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NY State court rules that sex offender residing in home with children not by itself, proof of neglect

Posted on March 19, 2010
3-18-2010 New York:On March 16 the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department reversed an order by Dutchess County Family Court Judge, Valentino Sammarco, that found the father and mother of four children had neglected them by allowing the father, a registered sex offender, to live with the children...

FBI Goes Undercover On Social Networks

Posted on March 18, 2010
3-17-2010 Global:Investigators may be using fake identities to track criminals online, if a confidential FBI presentation is any indication. The Federal Bureau of Investigations may use fake identities on social networks to investigate criminal activities, according to a redacted FBI document acquired by digital rights advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation...

3rd Circuit Bars Prosecution Threat for Teen 'Sexting'

Posted on March 18, 2010
3-18-2010 Pennsylvania:Panel also found former DA had violated parents' rights by usurping their rolesIn the first case ever to challenge the constitutionality of prosecuting teens for "sexting," a federal appeals court has upheld an injunction that barred a Pennsylvania prosecutor from bringing child pornography charges against girls who refused to attend a class he had designed to educate

Senate panel calls for death penalty for rapists of children

Posted on March 18, 2010
Nothing like wasting the time of the legislature with a bill that is known to be unconstitutional. This is nothing more than GRANDSTANDING, someone wants the public's attention, obviouly he is running for some office in the near future, and that is thr real reason for this bill...

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Low risk sex offenders may get a break

Posted on March 18, 2010
3-18-2010 Georgia:ALBANY, GA (WALB) - Under a new bill (HB-571) that has cleared the Georgia House, some low risk sex offenders would be able to get off the state's registry.The legislation would let certain inmates petition the courts to remove them from the state sex offender registry after completing their sentences, like the disabled, and so-called Romeo and Juliet statutory rape cases, in

Sex offender sues Putnam County over residency ban

Posted on March 18, 2010
3-18-2010 New York:A registered sex offender ordered to move from his parents Southeast home has sued Putnam County, claiming its 2007 law restricting where sex offenders can live is unconstitutional and would "banish" him from Putnam.Brian Edward Morrissey, a former teacher in Virginia who served nine years in federal prison for possessing child pornography, is fighting in court to be allowed

Court: New sex offenders may avoid registry rules

Posted on March 18, 2010
3-18-2010 Ohio:COLUMBUS, Ohio ? The Ohio Supreme Court has delivered a major setback to efforts by state lawmakers to apply the tough new sex offender notification requirements laid out in the federal Adam Walsh Act.In a unanimous decision Thursday, the high court ruled sex offenders notified of their status in the most severe category after Jan...

Proposed Juvenile Sex Offender Registry Now Targets ?High Risk?

Posted on March 17, 2010
3-17-2010 Tennessee:A controversial bill to create a registry for violent juvenile sex offenders was approved by the Judiciary Committee in the Tennessee House of Representatives Tuesday. The measure now targets juvenile offenders considered ?high risk...

Supreme Court: Sex Offender May Petition for Removal From Registry

Posted on March 17, 2010
3-17-2010 California:A person seeking to be removed from the sex offender registry based on a 2006 state Supreme Court ruling may seek that relief by writ petition, but not by postjudgment motion, the state Supreme Court ruled yesterday. In a unanimous decision, the justices affirmed a Third District Court of Appeal ruling that a trial court has no jurisdiction to grant a motion to remove the

Ga. Supreme Court rebuffs sex offender registry challenge

Posted on March 16, 2010
Lawyers should have anticipated this as a possible outcome and presented arguments -in the alternative-, such as, discrimination in that other crime types are not so forced. ...more to follow... 3-15-2010 Georgia:The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld a provision of the state's sex-offender registry law that requires some people who have not committed sex crimes to register as sex

How do we stop predators?

Posted on March 16, 2010
3-16-2010 California:California has been throwing new sex offender laws against the wall and hoping they will stick. It's time to assess which ones work and which ones don't.Their first names have become synonymous with outrage and grief: Megan, Jessica, Samantha, Amber...

S.F. Man Fails To Register As Sex Offender -- Because He's Dead

Posted on March 16, 2010
Despite the police comments there is no doubt this man died because of California's residency laws! 3-15-2010 California:According to the state's sex offender registry, Nicholas Chaykovsky has been in violation of registration requirements since Sunday...

Local communities may lose control of sex offender placement

Posted on March 15, 2010
3-14-2010 Wisconsin:The Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) says more than 100 communities have drawn up their own ordinances that spell out where sex offenders are not allowed to reside. (STATE CAPITOL) Local communities would no longer be allowed to decide where sex offenders can and cannot live under a plan state lawmakers are considering...

Lake Michigan College announces split decision on suspensions

Posted on March 14, 2010
See earlier story. 3-14-2010 Michigan:BENTON HARBOR - One Lake Michigan College student who appealed a suspension for being on the child sex offender registry will be allowed to return to campus, and another who appealed remains barred, a committee decided late Friday...

Chatroulette Is 'Predator's Paradise,' Experts Say

Posted on March 14, 2010
Predator's Paradise? No, this is a place which is very dangerous for anyone with ideas of wrongdoing. Why? Simple, playing on Chatroulette is like driving 100 on a highway that is patrolled by thousands of police, you will get caught! Predator's Paradise, NO, Policeman's Paradise, YES! Its one thing to meet folks, but make sure your ideas are pure!3-14-2010 Global:Chatroulette, a Web site

Jury to decide fate of pedophile held at mental health facility

Posted on March 14, 2010
3-14-2010 Wisconsin:Shawn Schulpius, 36, has spent his entire adult life in state-financed treatment for his pedophilia. Taxpayers continue to pay more than $100,000 a year for his care, but state psychologists say their work isn't done.Schulpius' lawyer, however, contends that the 13 years of therapy and supervision has taught Schulpius to recognize, divert and suppress his sexual attraction to

Case against convicted sex offender Matthew Freeman dismissed

Posted on March 13, 2010
3-12-2010 Michigan:Washtenaw County prosecutors dropped a criminal charge today against a young Pittsfield Township sex offender who was accused of illegally living near a school.Matthew Freeman, 23, was charged in August with a school safety zone residency violation, accused of living within 1,000 feet of Carpenter Elementary School...

Do Oklahoma's Registered Sex Offender Laws Work?

Posted on March 13, 2010
No one can answer whether the laws work, until someone answers, what did you expect the laws to accomplish? Politicians will NEVER ANSWER that question with any sort of specificity, they will only broadly claim "Follow me and I'll get this (whatever they are touting) passed into law...

Another girl's death, another law

Posted on March 13, 2010
3-13-2010 California:Legislative reaction to grief has not always proved effective in dealing with sex offenders.Their names, breezy and alive, conjure the girls they used to be before they collided with horror. There was Megan Kanka, the 7-year-old from New Jersey...

Trash backup caused delay in Somer Thompson search

Posted on March 12, 2010
3-12-2010 Florida:Backup of trash trucks, lack of space at a Clay waste station led to authorities? decision.GREEN COVE SPRINGS ? Somer Thompson?s body may have been found at a Clay County trash site rather than a Georgia landfill if not for a decision to end the local search primarily because of a backup of trash trucks, records and an interview with the county manager show...

I testified against repeal of local sex offender ordinances

Posted on March 12, 2010
Sex Offender Advocates should study how this Senator presented her arguments with supports and conclusion, then mirror her method with counter arguments, for every sex offender issue that comes up in any state. One can always learn from lawmakers advocates so often try to convince otherwise...

Oklahoma Legislators Ignore Supreme Court

Posted on March 12, 2010
3-12-2010 Texas:The Tulsa Beacon reports, "New bill could give death penalty to repeat child molesters."State lawmakers voted to increase the penalties - including life in prison and death - facing repeat child molesters.House Bill 2965, by state Rep...

ACU dean answers to sex offender's enrollment

Posted on March 12, 2010
3-12-2010 Texas:Dr. Jean-Noel Thompson, Abilene Christian University?s dean of students, realizes the news that former ACU football player Tony Washington spent two years at the school while registered as a sex offender might come as a shock to many people, but he said the decision to allow Washington to enroll wasn?t taken lightly ? and there was a strict process the school went through...

State cuts sex offender rehab

Posted on March 12, 2010
Alaska cut its prison SO Treatment in 2003, when it had a very low recidivism rate. Then recidivism rates rose, and finally in 2010 they have again budgeted to include prison SO Treatment, obviously because of the difference in recidivism rates. When will lawmakers understand, that they are supposed to do, whatever it takes to save one child? AND NOT, whatever it takes to save one child -if we

Increasing Safety Zones For Sex Offenders

Posted on March 11, 2010
How do lawmakers justify laws they have enacted? In order to justify laws enacted, someone must break the law and get caught, only then can lawmakers justify the law!Note the police say, that, NOT ONE RSO was arrested for breaking the 300 foot prohibited zone last year...

Violent Predator Wasn't Being Closely Monitored

Posted on March 11, 2010
Sex offender profiling: Why was this man arrested? He doesn't fit the original description of the person seen lingering around the school. I don't care what his background is, there must be some conenction to the alleged criminal act; here there is none, except an apparent Registry ID photo, likely showing his earlier crimes...

Further changes sought to Md. death penalty law

Posted on March 11, 2010
Proof of the rarity of the Foxwell crime is shown here, in that, in order to apply the death penalty to the Foxwell offender they must first change the law!3-11-2010 Maryland:Bill would add fingerprints, photos to usable evidenceFive months after enacting tight restrictions on Maryland's seldom-used capital punishment statute, state lawmakers are considering another revision...

Secure Services Unit released seven in 2009

Posted on March 10, 2010
3-10-2010 North Dakota:Alex Schweitzer, superintendent of the North Dakota State Hospital, included an update on a program that treats sex offenders during in his regular report to the hospital governing board Monday. The State Hospital?s Secure Services Unit, in existence since 1997, houses 65 individuals and has a capacity of 85 beds...

Wash. lawmakers limit sex offender computers in civil commitment

Posted on March 10, 2010
As enacted this bill creates a property issue & access issue. SB 6308 states::(2)(a) Any person committed or detained pursuant to this chapter shall be prohibited from possessing or accessing a personal computer if the resident's individualized treatment plan states that access to a computer is harmful to bringing about a positive response to a specific and certain phase or course of treatment...

179 Sex Offenders Arrested In Statewide Sweep

Posted on March 10, 2010
3-10-2010 Michigan:LANSING, Mich. -- The Michigan State Police announced Tuesday that 179 non-compliant sex offenders were arrested and 248 additional arrest warrants were requested during Operation Verify, an initiative aimed at increasing compliance with Michigan?s sex offender registration law...

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