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Sex offenses, sex offender issues in prison, jail, civil commitment and the community including residency laws. Adam Walsh Act, recidivism, dangerousness, tiers, community issues, harassment, vigilantism, sex offender therapy issues.
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IL- Comments on story about sex offender may lead to jail time

Posted on January 14, 2009
1-14-2009 Illinois: Round Lake Park police say a tip from an ex-girlfriend may end with a probation violation for a convicted sex offender who received his sentence on Friday. Police Chief George Filenko said today witness interviews indicated John Hedges, 41, of 911 Barbara Court, was in violation of a 30-month probationary sentence he received last Friday after pleading guilty to possessing

AR- Lack of translators for sex offender program

Posted on January 14, 2009
1-14-2009 Arkansas: BENTONVILLE (AP) The state Correction Department says it does not have enough translators to accommodate non-English speakers if they are ordered into a treatment program for sex offenders. The issue came to light after Circuit Judge David Clinger included the year-long treatment program as part of the sentences for two sex offenders...

Web threat to children may be exaggerated, report finds

Posted on January 14, 2009
Apparently this report tells us that, the hysterical screaming of the various state Attorneys General about sex offenders going after minors on MySpace type accounts, was not true? Further, even the hysteria caused by the show "To Catch a Predator" was not true? Then, what about the claims made by Senators McCain and Schumer while getting Congress to pass S-431, all that they said is not true

CA- Board Urges End To Sex Offender Restrictions

Posted on January 14, 2009
1-14-2009 California: More Offenders Left Homeless SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California's Sex Offender Management Board is urging the governor and legislators to scrap restrictions on where sex offenders can live. It says the rules voters approved two years ago are counterproductive and the $25 million a year the state spends housing them is not a good use of taxpayer money...

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GA- Decoding stupid law

Posted on January 14, 2009
1-14-2009 Georgia: IT?S A NEW YEAR so of course Georgia has put onto its books another new law that won?t work. And, once again, it has to do with sex offenders. Legislators have a real fetish about such folks. There?s nothing wrong with the intention, of course...

DC- YouTube Teams With Congress to Show Lawmakers at Work

Posted on January 14, 2009
1-14-2009 Washington DC: SAN FRANCISCO ? YouTube is aiming to raise its profile in American politics by helping deliver a glimpse of life on Capitol Hill to its large online audience. On Monday, YouTube, in collaboration with Congress, will unveil two new Web pages, one for the House and one for the Senate, where every lawmaker will be able to create a video channel on the site...

KY- Charity buys house for sex offenders

Posted on January 14, 2009
1-14-2009 Kentucky: On Friday, the Catholic Action Center plans to begin moving convicted sex offenders into a home it is buying for their use. The four-bedroom home on Detroit Avenue will house as many as four men, said Ginny Ramsey, co-founder of the Catholic Action Center...

CA- There's no evidence Jessica's Law works, California officials say

Posted on January 14, 2009
1-14-2009 California: A state board says tight residency limits on sex offenders have driven many to homelessness, which could propel them back into crime. The state spends $25 million housing some of the offenders. Reporting from Sacramento -- A state panel is urging the governor and legislators to change "Jessica's Law," saying its restrictions on where sex offenders can live are

MO- Woman from Nemo loses appeal for killing ex-boyfriend

Posted on January 13, 2009
1-13-2009 Missouri: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a woman from Hickory County who killed an ex-boyfriend at her home eight years ago. This is the second time that the state's highest court considered Jamie Avery's conviction...

AK- Assailant attacks lottery winner, convicted sex offender

Posted on January 13, 2009
1-13-2009 Alaska ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The winner of a recent lottery was beaten with a tire iron or a metal pipe by a stranger Tuesday, according to the Anchorage Police Department. Alec Ahsoak, 53, is also a convicted sex offender. After taxes, he won about $350,000 in a lottery set up to benefit a local organization, Standing Together Against Rape, which aims to educate the public about

Report Calls Online Threats to Children Overblown

Posted on January 13, 2009
1-13-2009 Global: The Internet may not be such a dangerous place for children after all. A task force created by 49 state attorneys general to look into the problem of sexual solicitation of children online has concluded that there really is not a significant problem...

ND- Judge: Legal requirements for sex offenders 'confusing'

Posted on January 13, 2009
Convicted even though, addmitted by the judge, that state laws were the cause of the confusion. Hopefully some good hearted lawyer will help in an appeal of this dumb decision; note, 82 other s were recently in the same boat! Are lawmakers trying to protect the public, or, get registrants behind bars! There needs to be a -reasonable man standard- applied to this law as well...

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Posted on January 12, 2009
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TN- Sex offender registry may list juveniles

Posted on January 11, 2009
1-11-2009 Tennessee: When he was a young boy, he was sexually abused. At age 16, his parents learned, he'd molested a young girl himself. He was criminally charged and convicted, and because of that, got treatment. But his name was never part of a public registry...

VT- CONSEQUENCES SERIOUS, LONG-LASTING

Posted on January 11, 2009
1-11-2009 Vermont: When Cheryl Hanna was a prosecutor in Baltimore in the early 1990s, she and her colleagues would lament how much easier a time they?d have winning convictions in sex-crime cases if only someone had been filming the assault. Today, authorities are in that bind less often ? and many times the suspects themselves are the people behind the camera...

VT- Is your teen sexting?

Posted on January 11, 2009
1-11-2009 Vermont: When a South Burlington high school student was charged with sexual assault on two fellow students who had sent him nude photos on their cell phones last month, Vermont was forced to respond not only to disturbing allegations of rape but also to one of its first public cases of the national trend known as ?sexting...

FL- Child-On-Child Molestation 'A Complicated Issue'

Posted on January 11, 2009
1-11-2009 Florida: SPRING HILL - Sexual abuse between adults and children is a tragic, but quantifiable, offense; the law lays out a clear definition and penalty. Less clear, however, is the proper response when children hurt other children. A Spring Hill mother recently found herself in that situation when she said she saw her son's classmate place his hands down her son's shorts...

FL- Clusters Of Shame

Posted on January 11, 2009
1-11-2009 Florida: Laws force some sex offenders into motels, onto streets Dozens of sex offenders in Volusia County are clustered in low-rent motels and rooming houses along major highways, a colony shunned by society for their crimes. But more surprising, state officials say, is that a handful of these men -- convicted of raping, molesting or exposing themselves to their victims -- are

MA- Sex offender measure falls short

Posted on January 11, 2009
1-11-2009 Massachusetts: BOSTON ? A last-minute push to make sure that sex offenders are classified for dangerousness before they are released from prison fell short in the waning hours of the 2007-08 state legislative session last week. New Bedford officials have been calling for the change since Corey Deen Saunders was accused last January of raping a 6-year-old boy in a downtown library.

IN- Racy ?sexting' photos piquing police interest

Posted on January 11, 2009
1-11-2009 Indiana: 2 juveniles at local schools facing charges The girl was upset about the picture sent to her cell phone. A self-portrait from a classmate at Summit Middle School, the picture showed a boy from the neck down with his genitals fully exposed...

AK- Lottery winner a convicted sex offender

Posted on January 10, 2009
1-10-2009 Alaska: The winner of the $500,000 statewide lottery to benefit a non-profit that seeks to prevent sexual abuse is himself a convicted sex offender. Alec Ahsoak, 53, came forward to claim his winnings today, said lottery organizer Abe Spicola, who owns Lucky Times Pull Tabs in Anchorage...

AU- Man lures perverts and exposes them on YouTube

Posted on January 10, 2009
Great, just what the world needs, a wannabe cop who knows nothing about procedures necessary to get convictions in courts. Talk about perverting justice, anyone with this mentality needs to remember this: In Internet stings the real perp will be transmitting some form of -inappropriate materials- to the wannabe cop...

Memphis Teens Posting Provocative Pictures On-Line

Posted on January 10, 2009
1-10-2009 Tennessee: Memphis, TN -- Teens posing in their underwear and flaunting their bodies are posting provocative pictures on-line. A new study says more than half of all teen girls have sexy pictures on websites like MySpace and Facebook and experts say these teens are putting themselves at great risk...

Who does this advocacy advocate for?

Posted on January 10, 2009
1-9-2009 Global: There seems to be a major misunderstanding among some folks, whether intentional or lack of understanding, who this advocacy advocates for. As best I can see it revolves around the use of the phrase "sex offender." With that in mind eAdvocate's explanation follows: Who do we advocate for? (i...

PA- Boy's rescue shuts down Route 611

Posted on January 09, 2009
1-9-2009 Pennsylvania: A teen who lives at a facility for juvenile sex offenders left the center and tried to kill himself by jumping off a Route 611 bridge over the Neshaminy Creek. A 16-year-old from Quakertown attempted to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge on Route 611 in Doylestown Township on Thursday afternoon, sparking a rescue effort that closed the highway for about an hour,

IA- More proof that 2,000-foot rule fails

Posted on January 09, 2009
IA- 1-9-2009 Iowa: Iowa lawmakers too afraid to fix the broken sex-offender residence law Need empirical data to show that sex-offender residency laws, such as that in Iowa, doesn't work? Here it is. And it mirrors what police, sheriffs and prosecutors have been saying for years: Iowa's law doesn't work...

CA- Sex Offenders Told To Leave Antelope Property

Posted on January 09, 2009
1-9-2009 California: Law Allows One Registered Sex Offender Per House SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. -- More than 30 registered sex offenders were being told Friday to leave two group homes on a piece of property in rural Antelope. Last month, an audit found too many registered sex offenders were living at Second Chances in rural Sacramento County...

National Migration Study from United Van Lines

Posted on January 08, 2009
Here is a link to their 2007 study: 1-8-2009 National: Study: Michigan has nation?s most outbound migration ST. LOUIS -- Michigan saw the nation?s most outbound migration in 2008, with 67.1% of interstate moves heading out, according to a migration study released Wednesday...

PA- Williams Township solicitor fears group home could house sex offenders

Posted on January 08, 2009
1-8-2009 Pennsylvania: WILLIAMS TWP. | The social organization running an embattled group home for two men with autism typically treats individuals convicted of rape and felony sex crimes, a township solicitor said during a Wednesday zoning hearing. Employees for Resources for Human Development Inc...

The Adam Walsh Act, Civil Commitment Portion, Held Unconstitutional by 4th Cir Court of Appeals

Posted on January 08, 2009
Folks may remember the following news article (from Sep't 2007) which showed a Federal District Court finding that, the Adam Walsh Act's -civil commitment portion- was held "Unconstitutional" by that District Court. Since that time the case was appealed to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, well today 1-8-2009 the 4th Circuit held that Congress Exceeded its Authority and therefore that portion of

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