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Sex Education Could Mean Charges for Teachers

Posted on April 09, 2010
If prosecutors are good at anything, they are best at misconstruing the law. Time to wake up and make sure good folks are chosen to prosecute.4-9-2010 Wisconsin:MADISON, Wis. ? A Wisconsin prosecutor is warning sex education teachers they could face charges if they follow a new state law that allows them to instruct students about proper contraceptive use...

New Kan. law to require more sex offenders to register with the state for life

Posted on April 07, 2010
4-6-2010 Kansas:TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ? Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson has signed legislation expanding the list of crimes that land people on the sex offender registry for life.Parkinson signed the bill Tuesday. The new law takes effect July 1.Kansas already requires lifetime sex offender registration for people convicted of committing such as rape, sodomy and sexual exploitation of a child...

Do sex offender boundary laws work?

Posted on April 06, 2010
Just because a law is popular doesn't make it effective! These laws are nothing more than banishment of undesirables, child safety is a ruse perpetrated by politicians. Finally, there isn't an ounce of evidence that these laws enhance public safety, in fact, by diverting taxpayer money to these laws, there is less for normal law enforcement...

Oklahoma bill to expand restrictions on sex offenders advances

Posted on April 06, 2010
Unbelievable, there still is someone who believes that former sex offenders will LOOK FOR A PLACE where there are MANY CHILDREN, so that s/he may attack them. This bill is proof that, at least this lawmaker, has FAILED to study the evidence of how and where sex crimes are committed...

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All Sex Offenders Are Not Equal

Posted on April 05, 2010
4-4-2010 Connecticut:State Must Look To Research, Not Fear Or PoliticsWhen the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, a federal law aimed at sex offenders, was being debated in 2005, Florida Attorney General Charlie Christ said, "The experts tell us that someone who has molested a child will do it again and again...

Editorial: Colorado's work not done on sex-crime laws

Posted on April 05, 2010
4-5-2010 Colorado:An East Coast appeals court decision last week points out unfinished business for Colorado state lawmakers in regards to sex offenders.The three-judge panel ruled that a Maryland man convicted of trying to lure a cop posing as a 13-year-old girl into a sexual encounter should not have been forbidden from using a computer for 30 yeas after his release from prison...

Oversight key to better sex offender registry

Posted on April 05, 2010
While some may foolishly believe that, watching (lawmakers call it monitoring) former sex offenders, may make a better ADDRESS BOOK (which is all a registry is, besides its harmful effects). Nothing done, even if you throw a billion dollars into it, will prevent a registrant from not registering, IF s/he so feels like doing that, to his/her own peril...

Judge Calls Electronic Monitoring Excessive Bail in Child Pornography Case

Posted on April 04, 2010
4-3-2010 New York:Eastern District of New York Judge Jack B. Weinstein has held unconstitutional the electronic monitoring of a Brooklyn pizzeria owner awaiting retrial on child pornography charges.The judge found that the monitoring, mandated by the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, constitutes unconstitutionally excessive bail and violates defendant Peter Polouizzi's

Court reviewing Safety Dept. appeal

Posted on April 04, 2010
4-4-2010 New Hampshire:CONCORD ? The New Hampshire Department of Safety is appealing a ruling that it violated a Milford man?s rights by requiring him to register as a sex offender for life. The man is identified only as ?John Doe? in court documents, and his case is scheduled to be argued before the state Supreme Court April 22...

Appeals Court Rejects 30-Year Computer Ban for Sex Offender

Posted on April 03, 2010
4-2-2010 Washington DC:A federal appeals court in Washington today struck down a 30-year ban on any computer use by a convicted sex offender, sending the case back to the trial court to refine the restriction in a way that opens it up to modification for work purposes...

How many registered sex offenders have never committed sex crimes?

Posted on April 03, 2010
4-3-2010 Wisconsin:James W. Smith is a criminal, but he has never been convicted of a sex crime. Yet type his name on the state?s sex offender registry and you?ll find his picture.That?s because the statute that lists offenses that earn a spot on the registry includes the crime of false imprisonment of a child, regardless of whether or not there is a sexual motivation...

New law alters felons' 'credit' for time served

Posted on April 03, 2010
4-3-2010 Indiana:When Raymond Jeremy Wimber is sentenced next month to multiple charges of child molesting, the 40-year-old will have to serve about 85 percent of his 60-year sentence.That's because Wimber is classified as a credit-restricted felon under new legislation that took effect July 1, 2008, which means instead of the customary day-for-day good time credit, he will get credit for every

GPS ankle bracelet designed for real-time sex offender tracking

Posted on April 03, 2010
Here we have a vendor who is misleading the public, in that, he sells his product under the premise that all sex crimes are committed in places that can be protected. i.e., such as a park, school, etc. Electronic fences can be programmed around such places, but cannot be programmed to cover every bedroom of every child in the nation...

Exclusive: Brickell Developer Unloads Empty Condos On Julia Tuttle Sex Offenders

Posted on April 02, 2010
And folks thought the homeless sex offender population was high before this... 4-1-2010 Florida:A local condo developer and a homeless advocacy group are nearing a landmark deal to house the remaining sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway, according to sources familiar with the negotiations...

Court rules sex offender library ban unconstitutional

Posted on April 02, 2010
4-2-2010 New Mexico:A Second District Court Judge ruled today that Albuquerque?s regulation banning sex offenders from libraries is unconstitutional. The law would create ?an unacceptable risk of the suppression of ideas? and infringe upon the First Amendment rights of the sex offenders...

Suffolk bill requiring GPS on sex offenders signed

Posted on April 02, 2010
How does one spell ILLEGAL? Laws cannot force someone to give up constitutional rights to receive services. ACLU where are you?4-2-2010 New York:Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy said Thursday that he has signed legislation to require homeless sex offenders who receive housing vouchers from the county to wear GPS tracking devices...

County awaits Albany ruling on GPS requirement for homeless sex offenders

Posted on April 01, 2010
Are there any politicians left with half a brain? These folks are homeless because they cannot afford housing, so you turn around and pile another expense on them, only fools would do that! Are the politicians willing to pay for that too?3-31-2010 New York:Suffolk County legislators are still waiting to hear back from Albany to see if a law they adopted last week requiring homeless sex

Cameras give sex offenders 'the eye'

Posted on April 01, 2010
No, this is not an April Fool's joke, police have stooped to a new low, spending -no wasting- taxpayer's money (Federal Grant) to put camera's in the woods and cardboard boxes in the slums, just to see IF a RSO comes by for a few hours of the day! This is insanity! ACLU needs to be claiming -discrimination- there should be a camera at every single RSO's residence to see if they come home to

Law passed to remove some sex offenders from South Dakota registry

Posted on March 31, 2010
As good as this seems, there still are some kinks: Since AWA has forced states to include folks retroactively it seems logical that, the term of registration should also be retroactive, in that, term should begin when the person was first placed in the community, not when this law was enacted...

Judges overturn sex offender rule

Posted on March 31, 2010
3-31-2010 Louisiana:An appellate court has ruled that the state cannot require a West Feliciana Parish man to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life or carry a special driver?s license and identification card.The ruling by a three-judge panel of Louisiana?s 1st Circuit Court of Appeal overturns a District Court judge?s ruling against Jimmy L...

"100,000 Missing Sex Offenders" has been the call to arms for years now.

Posted on March 30, 2010
3-29-2010 National:That call to arms has permitted lawmakers to enact law after law, including the Adam Walsh Act; all harming folks more and more.For some odd years now "100,000 sex offenders missing, whereabouts unknown" has been touted by John Walsh (the whereabouts of about 100,000 are currently unknown ), Parents for Megan's Laws (that over 100,000 sex offenders were ?missing? from

Connecticut's effort to comply with the Adam Walsh Act ?

Posted on March 30, 2010
3-30-2010 Connecticut:Connecticut is making every effort to comply with the Adam Walsh Act? Really?Below is -one section- of what is being proposed to be effective 10-1-2010. In essence, the state wants to know about ANY former sex offender (BUT not persons who will commit a sex offense! OK, I'm a smart alec) who may CROSS their state lines, BEFOREHAND!It is getting so that, in order for a RSO

Harrell arrested in Somer Thompson murder

Posted on March 29, 2010
Harrell Arrest Docket3-26-2010 Florida:ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- Action News has confirmed Jarred Harrell has been arrested in Somer Thompson's murder.A source confirms with Action News Jarred Harrell will be charged in Somer's murder. The Clay County Sheriff?s Office will not confirm the arrest but it says it will make a major announcement in the investigation into Somer Thompson?s murder today at

Woodbridge's East Jersey State Penitentary receiving 162 civilly-committed sex offenders

Posted on March 29, 2010
3-29-2010 New Jersey:WOODBRIDGE ? As many as 162 civilly-committed sex offenders now housed in a temporary facility in South Kearny will be coming to Woodbridge, the state Department of Corrections announced today.The change is the result of a May 2009 court ruling that ordered the offenders to be moved...

Web site plotting sex offender locations not always accurate

Posted on March 29, 2010
3-29-2010 Ohio:Despite what a state Web site says, Collins Christian Children's Center does not have registered sex offenders living a football field's distance away on both sides.Nor does a man who molested his 7-year-old daughter live within 1,000 feet of Firelands Presbyterian Day Care in Port Clinton...

Man On Personal Mission Launches Sex Offender Magazine

Posted on March 29, 2010
Only state registries have been authorized to disseminate registry information, not secondary publications. Further, federal law prohibits dissemination without a method of correcting any possible erroneous information. Such correction would be impossible on paper copies previously disseminated...

Slain Girl's Mom: Suspect a "Monster"

Posted on March 28, 2010
3-28-2010 Florida:Somer Thompson's Mother Calls on Communities Nationwide to Be More Vigilant, Saying, "This Isn't Mayberry Anymore"(CBS/ AP) An unemployed restaurant worker was charged Friday with sexually assaulting and killing 7-year-old Somer Thompson, whose body was discovered in a Georgia landfill two days after she vanished walking home from school in north Florida...

Hearings on New Hampshire crime bills in the next two weeks

Posted on March 28, 2010
3-28-2010 New Hampshire:NH Statehouse Update Number Six From Chris Dornin Advocates for Smarter Criminal Laws can testify between now and April 6 on half a dozen bills, including SB 500 next Thursday, addressed in my previous legislative alert today. That?s the most important bill hearing by far in the next two weeks...

As "Megan's Law" turns 15, are we any safer?

Posted on March 27, 2010
3-26-2010 New Jersey:New Jersey is currently out of compliance with its own land mark sex offender law, named after slain Hamilton girl, Megan Kanka. Why did this happen?WHAT HAPPENED TO MEGAN?It was a warm afternoon in late July, 1994, when a seven-year-old girl named Megan Kanka was beckoned across the street by her neighbor, a 33-year-old man named Jesse Timmendequas...

N.J. plans to relocate 150 sex offenders to East Jersey State Prison in Woodbridge

Posted on March 27, 2010
3-27-2010 New Jersey:TRENTON ? The Department of Corrections will relocate about 150 sex offenders to a high-security unit at East Jersey State Prison in Woodbridge, officials announced today. The decision ends a decade-long political fight as officials sought a permanent place to house an unpopular group of offenders...

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