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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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ACTION ALERT: Congress stops certain sex offenders from receiving money under TWO federal programs!

Posted on July 09, 2010
7-9-2010 Washington DC: Congress will now prevent certain sex offenders (whether required to register or not [i.e., registration terms completed]) from receiving A) Unemployment benefits; AND B) Small business loans, if these TWO bills ultimately become law...

King County sex predator released from state center after 20 years

Posted on July 08, 2010
7-6-2010 Washington:A 70-year-old county rapist facing indefinite commitment at a state-run center housing sexual predators will be released.When he was moved out of Department of Social and Health Services custody later Wednesday, Andre B. Young became the third King County offender to be released from the Special Commitment Center program based on McNeil Island...

Suit Against Pataki, Others Over Civil Commitment Plan Is Upheld

Posted on July 08, 2010
7-6-2010 New York:Former Governor George E. Pataki and other officials can be sued for the involuntary civil commitment of violent sexual predators without notice or a hearing upon the completion of their prison terms, a federal judge has ruled.Southern District Judge Jed S...

Woman 'put girl's face on bestiality photo'

Posted on July 08, 2010
7-6-2010 Utah:A US woman has been charged with Photoshopping the face of one of her teen daughter?s classmates onto an image of a woman having sex with a dog.___, 37, was arrested by police after allegedly distributing 30 copies of the pornographic image around the girls' school in Salt Lake City, Utah...

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Biometric ATM gives cash via 'finger vein' scan

Posted on July 08, 2010
I guess it won't be long before RSOs will -legally- be able to give the finger to the police here in the U.S.. How many registering agencies will be spending billions of dollars to "TRACK" RSOs with this new technology? Anything to make a buck off sex offenders! 7-8-2010 Global:Poland's cooperative BPS bank says it's the first in Europe to install a biometric ATM -- allowing customers to

Editorial: Sex offender registry must be accurate

Posted on July 08, 2010
7-8-2010 Vermont:Vermont's online sex offender registry can be a powerful tool in helping keep our community safer, but only if the registry is reliable. The problems reported by State Auditor Tom Salmon underscore the importance of getting the information absolutely right...

UPDATE: Sex Offenders and the FHA Reform Act of 2010 (Housing Issues)

Posted on July 07, 2010
7-6-2010 Washington DC: The FHA Reform Act of 2010 (HR 5072) is a good bill designed to help many folks with their mortgages, many nearing foreclosure. The bill was moving through Congress and had nothing to do with sex offenders, UNTIL it came out of committee and on the House floor, Rep...

Law limits sex felons living in halfway houses

Posted on July 06, 2010
Somewhere in this insane law I see two issues that may come out of it: 1) A Right of Association issue in some context; and, 2) Families, if they are forced to move because a son/daughter becomes a sex offender and their is another one living in the same apartment building or complex...

UPDATE: Supplemental Guidelines - ALL Suggested Comments Together

Posted on July 05, 2010
DEADLINE for Commenting: 7-13-2010 11:59 PMThe NEW Supplemental Guidelines affecting SORNA registrants were posted in the Federal Register on 5-14-2010. Within those proposed guideline changes are good and helpful (i.e., those affecting juveniles, ) changes...

Suspect's death haunts wife, witnesses

Posted on July 05, 2010
7-5-2010 Ohio:Police: Man committed 'suicide by cop' The flashbacks and nightmares don't come as often, but they still can creep up with surprising intensity."It's almost like I can smell the smoke and the diesel fuel, and I hear the sirens and the helicopters," said Calvin Loyer...

The Conversation: The Sex Offender Registry

Posted on July 05, 2010
7-5-2010 National:The Forbes.com community argues all sides of this controversial list.Last week Forbes Opinions columnist Lenore Skenazy pushed buttons with her incendiary column "Shred Your Sex Offender Map." It is well worth reading, not that everyone agrees with her premise: The registry is useless and hurts more than it helps...

Churches grapple with whether to welcome convicted sex offenders

Posted on July 05, 2010
7-5-2010 National:"All are welcome" is a common phrase on many a church sign and Web site. But what happens when a convicted sex offender is at the door? Church officials and legal advocates are grappling with how -- and whether -- people who have been convicted of sex crimes should be included in U...

RSOL 2010 National Conference: Washington DC

Posted on July 04, 2010
Reform Sex Offender Laws (RSOL) National Conference NewsSex Offenders Meet MediaUD study says state wastes millions of dollars on treating low-risk juvenile sex offendersSex Offenders, Lawyers and the Burden of a Voice

Have a HAPPY and SAFE 4th of July AMERICA

Posted on July 04, 2010

S.C.'s tab $7.4M for predators

Posted on July 04, 2010
7-3-2010 South Carolina:Treating each sex offender in program costs state about $63,000 per yearFor 12 years, South Carolina has tried to protect the public by keeping its most-dangerous sex offenders locked up behind concrete walls and razor wire long after their prison sentences have ended...

7th Circuit Rules Against Traveling Sex Offenders

Posted on July 03, 2010
7-2-2010 7th Cir: (CN) - Congress can enforce criminal penalties for sex offenders who travel between states without registering, the 7th Circuit ruled. Isaac Vasquez, a registered sex offender in Illinois, was indicted for violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act for failing to register after traveling to California...

Sexually Violent Predator program needs more funds

Posted on July 03, 2010
As to those released in Virginia they talk about recidivism and trip wires, but there is no mention of the therapy programs which are obviously failing if recidivism exists. The catch catch catch talk tells us the focus is not on prevention, its on monitoring which is the failure of most government programs...

Split Seventh Circuit upholds seemingly Carr-questionable SORNA conviction

Posted on July 02, 2010
7-1-2010 7th Circuit:From Sentencing, Law & Policy:A number of helpful readers have alerted me to a notable split Seventh Circuit opinion today in United States v. Vasquez, 09-2411 (7th Cir. July 1, 2010) (available here), which in the words of one reader "appears on quick glance to thumb its? nose at the Supreme Court?s holding in Carr...

N.J. psychologist fired, faces loss of license after alleged relationship with sex offender patient

Posted on July 02, 2010
7-2-2010 New Jersey: A top state psychologist who oversaw therapy for hundreds of incarcerated sex offenders was fired for allegedly having a sexual affair with a patient, two lawyers involved in the case said. The ongoing internal investigation centers on the relationship between Natalie Barone, the psychologist, and Michael Bordo, a sex offender, according to Bordo?s state-assigned lawyer,

Knowing Your Rights: American Like the Fourth of July

Posted on July 02, 2010
7-2-2010 National:(Originally posted on The Seminal.)Taking a road trip this summer? You might want to have the Constitution riding shotgun.Back in April, Arizona passed a nasty racial profiling law that will require police officers to demand immigration or citizenship papers from anyone they stop, detain or arrest who they suspect may be in the country unlawfully...

Teen Sex

Posted on July 02, 2010
7-2-2010 Showtime Channel:Penn and Teller are not only world-famous comedians and magicians, they're also die-hard skeptics. Each episode takes topics such as abstinence, life coaching, cryptozoology, 12-step programs and psychics and uses principles of magic and trickery - as well as good ol' fashioned hidden camera sting operations - to smoke out ``nonsense peddlers'' and reveal how they

Sex Offender Registry reliability could be significantly improved

Posted on July 02, 2010
7-2-2010 Vermont:From the Vermont State Auditor's Office:MONTPELIER ??The last several years have been marked by the amplified legislative and public attention to the issues of strengthening the monitoring of sex offenders in Vermont,? said Tom Salmon, CPA, reporting today on the results of the audit of the Vermont Sex Offender Registry (SOR)...

Audit finds major, repeated problems in Vermont sex offender registry

Posted on July 02, 2010
If the state cannot get the input correct, should we believe the information therein is secured? 7-2-2010 Vermont:MONTPELIER ? A blistering audit of the state's sex offender registry found many errors, some of them significant, in the program.Some of the mistakes uncovered in the report by the office of State Auditor Tom Salmon were fairly mundane...

Changes to the Sex Offender Registry in SD

Posted on July 02, 2010
7-2-2010 South Dakota:Changes to the sex offender registry go into affect today.They are state wide requirements, that each individual county now needs to adjust to and prepare for.KDLT's Krystle Kacner tells us what changes are taking place, and what they could mean...

Inmate Loses Bid to Keep Medical Records Private

Posted on July 02, 2010
7-2-2010 California:(CN) - A man serving time for kidnapping and rape cannot block psychologists from reviewing his medical records and recommending that he be civilly committed as a sexually violent predator, the 9th Circuit ruled. Michael Seaton challenged a decision by California mental health officials to have him civilly committed as he neared his early release date...

Michigan House legislation targets sex offenders

Posted on July 02, 2010
See Michigan Bills: HB-4468 -- HB-4469 and HB-5043 7-2-2010 Michigan:LANSING, Mich. ? People convicted of rape could permanently lose their medical licenses under legislation that has passed the Michigan House. The bipartisan, three-bill package passed Thursday by overwhelming margins now goes to the Senate...

Sex Offenders Meet Media

Posted on July 01, 2010
6-30-2010 Washington DC:A group of former sex offenders and experts in the field of sexual offense met with members of the press Monday, following the 2nd Annual Conference of Reform Sex Offender Laws (RSOL). RSOL seeks to reform or repeal legislation like the Adam Walsh Act, which has a current deadline for implementation of July 1st but has only been completely adopted by 4 states...

Midlands Voices: Child-porn cases are not all alike

Posted on July 01, 2010
6-30-2010 Nebraska:The writer, of Omaha, is a lawyer.Foreign travelers are occasionally bemused after observing our society so obsessed with sex. That goes for pornography, too. If you have cable television, you can dial up soft-core porn any night of the week...

Midlands Voices: Danger inherent in all child porn

Posted on July 01, 2010
6-30-2010 Nebraska:The writer is a retired Nebraska State Patrol sergeant and creator of the Nebraska State Patrol?s Internet Crimes Against Children Unit.I am writing in response to a June 20 Midlands Voices article, ?Child-porn cases are not all alike...

US lawmakers approve $20 million settlement with family of woman held captive for 18 years

Posted on July 01, 2010
7-1-2010 California:SACRAMENTO, Calif. ? California lawmakers approved a $20 million settlement Thursday with the family of Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped as a girl and held captive in a secret backyard for 18 years by a paroled sex offender.Dugard, 30, resurfaced last August with two daughters she bore with Phillip Garrido, a convicted rapist...

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