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Panel of sex offenders to field questions

Posted on March 27, 2011
3-27-2011 Indiana: The event on March 30 will focus on how to reduce the risk of child abuse and rehabilitate sex offenders. MUNCIE -- Parents and community members this month will get a unique opportunity to listen first-hand to sex offenders talk about how to reduce the risk of abuse...

GPS tracking devices can't stop crime

Posted on March 27, 2011
Here they speak about some released sex offenders going on to commit further crimes, but lawmakers continually ignore that, released non sex offenders go on to commit SIX sex crimes to every ONE committed by a released sex offender. So, for the THREE sex offender crimes mentioned in this article there were EIGHTEEN sex crimes committed by released non sex offenders...

B4U-Act: A Research Request

Posted on March 23, 2011
3-23-2011 National:As many folks know, B4U-ACT is a cooperative effort of people who are attracted to minors and mental health professionals to promote dialog and understanding between the two groups, to make accurate information about minor-attracted people available to professionals and the public, to counteract stereotypes, and to make compassionate mental health services available for minor-attracted people who want them...

Sex-offender list too inclusive?

Posted on March 23, 2011
3-23-2011 Nebraska: LINCOLN ? Saying Nebraska's current sex-offender registry law unfairly punishes some minor offenders, a group of state senators wants to remove those offenders' pictures and addresses from a public list. Supporters of the change include Omaha Sen...

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Committee OKs tougher sex offender sentences

Posted on March 23, 2011
Important to note, they have to reach back into time -8 years- to even find a case which fits what they want the bill to do. Is this bill, which will add millions to each years prison budget, and court costs for extra trial (the trial would determine if the extra punishment fits, so everyone is given this trial), really worth it since the event is so rare? 3-23-2011 Minnesota: ST...

Victim of vigilante mob sues Philly police

Posted on March 23, 2011
3-23-2011 Pennsylvania: PHILADELPHIA, March 22 (UPI) -- A man attacked by a mob who wrongly believed he had raped an 11-year-old girl has sued Philadelphia police, saying they encouraged street justice. Michael Zenquis, 28, who filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday, names both the city and the police department as defendants, the Philadelphia Daily News reported...

State Legislators In Now-Infamous Solitaire Photo Identified; Two House Democrats Playing Solitaire As GOP Chief Spoke

Posted on March 22, 2011
9-1-2009 Connecticut: A photo of two Democratic legislators playing solitaire has ignited controversy at the state Capitol and in the blogosphere. The Associated Press picture has appeared in any number of venues, and it shows two lawmakers sitting in the back row of the historic Hall of the House in Hartford during the lengthy debate over the two-year, $37 billion state budget...

Homeowners associations adding bans against sexual offenders

Posted on March 21, 2011
3-21-2011 Ohio: Homeowners associations increasingly are seeking to ban sexual offenders and predators in an attempt to improve safety and maintain property values. "There's an explosion in Franklin County," said David W. Kaman, a lawyer with Kaman and Cusimano, which specializes in association law...

Next Up: Register Murderers

Posted on March 19, 2011
3-18-2011 Illinois: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (IRN) ? There are already registries in Illinois for sex offenders and child murderers, but a bill that?s headed to the Illinois House would create a registry for first degree murderers. The registry ?would be the first of its kind in the nation and would require first degree murderers, upon release from prison, to register with local law enforcement their whereabouts for a period of ten years,? said sponsoring State Rep...

State Cops Admit to Screw Up in Sex Offender Case

Posted on March 18, 2011
See earlier story 3-18-2011 Illinois: Years after blaming a Shorewood cop for mistakenly placing a Joliet man on the sex offender registry, the state police say it was their fault. A state police employee admitted under oath that her agency screwed up when they mistakenly put a Joliet man on the sex offender registry in 2008...

Editorial: Reform state's sex offender registry to better fit the crimes

Posted on March 17, 2011
A wolf in sheep's clothing; the Adam Walsh Act. How quickly the public falls for the carrot and misses the immense harm of the act; an act to raise welfare recipients and Lord knows what else will rear its ugly head. A generation of harm will come from this law...

?Violent sexual predator? label could stay in sex offender reforms

Posted on March 17, 2011
3-17-2011 Idaho: After concerns from some lawmakers, an overhaul of Idaho?s sex offender system could include retaining the special violent sexual predator (VSP) designation that?s placed on people considered likely to commit another sex crime. An Idaho Senate panel Wednesday agreed to move forward with the overhaul plan and make amendments on the Senate floor...

Ex-Con Wrongly Labeled As Sex Offender In Text Messages

Posted on March 17, 2011
3-17-2011 New Mexico: LAS CRUCES, New Mexico -- How many times have you received a forwarded text message on your cell phone but did not know how to track the original sender? A Las Cruces man said that is what is happening to him, except he is the focus of the message, being labeled a sex offender, which he is not...

SJC takes up challenge to state sex offender law

Posted on March 16, 2011
3-15-2011 Massachusetts: SALEM ? Just how far can the government go to prevent a man prosecutors call an "incorrigible" exhibitionist from re-offending? That's the question the state's highest court took up yesterday during a hearing in the case of a North Shore man named Donald Suave...

Predatory sex offenders? Lock 'em up

Posted on March 16, 2011
3-16-2011 Minnesota: Minnesota?s most predatory sex offenders, repeatedly branded ?the worst of the worst,? would be kept behind bars indefinitely under a bill moving through the Legislature. Members of the House Public Safety and Crime Prevention Committee unanimously approved a bill Tuesday that would keep those offenders in prison instead of diverting them into the state?s costly and controversial program that has civilly committed hundreds of offenders in state treatment centers...

Unregistered sex offender?s honesty about sexual urges lands him harsher sentence

Posted on March 15, 2011
A problem with the sentence given by the judge, which DOES NOT protect children long term, as claimed by the judge. The man, like John Couey (see highlights), is telling the judge "he has feelings he cannot control," such is not rectified by additional punishment but by therapy BEFORE he is released...

Overhaul of sex offender laws raises some concerns

Posted on March 15, 2011
3-15-2011 Idaho: The board that assesses Idaho?s most dangerous sex offenders is asking lawmakers not to drop the violent sexual predator (VSP) designation in a proposed overhaul of the state sex offender laws, though that tag has come under constitutional fire...

Teacher disciplined for sexual innuendoes on quiz

Posted on March 14, 2011
3-14-2011 Florida: West Palm Beach, Fla.? A South Florida high school advanced placement psychology teacher has been disciplined for giving a quiz filled with sexual innuendoes. Frank Rozanski of William T. Dwyer High School in Palm Beach Gardens was teaching a lesson on social psychology and perceptions...

Audit: Millions wasted by Mich. Dept. of Corrections on drugs for prisoners

Posted on March 12, 2011
3-12-2011 Michigan: Lansing ? A new audit says there are millions of dollars in waste in the way the Michigan Department of Corrections supplies drugs to prisoners. The report by Michigan Auditor General Thomas McTavish released today found the department lacked proper procedures to control costs, minimize waste, keep track of inventory and return unused medications for refunds...

RI House to look at committing sex predators

Posted on March 12, 2011
3-12-2011 Rhode Island: Rhode Island lawmakers are proposing legislation to allow authorities to involuntarily commit convicted sex offenders after they've served their criminal sentences. The legislation was introduced after state corrections officials reported that convicted murdered Michael Woodmansee, is eligible for early release this summer...

Audit: Sex offender program wastes money, is inconsistent

Posted on March 12, 2011
3-12-2011 Minnesota: Legislative auditor calls for better therapy, cheaper alternatives. Hundreds of sex offenders confined in state treatment facilities receive inadequate therapy from under-qualified staff at excessive cost, according to a report released Friday by Legislative Auditor James Nobles...

A matter of perspective: Convicted sex offender?s cameras near Jeffersonville youth shelter raises concern

Posted on March 12, 2011
I wonder, has the general public looked closer at cameras on other private residences, to see IF IF IF they may be pointing to similar "places where youths gather," we cannot forget, that, 95% of new sex crimes are committed by someone NOT ON the registry...

Suspect killed was sex offender from Tennessee

Posted on March 11, 2011
A registry violation, a ministerial violation. I begin to wonder, if once an arrest seems to go awry, and they are ready for a SWAT Team, do they have any negotiator type person to at least try to end a situation without further violence. Unfortunately the articles do not have a timeline to know whether a negotiator could have ended it...

Senate OKs keeping some teens off sex registry

Posted on March 10, 2011
3-10-2011 Michigan: Lansing? Underage lovers soon may no longer be in danger of showing up on the state's sex offenders list under a package of bills the Senate approved today. The proposed change would prevent teens from being listed for having consensual sex with a partner between the ages of 13 and 16, provided there is no more than four years between their ages...

Paper Chase: Suit blames Facebook for election loss

Posted on March 09, 2011
3-9-2011 Michigan: The paper Facebook has one less friend, after a Dearborn Republican filed suit Wednesday blaming the popular social media site for his loss in a primary last year to face U.S. Rep. John Dingell. The chase Majed Moughni finished fourth in the Republican primary in August in the 15th District, getting just 4 percent...

Jack Rice: Sex offender program is unconstitutional

Posted on March 09, 2011
3-9-2011 Minnesota: Eventually the courts will reach that judgment about what is essentially indefinite incarceration. Commentary What do you call a forced in-patient treatment program that has never successfully treated and released a patient? Either it is a complete and utter failure, or you call it what it really is -- a prison...

Suspect: "I shot him in the head"

Posted on March 08, 2011
3-8-2011 Washington: SPOKANE -- A Spokane man is on life support after being shot in the head after a party over the weekend and court documents show the suspect confessed to the crime. Investigators have arrested the suspect and have him on a $750,000 bail...

No sex offender registry for Gabrielse

Posted on March 08, 2011
Can a plea bargain override Michigan law? It appears so, as Michigan has a provision in its law which says, if the crime was sexual in nature then that person is required to register. I guess there is an unwritten exception for smart lawyers! 3-8-2011 Michigan: GRAND RAPIDS, Mich...

Should ex-cons be a protected class in Seattle?

Posted on March 08, 2011
On a Federal Level "Hate Crimes" are determined by the motivation for the crime: The actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, or gender of any person. And in 2009 the Matthew Shepard Act added crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability, and dropped the prerequisite that the victim be engaging in a federally protected activity...

Suit filed to block LC sex offender registration fee

Posted on March 08, 2011
Interesting here is that, this is a local registry not the state registry, and given that I cannot see how they can justify such a fee. That makes winning a possibility in most courts, but never forget, Louisiana has French law background which may affect the case in some way...

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