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ReFORM Radio - Recent shows that may be of interest

Posted on March 17, 2009
Hosted by: The Fallen One Title: Ep.11-- Interview with "Keeping Kids Safe Ministries": Church series pt. 2 (Download) Time: 03/10/2009 11:00 AM EDT Episode Notes: Please join ReFORM Radio for this special early morning show! We willing interviewing Steve Vann and Greg Sporer from Keeping Kids Safe Ministries, a ministry dedicated to teaching accountability in churches and dealing with registrants wishing to enter churches...

Americans Reality Check - Constitution? Lets talk about it!

Posted on March 17, 2009
Hosted by: RealityUSA Title: Constitution? Lets talk about it Time: 03/04/2009 09:30 PM EST Episode Notes: *****EPISODE NOTE**** I tried numerous times to upload a Edited version of this show. #1 reason was due to audio drops in the show and #2 was cause at one point the show got off topic and it had nothing to do with the topic of the show concerning the constitution...

CA - Some say Escondido police union's flier crosses the line

Posted on March 17, 2009
View the article here Sometime the truth hurts!  Gangs are violent, and yet we do not have a gang registry!  And I agree that this is a little extreme.  If they wanted more money, they do not need to scare the hell out of people making it appear MS-13 is in the neighborhood, which they probably are, since many are in California!  And by associating sex offenders to gang members, that is way overboard, IMO! 03/16/2009 By Angela Lau (Contact) Union-Tribune Staff Writer ESCONDIDO ? Some residents and politicians say a flier sent by the city's police officers' union crosses the line, peddling fear and deepening racial wounds in its effort to win a labor battle...

CT - Governor Jodi Rell, making it impossible for RSO's to keep or get a job, and providing more information for vigilantes

Posted on March 17, 2009
View the article here Anything to make herself look better to the public, all the while disregarding the US and state constitutions, and her oath of office to uphold these documents.  Anything for more votes and to look better to the public, right Jodi? 03/16/2009 By Governor Rell's Office Changes to Sex Offender Registry Include More Frequent Reporting, New ID Requirements Governor M...

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GA - Police officer arrested - Nashville lawman charged with one count of solicitation of sodomy

Posted on March 17, 2009
View the article here 03/16/2009 By Malynda Fulton NASHVILLE - Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation recently arrested and charged a law enforcement officer with one count of solicitation of sodomy, according to reports. James Edwin Watson, 27, was arrested on Friday, March 13, according to a statement from the GBI?s Douglas office...

PA - Ex-cop sentenced in IN teen sex case

Posted on March 17, 2009
View the article here 03/01/2009 ALTOONA (AP) - A former Altoona, Penn., police officer has been sentenced to 18 months to 4 years in prison for having sex with a 16-year-old Indiana girl he met online. Fifty-year-old Herrick Johnson asked for probation and said he wouldn't contact the girl anymore...

DC - Obama picks Hoosier for first judicial appointment

Posted on March 17, 2009
View the article here 03/17/2009 By Maureen Groppe - Gannett Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's first appellate court nominee is Hoosier David Hamilton, a federal district judge for 14 years who is backed by Indiana's Democratic and Republican senators...

GA - Our Opinion on SB 157: Fix registry

Posted on March 17, 2009
View the article here 03/18/2009 By Maureen Downey, for the editorial board Once legislators realized how passionately voters revile ?sex offenders,? they began to search for those offenders everywhere ? even where they don?t exist ? to make sure they are punished and stay punished...

FL - Homeless sexual predators sleeping in Lakeland field

Posted on March 17, 2009
View the article here 03/17/2009 Lakeland - Every night around 10 p.m. the caravan of SUV's and cars start pulling into a grassy field near Interstate 4 in an industrial area of North Lakeland. Some people sleep in their cars others sleep in the tents they've erected in the area...

UK - Checks to help parents stop paedophiles

Posted on March 17, 2009
This is a summary only, to see the rest of the article, visit http://sexoffenderissues.blogspot.com.

OH - Sexting: Flirting with Felony

Posted on March 17, 2009
This is a summary only, to see the rest of the article, visit http://sexoffenderissues.blogspot.com.

MO - Mo. court rules date of conviction, not offense, decides who must sign state sex offender list

Posted on March 17, 2009
View the article here 03/17/2009 By CHRIS BLANK - Associated Press Writer The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday clarified which sex offenders must be included in the state registry and upheld the four-year prison sentence of a Hannibal man who didn't properly notify police after moving several times...

WA - SEX OFFENDER AWARENESS PRESENTATION IN LAKE CUSHMAN SATURDAY

Posted on March 17, 2009
View the article here 03/17/2009 By Dedrick Allan The Mason County Sheriff's Office is hosting a Registered Sex Offender Public Awareness Presentation Saturday from 1 PM to 3 PM at the Mason County Fire District #18 Fire Station, located at 240 N...

In the Zone: Sex Offenders and the Ten-Percent Solutions

Posted on March 17, 2009
View the SSRN article here Archived Documents 02/26/2009 Asmara Tekle-Johnson Thurgood Marshall School of Law Iowa Law Review, Vol. 94, No. 2, 2009 Abstract: At first glance, sex-offender residency restrictions appear plausible because they ostensibly place a convicted sex offender's residence out of reach of children...

NC - Man admits to dragging female friend's husband into street naked

Posted on March 16, 2009
View the article here He tied up and kidnapped someone from their own home, while he was going after the man's wife, even though he knew she was married. He'll probably get a slap on the wrist as well, see the last statement which seems to say he might...

TX - Houston woman charged in child porn case

Posted on March 16, 2009
View the article here 02/20/2009 By BRIAN ROGERS Without being asked by prosecutors, a judge today doubled the bail for a southwest Houston woman who police say was caught with more than 200 videos and more than 500 Internet video clips of child pornography...

IN - Public shaming by vigilante organizations - Anything for a quick buck, right?

Posted on March 16, 2009
View the article here Video available at the site above.  And like I said in the title, they are just exploiting ex-criminals and peoples fear, to make a quick buck! 03/16/2009 By Megan Stembol FORT WAYNE (WANE) - A convicted felon is not happy to see his mug shot on the cover of a new publication...

NC - Man recalls being tied up, dragged into the street naked

Posted on March 16, 2009
View the article here Related Article 03/16/2009 By David Allen SHELBY - _____ doesn't deny his criminal record. But since his release from prison in 2005, _____ says he's looked to be a better man, a "citizen." He stands by an old adage - "I feel like everybody should be punished for the wrong they've done and I feel like I've done my time...

TX - Texas jail was an Animal House, authorities say

Posted on March 16, 2009
View the article here 03/16/2009 By ANGELA K. BROWN, AP MONTAGUE - For months, perhaps longer, the Montague County Jail was "Animal House" meets Mayberry. Inside the small brick building across from the courthouse, inmates had the run of the place, having sex with their jailer girlfriends, bringing in recliners, taking drugs and chatting on cell phones supplied by friends or guards, according to authorities...

Have the Eyes Had It?

Posted on March 16, 2009
View the article here See this article as well 03/14/2009 By Dahlia Lithwick Is our eyewitness identification system sending innocents to jail? "We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison...

OH - Woman Accused of Having Sex with 13 Year old Boy

Posted on March 16, 2009
View the article here 02/26/2009 A Tri-State mother, who was in court just last month for allegedly using her child to shoplift, now faces a sex charge involving a minor. 31 year old Kelly Kidwell will be arraigned this morning for a charge of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor...

NY - Sex offender forum set for Pleasant Valley

Posted on March 16, 2009
View the article here 03/16/2009 PLEASANT VALLEY ? County Legislator Suzanne Horn, R-Pleasant Valley, is hosting the County Committee for Sex Offender Management community forum at 7 p.m. March 23 at Traver Road Primary School. Parents and other concerned residents are encouraged to attend the session...

WA - Washington court reverses sex offender conviction

Posted on March 16, 2009
View the article here Court Document (PDF) This is not the sheriff's job to determine who is or is not a risk! Glad the court saw it for what it was, and abuse of power! 03/16/2009 A state appeals court has reversed the conviction of a Thurston County sex offender for failing to report...

Fed-up Americans mobilize: More than 150 tea parties

Posted on March 16, 2009
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KY - 'Child molester lives here' spray-painted on man's fence

Posted on March 16, 2009
View the article here Yet more proof the public cannot handle the registry, and more reasons why it should be taken offline and used by police only! 03/16/2009 Graffiti discovered on an Evansville man's fence Sunday morning suggested falsely that a child molester lives at his residence...

TX - Deputies: Katy mom offered up son, niece, nephew for sex

Posted on March 16, 2009
View the article here And you will notice, they did not post the females photo on the news article, I had to take it from the video. If this was a man, you can bet they'd have the photo! 08/28/2008 By Kevin Reece - 11 News HOUSTON - A Katy mom is accused of offering up her child, niece and nephew for sex...

How safe are your children?

Posted on March 16, 2009
View the article here 03/15/2009 By Sondra Santos LaBrie - San Diego Parenting Examiner A recent article about the murder of a young teen by a sex offender has many parents wondering about the systems put into place that supposedly keeps better track of offenders when they're on probation or released from prison...

Hal Lindsey Report

Posted on March 15, 2009
I hardly ever read or listen to this man, but I found this one video rather interesting, since he talks about the government creating problems, exacerbating them, blowing them out of proportion, and stirring up the public. Check it out, when you can...

DEBATE - Sex Offender Registries should be discontinued?

Posted on March 15, 2009
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WA - Bill would give some inmates free rent after release

Posted on March 15, 2009
View the article here 03/15/2009 OLYMPIA - The Senate has passed a bill that would provide rent vouchers to offenders who earn an early release date from state institutions. Under SB 5525, offenders would be eligible for up to $500 per month for three months following their release...

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