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NY- Sex offender arrested at Riverside trailer

Posted on February 04, 2009
OK, here we have a homeless sex offender. Question: How do homeless persons remember what today is, what time it is, or other similar facts? If you were homeless where would you go to urinate or do the other? A reader raised these questions with respect to Thomas Pauli who froze to death in Michigan, here again those questions are relevant...

Student cell phone confiscation and searches

Posted on February 04, 2009
2-4-2009 National: According to this article, one Texas school district is now allowing for the confiscation of cell phones from students who display or use them at school, and is considering levying a retrieval fee. I had mentioned in a comment to a previous post by Justin that other districts are definitely requiring a fee of either $15 or $25 for a confiscated cell phone to be returned to a

CO- Council passes living restrictions for sex offenders

Posted on February 04, 2009
I'll start here: They 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...

GA- Civil disobedience: A Proper Construction

Posted on February 03, 2009
2-2-2009 Georgia: Today a few sites are claiming "FIRST OPEN CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE BY S.O.," and citing a Georgia court case which is in progress today. Civil disobedience is a refusal to follow some law, going to court to seek an injunction against the state enforcing a law, is not civil disobedience, nor is this the first case of a former sex offender going to court seeking an injunction

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Misguided Measures

Posted on February 03, 2009
3-7-2007 National: New Sex Offender Laws May Cause Bigger Problems Than They Prevent Megan Kanka, Polly Klaas, Jessica Lunsford -- the names break your heart at their very mention. All were victims of child sex predators. But laws passed in their names may be making matters worse...

NJ- Prison teleconferencing system cuts costs of inmate evaluations

Posted on February 03, 2009
2-3-2009 New Jersey: The pilot "telepsychiatry" program provides mental health screenings on a television conference system with a doctor available at any hour. NEWARK, N.J. Police across Middlesex County saw the pattern. Suspects being taken to the county jail suddenly said they were suicidal, triggering a required trip to a hospital where two officers had to stay with the inmate until he was

AL- Some question justice of sex offender laws

Posted on February 03, 2009
2-3-2009 Alabama: Although Troy King?s Community Notification Act passed unchallenged in the Alabama Legislature in 2005, even proponents of the law admit that it is not problem-free. The law states, ?The Legislature declares that its intent in imposing certain registration and reporting requirements on criminal sex offenders is to protect the public ? and not to further punish such offenders.

Thousands Of MySpace Sex Offender Refugees Found On Facebook

Posted on February 03, 2009
Notice how quickly they share information, which came from the National Sex Offender registry, and which they had to promise they would not share, to gain access to that national data base. So much for federal laws to protect RSOs. 2-3-2009 National: MySpace is in the spotlight today because it revealed that 90,000 registered sex offenders have been kicked off its site in the past two years.

Citing Progress, MySpace Says 90,000 Sex Offenders Blocked From Site

Posted on February 03, 2009
MySpace continues to use their "entrapment scheme" to log any registered sex offender (RSO) who trys to setup an account on MySpace. While MySpace has verbally made claims that it does not want RSOs on their website, MySpace has yet to amend their Terms of Agreement (TOA) to alert any possible RSOs that may want to establish an account, that doing so is against MySpace Policy: Entrapment...

Registered Sex Offenders Who Were Killed by a Law Related to SO Registration

Posted on February 02, 2009
2-2-2009 National: The following registrants died as a result of, directly or substantially, the law noted. Clicking on their name will direct you to the stories of what occurred and how. SO Residency Law (Froze to death): Michigan-2009: Thomas Pauli (52) SO Public Registry Law (All shot by vigilantes in their homes): Maine-2006: Joseph Gray (57) Maine-2006: William Elliot (24) Washington-

CA- Rescue mission seeks aid

Posted on February 02, 2009
In light of the Michigan case of Thomas Pauli, who froze to death because of, being denied entry or would have been denied entry (depending on who one believes), to one of the available missions because of his status as a RSO, follow closely how Missons in California handle that circumstance...

OFF TOPIC- IN- County suspends all bench warrants

Posted on February 02, 2009
2-2-2009 Indiana: Indianapolis - Arrest warrants have vanished for thousands of deadbeat parents as a result of a new court policy. Vicki Sadler and her daughter are awaiting $9,000 in back child support. But last week, the bench warrant for the father's arrest was wiped off the books - along with 4,000 others...

AL- Some question justice of sex offender laws

Posted on February 02, 2009
The legislature speaks with forked tongue, they establish multiple sex offense laws and punishments -and other crime types as well-, such is proof of the belief in "principle of proportionality," every state follows same as does federal law. Then comes sex offender registration laws and collateral laws that flow from it, where did the principle of proportionality go? 2-2-2009 Alabama: Although

IN- Sex offfender registry director found in contempt of court

Posted on February 02, 2009
The DOC -typical of the mentality of it- places itself above the law. In the hierarchy of law the DOC -one agency of the Executive Branch of government- is below the judicial system another Branch of Government. Law sets the procedure (appeal in this case, only a higher court can overturn a lower court) and the DOC ignored the law...

Sex offender asks Waco's 10th Court of Appeals Chief Justice Gray to recuse himself from case

Posted on February 01, 2009
2-1-2009 Texas: Waco?s 10th Court of Appeals Chief Justice Tom Gray, who recently was disciplined by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, has been asked to step down from a case by a convicted sex offender because of the acerbic nature of previous opinions the judge wrote in his case...

Can the search engines tell who you are?

Posted on February 01, 2009
2-1-2009 Global: It is still difficult for search engines to exactly pinpoint your identity as a user, but by using various techniques they can learn a lot about you. Should you be worried about your privacy? Ixquick thinks so, and is no longer recording your IP address...

CO- Greeley leaders to vote on sex offender residency law

Posted on February 01, 2009
2-1-2009 Colorado: We?re taught the signs from a young age. If a stranger offers you candy, you decline and run away. In fact, there?s a whole tradition of people telling their children how to deal with sex offenders. The tales are filled with men who live in vans, preying on young children, and ones who prowl playgrounds, lollipops in hand...

MN- State hospital patient faces felony charge

Posted on February 01, 2009
Is it any wonder aman knowing his life is being illegally cut short, would not resort to conduct such as this. 2-1-2009 Minnesota: ST. PETER ? A 25-year old patient with the Minnesota Sex Offender Progam (MSOP) who is housed at the St. Peter Regional Treatment Center has been charged with a felony for allegedly punching a security counselor with a fist...

NY- Upstate man admits he fatally stabbed man (sex offender) with a hunting knife

Posted on January 31, 2009
See earlier story: 1-31-2009 New York: JOHNSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) - An upstate man admits he stabbed a convicted sex offender to death with a hunting knife last summer. Randy Lee Green called police "crooked" and shouted at the victim's family before pleading guilty to second-degree murder Friday...

NM- Bill gives officers contact info of sex offenders

Posted on January 31, 2009
It never ceases to amaze me how ignorant lawmakers and law enforcement is, their heads are in the sand, they have no idea how the Internet works and are totally oblivious of the costs of today's throwaway cell phones, and have ignored land lines. Every Internet service provider has ways to eliminate spam, and any e-mail coming in can be tagged spam, e-mail addresses are a dime a dozen and can be

If they can get along whats wrong with this world?

Posted on January 31, 2009
Anyone have an answer?

MI- Sex Offender Dies in Cold After Being Denied From Shelter

Posted on January 31, 2009
See earlier story: 1-31-2009 Michigan: Thomas Pauli Found Dead in Cold; Social Workers Say His Sex Offender Status Kept Him out of Shelters A homeless man found dead in the cold earlier this week in Michigan had been denied a place to stay in local homeless shelters because he was a sex offender, social workers said...

CA- State appeals court upholds 200-year sentence

Posted on January 31, 2009
1-31-2009 California: A state court of appeal has upheld the 200-year sentence given to a Marin County man convicted of molesting four girls. Robert Alan Girard appealed the sentence handed down after his 2007 conviction claiming it was cruel and unusual punishment...

AL- Two sex offenders talk about life in the public eye

Posted on January 31, 2009
1-31-2009 Alabama: _____ is a sex offender. Very soon, all his neighbors in Auburn will know it too?because a sex offender notification flier is about to be sent out. ?It still stresses me out,? he said. ?All they see is a sex offender. They want to judge somebody...

CA- No place to call home: Vagrant describes circumstances and how they came about

Posted on January 31, 2009
1-31-2009 California: Jesse Rodriguez can be labeled many ways: father, boyfriend, two-strike felon, ex-con, homeless, a 43-year-old. The list goes on. But three numbers, 290, have defined his life for the past three years. Two-ninety serves as a euphemism for sex offenders...

MI- Editorial: Freezing deaths in Michigan should spur changes in some state rules

Posted on January 31, 2009
1-31-2009 Michigan: Tragedy too often is the catalyst for change. The freezing deaths of a spate of Michigan residents are among the latest such tragedies. The death of an elderly Bay City man in his home should bring changes in state law regarding utility shutoffs during the winter...

MI- Man found in snow had no place to turn

Posted on January 30, 2009
See earlier stories. Died because of a ill conceived law that protects no one. Given that there has not been a single crime reported nationwide, occurring in a protected place (school, etc.) by a registered sex offender living within the proscribed distance, this is a testament to the short sightedness of lawmakers...

LA- Jindal announces sex offense legislation

Posted on January 30, 2009
Another proposed law lacking logic to coverup the failure of the current state agency that issues day care licenses. Clearly that agency failed in its duty to provide a safe environment for children at that specific day care, they simply ignored checking to see if a RSO resided at that day care...

NB- Police suspect arson in fire at home of suspect in pornography case

Posted on January 30, 2009
1-30-2009 New Brunswick: TRACYVILLE, N.B. ? Police say they suspect someone deliberately set fire to the home of a New Brunswick man who faces charges following a child pornography investigation. Police were called to the house in Tracyville, south of Fredericton, around 10 p...

FL- Sex Offenders Living Under Bridge Claim They Are Being Forced Out

Posted on January 30, 2009
1-30-2009 Florida: MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- Juan Martin is a convicted sex offender and says because he can't live near schools so he's forced to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway. Martin says the place is becoming overcrowded and admits some people have built make shift homes outside of the bridge...

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