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Audit Blasts Sex Offender Registry

Posted on August 15, 2010
To maintain an address book w/pictures = $1.5 million dollars a year. Talk about waste....and they could do it on a PC purchased at Best Buy. Folks, think about this, if your home PC can search a data base thousands of miles away in seconds, purchase a book on Amazon, a Dress at JC Pennys -all online in seconds- why are they having so much trouble? OK, want to get it right? Penalize them,

Bill to bar sex offenders from social networking sites deleted in committee

Posted on August 15, 2010
Finally, someone is seeing through the nonsense Runner has placed before the legislature..8-15-2010 California:A bill that would ban paroled sex offenders from joining Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites died in the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Thursday...

Safety Harbor cancels sex offender's Guinness World Record event

Posted on August 14, 2010
8-13-2010 Florida:SAFETY HARBOR ? As everyone yanked support for a registered sex offender's upcoming Guinness World Record fundraiser on Thursday, officials in Safety Harbor maintained that they had no legal reason to prevent Thomas Edward Lynch from proceeding with his event...

A "Hands Across the Border" message from "Canadians For A Just Society"

Posted on August 14, 2010
8-14-2010 Canada:This is a "Hands Across the Border" message to reach out to like-minded folks in the United States. In Canada they too have a registry and laws governing how their folks (former sex offenders) are treated and controlled by Canadian laws...

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Ala. sex offenders' lawsuit reinstated

Posted on August 13, 2010
8-12-2010 Alabama:A federal appeals court has reversed a U.S. District Court judge's decision and reinstated a lawsuit filed by four sex offenders.The sex offenders say Jefferson County's sheriff should not be allowed to keep them in jail after they finish their sentences just because they don't have a place to call home...

Community Monitoring of Sex Offenders on the Sex Offender Registry

Posted on August 13, 2010

How "Crisp Thinking" Aims To Catch A Predator, Griefer, Gold Farmer, Cyber-Bully?

Posted on August 13, 2010
"Crisp Thinking" is definitely unique in today's social networking environment, real time profiling of speech. However, even with the speed of computers today I have my doubts it can handled millions of viewers, say, on a site like Facebook. It is a Pattern Recognition system that goes beyond the ability of Perverted Justice tactics, which have never been proven to be legal...

Judge Reassigned After Complaint of Sex Offender Leniency

Posted on August 12, 2010
Could a prosecutor be dismissed from a case, if s/he is making wild claims (creating evidence) against a defendant?8-11-2010 New York:A Suffolk County judge who is the target of complaints from a victim?s advocacy group has been given other duties pending the findings of a state investigation...

BREAKING NEWS: Daniel Kovarbasich gets five years probation (for killing molester)

Posted on August 12, 2010
8-12-2010 Ohio:ELYRIA ? Daniel Kovarbasich, 16, was sentenced to five years of probation for the Jan. 22 slaying of Duane Hurley inside his North Ridgeville home.Lorain County Common Pleas James Burge also ordered Daniel remain incarcerated until he can be placed in a treatment program...

L.A. may break up 'sex offenders clusters'

Posted on August 11, 2010
OK, so they resolve the whim of some local politician, but create an even bigger problem for the State Parole office. Has everyone forgotten the Jaycee Dugard case and the parole issues of that case? 8-10-2010 California:LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- New restrictions could soon be in place for registered sex offenders living in Los Angeles...

Sex offenders as neighbors a realty factor

Posted on August 11, 2010
A close review of the Virginia Study reveals it is not the presence of the former offender that causes home values to be reduced, it is the Realtors in the way they value homes w/former offender nearby. Assessor's value is never changed. It appears Realtor's have found a way -using fear like politicians do- to get sellers to lower the selling price of homes; such is actually revealed in the

Judge lacks First Amendment right to insult litigants

Posted on August 10, 2010
If a judge has no such right to belittle or berate litigants in her courtroom, and can be sanctions for such conduct, what about others in the judicial system or for that matter in law enforcement? Is it time that registered offenders do something about the bad treatment so many suffer? That said, it is not to be interpreted as a hurricane of bad treatment nationwide, but there are pockets of

HPD, sheriff's office to share sex offender database

Posted on August 10, 2010
OK, there is a problem here, and it is, that in Texas there -HAVE BEEN- two registries, maybe only in major cities. So, up to this point two jurisdictions were doing the same work, and each getting funding for doing the same job? What a waste of taxpayer money especially in these hard times...

My sons life is ruined by federal sex offender laws.

Posted on August 10, 2010
A quick note: Before signing petitions find out if the Petition will display your name and contact information online, just in case you do not want that, see if there is an option to omit such personal information from online. 8-10-2010 Missouri:Petition of: Pam BaumstarkPlease help me and my son...

Why are there more homeless offenders in Minnesota?

Posted on August 09, 2010
8-8-2010 Minnesota:The number of Level 3 predatory offenders registered as "homeless" in Minnesota has skyrocketed since 2003, going from two that year to 24 in 2009, according to data provided by the Department of Corrections. Barbara Ziehl didn?t learn until afterward that the man she exchanged good mornings with had recently moved into the neighborhood...

Convicted of sex crime in 1993, man loses house to foreclosure but can't move

Posted on August 09, 2010
8-9-2010 Florida:Joseph Mortimer and his wife took out an equity loan on their longtime Richmond Heights house during the real-estate boom, fell into foreclosure in February and then got scammed for $3,000 at a loan-modification seminar.But their recession story has a twist: Mortimer can't move to another nearby home because he was convicted of a sex offense in 1993...

Police shoot, kill registered sex offender after Denny?s holdup

Posted on August 09, 2010
One has to wonder why? A life of crime or other reasons.. Was the money in his possession all from the robbery? 8-9-2010 Texas:PASADENA, Texas ? A registered sex offender was shot and killed by police early Monday after holding up a Denny?s restaurant in Pasadena, according to authorities...

37 are sex offenders no more in S.D.

Posted on August 09, 2010
8-9-2010 South Dakota:Changes allow some convicted of lesser crimes to be removed from listSweeping changes to South Dakota's Sex Offender Registry passed this year by the Legislature have resulted in 37 names being scrubbed from the list.All 37 offenders had been convicted of misdemeanor indecent exposure, according to Attorney General Marty Jackley...

In turnabout, Ohio ex-con gets data on neighbors

Posted on August 08, 2010
8-7-2010 Ohio:COLUMBUS, Ohio ? Neighbors routinely get a picture and a name when a sex offender moves next door. In a turnabout, an Ohio sex offender has received private information about his neighbors, including their Social Security numbers.The material was shown to The Associated Press by convicted rapist Pearly Wilson, who was mistakenly given the information by a prosecutor...

Morally corrupt law lets sex-offender cop off hook

Posted on August 08, 2010
8-8-2010 New Jersey:When Jeremiah Hupka took the oath as a Hunterdon County Sheriff?s officer, he placed a hand on a Bible and vowed ?to support and comply with the Constitution of the United States of America, and the constitution and laws of the state of New Jersey,? among other things...

Delaware parole board split by chronic infighting

Posted on August 08, 2010
8-8-2010 Delaware:Members say chairman oversteps his authorityDelaware's Board of Parole has been rocked by internal turmoil, its chairman facing allegations from board members that he released at least one inmate without a vote by the full board.The split on the board got so bad that in late April, four of its five members asked a Superior Court judge to order board Chairman Dwight F...

Court Says GPS Surveillance Requires Warrant

Posted on August 07, 2010
8-7-2010 Washington DC:A Washington appeals court today struck down a man's conviction and life sentence in a drug case on the grounds the police unlawfully tracked his movement with a GPS device that had been installed without a warrant on his vehicle...

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signs law changing CORI system

Posted on August 07, 2010
8-7-2010 Massachusetts:BOSTON - Gov. Deval L. Patrick on Friday signed a new law that allows employers to obtain criminal records of job applicants over the Internet for the first time, overhauls the state?s mandatory minimum sentencing laws for certain drug offenses and bans sex offenders from driving ice cream trucks...

Letter writing campaign

Posted on August 07, 2010
This really is a GREAT idea, folks should join the group and see what can be do with this "Letter Writing" campaign. 8-7-2010 National:Super Idea from Member of: Families of Sex Offenders Support Group"Everyday I meet people who have a boyfriend or a son in the same situation as my son...

Georgia?s sex offender registry a mess, state auditors say

Posted on August 07, 2010
Huummm, if they can't get the basics right, what the chance that it is secure? How many hackers have gotten into the system?8-7-2010 Georgia:Georgia?s sex offender registries are inaccurate, outdated and incomplete, potentially misleading the public about the threat of offenders living or working in their communities, state auditors say...

Sex offender? Former Catholic school employee tells his story

Posted on August 06, 2010
8-5-2010 Michigan:Are school employees always guilty when children or teenagers tell stories of sexual abuse?Take the case of Shaun Webb. A few years ago, Webb was accused of sexually abusing a young teenage girl at a Catholic school in Michigan, where he was employed as a trusted and respected building custodian...

Sheriff busts breast-baring teens, photo taker

Posted on August 06, 2010
Unbelievable! Fact: "Among high school students nationwide, 34.2% were currently sexually active,.." Source: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System. Why are these youngsters not arrested, its not like they are unknown? 8-6-2010 Florida:The photo-taker could be deemed a registered sex offenderCHARLOTTE COUNTY - A lawman's work is never done, apparently even for a sheriff in an unmarked cop car

No easy answers

Posted on August 06, 2010
So what is the actual problem here? Fear and nothing more, statistics will not change fear, nor will education about sex offenders. But, one thing will, look to other communities to see if their crime rates or sexual crimes have gone up, reality is, crime rates have gone down as have sexual crimes...

DA drops sex-offender-registration charges against man accused in Motel 6 murder

Posted on August 05, 2010
8-4-2010 Pennsylvania:The charges against his wife and his son, which were related to their allegedly helping him avoid registrating, were also dropped.District Attorney Tom Kearney has had to drop sex-offender-related charges against a man charged with murder and two of the man's family members...

International Megans law EXPOSED! Part-2 of the truth about HR 5138

Posted on August 04, 2010
8-3-2010 Washington DC: You may remember my commentary of 7-30 "International Megans law EXPOSED! Now, hear the truth about HR 5138."The essence of that was, What evidence did speakers present to support the passage of "International Megans Law (IML)" HR-5138? Reviewing the speakers testimony all I could find was a singular comment about 73 crimes, and a rhetoric implying/accusing U...

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