Criminal Law

The new American witch hunt - Los Angeles Times [del.icio.us]

Posted on February 03, 2009

Sex Offenders and the 'Race to the Bottom'

Posted on February 03, 2009
View the article here 02/03/2009 By Amanda Kloer Editor?s Note: Below is a post from change.org End Human Trafficking blogger Amanda Kloer, who worries that in the race to punish sex offenders and perpetrators of human trafficking, we?ve lost our focus on our goal ? which is to prevent crimes from occurring...

Review of the Department of Justice?s Implementation of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act

Posted on February 03, 2009
View the rest of the article here (PDF) This document shows the registries are filled with errors, and are basically pointless, IMO. Also, how many of these "profiles" were created by someone else, like vigilantes, or someone just wanting to harass a sex offender? 12/2008 INTRODUCTION This report examines the Department of Justice?s (Department) implementation of Title I of the Adam Walsh Act, the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), which sets forth specific responsibilities for the Department in identifying, arresting, and prosecuting sex offenders who have failed to register or update a registration...

NY - Sex offender awaiting sentencing found dead in jail cell

Posted on February 03, 2009
View the article here 02/03/2009 By DAVE DELLECESE MADISON COUNTY (WKTV) - An investigation is continuing into the apparent suicide death of an inmate housed in the Madison County Public Safety Building Jail shortly after 2 a.m. Tuesday morning. According to the Madison County Sheriff, _____, 44, was found unresponsive by Corrections Officers as the officers were performing inmate cell checks...

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Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies [del.icio.us]

Posted on February 03, 2009

NC - MySpace removes 90,000 sex offenders

Posted on February 03, 2009
View the article here A good review from eAdvocate here Another Article where you can comment, at ABC So was all "90,000" using the service to prey on children, or you just making blanket issues and kicking any and every sex offender off the site, regardless of what they are doing?  Many use the site to keep track of friends and family!  I think these AG's are just trying to disprove a report, from the task force they hired, which said all this was blown out of proportion and all hype...

FL - ACLU letter to City Of Miami Police Chief ( JTC )

Posted on February 03, 2009
Pulled from another source.  This was not sent to me! This is an email sent to me by the ACLU. It was sent to the City Of Miami chief of police with regards to recent developments in the past couple of days at the Julia Tuttle Causeway. So far there has been no more harassment...

NY - How far can - or should - communities go to restrict sex offenders?

Posted on February 02, 2009
View the article here 02/02/2009 By Nancy Cutler How can communities most effectively - and legally - protect themselves from convicted sex offenders? What kind of restrictions should be placed on the day-to-day lives of those deemed most at risk of re-offending? What role should local governments play in shaping those measures? A recent state Supreme Court decision asserts that state regulations supercede local measures when it comes to regulating where convicted sex offenders can live...

Misguided Measures - New Sex Offender Laws May Cause Bigger Problems Than They Prevent

Posted on February 02, 2009
View the article here Old, but still relevant. 03/07/2007 By JIM AVILA, MARY HARRIS and CHRIS FRANCESCANI - ABC News Law & Justice Unit Megan Kanka, Polly Klaas, Jessica Lunsford -- the names break your heart at their very mention. All were victims of child sex predators...

KS - Kansas license rule for parolees may hurt society more than it helps

Posted on February 02, 2009
View the article here 02/01/2009 By MARY SANCHEZ - The Kansas City Star If you saw the words ?REGISTERED OFFENDER? in bold red letters on a driver?s license, what would it tell you? That the license holder is a sexual pervert? A meth addict? Someone who has been busted for selling crack? At any rate, he or she could be someone you wouldn?t want to hire or rent an apartment to, right? Such scarlet letter-like driver?s licenses are being issued in Kansas...

FL - FDLE Cuts Nearly 100 Positions, More To Come

Posted on February 02, 2009
View the article here Maybe something good will come out of this financial problem! 02/02/2009 CENTRAL FLORIDA -- The economy may be shrinking, but crime is a growing problem in Central Florida. Nonetheless, the state is slashing the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's budget...

AK - Inmate believed to have committed suicide

Posted on February 02, 2009
View the article here 01/16/2009 ANCHORAGE - An inmate at the Wildwood Correctional Center in Kenai is believed to have committed suicide. Fifty-two-year-old _____ was found Wednesday morning. It appears he used a cord from a cleaning machine to hang himself...

KS - Johnson County inmate commits suicide

Posted on February 02, 2009
View the article here 02/01/2009 A 37-year-old Prairie Village man committed suicide Saturday in the Olathe Detention Center, police said. _____ was found by a deputy with a piece of cloth wrapped around his neck about 10 p.m. Saturday during a routine cell check...

IN - Sex offfender registry director found in contempt of court

Posted on February 02, 2009
View the article here 02/02/2009 By Keith Rhoades Editor?s note: In 2007, Morgan County Superior Court I Judge G. Thomas Gray approved a request by the defendant to keep his real name off of court records and be referred to as ?John Doe?. The director of the Indiana Department of Corrections Sex Registry Division has been given 24 hours to comply with a court order to remove a county resident from the state?s sex offender list...

PA - Sex offender law on docket for Lower Pottsgrove meeting

Posted on February 02, 2009
View the article here 02/02/2009 LOWER POTTSGROVE ? A local sex offender ordinance could be discussed and adopted by the Board of Commissioners during tonight's meeting. This topic ? first discussed last summer ? was on the agenda Jan. 22; however, township officials canceled that meeting...

Off Topic Issues

Posted on February 01, 2009
I have closed the poll about the OFF TOPIC issues, and since a majority of the readers here, want them moved, I will, as I get the time. Thanks to all who participated!

OFF TOPIC - Google Earth - FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS!

Posted on February 01, 2009
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OH - Convicted Sex Offender, Drug Dealer Hired As Traffic Cop

Posted on February 01, 2009
View the article here Give me a break! A sex offender, gets a job, and it becomes headline news! Out comes the vigilante media and mob! The more stable someones life is, the less likely they are to commit another crime. You add stress to their life, and that increases the risk of another crime and/or victim...

CO - Greeley leaders to vote on sex offender residency law

Posted on February 01, 2009
View the article here 02/01/2009 By Andrew Villegas We?re taught the signs from a young age. If a stranger offers you candy, you decline and run away. In fact, there?s a whole tradition of people telling their children how to deal with sex offenders...

Smith v. Doe Audio

Posted on February 01, 2009
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AL - Two sex offenders talk about life in the public eye

Posted on February 01, 2009
View the article here 01/31/2009 By Brittany Whitley _____ is a sex offender. Very soon, all his neighbors in Auburn will know it too?because a sex offender notification flier is about to be sent out. ?It still stresses me out,? he said. ?All they see is a sex offender...

GA - Stand The Line

Posted on February 01, 2009
View the article here Go to the above web site, and fill out the form, if you will join, have questions, need more info, etc. There are over sixteen thousand, three hundred (16,365) persons on the Sex Offender Registry in the State of Georgia. For each person on the Registry, at least three other people are directly affected...

Instead of Scaring Parents, How About Giving Them The REAL Facts?

Posted on February 01, 2009
View the article here 02/01/2009 How to Protect Your Children Online Report Finds Online Threats to Children Overblown: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/us/14cyber.html Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies: Final Report of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force to the Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking of State Attorneys General of the United States...

OH - Deters hopes to evict sex offender

Posted on February 01, 2009
View the article here 02/01/2009 By Kimball Perry Convicted sex offender _____ was forced to move from his family's Delhi Township home three years ago because it was too close to a day-care center. Now, after a court victory this week on the issue, _____ could be allowed to move back to Woody Hill Drive...

What can be done to stop predators? [del.icio.us]

Posted on January 31, 2009

CA - No place to call home: Vagrant describes circumstances and how they came about

Posted on January 31, 2009
View the article here01/31/2009By SCOTT JASONJesse Rodriguez can be labeled many ways: father, boyfriend, two-strike felon, ex-con, homeless, a 43-year-old. The list goes on.But three numbers, 290, have defined his life for the past three years.Two-ninety serves as a euphemism for sex offenders...

OFF TOPIC - Johnny Cash -- When the Man Comes Around

Posted on January 31, 2009
Opening Introduction (Spoken part)And I heard as it were the noise of thunderOne of the four beasts saying come and see and I sawAnd behold a white horseSongThere's a man going around taking namesAnd he decides who to free and who to blameEverybody won't be treated all the sameThere'll be a golden ladder reaching downWhen the Man comes aroundThe hairs on your arm will stand upAt the terror in each sip and in each supWill you partake of that last offered cup?Or disappear into the potter's groundWhen the Man comes aroundHear the trumpets, hear the pipersOne hundred million angels singingMultitudes are marching to the big kettledrumVoices calling, voices cryingSome are born and some are dyingIt's Alpha and Omega's kingdom comeAnd the whirlwind is in the thorn treeThe virgins are all trimming their wicksThe whirlwind is in the thorn treeIt's hard for thee to kick against the pricksTill Armageddon no shalam, no shalomThen the father hen will call his chickens homeThe wise man will bow down before the throneAnd at His feet they'll cast their golden crownsWhen the Man comes aroundWhoever is unjust let him be unjust stillWhoever is righteous let him be righteous stillWhoever is filthy let him be filthy stillListen to the words long written downWhen the Man comes aroundHear the trumpets, hear the pipersOne hundred million angels singingMultitudes are marching to the big kettledrumVoices calling and voices cryingSome are born and some are dyingIt's Alpha and Omega's kingdom comeAnd the whirlwind is in the thorn treeThe virgins are all trimming their wicksThe whirlwind is in the thorn treeIt's hard for thee to kick against the pricksIn measured hundred weight and penney poundWhen the Man comes around...

UK - Teaching children how to be a pole dancer/stripper in Britian

Posted on January 31, 2009

VT - Defiant killer pleads guilty

Posted on January 31, 2009
View the article here 01/30/2009 By MICHAEL ANICH, The Leader-Herald Green admits to Rail Trail slaying JOHNSTOWN - A defiant Randy Lee Green pleaded guilty this morning in Fulton County Court to second-degree murder stemming from last summer's brutal hunting-knife stabbing death of Gloversville resident _____...

The Myth of Lost Innocence

Posted on January 31, 2009
View the article here 01/29/2009 By Judith Warner At a journalism conference a couple of years ago, I met Linda Perlstein, the author of ?Not Much Just Chillin?: The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers.? This meeting occurred right in the middle of the ?rainbow party? craze ? that is to say, the media frenzy around the alleged oral activities of oversexed (and lipsticked) tweens...

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