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CT - Inmate in force-feeding case continues testimony

Posted on February 11, 2009
View the article here 02/11/2009 By PAT EATON-ROBB HARTFORD - A Connecticut inmate on a hunger strike to protest his rape conviction testified Wednesday that being force-fed by prison officials was the worst pain he has experienced in his life. The state Department of Correction is seeking a court order allowing it to continue force-feeding _____...

ID - Justices remove man's violent sex predator status

Posted on February 11, 2009
View the article here 02/11/2009 By REBECCA BOONE - Associated Press Writer BOISE ? The Idaho Supreme Court has found that the state's method of classifying violent sexual predators is unconstitutional and has ordered that the label be removed from a man who admitted to raping three children...

FL - Lunsford Offers Advice, Hope To Family Of Missing Girl

Posted on February 11, 2009
View the article here I hope and pray this girl is found, alive, and soon. But I thought Jessica's law, Megan's law, the Adam Walsh Act, and all the other draconian sex offender laws were made to prevent this? You see, no matter how many laws you pass, stomping on other peoples rights, it will never prevent crimes, like in this case...

ME - Sex Offender Registry Under Scrutiny by Maine Supreme Court

Posted on February 11, 2009
View the article here 02/10/2009 By: Josie Huang In the last several years since Maine's sex offender registry was expanded to include people with convictions dating back to the 1980s, and to require lifetime supervision, dozens of people affected by the law change have filed lawsuits, most of them under the name John Doe...

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Sex offenders -- Virginias new lepers

Posted on February 11, 2009
View the article here 02/10/2009 I am reading more and more articles in the print media that expose the truth about RSO's and the true risks and dangers they pose. Our very own government statistics point to the fact that Sex offenders have the second lowest re offence rate after murderers yet the myth of predator panic still passes as truth...

MA - 6 Boys In Mass. May Face 'Sexting' Charges - Could Be Required To Register As Sex Offender

Posted on February 11, 2009
View the article here 02/11/2009 FALMOUTH (CBS) - A group of boys on Cape Cod have been caught "sexting" - sending naked pictures via text message. The naked picture in this case was of a 13-year-old girl. Now, six boys - aged 12-to-14 - may face child pornography charges...

IA - Lawmakers consider changes for sex offender law

Posted on February 11, 2009
View the article here 02/11/2009 By Matt Kelley Iowa lawmakers are considering extensive changes to the state's sex offender laws to get the state into compliance with federal rules. As part of the re-write, some lawmakers want to scrap the restriction on where sex offenders live and instead, limit where they can go during the day...

TX - Bryan death probed

Posted on February 11, 2009
View the article here 02/11/2009 By JANET PHELPS A preliminary autopsy report released Wednesday shows that a 20-year-old homeless man found in a vacant downtown Bryan building died from blunt force trauma. Dale Wayne Ellis was discovered in an abandoned dry cleaning business at Main and Pruitt streets less than two blocks from the homeless shelter where he had recently stayed...

AL - Bill calls for castrating sex offenders

Posted on February 10, 2009
View the article here 02/07/2009 By Stephanie Taylor Staff Writer New law would apply to child molesters A bill introduced in the Alabama House of Representatives this week would require convicted sex offenders who targeted young children to be surgically castrated before leaving prison...

Wall Street executives will use bailout money to pay hookers

Posted on February 10, 2009

And this is two examples of the people who are running this country... Very scary...

Posted on February 10, 2009
Senator Reid Spins 16th Ammendment - He says "taxes are voluntary!" If this is true, which it's not, then I don't want to volunteer to have myself taxed to death anymore. Bill Richardson on Government and Rights Alan Colmes of Fox News on Force More great videos can be found here

NBC Takes On War Crime, and Attracts Criticism

Posted on February 10, 2009
View the article here How ironic and hypocritical! They say this about "war criminals," but when it involves so called "online predators," then it's not a problem. 02/10/2009 By BRIAN STELTER NBC News, which teamed up with local police officers to trap sex offenders for its successful but scandalous ?To Catch a Predator? series, is now using similar tactics to hunt bigger game: war criminals...

WA - WASHINGTON?S COURAGEOUS ANTI-SEX OFFENDER STANCE COMES BACK TO HAUNT GOVT

Posted on February 10, 2009
View the article here 02/09/2009 The New York Times? Monica Davey and Abby Goodnough have a really good piece today on states unable to implement a strict new federal law on sex offender registration. In 2005, Congress passed the Adam Walsh Child Protection Act...

NY - Former Rudy Giuliani housing official fighting sex offender tag; judge may blacklist Russell Harding

Posted on February 10, 2009
View the article here I checked the National and New York sex offender registries, and guess what, he is not listed on either. 02/10/2009 By Thomas Zambito - DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Rudy Giuliani's disgraced housing czar Russell Harding is trying to keep his name off a blacklist of sex offenders statewide who've been deemed dangers to their communities...

MN - Committee approves bill banning sexual predators from Web sites

Posted on February 10, 2009
View the article here 02/10/2009 By Tim Pugmire, Minnesota Public Radio St. Paul - A Minnesota House committee approved legislation today that would ban sexual predators from social networking Web sites. - Notice this says "sexual predator," and below is says "any registered sex offender?" Apparently this reporter or the state legislature think these terms mean the same thing! The bill would prohibit any registered sex offender in Minnesota from logging on to sites like Facebook or MySpace...

NC - CMS meeting over sex offender policy changes

Posted on February 10, 2009
View the article here 02/10/2009 CHARLOTTE ? The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board will hold a public hearing on Tuesday night on changes to its sex offender policy. Board members are considering a proposal that would ban registered sex offenders from CMS schools and school events...

America's warm comfy denial

Posted on February 10, 2009
View the article here Greay blog. Check it out! 02/10/2009 By Sheeple Herder I am reading more and more articles in the print media that expose the truth about RSO's and the true risks and dangers they pose. Our very own government statistics point to the fact that Sex offenders have the second lowest re offence rate after murderers yet the myth of predator panic still passes as truth...

NV - Man in Reno suicide was convicted sex offender

Posted on February 10, 2009
View the article here 02/10/2009 A man who shot himself during a police stand-off on a Reno freeway was wanted for being a convicted sex offender and not registering his address, authorities said. Records also show _____, 32, previously threatened to shoot himself during disputes and had restraining orders against him filed by girlfriends...

VT - Local Official Sentenced For Sexually Assaulting Minor

Posted on February 10, 2009
View the article here 02/10/2009 Judge Hands Down Serious Sentence BURLINGTON -- A judge sentenced a former New Haven Select Board member to what he called a very "serious sentence." Burt Allen, 64, of New Haven will serve 8 to 15 years for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl on Thanksgiving day in 2007...

PA - Ex-Munhall policeman gets foot fetish probation

Posted on February 10, 2009
View the article here 02/10/2009 The Associated Press MUNHALL (AP) ? A former police officer in the Pittsburgh suburb of Munhall will spend five years on probation after pleading guilty to soliciting sex from an underage girl and offering others $1,000 to suck their toes...

ND - N.D. Legislature: Sex offender ban ... Too much time, money

Posted on February 10, 2009
View the article here 02/09/2009 The House defeated a bill Monday that would have restricted convicted sex offenders from living near or being near schools, day care centers and other areas with children. Those who opposed the bill said the state?s police departments and sheriffs testified against it, because it did not offer the protection it seemed to while making it harder for sex offenders to find a place to live...

ME - Maine justices take up sex offender registry issue

Posted on February 10, 2009
View the article here 02/10/2009 PORTLAND (AP) - Maine's supreme court is taking up the issue of whether the state's online sex offender registry can be applied retroactively. - Read the constitution! The Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments Tuesday in two separate cases involving convicted sex offenders who didn't register as required by a change in state law...

Predator panic increases risk

Posted on February 10, 2009
View the article here 02/10/2009 By Larry Magid I've been an Internet safety advocate since 1993 and right now I'm discouraged and angry about what's going on in this field. I'm angry because people who ought to know better are trying to mislead the public with false information about online risks which is diverting attention away from real risks...

NY - Sex offenders: looking at the numbers

Posted on February 09, 2009
View the article here 02/09/2009 By Noreen O'Donnell - Journal News columnist "No Easy Answers," is the title of a Human Rights Watch report on sex-offender laws in the United States and here's one question. How well do residency restrictions protect children? One statistic from the report jumped out at me: 87 percent of people who were arrested for sex crimes had not previously been convicted of such an offense, according to a 1997 study...

NM - Sex Offender: Registry Laws Ineffective

Posted on February 09, 2009
View the article here 02/09/2009 By Joline Gutierrez Krueger - Journal Staff Writer He rushes into the conference room at his office, all smiles, arms full of data, head full of talking points, ready to explain what he says is the idiocy of legislation that would add more heft to the state's sex offender registry laws...

Effort to Track Sex Offenders Draws Resistance

Posted on February 08, 2009
View the article here Pay close attention to the BS John Walsh says. 02/08/2009 By ABBY GOODNOUGH and MONICA DAVEY An aggressive federal effort to keep track of sexual offenders is at risk of collapse because of objections from states and legal challenges from sex offenders and others...

Tracking Sex Offenders with Electronic Monitoring Technology

Posted on February 08, 2009
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Sex Offender Registry Laws: From Jacob Wetterling to Adam Walsh

Posted on February 08, 2009
View the PDF document here (PDF) FAQ (PDF) Guidelines Remember, these are guidelines only, not mandatory! July 2007 By Laura L. Rogers, Director of SMART Office As Director of the new Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART) Office within the United States Department of Justice?s Office of Justice Programs, one of my responsibilities is to educate law enforcement officers and other criminal justice professionals on recent statutory changes relating to registration of sex offenders...

MN - 2009 Annual MnAtsa Conference

Posted on February 08, 2009
View the article here Wednesday, April 15, 2009 to Friday, April 17, 2009 The 13th Annual MnATSA conference will address treatment, assessment, and supervision issues that arise in working with adolescent and adult sexual abusers. This conference has been developed for social workers, probation agents, mental health providers, judges, attorneys, sex crimes investigators, polygraphists, dispositional advisors, victim advocates and correctional staff...

Sex Offender Studies - Bureau of Justice Statistics - Recidivism of SexOffenders Released from Prison in 1994 [del.icio.us]

Posted on February 08, 2009
Source: Bureau of Justice

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