufficient and tracking of registrants was the answer to reducing sex offenses...

Credit-reporting business is ruining America

Posted on February 07, 2009
2-7-2009 National: The new administration might have thought the right thing to do was to ?hit the ground running.? The only ground that was hit was comprised of the collective bodies of the population as they were pounded economically and emotionally downward by elitist leaders who do not live in the real world...

NY- Statewide Legislation Aimed to Protect Children From Sex Offenders

Posted on February 07, 2009
Lawmakers allege they are doing this to protect children, but they ignore all things dangerous, other criminal types and things physical and the crimes actually happening to children in these protected places, and want folks to ASS-U-ME that former sex offenders are the ONLY danger to children...

KS- Inmate's appeal of sex offender label is too late

Posted on February 07, 2009
2-7-2009 Kansas: An inmate's claim he shouldn't be classified as a sex offender while in prison because he was never convicted of any sex offenses has been denied for failing to file the complaint in a timely manner. The Kansas Court of Appeals, in a ruling published Friday but actually issued in August, said that Jeffrey Litzinger, 45, did not file an appeal of his classification within the

CA- Federal Judge Unhappy With Flip-Flopping Fed

Posted on February 06, 2009
2-6-2009 California: It's never a good idea to make a judge on the brink of a five-month-long death penalty trial think he's wasting his time. Assistant U.S. Attorney Denise Barton learned that lesson this week, when Northern District of California Judge William Alsup ordered her to explain why the government decided to dismiss a sex offender registry prosecution less than two weeks after

MD- Using the Internet to nab bank robbers

Posted on February 06, 2009
2-6-2009 Maryland: FBI site puts suspects' faces before the public The bank robber didn't even try to conceal his identity. He leaned across the counter of the Chevy Chase Bank in Gaithersburg and practically shoved his face into the surveillance camera, giving authorities one of the clearest pictures of a robber they had ever seen...

WY- Sex offenders internet bill dies

Posted on February 06, 2009
2-6-2009 Wyoming: CHEYENNE - A bill to restrict Internet access for convicted sex offenders died in a legislative committee Thursday. The House Judiciary Committee voted unanimously against the bill. The committee's chairman, Rep. Keith Gingery, R-Jackson, says the bill was too flawed to go to the House floor...

UT- Who's responsible for 'sexting'?

Posted on February 06, 2009
2-6-2009 Utah: Utah parents have been stunned to learn of the newest, and strangest Internet phenomenon -- "sexting" -- which is the use of a cell phone to "text" nude or sexual images to friends or acquaintances. That's shocking, all right. But should it be a crime in all cases? Current Utah law makes the distribution of certain kinds of sexual images a third-degree felony...

No quick fixes, but child-porn users can be reformed, experts say

Posted on February 06, 2009
2-6-2009 Canada: Despite the disturbing rate of repeat offenders, experts believe that some sex offenders - child-pornography enthusiasts included - can learn to control their criminal appetites. But it takes years rather than months, they say. "If you do it in the right way and target the right things, you can pretty much guarantee that you can reduce the re-offence rate," says Bill Marshall

TX- AG?s office arrests local sex offender

Posted on February 05, 2009
2-5-2009 Texas: SEGUIN ? Authorities say that accessing MySpace landed a local convicted sex offender back behind bars. Seguin resident ____, 33, was arrested by the Texas Attorney General?s Fugitive Unit on Jan. 27 for allegedly accessing the Internet ? a violation of the terms of his parole...

Perpetuating the Myth of Sexual Predators and Social Networking

Posted on February 05, 2009
2-5-2009 National: A couple of state attorneys general are "appalled" that 90,000 registered sex offenders had MySpace pages before MySpace booted them off the site. Never mind that a task force created by the state attorneys general recently concluded that the online sexual solicitation of children isn't a significant problem (sensationalized television shows like "To Catch a Predator"

WA- Is sending racy 'sexts' flirting, or is it porn?

Posted on February 05, 2009
2-5-2009 Washington: Though youth is fleeting, images sent on a cell phone or posted online may not be, especially if they're naughty. Teenagers' habit of distributing nude self-portraits electronically -- often called "sexting" if it's done by cell phone -- has parents and school administrators worried...

ICE raids mostly nab non-criminals, files show

Posted on February 05, 2009
2-5-2009 National: Program was supposed to target dangerous fugitives An Immigration and Customs Enforcement program designed to target the most dangerous immigration fugitives has swept up mostly non-criminals in recent years, newly released documents show...

Sexually Assaulted on Facebook

Posted on February 05, 2009
2-5-2009 National: A judge in Waukesha County, Wis., told the suspect standing before her that she had never seen a complaint as "horrific" as the one filed against him. As the District Attorney's Office outlined the charges against the New Berlin Eisenhower High School student, Anthony Stancl, 18, stood silently, wearing an orange jail jumpsuit and chains...

CA- Cost Cuts Could Send Sex Offenders Underground

Posted on February 05, 2009
2-5-2009 California: SACRAMENTO, CA - Paroled sex offenders say new cuts to housing assistance will likely force more of them into the streets at greater risk to public safety. Next week, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDRC) announces new policies, including a stricter 60-day limit on paying rent for parolees newly released from prison...

GA- Parents: Cobb Middle Schooler Received Rape Threat On Computer

Posted on February 05, 2009
I guess the state residency law missed this stalker "sex offender" because s/he is IN THE SCHOOL not in the prohibited distance OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL. Well, I'm sure the legislature will jump in with some kind of law to protect kids on SCHOOL COMPUTERS, wonder what it will be? 2-5-2009 Georgia: COBB COUNTY, Ga...

TN- Put resources into treatment

Posted on February 04, 2009
2-4-2009 Tennessee: Adding adolescents (14 and older) to the adult (18 years and older) sex-offender registry is a legislative issue currently being debated in our state. At first glance, this may appear an easy decision, but with better understanding it becomes a more challenging issue...

TN- Sex registry stigma too much for young

Posted on February 04, 2009
2-4-2009 Tennessee: Today's Topic: Teen offenders may go on list Tennessee's top law-enforcement officials want juveniles convicted of sex crimes to be named on the state's public sex-offender registries, a notion that is likely to have broad popular support...

TN- Notification has harmful effects

Posted on February 04, 2009
2-4-2009 Tennessee: Public policy should be designed to maximize public safety, but juvenile sex offender registration will undermine, not increase public safety. There is no evidence community notification reduces sex-offender recidivism or increases community safety...

FL- ACLU Stands Up For Banished Sex Offenders

Posted on February 04, 2009
2-4-2009 Florida: After a conflict with Miami Police, the sex offenders who have been sent by the state to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway are getting some help from the American Civil Liberties Union. Yesterday the Florida branch of the ACLU delivered a letter to Miami Chief of Police John Timoney asking the department to stop threatening the men with arrests...

Obama: I'm sorry, so sorry

Posted on February 04, 2009
2-4-2009 Washing DC: George W. Bush was reluctant to admit any mistakes in eight years. It took Barack Obama just 14 days. And once he started Tuesday, he didn?t stop. ?I screwed up,? Obama told CBS in very un-presidential terms about Tom Daschle, whose nomination for Health and Human Services secretary had imploded a few hours earlier...

Teens who `sext' racy photos charged with porn

Posted on February 04, 2009
2-4-2009 National: CHICAGO (AP) ? Though youth is fleeting, images sent on a cell phone or posted online may not be, especially if they're naughty. Teenagers' habit of distributing nude self-portraits electronically ? often called "sexting" if it's done by cell phone ? has parents and school administrators worried...

WI- Sex offenders will face residency rules

Posted on February 04, 2009
Hysteria, Vigilantism and Extortion to force those in office to reverse their prior votes? How many others who originally voted against this were also targeted? 2-4-2009 Wisconsin: Greenfield reverses earlier decision on restrictions Just eight days after rejecting an identical proposal, the Greenfield Common Council has unanimously approved new restrictions about where sex offenders can

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