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Men accused of killing convicted sex offender to stand trial

Posted on March 10, 2010
3-9-2010 California:A self-avowed white supremacist and a reputed drug dealer accused of using California's Megan's Law registry to hunt down and kill a convicted sex offender must stand trial on felony charges, a judge ruled Monday.Steven Banister, 28, and Travis Martin Cody, 27, face first-degree murder charges in the Aug...

Fingerprint matches increase, but not arrests as Crist claims

Posted on March 10, 2010
3-10-2010 Florida:The statement"Florida's new fingerprint identification system is improving our rate of solving cold cases by 300 percent."Gov. Charlie Crist, March 2, his State of the State address.The rulingCrist is talking about the Biometric Identification System, or BIS for short...

Tribes face hurdles with sex offender registration

Posted on March 10, 2010
3-10-2010 New Mexico:SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) - Only two groups of Native American tribes and one state have implemented sex offender registration and notification systems that comply with a federal law passed nearly three years ago to coordinate and expand registration nationwide...

Watching Certain People: Does this have a familiar tune?

Posted on March 10, 2010
3-10-2010 New York:From 2004 through 2009, in a policy that has gotten completely out of control, New York City police officers stopped people on the street and checked them out nearly three million times, frisking and otherwise humiliating many of them...

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Senate passes penalty for throwing bodily fluids

Posted on March 09, 2010
It is quite clear that this bill is driven by the costs of civil commitment rather than any HIV type concerns (recognizing they do exist). After all, why take what the state considers -the most dangerous people- and place them back into prison where they will have more freedoms, and if HIV is a reality, could spread it more easily...

Where Should Sex Offenders Live After Prison?

Posted on March 09, 2010
3-9-2010 National: Listen to this 7 min. broadcast:Chelsea King, a 17-year-old girl from San Diego, was raped and killed last month by John Gardner, a man with a history of sex crimes. Gardner was previously incarcerated for molesting a 13-year-old girl in 2000, but was let out of prison early in 2005...

Gov. wants sex offenders' parole records retained

Posted on March 09, 2010
3-9-2010 California:Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday ordered California corrections officials to keep sex offenders' parole records indefinitely after he learned the files of a man now charged with killing a 17-year-old girl had been destroyed.The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation disclosed the documents on John Albert Gardner III had been destroyed in a response Friday to a

Inmate squirts breast milk on deputy (Obviously a sex offense)

Posted on March 08, 2010
Obviously this is a sex offense! Good thing she didn't use both of them, she'd have two felonies. Lord, here goes the politicians... OH, did they call in the Bio-Hazard team to clean up the area? Hummm, concealed weapons?3-8-2010 Kentucky:A very unusual assault on an officer has more than doubled the trouble for a woman in Owensboro, Kentucky...

Experts say the public has 'unrealistic expectations' about preventing sex crimes

Posted on March 08, 2010
Politics 101: Duping the Public. For years now the public has been duped by politician after politician, the politician touts "Support my change it will make you safer," and the public eats it up. All this keeps politicians in office, and the public is no safer, but they think they are...

Kentucky's Attorney General's Petition to the U.S. Supreme court on Residency Laws - DENIED

Posted on March 08, 2010
3-8-2010 Washington DC:Posted at the US Supreme court on the docket for Kentucky v. Baker (09-775) is a note that the high court has DENIED the Kentucky AG's Petition.It is not suprising that the petition was denied since it was based on the personal opinion of one person and not a mass of Kentucky courts in disagreement with each other...

Byrne Grant Funding and Funding Available for the Adam Walsh Act for 2009-2010

Posted on March 08, 2010
3-8-2010 National:What follows are the bills passed by the 111th Congress which appropriated money for the Byrne Grant Fund. In total $2,775,000,000 for the years 2009-2010. How it is determined what portion goes for each state is unknown to me, but 2...

Prison sex offender programs - Judge wants Becker to get more treatment

Posted on March 08, 2010
3-8-2010 Wisconsin:The judge who sent Gary Becker to prison hopes the Department of Corrections will place the former mayor in sex offender treatment programs.If the DOC does, he will spend between four months and three years in therapy sessions, counseling and doing homework designed to help him recognize and address unhealthy sexual behavior...

Sex offender registry changes proposed

Posted on March 07, 2010
We urge folks to support and lobby New Hampshire lawmakers on behalf of an 11th hour effort to take HB 1628 off the House consent calendar for the March 10 House floor session and retain it in the House for the rest of 2010. The innocuous sounding bill asks the Department of Safety to devise voluntary guidelines for community notification of neighbors when a sex offender moves in...

Face to Facebook

Posted on March 07, 2010
AT very least what the police did here violated the Terms of Agreement of Facebook, by setting up multiple false names, to talk to children. Then disclosing to the entire school private information which was gathered under false names. Was there anything else that she targeted? Usually the focus of this type of presentation is sex offenders on the Internet which wasn't mentioned but who were

Children committing sex crimes against children

Posted on March 07, 2010
3-7-2010 Tennessee:PUTNAM COUNTY -- They are children who have committed serious crimes, and their victims are other children. And it's an epidemic, Juvenile Court officials say. They are talking about child sex offenders, children raping other children...

New Jersey Has Not Complied with Federal Sex Offender Law

Posted on March 07, 2010
3-7-2010 New Jersey:The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 set forth uniform standards for tracking sex offenders in all 50 states. As the July 2009 implementation deadline approached, only one state, Ohio, had complied. The U.S. attorney general signed an across-the-board extension until July 2010 for all states, including New Jersey, to bring their sex offender reporting

Parents Upset When Safety Demo Uses Facebook Info

Posted on March 07, 2010
3-6-2010 New Hampshire:Investigator Poses As Teen To Friend Students At Local High SchoolLANGDON, N.H. -- Some parents and students are upset that a high school used students' Facebook photos and information to teach a lesson on Internet safety in a school assembly...

Lemon Creek (Correctional Facility) hosts sex offender treatment program

Posted on March 06, 2010
3-6-2010 Alaska:The Department of Corrections has started the state's first sex offender treatment program in a prison in seven years at the Lemon Creek Correctional Center. There has not been a similar program in Alaska since funding for sex offender treatment was cut in 2003 under former Gov...

Is the Adam Walsh Act entrapping registrants of state registries?

Posted on March 06, 2010
3-4-2010 National:I doubt that any registrant of a state registry hasn't heard of the Adam Walsh Act (AWA), but do they know about AWA requirements? I am not talking about what registrants read in the media or hear from politicians, or those other voices, I am talking about the specific requirements of AWA...

Sex Offender Residency Laws: Getting loser to Being Heard in U.S. Supreme court

Posted on March 06, 2010
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Sex-offender monitoring OK'd

Posted on March 06, 2010
This is clearly -as applied to folks whose judgments have already been entered- an ex post facto violation, anyone who thinks otherwise is just kidding themselves. In court -under those circumstances- this will go down like the Hindenberg. Each lawmaker who voted for it should be made to pay the legal costs to defend it...

State agency won't renew sex offenders' licenses

Posted on March 06, 2010
I wonder how many murderers, domestic violence, thieves, central registry folks (child abuse), and even state workers have been allowed licenses? Accordingly, I push for easy access to all criminal data, wouldn't that be in the best interest of public safety?3-6-2010 Illinois:A state regulatory agency won't renew the licenses of several professionals who had been convicted of a sex offense.

What I Would Like to Know About Every Murder-Homicide in the U.S.

Posted on March 06, 2010
3-6-2010 National:Does the media fairly report on who murders who?My Suggestion is a simple monthly chart:"Person Murdered" - Murdered by "Offender Name," A Former: "Previous Crime""Person Murdered" - Murdered by "Offender Name," A Former: "Previous Crime""Person Murdered" - Murdered by "Offender Name," A Former: "Previous Crime""Person Murdered" - Murdered by "Offender Name," A Former: "

Why did FOX News Spread This?

Posted on March 06, 2010
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2 Lake Michigan College students appeal

Posted on March 05, 2010
3-5-2010 Michigan:The pair were suspended for being registered child sex offenders; hearing set for March 12BENTON TOWNSHIP - Two of the three Lake Michigan College students suspended for being registered child sex offenders will have an appeals hearing March 12, a college spokeswoman said Thursday...

California Case Shows Need for Death Penalty for Child Molesters

Posted on March 05, 2010
Does anyone know of a state, which under their murder laws, does not have the death penalty or life without parole, for horrific crimes like the recent one in California? Given that reality, why is Rep. Duncan's legislation needed at all? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure what is the real purpose of this bill...

Sex offender, wife face charges

Posted on March 05, 2010
Just as a point of law, can there really be a law which prohibits "babysitting in the home of a registered sex offender"? i.e., ex: suppose a RSO owns a home but does not live there? How far will these laws go?3-5-2010 North Carolina:Aberdeen, N.C. ? A registered sex offender in Moore County has been charged with molesting a 5-year-old, and his wife has been charged with caring for children

Porn: Good for us?

Posted on March 05, 2010
3-5-2010 National:Scientific examination of the subject has found that as the use of porn increases, the rate of sex crimes goes down.Pornography. Most people have seen it, and have a strong opinion about it. Many of those opinions are negative?some people argue that ready access to pornography disrupts social order, encouraging people to commit rape, sexual assault, and other sex-related crimes

'PORN Detection Sticks' used to protect children

Posted on March 05, 2010
3-5-2010 National:CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - The sordid side of the Internet is that teens and children who are even younger are potentially exposed to porn and sexually explicit images daily.The younger you are, the more computer savvy you're likely to be and this is unsettling for many parents...

Sex offender registry solution?

Posted on March 05, 2010
A review of the bills presented leaves one to wonder if the average homeless person, without the aid of a lawyer, would ever be able to comply because such a person simply will not be able to understand the law. Further, changing the frequency of registration -for this subclass- opens up questions of discrimination...

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