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Jessica's Law Makes Communities Safer?

Posted on May 02, 2010
Click to find the truth behind Jessic's Law: Safer Communities?

Michigan bill aims to track homeless sex offenders

Posted on May 01, 2010
Again we see the legislature focusing on perpetuating the registry rather than solving why folks are homeless. This is typical of Michigan which fails to resolve hundreds of reasons which cause all the wrong people to be included in the registry. ex: Peeing in the park, Romeo & Juliets, etc...

Family Court judge upheld and chastized in high court ruling

Posted on April 30, 2010
4-30-2010 Rhode Island:PROVIDENCE ? Family Court judges have the right to place juveniles who are convicted of adult crimes in residential treatment facilities instead of the more secure Training School until they reach age 19, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday...

DOJ Challenges Sex Offender's Effort to Renounce Citizenship

Posted on April 30, 2010
4-30-2010 National:James Kaufman has been trying for six years to renounce his citizenship, pressing Justice Department officials and other government agencies to let him cut his ties to the United States.Kaufman, a 36-year registered sex offender who is locked up in state prison in Wisconsin, says in court papers in Washington that he is entitled to renounce his citizenship inside the United

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I-Team: Sex Offenders Found Living In U.S. Hotels

Posted on April 30, 2010
Here is an interesting story about PROPERLY REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS and where they are living, of course the media is sensationalizing and implying the public is at risk when they are no more at risk than if they lived elsewhere. Is the media or Bledsloe trying to get these folks evicted, so they can then write a story about homeless sex offenders?The facts are, that of the crimes reported in

Is the Tide Turning in Georgia's Child Molestation Case?

Posted on April 30, 2010
4-30-2010 Georgia:In Catoosa County, Georgia, Tonya Craft's child molestation trial continues to devolve into a absurd witch-hunt. Only now, the national media is actually starting to pay attention.Yesterday, Assistant District Attorney Chris Arnt asked a detective involved in the case whether she ?get[s] paid per child molester the way the defense does...

Law Targeting International Sex Trafficking Moves Forward in U.S. House

Posted on April 29, 2010
While I have no problem with a law that targets sex trafficking, this law places the blame for sex trafficking on everyone on the U.S. registry. i.e., even Romeo and Juliet cases, juveniles, and those who pee in the park. This is an over-broad law and needs to be stopped...

Colonie law becomes a local model

Posted on April 28, 2010
Note the lawyer's comment. This is another stupid law that will cost money in court actions. I guess it is OK to say, motels can only rent to State Officials, or those who are white, etc. etc.. Right?4-27-2010 New York:Statute on motels that house sex offenders copied by other towns COLONIE -- Other communities are beginning to copy a Colonie law that regulates how many sex offenders a motel

Robbery suspect admits to assaulting sex offenders in Grover Beach

Posted on April 28, 2010
4-28-2010 California:A man shot and wounded by a Grover Beach police officer last Friday morning may have been involved in a self-styled vigilante spree, targeting convicted sex offenders posted on the Megan?s Law website.Police believe David Jordan Griffin, 24, who was arrested for allegedly robbing the Kautz Chevron station on Grand Avenue on Friday with a machete, may be linked to other

Bill aims to keep track of homeless sex offenders

Posted on April 28, 2010
PROOF that, the registry is a nonsensical address book with pictures. Of what value, in a public safety sense, is it to know where a registrant SLEEPS? Or, is the real purpose to provide the public with a list of where they can harass the offender? Registries are fraught with political stupidity, the real purpose is a tool for politicians to keep them in office...

Utah towns charge extra fee to sex offenders

Posted on April 27, 2010
These are the kind of local fees that can cause a court to declare them unconstitutional. i.e., Does local jurisdictions charge drivers for registering different makes of cars when the state does not? Can local jurisdictions charge people of different races differently for their drivers' licences, etc etc etc...

Man classified Tier 3 says he is not a threat

Posted on April 27, 2010
Here we have a perfect example of how the state wields its god-like powers in ways that defy reason. First is the improper review of the man's case, reading it as a sex offense. But beyond that, is, using non-sex offenses to increase a sex offense level...

Housing Restrictions on Illinois Sex Offenders

Posted on April 27, 2010
There is another way, more logical, to view 28% -v- 23% go missing, that is, that roughly that many -whether on parole or not- are going to fight sex offender housing laws by committing civil disobedience. That should be a signal to lawmakers that the laws have reached the overbearing state and need to change...

Flaws found in state child-abuse registries

Posted on April 26, 2010
4-25-2010 National:NEW YORK (AP) ? Combatting child abuse is a cause with universal support. Yet a push to create a national database of abusers, as authorized by Congress in 2006, is barely progressing as serious flaws come to light in the state-level registries that would be the basis for a national list...

A sex offender's free expression -- Man on registry challenges law preventing him from photographing minors

Posted on April 26, 2010
4-2-2010 Wisconsin:RACINE - A local man has raised a free speech challenge to a state law that prevents anyone on the sex offender registry from taking photographs of minors without their parent's permission.John Rindo, 63, of the Town of Burlington, is on the sex offender registry, for a 1991 conviction of second-degree sexual assault of a child...

UPDATE: Sex Offender Arrested After Community Meeting

Posted on April 24, 2010
Truth or fiction? i.e., a way to get these men removed from their community on nothing but an allegation. 4-23-2010 Wisconsin:UPDATE: Madison police make two arrests after community meeting on Sex Offender Relocation.UPDATED Friday, April 23, 2010 --- 11:35 a...

Atsalis aims to create narcotics registry

Posted on April 24, 2010
A drug trafficker's registry? Not that I support registries at all, but, the comments about a "Look-Back" provision interest me.Why not look-back to cover previous drug traffickers? What makes a new case different from an older case with respect to public safety...

Contract To Help Sex Offenders Awarded To Non-Profit They're Forbidden to Enter

Posted on April 24, 2010
Is there anyone within the California Parole-Probation Office capable of doing something right? Worse yet, this contract lasts for three years... 4-24-2010 California:Paroled sex offenders forced into homelessness in San Francisco by Jessica's Law used to have at least one place they could call "home": the day-reporting center for parolees at the Northern California Service League, a non-profit

At Moose Lake, a facility some say is more prison than therapy

Posted on April 23, 2010
The last sentence says it all -civil commitment will be a never ending process for anyone confined in it-. 4-22-2010 Minnesota:Moose Lake, Minn. ? Three fences topped with razor wire line the perimeter of the state sex offender facility. Inside are two steel and concrete buildings that house more than 400 men who have completed sentences for sex crimes...

A month out of prison, sex offender faces child porn charges

Posted on April 23, 2010
In cases like these of offenders recently released and who re-offend, this article is missing important information. While in prison did this man receive any form of therapy? The article fails to investigate because recidivism sells papers.Consider this: In the California case of John Gardner -after he re-offended- we find that there was information in his background which showed he was a

Rapist of 11-year-old girl beaten by guards in prison

Posted on April 23, 2010
4-23-2010 Pennsylvania:Once again, Jose Carrasquillo was on the receiving end of a beating.Carrasquillo, who was charged last June with raping an 11-year-old girl in Kensington, apparently was pummeled by corrections officers after a confrontation Sunday at Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, officials said...

SEC porn investigation nets dozens

Posted on April 23, 2010
In today's sex crazed society, is porn likened to a cup of coffee? Worse yet, some of these are the moral police who make laws telling former sex offenders right from wrong! 4-23-2010 Washington DC:Dozens of Securities and Exchange Commission staffers used government computers to access and download explicit images and many of the incidents have occurred since the global financial meltdown

Sex offenders win appeal against indefinite inclusion on register

Posted on April 22, 2010
4-21-2010 United Kingdom:Supreme court backs case of two sex offenders who claim being on register for life without review breaches their human rightsA supreme court ruling today has opened the way for hundreds of sex offenders to challenge whether they should remain on the sex offenders' register for life...

Thousands of new hearings may be ordered for sex offenders

Posted on April 22, 2010
4-22-2010 Ohio:Ohio Supreme Court to decide if old cases should be held to new, tougher rulesWKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. The Ohio Supreme Court will decide if people convicted before Ohio adopted a tougher sex-offender law are subject to those tougher penalties...

Lifetime GPS under Chelsea's Law mainly targets lewd acts

Posted on April 22, 2010
All I can say is, proof that lawmaker logic is sorely lacking! Article also shows some of the monetary costs of this FLAWED law!4-22-2010 California:San Diego, Calif. (CBS 8) - For the first time, we are seeing some hard numbers on the estimated costs associated with Chelsea's Law...

Sex offender arrested hours after release

Posted on April 22, 2010
Having done no wrong and the state acknowleges equiptment error, why arrest this man?4-22-2010 Wisconsin:WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) ? Wausau police arrested a sex offender just hours after he was released yesterday.The GPS unit that 43-year-old Paul Podgorak wear did not synchronize to the satellite and showed him out of range, said corrections field supervisor Mike Williams...

HOmeless advocates seek to relocate sex offenders evicted from the hotel

Posted on April 22, 2010
I think folks should be very concerned by the Homeless Trust's attorney's alleged comment "They didn't have grounds to evict them" because anyone knows, if you own the property you decide who can and cannot live there. Hopefully the Homeless Trust is looking for another attorney with better legal skills...

Sex offender back in jail; girl allegedly molested

Posted on April 22, 2010
Assuming this man is guilty, and that this is not a false accusation, we again prove TRACKING does not PREVENT crimes, and the DOC even agrees. AT best GPS aides the prosecutor in prosecuting a crime. QUESTION: Given that simple logic, how is the public protected by the use of GPS? TRACKING does not provide the public with any safety as claimed by the politicians...

Indiana Appellate Case on the Right to Resist a Police Officer?s Unlawful Entry

Posted on April 22, 2010
4-22-2010 Indiana:From the Volokh ConspiracyThe case is Barnes v. State (Ind. Ct. App. Apr. 15, 2010); I?m not an expert on the field, so I don?t know how representative this is of the law throughout the country, but it struck me as interesting. The court?s conclusion:We reverse Barnes?s disorderly conduct conviction because the State failed to prove that Barnes?s noisy political expression was

Home mislabeled as a registered sex offender's residence

Posted on April 21, 2010
4-20-2010 Texas:DENISON, TX ? Most people would want to know if a convicted sex offender lived in their neighborhood. But one woman says authorities sent her neighbors notice a criminal lived in her home, when in fact, they?ve never even seen the person...

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