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Sex offenses, sex offender issues in prison, jail, civil commitment and the community including residency laws. Adam Walsh Act, recidivism, dangerousness, tiers, community issues, harassment, vigilantism, sex offender therapy issues.
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Chelsea King Case: Outrage Over Sex Offender Monitoring Reaches White House

Posted on March 04, 2010
First, the Adam Walsh Act has been funded ten times over through other bills, funding it yet again is not going to solve anything, except make someone look good!Secondly, there is nothing whatsoever, within the Adam Walsh Act (or prior similar useless laws) that could have prevented this terrible crime, had it been in place before the crime...

Wisconsin video voyeurs can now go on sex offender registry

Posted on March 04, 2010
Bloating the registry: Will folks that read Playboy be next?3-4-2010 Wisconsin:MADISON, Wis. (AP) Gov. Jim Doyle has approved a law that will allow judges to place video voyeurs on Wisconsin's sex offender registry.It is a felony in Wisconsin to make a video recording of a nude person if the person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, but until now those convicted have not been added to

Legal scholar warns about Minnesota Sex Offender Program?s failures

Posted on March 04, 2010
3-4-2010 Minnesota:In 1996, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that the state?s law permitting the indeterminate commitment of sexual predators was constitutional. In reaching that determination, then-Chief Justice A.M. ?Sandy? Keith stressed that the program was primarily therapeutic rather than punitive...

Sheriff Candidates At Odds On Sex Offender Statistics

Posted on March 03, 2010
While itsa true that 2 out of 5 is 40%, reality is that, you cannot use that 40% as to ALL registrants. I think that tells voters who should be in office, and who should not be there! Those TWO may be the only ones not properly registered. 3-3-2010 North Carolina:Reports Finds 40 Percent Of Offenders Unaccounted ForFORSYTH COUNTY, N...

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Child porn found at sex predator rehab facility in SWFL

Posted on March 03, 2010
I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out how CP is getting into a facility that is locked down and detainees have no access to things outside of the gates. Some employee is bringing it in, its that simple. 3-3-2010 Florida:Desoto County, Fla - Dangerous sex offenders locked up and looking at child porn!It's a problem right now at the Florida Civil Commitment Center in Desoto

A Bill to Compensate William Dillon for Wrongful Conviction of 1st Deg Murder and 27 Years of Incarceration

Posted on March 03, 2010
Although I am happy to see that Mr. Dillon is receiving compensation, I still have a small problem with this bill which I have highlighted. i.e., That the state believes Mr. Dillon had "no constitutional right to be free" from an illegal conviction? 3-3-2010 Florida: WHEREAS, William Dillon was wrongfully convicted of first degree murder and imprisoned for 27 years, and

Sex offender laws go too far

Posted on March 03, 2010
3-3-2010 Maryland:Thanks to Dan Rodricks for his recent column on the collateral damage done by the current legislative frenzy concerning sex offender laws ("Is state wise to treat all sex offenders the same?" Mar. 2). As the chairman of the Juvenile Treatment sub-committee of the Delaware Sex Offender Management Board, I have seen many cases involving adolescents and adults over the last 15

Dan Rodricks Radio Show on Maryland's Sex Offender Laws

Posted on March 03, 2010
3-3-2010 Maryland:Midday is Maryland's WYPR's daily public affairs program airing from noon to 2 PM, Monday through Thursday. Hosted by longtime Baltimore Sun columnist Dan Rodricks, the program covers a wide range of topics selected to engage, inform, and entertain the listening audience...

States May Be Able to Shield Juveniles from Registries

Posted on March 03, 2010
3-3-2010 National:Ohio gained compliance with Walsh Act despite limited inclusion of young offendersStates may be able to shield most juvenile sex offenders from inclusion on a public registry and still achieve compliance with the federal Adam Walsh Act, based on the experience of Ohio, the only state thus far to be deemed Walsh compliant by the Justice Department...

Green Bay sex offender ordinance takes financial toll on city

Posted on March 03, 2010
Please note, the article is written as though the city is paying these costs, but look closer, it is the state paying the costs, and not for one city but all throughout Wisconsin. 3-3-2010 Wisconsin:Rule turns many parole agents into real estate agentsGreen Bay prohibits sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools, parks and other places where children gather...

Feds defend jurisdiction in Jacques case

Posted on March 02, 2010
Another Adam Walsh Act "jurisdictional hook" to accomplish something (death penalty here) which would not occur under state law!3-2-2010 Vermont:Memo reveals new aspects of alleged rape, killing of BennettBURLINGTON ? Federal prosecutors who are trying to convict and execute Michael Jacques for allegedly kidnapping and killing his niece argue that the case should remain at the federal level

House panel passes sex offender bill

Posted on March 02, 2010
3-2-2010 South Dakota:The House Judiciary Committee unanimously passed a bill Monday that would allow registered sex offenders to live in halfway houses or homeless shelters in community safety zones.Senate Bill 7 would allow sex offenders on parole to stay at halfway houses within 500 feet of parks, pools or schools as long as they are supervised...

Offender tracking with GPS has flaws

Posted on March 02, 2010
3-2-2010 Massachusetts:Devices don?t stop crime, survey saysOver the past five years, as technology has provided judges new sentencing options, the number of convicts in Massachusetts ordered to wear monitoring devices using a global positioning system has risen to more than 1,000, many of whom might otherwise be serving time behind bars...

Court rejects claim that sex offender residency requirement is unconstitutional

Posted on March 01, 2010
Read carefully, this was a suit by four parolees. Accordingly, law is not unconstitutional as to the facts of these four cases. When folks are on parole or probation, the state, can do more than if they were not on parole or probation; different circumstances...

Bill may override local sex-offender residency rules

Posted on March 01, 2010
3-1-2010 Wisconsin:Wisconsin lawmakers may enact legislation that would make moot local residency restrictions for registered sex offenders.A bill headed to the Wisconsin Assembly's Committee on Corrections and Courts would override restrictions in Green Bay and a handful of Brown County communities...

More on the 2010 Census and Private Information

Posted on March 01, 2010
Never forget that the Government Cross-Checks Data

Danaher: Common sense on nudity

Posted on February 28, 2010
2-28-2010 Colorado:How about if we bring some common sense to the streaking and sex offender registration issue? On one hand we have some who claim that running around without any clothes on is a form of protected "speech," and on the other, current law requires that we brand those incarcerated for participating in the World Naked Bike Ride or the Naked Pumpkin Run with the same label that a

Wary of predators -- and politicians

Posted on February 28, 2010
2-28-2010 Maryland:Since June 2005, I have had some kind of contact -- telephone conversation, face-to-face meeting, e-mail exchange, letter exchange -- with about 5,000 convicted criminals or their relatives, counselors and friends. (The number might be closer to 6,000, but I stopped keeping count a couple of years ago...

Senate votes to close McNeil prison

Posted on February 28, 2010
2-28-2010 Washington:Legislature: Sex offenders would stayThe state Senate approved a spending plan Saturday that would shut down McNeil Island Corrections Center, leaving only sex offenders confined on the island. Under the plan, the 1,200-inmate prison near Steilacoom would close by June 30, 2011...

The Quiet Man

Posted on February 28, 2010
Here, the whole Gospel message with attributes. This is quite a lesson, I wish a touch of this kindness would be bestowed on those who have to register as sex offenders along with their families. 2-28-2010 National:Carl was a quiet man. He didn't talk much...

Dissecting Proposed Alaska House Bill 298

Posted on February 27, 2010
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Judge Bans Activation Of Laptop Webcams

Posted on February 27, 2010
2-27-2010 Pennsylvania:Lower Merion Schools Must Preserve Laptop DataPHILADELPHIA - A federal court judge has ordered Lower Merion School District employees not to re-activate the laptop theft recovery program that is the focus of a high school student's cyber-spying claims...

Efforts to Close Loophole in Meghan's Law Underway in State Senate

Posted on February 27, 2010
2-27-2010 Pennsylvania:(HARRISBURG) With strong bipartisan support, Senator Gene Yaw, R-Loyalsock, introduced Senate Bill 1231 which requires transient workers who have a record of sexual offenses to register with the state police every 30 days."This legislation amending Megan's Law which will address a problem noted in the Pennsylvania Superior Court's holding in the case of Commonwealth v.

Report: Prosecutors charging DNA evidence with crimes

Posted on February 27, 2010
Given a crime scene likely has DNA from many folks who have been there beforehand, it seems this net will draw in many folks who have nothing to do with whatever crime was committed there. But, prosecutors simply do not care. ACLU should be jumping on this one! 2-27-2010 National:In their effort to beat the statutes of limitations that prevent people from being charged with a crime after a

No more registration requirements for certain sex offenders?

Posted on February 26, 2010
2-26-2010 Arizona:PHOENIX -- A proposed law that would erase registration requirements for certain sex offenders convicted of less violent crimes will likely go no further this legislative session. House Bill 2569 was pulled from consideration Thursday during a Judiciary Committee meeting after lawmakers decided the legislation needed more work...

Liberty killings prove puzzling

Posted on February 26, 2010
2-26-2010 Ohio:WARREN ? One of the five Youngstown residents charged in the aggravated murder of Liberty residents Wilneice L. Green, 28, and her 13-year-old daughter, Ja-Brajasia, told his girlfriend that Melvin L. Turner, 36, of Maryland shot and killed Green ? but he didn?t know why...

Legislators say state may need to ease local sex offender restictions

Posted on February 26, 2010
2-25-2010 Florida:Leaders of Broward?s cities, towns and villages asked state legislators on Thursday not to scale back local restrictions on where convicted sex offenders may live.But several Broward legislators said they were reluctant to go along with the municipalities? request...

Baltimore Sun Poll about Juveniles on the registry: Please particpate and pass on

Posted on February 26, 2010

Jaycee Dugard May Sue California Department of Correction

Posted on February 26, 2010
2-26-2010 California:Nancy and Phillip Garrido Head to Court on Motion to Meet as 'Family'Jaycee Dugard has filed documents suggesting she may sue the state of California claiming that state "lapses" allowed convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy to kidnap her as a child and hold her prisoner for 18 years...

Lake Michigan College bans child-sex convicts

Posted on February 26, 2010
2-26-2010 Michigan:Those on sex-offender registry or on parole or probation for sex offenses against children can no longer take classes on campusBENTON HARBOR - People convicted of sex crimes against children and listed on the state's sex offender registry will no longer be able to take classes on any of Lake Michigan College's four campuses, and three students have been suspended with the new

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