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Court allows agents to secretly put GPS trackers on cars

Posted on August 27, 2010
8-27-2010 California:(CNN) -- Law enforcement officers may secretly place a GPS device on a person's car without seeking a warrant from a judge, according to a recent federal appeals court ruling in California.Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Oregon in 2007 surreptitiously attached a GPS to the silver Jeep owned by Juan Pineda-Moreno, whom they suspected of growing marijuana, according

Blogger Beware: You Can Be Sued Over ?Anonymous? Posts

Posted on August 26, 2010
8-24-2010 National:Updated: When you're angry, complaining on the Web about a business or the person who runs it can be tempting.But you might want to think a bit before putting up an online rant. While website hosts are generally protected from liability for comments posted by others, those who write such diatribes can be sued, points out the Los Angeles Times...

Sources: Assistant AG Committed Suicide

Posted on August 26, 2010
8-26-2010 South Carolina:The death of an assistant S.C. Attorney General last weekend has been ruled a suicide, multiple sources tell FITS.Ripley Westmoreland Clarkson, 57, reportedly shot himself in the head at his Midlands, S.C. home on Saturday. Police were called to investigate Clarkson?s death given the sensitive nature of his position as the state?s top prosecutor of sexual predators.

Sex Offenders?

Posted on August 26, 2010
8-26-2010 Virginia:Last September, the probation officers of nine homeless men in Georgia ordered them to, in the words of the AP wire service, ?live in the woods behind a suburban Atlanta office park.? When the state government discovered this, Georgia promptly ordered them out...

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Attorneys general call for Craigslist to get rid of adult services ads

Posted on August 26, 2010
Casting crime under umbrella terms and phrases! Trafficking, the new buzz word to encompass every kind of sex act known to man. Notice the highlighted words in this article, and ask, how is that "Trafficking" some will be, but not all. And, notice who is mentioned as championing the anti-trafficking campaign: NCMEC...

Three Florida Men Plead Guilty to Sex Trafficking Conspiracy

Posted on August 26, 2010
Don't get me wrong here, individually the acts of these men are wrong, but again we see " Casting crime under umbrella terms and phrases!" look at the highlights, what were they called in the past? Are all pimps and brothel madames, sex traffickers? Yes, under the new terminology...

Mothers' group outraged after their Facebook campaign to expose paedophiles is removed from the internet

Posted on August 26, 2010
Their problem is, they reported the bad sites to the wrong people. i.e. the public instead of Facebook. 8-26-2010 United Kingdom:Six mothers who set up a campaign group on Facebook to track down and expose online paedophiles have been given a warning and had their page removed from the internet...

A Grandfather tells the story of what has occurred to his grandson, under today's sex offender laws....

Posted on August 25, 2010
Here we see the effect of today's sex offender laws in this Grandfather's account of what has happened to his grandson.8-24-2010 Oklahoma:In April of 2007 he (Grandson) ran afoul of the Adam Walsh act. An act written by a confessed sex addict and a US senator who courts little boys...

Inmate assault brings year behind bars

Posted on August 25, 2010
8-25-2010 Virginia:Assaulting a convicted child sex offender at the jail will cost inmate Denver J. Owens a year behind bars, a judge ruled Tuesday in Frederick County District Court.No matter what happens in three other criminal cases against Owens, Judge W...

State can't exclude felons from in-home care

Posted on August 25, 2010
8-25-2010 California:An Alameda County judge blocked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday from excluding convicted felons and shoplifters from providing in-home care in a program that serves 430,000 low-income elderly and disabled Californians.Superior Court Judge David Hunter had ruled in February that Schwarzenegger's action was illegal because state law bars workers from the program for 10

Anonymous Internet campaign brands man sex predator

Posted on August 24, 2010
8-24-2010 Connecticut:MILFORD -- Michael Marcus calls the experience "Internet hell." Marcus, 65, has been accused in online blogs, petitions to public officials and letters to the Connecticut Post of serving prison time for sexually assaulting a child...

SHERIFF: 44 prostitutes, pimps & drivers busted!

Posted on August 24, 2010
Are they running out of sex offenders for the registry? 8-24-2010 Florida:Winter Haven, Florida - One woman was five months pregnant. Another woman admitted to having an STD. Six of the women were married. One of them was as young as 17.Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says he's shocked by what he saw during a four-day undercover operation carried out by his vice unit at an upscale home in the

Software Predicts Criminal Behavior

Posted on August 23, 2010
Actually this is fascinating, a break in the usual logic, once you commit crime type A then you will always commit crime type A in the future. If the federal government were to use this it might be the first break in the Adam Walsh Act logic, you did it once there fore you will do it again, classification system...

Convicted rapist from Portage challenging sex registry

Posted on August 21, 2010
8-20-2010 Indiana:VALPARAISO | Portage resident Terry Hough admits upfront he was convicted of rape in Pennsylvania in 1993.But the 46-year-old argues in a legal petition that he should not be forced to register as a sex offender in Porter County because at the time of his offense and conviction there were no registry laws in either Pennsylvania or Indiana...

Do Teenage Sexting Laws Criminalize Constitutionally Protected Activities?

Posted on August 21, 2010
8-21-2010 Michigan:As Michigan teenagers prepare to go back to school, parents, school administrators, and even some local officials are putting out the message about the dangers of sexting and the possibility of racy photos being passed around from student to student...

Porn cases end with 30-day sentences

Posted on August 20, 2010
Whats relevant here is not his celeb status nor the sentence, but the description of what "Child Porn" is in this case: an unclothed child. If true, and I have no way to dispute the Journalist, this makes many parents and grandparents, child pornographers! America's Funnest Videos show often shows a child (buttocks view) naked, so, are they child pornographers also? 8-18-2010 Massachusetts:

Can an 11-year-old be a sex offender?

Posted on August 20, 2010
8-20-2010 A British case put a pair of little boys on trial. But are they just curious kids -- or potential rapists? To tell it one way, on Wednesday, a British judge let the two accused sexual assailants of an 8-year-old girl go free. Or to put it another way, a pair of little boys have been put on trial for their innocent curiosity, and now carry the stigma of being registered sex offenders.

GPS technology, full of surprises?

Posted on August 20, 2010
8-20-2010 California:California Sex Offender Management Board chair Robert Coombs concluded a week-long, voluntarily experiment Thursday that tested the treatment sex offenders get on parole -- 24-hour GPS tracking and a flashy ankle accessory.The tracking experiment was aimed at exploring what it's like to wear the tracking device used to monitor sex offenders, as well as the capability of the

Maddox pleads guilty, can still appeal constitutionality of sex offender registry

Posted on August 20, 2010
Issues from earlier report:Sloan's motion to dismiss Maddox' case freely confesses that Maddox was informed of his obligation to register under Missouri law. But Sloan argues that the document did not inform Maddox of any obligation to register in other states, such as Texas, or with the federal government...

Auditor finds improvement in sex offender list but reports Mo. doesn't yet meet federal rules

Posted on August 19, 2010
8-18-2010 Missouri:JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ? Missouri has done a better job getting sex offenders to register, but still has work to do to comply with federal requirements.Auditor Susan Montee found 7 percent of Missouri sex offenders had not complied with state registration requirements through March...

Sex offender beats man; another man beats security guard

Posted on August 19, 2010
8-19-2010 Maryland:Two unusual cases before city courts on this week highlight the extremes some criminals will go.In one, a registered sex offender beat a man in Fells Point who he mistakenly thought posted notices around the neighborhood about his record...

'Far more lethal' ? About 1,500 kids die at the hands of a caregiver each year

Posted on August 18, 2010
8-18-2010 National:Depression. Psychosis. Stress. Feelings of being overwhelmed. These are just some of the factors that drive women to kill their children. Such crimes evoke horror and clash with traditional notions of women as natural, nurturing caregivers...

Victim - Offender Relationship Statistics - 1999-2008

Posted on August 18, 2010
Source: Dep't of Justice - Criminal Victimization Reports 1999-2008Rape and Sexual AssaultsNote: The "Other" numbers are crimes where the relationship could not be determined.

How Rare Are Female Child Killers?

Posted on August 18, 2010
8-18-2010 National:The recent confession of a 29-year-old mother to suffocating her two toddlers is not as rare as many might think.Murder charges are being brought against a woman who admitted she suffocated two of her children. The two boys, ages one and two, were found in a car submerged in a river in South Carolina on Monday, Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams said in a news conference

To fight crime, Ogden tells ex-cons to move out

Posted on August 17, 2010
Here it appears ALL felons are treated like sex offenders; we don't want you. Accordingly a "Good Landlord" is one that refuses to help former offenders reenter society. Yes, I said REFUSES! 8-16-2010 Utah:Ogden ? Not only was Joseph Sambrano following the rules of his parole, he was doing so well he received a job as a security guard at his apartment building...

Judge: Some changes to Nebraska's sex offender laws can be challenged

Posted on August 17, 2010
See earlier story HERE and HERE and HERE. 8-16-2010 Nebraska:Several changes to the state laws regarding sex offenders -- mostly limiting their computer usage -- could be challenged at trial, U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf ruled Monday.But most of the law, which took effect in January, was left intact...

Chris Rickert: 'Stranger danger' overblown in child molester

Posted on August 17, 2010
8-17-2010 Wisconsin:The people who packed a town of Middleton meeting on June 29 were in no mood to hear about all the ways police would monitor the convicted sex offender being released into their midst.Local television news reports quoted frustrated mothers, a day care operator and others who feared 29-year-old Charles C...

Feds: Online 'Sextortion' of Teens on the Rise

Posted on August 16, 2010
8-15-2010 National:Feds, experts: Racy photos on cell phones, computers leads to rise in teen 'sextortion'The nightmare began with a party: three teenage girls with a webcam, visiting an Internet chatroom and yielding to requests to flash their breasts...

Nebraska State Patrol arrests 6 for sex offender registry violations

Posted on August 16, 2010
If it is true that RSO folks must notify LE of places they "frequent (interpreted as a move by LE)" then it is mandatory to report trips to the grocery store, drug store, and other such shopping, etc. even though such would be a ridiculous interpretation of the law, it is the law...

Law and Criminal Justice Committee Session: SORNA Update

Posted on August 15, 2010
8-14-2010 National:At the recent NCSL Legislative Summit in Louisville, the NCSL Law and Criminal Justice Committee heard about sex offender registration legislation in three states related to federal SORNA requirements and about state responses to SORNA from a child safety advocate...

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