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MT- House endorses more limits for young sex offenders

Posted on January 30, 2009
1-30-2009 Montana: HELENA, Mont. (AP) - The House solidly endorsed a bill Friday that would prevent juvenile sex offenders from living near schools, public parks, or daycares. The measure was endorsed 91-9. Before moving to the Senate, it must still pass one more largely ceremonial reading in the House...

DC- Obama Selects Pastor, 26, to Head Faith Office

Posted on January 30, 2009
1-30-2009 Washington DC: President Obama has named Josh DuBois, the 26-year-old who ran religious outreach for his presidential campaign, to head the White House's new office of faith-based programs, a White House aide said today. DuBois, who has worked as an associate pastor for a small Pentecostal church in Massachusetts and received a master's degree in public affairs from Princeton

IA- Proposed sex offender law change makes sense, county attorney says

Posted on January 29, 2009
Proximity restrictions, as described in this article, while likely to protect some children from CERTAIN REGISTRANTS, are severly discriminatory to OTHER REGISTRANTS. Discriminatory in that, there is no REAL classification of registrants as to who posses a risk and who does not, and to what population they may pose a risk to...

MI- UPDATE- Death of homeless sex offender in Grand Rapids poses questions

Posted on January 29, 2009
See earlier stories: 1-29-2009 Michigan: So is this what it finally takes for us to hear the muffled cries of the homeless -- an ex-con dead in the snow because it's against the law for a sex offender to huddle up at either of two Grand Rapids missions? Thomas Pauli didn't choose to die alone in the cold...

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UK- Man stabbed former policeman to death boasting 'I'm going to get that paedo'.

Posted on January 29, 2009
1-29-2009 United Kingdom: A man stabbed a former policeman facing child pornography charges to death in a vigilante-style attack after boasting he was "going to get that paedo", a court heard. Daniel Williams, 30, dressed in a black hooded top and armed himself with a combat knife before travelling to the home of Geoffrey Harries where he launched the attack...

MI- "Sexting" Scandal Hits Another Local School

Posted on January 29, 2009
1-29-2009 Michigan: It's not texting--- it's sexting, and it's a new trend in local schools. This time, students from the Herbison Woods School in DeWitt were caught sending and sharing explicit photos. "We had several students inappropriately taking pictures and distributing them on cell phones," Superintendent Tina Templin said...

SC- Police shocked by what they find on kid's phones

Posted on January 28, 2009
1-28-2009 SOuth Carolina: Some Aiken teens may be playing with fire if they take part in a recent trend of sending explicit images over cell phones. Several teens around the country have been charged with sex crimes after "sexting" - a newly coined term for the sending and receiving of explicit images and texts - and law enforcement officials want Aiken teens to heed the warnings before they

PA- Wanted sex offender found online

Posted on January 28, 2009
1-28-2009 Pennsylvania: YORK ? A convicted sex offender has been found after seven months in hiding ? the break in the case came when information on his Facebook profile indicated where he was. On May 4, 2008, Justin Soukup, 20, of York was supposed to be sentenced for sexually assaulting a York County girl who was under the age of 15...

MI- Under new law, child molester Aaron Michael Snyder gets life in prison

Posted on January 28, 2009
1-28-2009 Michigan: MUSKEGON COUNTY ? For the first time in modern Muskegon County history, a nonmurderer has gotten the toughest sentence Michigan has to give: mandatory life in prison without chance of parole. That sentence was handed down Tuesday to repeat child molester Aaron Michael Snyder, 34, of 1547 Auble...

Those cleared by DNA tests struggle to be free

Posted on January 28, 2009
1-28-2009 National: ST. LOUIS ? Johnny Briscoe thought his nightmare was over in the summer of 2006 when, after 23 years of proclaiming his innocence, he finally walked out of a Missouri prison. DNA evidence lifted from a cigarette butt should have stripped away any doubt that another man ? not Briscoe ? had raped and robbed a woman in her suburban St...

IA- Convicted sex offender to be released

Posted on January 28, 2009
See earlier story about those to be released resulting from court decision. If we look close at this case it appears this man, although having a prior sex offense (unknown date), was being held on a 'domestic abuse' case and they were trying to force him to take sex offender therapy...

UT- Legislature considers revising sex offender laws

Posted on January 28, 2009
Something is becoming apparent with these newer bills they are encroaching into personal lives to an extent so as to deprive the person his/her liberty guaranteed by the US Constitution. There will be a straw that breaks the camel's back coming and courts will declare these unconstitutional, as they protect no one, they are the result of a mind suffering from control fantasies, without regard to

UK- Town man?s life sentence for brutal murder of sex offender

Posted on January 28, 2009
1-28-2009 United Kingdom: A MACCLESFIELD dad of three has been jailed for life for brutally murdering his 60-year-old flatmate after learning he was a convicted paedophile. Ex-butcher Lea Mason, 33, formerly of Turnock Street, will serve a minimum of 17 and a half years after launching a "violent and frenzied attack" on his victim...

MI- Michigan Registered Sex Offender Killed by State Sex Offender Residency Law

Posted on January 28, 2009
1-28-2009 Michigan: Man found dead in cold was turned away from shelters in past because he was sex offender GRAND RAPIDS -- A man found dead on the streets Monday had tried in recent weeks to gain admittance to at least one of two Heartside missions, but was denied a bed because he is a registered sex offender...

WI- Some can?t live with sex offender decision

Posted on January 28, 2009
No doubt, the police will have a field day misinterpreting this one to incarcerate registrants, opps you weren't loitering just birdwatching...I can see it now. 1-28-2009 Wisconsin: Defeat of residency restrictions anger rules? supporters in Greenfield Supporters of an ordinance that would restrict where sex offenders can live in Greenfield are not giving up, despite the Common Council?s

NE- 5 Inmates Get Pardon After Real Killer Identified

Posted on January 27, 2009
1-27-2009 Nebraska: OMAHA, Neb. -- Five people wrongly convicted of a 1985 Beatrice murder have been pardoned. Three of the six people convicted in the rape and slaying of a 68-year-old Helen Wilson spent nearly 20 years in prison. One didn't seek a pardon because his conviction was overturned...

DC- UNH report: Technology alone can't protect minors from online sex predators

Posted on January 27, 2009
1-27-2009 Washington DC: DOVER ? A year after popular social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook agreed to a series of technical restrictions aimed at protecting children from online predators, a national report released Wednesday that relied heavily on research by the University of New Hampshire cautions against an overreliance on technology to address the problem...

WA- MCNEIL ISLAND: Special Commitment Center fire possibly arson, deputy says

Posted on January 27, 2009
1-27-2009 Washington: Investigators believe someone intentionally set fire to a building Sunday at the Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island. No injuries were reported and no arrest was made. The fire started shortly after 6 p.m. in the Redwood Building, the state Department of Social and Health Services reported Monday...

IA- 15 sex offenders to be released immediately

Posted on January 27, 2009
Iowa Supreme Court decisions are available in the "Files Area" of our SO-News Group. 1-27-2009 Iowa: DES MOINES - Following the recent release of two Iowa Supreme Court decisions, the Iowa Department of Public Safety has reviewed all cases affected and determined that there are 15 offenders currently incarcerated by the Department of Corrections that must be immediately released...

NJ- Galloway to argue sex offender case before state Supreme Court

Posted on January 27, 2009
1-27-2009 New Jersey: GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP - The New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed to hear Galloway Township argue to keep a sex offender residency ordinance on the books. The restrictions had been invalidated by a decision on a case involving a local college student...

FL- Dumont: SORNA criminalizes failure to register, not interstate travel

Posted on January 27, 2009
Decision is available in our SO-News Group 1-27-2009 Florida: In U.S. v. Dumont, No. 08-11187 (Jan 26, 2009), the Court upheld a conviction for failing to register as a sex offender, as required by 18 U.S.C. � 2250(a) of SORNA. On February 28, 2007, the Attorney General issued a rule stating that SORNA?s registration requirements applied retroactively...

MD- Appeal tests sex-offender restrictions

Posted on January 27, 2009
1-27-2009 Maryland: The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is set to hear a challenge to a federal law that imposes wide-ranging new restrictions on sex offenders. Today?s oral arguments come just two-and-a-half weeks after a 4th Circuit panel struck down a different part of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act...

Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Passenger Frisks

Posted on January 27, 2009
US Supreme court decision: ARIZONA v. JOHNSON, No. 07?1122. 1-27-2009 National: The United States Supreme Court has ruled on an officer's right to frisk passengers during traffic stops. That's if officers have reasonable suspicion, but police and defense lawyers are having a tought time agreeing on what that means...

WI- Sex offender ordinance

Posted on January 26, 2009
What we have here is, a discussion of how to keep people that are disliked away from a specific area. These folks think they have authority to do that when in reality they do not, so they twist their reasoning and say, well we will keep just sex offenders from living in this area under the presumption of what? The fact that they limit their discussion to just sex offenders tells us it is

The evolution of revolution

Posted on January 26, 2009
1-26-2009 Global: But who cares about it if it?s on a computer screen? What is the worth of new media? The question is as general as it is pertinent. Since the election of Barack Obama the answer is becoming clearer: increased free speech. But how dangerous is completely unmonitored free speech on the Web? In the U...

Passwords

Posted on January 26, 2009
There would be no need for passwords unless the intent is to search the contents of e-mails or registrants' computers. Accordingly, there is another decision out of Indiana that is relevant (as to searching), where the state sought -legislatively- to search computers of registrants including those not under the jurisdiction of the state...

Supreme Court takes up Md. case on lawyer request

Posted on January 26, 2009
1-26-2009 National: WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court today agreed to clarify how long a suspected criminal's request for a lawyer during police interrogation should be valid, taking on a case where a child molester asked for a lawyer almost three years before admitting to the abuse...

CA- Sex Offenders' GPS Devices Not a Silver Bullet, States Say

Posted on January 26, 2009
1-26-2009 California: GPS monitoring -- embraced as a simple technological solution for tracking the whereabouts of convicted sex offenders -- is proving to be something less than a silver bullet for state and local public safety agencies. Convinced that GPS monitoring was the answer to the sex offender problem, judges and lawmakers began mandating the technology for high-profile parolees.

WI- 'We're calling on you to protect us'

Posted on January 23, 2009
1-23-2009 Wisconsin: Citizens ask for sex offender ordinance; officials argue such are 'based in fear, not fact' MANITOWOC ? The room was crowded and the mood was intense Wednesday evening when nearly 50 community members showed up at City Hall to have their say about whether sex offenders should be restricted from living in certain areas of the city of Manitowoc...

DC- White House exempts YouTube from privacy rules

Posted on January 23, 2009
1-23-2009: Update: 12 hours after posting this story, the White House (partially) reversed itself. The rather dubious YouTube only waiver from federal web privacy rules has been maintained, but the White House website has been updated to limit the exposure of visitors to YouTube's tracking efforts to only those people who actually click the play button on a YouTube video...

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