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1 for All: Building Awareness of the First Amendment

Posted on July 01, 2010
7-1-2010 National:Building Awareness of the First Amendment1 for All is a national nonpartisan program designed to build understanding and support for First Amendment freedoms. 1 for All provides teaching materials to the nation?s schools, supports educational events on America?s campuses and reminds the public that the First Amendment serves everyone, regardless of faith, race, gender or

Homeless sex offender worries neighbors

Posted on July 01, 2010
Folks need to realize they voted for the politicians who made the laws causing this problem. Need anyone say more, maybe the public isn't able to realize the connection between the rah-rah of the politician an and their claims of everything they will do if elected...

White House Preparing National Online ID Plan

Posted on June 30, 2010
Is anonymity about to be a thing of the past? Obama may have forgotten the U.S. Supreme court ruling on anonymous free speech. 6-29-2010 Washington DC:The proposed system for authenticating people, organizations and infrastructure on the web at the transactional level will require an identity ecosystem...

ACTION ALERT: Concerns with Supp. Guidelines - Section I (B Internet Identifiers) Part-3

Posted on June 30, 2010
UPDATED: New..6-30-2010 Washington DC:PROBLEM: Facebook and other social networking websites have become this era's way of communicating and obtaining all sorts of information as well as political information. Government agencies and lawmakers have established accounts on social networking websites asking for the general public to follow them, hence obtain much needed information from these

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Taking Risks

Posted on June 30, 2010
6-30-2010 National:As the parent of an ?almost grown? teenager, we?ve learned that many teens often take unnecessary risks because they believe they are untouchable and immortal. A new study out this month confirms some teens also are taking big risks online...

Registed sex offender arrested on trespassing charges

Posted on June 29, 2010
I wonder what "rear of residence" actually means, in an alley behind property? Apparently that was not clear to the officer either, as he arrested him for "suspicison." Fear was caused by politicians, in reality. 6-28-2010 Louisiana:______, 42, ____, West Monroe, was arrested by a Ouachita Parish Sheriff?s Deputy Saturday on suspicion of trespassing...

What's Happening in the World of Sex Offender Issues?

Posted on June 29, 2010
6-29-2010 National:A few items to report:NEW Supplemental Guidelines: Folks please remember the deadline for comments is 7-13-2010 11:59 PM and not a second later! In case you haven't read why and what folks should be commenting on, see SORNA: New Supplemental Guidelines...

The Sentencing Project Unveils New Recidivism

Posted on June 29, 2010
6-29-2010 National:The Sentencing Project is pleased to announce the publication of a first?of-its-kind comprehensive database, "State Recidivism Studies." The database provides references for 99 recidivism studies conducted between 1995-2009 in all 50 states and the District of Columbia...

2 Bellingham men charged for stabbing sex offender

Posted on June 28, 2010
6-27-2010 Washington:BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- Two men have been charged in Bellingham for the stabbing of a convicted sex offender.The Bellingham Herald reports that 28-year-old Henry K. Redlightning faces a second-degree assault charge for allegedly stabbing 21-year-old ____ on his chest, back and lung...

Sex Offenders, Lawyers and the Burden of a Voice

Posted on June 27, 2010
6-26-2010 Washington DC:by Norm Pattis, Defending Sex CrimesAlmost every time I stand in the presence of a group of people to talk about sex offenses and accused sex offenders I face the scorn of those assembled. Few crimes are as reviled. But today was different...

Grisly attack on 9-year-old sparked Florida's effort

Posted on June 27, 2010
6-27-2010 Florida:Jimmy Ryce, a 9-year-old from a nice neighborhood in Miami-Dade County, was walking home from his school bus stop in September 1995 when a truck blocked the sidewalk. A man took out a gun and forced Jimmy to go with him.Jimmy was raped, beaten and fatally shot when he tried to escape...

Shred Your Sex Offender Map

Posted on June 26, 2010
6-25-2010 National:If anything, the sex offender registry is making our kids LESS safe.Recently I consulted my local Serial Killer Registry and found out I'm living next door to a guy who killed three lunchroom ladies when they refused to give him seconds on the chili! Oh please...

Taxpayers paying for ineffective sex-offender treatment programs

Posted on June 26, 2010
This excellent article has one inaccuracy in it, it is, that the Federal Government has not spend a dime on any sex offender treatment, they will not even discuss the issue. Some states do recognize treatment programs and fund them, but not the federal government! 6-26-2010 New York:Federal and state governments have shelled out billions of dollars on programs to track, treat and punish sex

National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL): A review of the NEW SORNA Supplemental Guidelines

Posted on June 26, 2010
6-26-2010 National:This is a pretty good review but notice how all points made are points that favor the actions of the USAG and the SMART Office.No points of how the Supp. Guidelines affect registrants, or how the guidelines may affect any rights constitutional or otherwise...

UD study says state wastes millions of dollars on treating low-risk juvenile sex offenders

Posted on June 26, 2010
6-26-2010 Delaware:An examination of Delaware's approach to juvenile sex offenders finds the need for reform. Research released today shows the system costs taxpayers millions each year, treating many kids as high risk who simply do not fall into that category, while distracting the state from the truly risky offenders...

ACTION ALERT: Concerns with Supp. Guidelines - Section IV (Retroactive Classes)

Posted on June 25, 2010
UPDATED: 6-25-20106-25-2010 Washington DC:In our original announcement of these NEW Supplemental Guidelines, the Juvenile Justice site said, that:3) Gives jurisdictions discretion to modify the retroactive registration requirement to apply to new felony convictions only...

Port St. Lucie woman guilty of extortion of convicted sex offender

Posted on June 25, 2010
6-25-2010 Florida:FORT PIERCE ? A jury took just 19 minutes Wednesday afternoon to find a 47-year-old Port St. Lucie woman guilty of trying to extort $33,000 and a 2003 Cadillac DeVille from a convicted sex offender.Carol Merrilee Wands faces up to 15 years in prison when she is sentenced July 28 for the second-degree felony conviction...

High court weighs sex offenders? rights

Posted on June 25, 2010
6-25-2010 New Hampshire:Man wants to attend church where children are presentCONCORD ? The state Supreme Court took up a case Wednesday that could determine how and where sex offenders worship after they?re released from prison.The justices? questions were many, but they boiled down to how to balance an offender?s fundamental right to practice religion with the state?s duty to protect the

Lake Michigan College cracks down on who can attend

Posted on June 25, 2010
6-25-2010 Michigan:Officials will review individual cases to determine whether felons, sex offenders can go to school at the collegeBENTON TOWNSHIP - Current and prospective Lake Michigan College students who are felons or on Michigan's sex offender registry will no longer be allowed to automatically continue classes or gain admittance under a new policy...

Court: refusal to identify law applies to passengers

Posted on June 25, 2010
Interesting case.6-25-2010 Indiana:Although state law allows police to request identification from passengers inside a car that they?ve stopped, two Indianapolis officers shouldn?t have arrested a man for refusing to identify himself when there was no reasonable suspicion he?d done anything wrong...

Increase in juveniles fuels Iowa's spending on monitoring, confining sex offenders

Posted on June 24, 2010
6-24-2010 Iowa:The high cost of monitoring and confining sex offenders who are subject to a slew of new laws in Iowa will be discussed by policymakers this week and later this summer.State officials have discovered the cost is growing more than expected because more juveniles are being added to new 10-year and lifetime monitoring requirements for sex crimes, said Phyllis Blood, an analyst for

Independence man to face federal sex charge

Posted on June 24, 2010
Example of how the Adam Walsh Act is being misused. Federal prosecutor is using the Adam Walsh Act jurisdictional hook (Sec. 2250) to prosecute this man in federal court. Notice the accusation, that, this man somehow planned to travel to commit this crime...

Four Moose Lake sex offenders attempt escape

Posted on June 24, 2010
Does Minnesota always civilly commit those who are convicted of murder and sexually oriented offenses? Lets see, Mr Ivey will never be released from prison having been convicted of murder, why is the state spending $175,000 a year on treatment, housing and security at a civil commitment center, for someone who will never be released from prison! Aren't the costs of prison far less? Is it time

Sex offender fighting to attend family church in NH

Posted on June 24, 2010
A few facts. Viewing child pornography is a non contact crime; he viewed 60 pics. Now, if we were to believe the woman's theory, then we must be fearful of lawyers and judges who have, in the course of their jobs, likely have viewed many many many pics of child porn, and deathly afraid of the police who have arrested such criminals; none of these have yet to be sentenced...

NY sex offender's lawyer opposes civil confinement

Posted on June 23, 2010
The real question here is, whether civil commitment is applicable at all, and not based on any ex post facto theory either? The article doesn't answer this threshold question, whether this man's priors are the result of rape -in the sense of jumping out of bushes and attacking women, -OR- whether he simply had consensual relations with women albeit illegal because of his HIV status? Which is

ACTION ALERT: Supplemental Guidelines - Section II (C Acknowledgement Forms)

Posted on June 23, 2010
UPDATED: 6-23-2010In the NEW Supplemental Guidelines, section titled "II. Interjurisdictional Tracking and Information Sharing" there are three sub-sections A-B-C. In this commentary we cover C. Acknowledgement Form.6-20-2010 Washington DC:PROBLEM: In the Proposed Supplemental Guidelines (SG), "II...

More Than 400 Convicted Sex Offenders Now Off State Registry

Posted on June 22, 2010
6-21-2010 Maine:Over the past decade, the Maine Legislature has made a number of changes to Maine's sex offender registry requirements. But according to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, not all of these changes have been constitutional.Last December, the court ruled that some changes made to the sex offender registry had gone a little too far...

Schumer: Close loopholes in sex offender law

Posted on June 21, 2010
6-20-2010 National:ALBANY -- State laws nationwide prohibit sex offenders from working as school teachers and coaches, but most laws don't cover karate instructors, youth coaches, carnival workers, clowns, magicians, or dance instructors in the private sector when public funds aren't involved...

Ohio Court Rules on Sex Offender Classification

Posted on June 21, 2010
6-21-2010 Ohio:Ohio Supreme Court has ruled in a decision to require the Ohio Attorney General's Office to contact sex offenders and update them of their classification status. The Ohio Attorney General's Office has begun to remove individuals from the sex offender registry who no longer have to register as sex offenders as directed by the Ohio Supreme Court...

Police begin checking on sex offenders

Posted on June 21, 2010
This is the kind of story that blows my mind. Officers from 10 (TEN) official agencies go out to check addresses. In this a time of need, the pocketbooks of taxpayers are being bled dry with stupidity like this. This is nothing more than "Police Sensationalism" no different than when Lawmakers enact a new sex offender law because it "Sounds Good" without an ounce of proof that it will make

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