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CA - Weighing wisdom of law forcing sex offenders into homelessness

Posted on February 09, 2011
Original Article 02/09/2011 By Michael Fitzgerald In 1995, [name withheld], then a member of the Conway Gangstas street gang, participated in a gang rape and murder. He didn't pull the trigger, but he was an accessory. Now [name withheld], having served a 14-year prison sentence, is out on parole...

OH - New Sex Offender Law Vote

Posted on February 09, 2011
Not sure exactly when this video was originally created, or the law passed, but the video was just posted to YouTube.

NY - Congressman Chris Lee Resigns After Shirtless Photo Posted on Internet

Posted on February 09, 2011
Original Article 02/09/2011 By MATTHEW JAFFE and JOHN PARKINSON New York Republican Reportedly Sent Revealing Photos to a Woman He Met on Craigslist Rep. Chris Lee, R-N.Y., resigned from Congress after a report emerged that he had sent flirtatious e-mails, including one with a bare-chested photo of himself, to a woman he met on Craigslist...

PA - Pennsylvania House approves bills to strengthen state Megan's Law

Posted on February 09, 2011
Original Article 02/09/2011 By KARI ANDREN Two measures aimed at closing loopholes in Pennsylvania's Megan's Law sex offender reporting law were approved this morning by the state House. One bill would require homeless sex offenders to register their whereabouts with the Pennsylvania State Police every 30 days...

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TX - Proposal Would Punish PARENTS of 'Sexting' Teens

Posted on February 08, 2011
Original Article So now, instead of teaching kids and giving the public the tools to learn, they are going to punish parents for their kids "crimes?" Just the typical knee jerk reactions to a hyped up hysteria. 02/07/2011 By Jim Forsyth Teen, parent would have to undergo 'education program' on dangers of practice...

Time To Revisit Ex Post Facto Clause For Sex Offenders

Posted on February 08, 2011
Original Article 02/07/2011 By Norm Pattis Scores of folks have sent me emails generated by a group called Citizens for Change. They want me to hear their cries for justice, and to sign on to the fight to have the courts declare retroactive application of the federal sex offender registration act unconstitutional...

DC - Congress Forgets How To Pass A Law

Posted on February 07, 2011

TX - Texas in final stages to allow some sex offenders to deregister from list

Posted on February 06, 2011
Original Article 02/05/2011 By James Cannon Texas is in the final stages of implementing a new program that will allow some sex offenders to deregister from the lifetime list, after an, as of yet, unspecified amount of time and counseling. The Council on Sex Offender Treatment will meet Feb...

OFF TOPIC - Hotmail launches accounts you can throw away

Posted on February 06, 2011
Original Article I've been using Anonymizer Nyms for awhile now. 02/03/2011 By Josh Lowensohn Microsoft knows you're making throwaway e-mail accounts, and wants to make that process easier. Today, Hotmail is getting a new feature aimed at "e-mail enthusiasts," which lets anyone create multiple e-mail accounts that can be read, replied to, and managed from their everyday e-mail inbox...

John Walsh pushing for collection of DNA and posting the usual disinformation

Posted on February 06, 2011
Visit the website Every day innocent people needlessly become victims of violent crimes. Most of these are committed by repeat offenders. By passing state legislation that enables law enforcement to collect DNA from felony arrestees, at the same time as fingerprints, your state can catch criminals sooner...

MN - State may loosen grip on sex offenders

Posted on February 06, 2011
Original Article 02/06/2011 By PAUL McENROE The possible release of two violent rapists reflects growing legal concerns over indefinite detention. In a rare step, state officials have recommended supervised release for two violent sex offenders who are under indefinite commitment at a state treatment center in St...

OFF TOPIC - PA - Former juvenile judge (Mark Ciavarella) to stand trial in $2.8M bribery scheme to jail 'kids for cash'

Posted on February 06, 2011
Original Article 02/06/2011 By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Kids in Luzerne County had a powerful incentive to stay out of the courtroom of Mark Ciavarella, a fearsome, zero-tolerance judge who tossed youths into juvenile detention even when their crimes didn't warrant it...

UK - Court bans man with low IQ from having sex

Posted on February 06, 2011
Original Article Hitler would be proud. This is nothing more than selective breeding, exactly what Hitler did. 02/04/2011 By Martin Beckford A man with a low IQ has been banned from having sex by a High Court judge who admitted the case raised questions about ?civil liberties and personal autonomy?...

FL - Miami-Dade police officer (Juan Carlos Rodriguez) arrested on molestation charges

Posted on February 05, 2011
Original Article 02/04/2011 By DAVID OVALLE A Miami-Dade police officer has been arrested after authorities said he fondled two teenage girls during a traffic stop in West Kendall. Juan Carlos Rodriguez, 24, was charged late Thursday with two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation...

FL - Mark Foley slowly coming back into GOP fold

Posted on February 05, 2011
Original Article 02/03/2011 By George Bennett Former Republican U.S. Mark Foley held pariah status with many in the GOP after he abruptly resigned in 2006 over sexually charged e-mails to male congressional pages. Many Republicans said Foley?s disgrace a few weeks before the midterm elections helped Democrats take control of the House and the Senate from the GOP that year...

CA - OC Woman (Danielle Deichman) Charged With Lying About Attempted Sex Assault

Posted on February 05, 2011
Original Article 02/04/2011 By Carolyn Costello She claimed someone tried to rape her on a busy street LAGUNA NIGUEL (KTLA) -- Orange County Sheriff's investigators say a woman who said someone tried to rape her along a busy street was arrested Thursday for filing a false police report after admitting she made up the whole story...

FL - Sex Offender Tracking Company Loses Bid

Posted on February 04, 2011
Original Article 02/03/2011 By Peter Linton-Smith PASCO COUNTY - There are nearly 3,000 sex offenders walking the streets of Florida and their every move is tracked by Pro Tech, a company based in Pasco County. Pro Tech designs and builds sophisticated tracking devices...

CA - Probation Officer (Elizabeth Nolan) Pleads Guilty to Having Sex with Underage Inmate

Posted on February 04, 2011
Original Article 02/02/2011 By Brooke Beare A former Riverside County probation officer has pleaded guilty to one felony count of having unlawful sex with a minor. The victim was an underage inmate of the juvenile hall in Indio where Elizabeth Zarate Nolan was working at the time...

MO - Former police capt. (Kenneth Tomlinson) sentenced for sex abuse

Posted on February 04, 2011
Original Article 02/04/2011 By Cassidy Moody ST. CHARLES (AP) - The former top police officer in Fredericktown has been sentenced to multiple life terms for molesting two young brothers over several years. Judge Ted House on Friday told Kenneth D...

UT - Department of Corrections offers therapy to dozens of sex offender inmates

Posted on February 04, 2011
Original Article This reinforces what I have said for years, most people thrown in prison do not get any therapy to fix why they are in there in the first places, it's just a warehouse. This article states there is 8 facilities in the country that do provide treatment...

Links for 2011-02-02 [del.icio.us]

Posted on February 03, 2011
WCIV-TV: News, Weather and Sports for Charleston, SC - No bond ruling on couple charged in toddler's death Mom Held In Child's Death Facing Drug Charges - Cincinnati News Story - WLWT Cincinnati Man gets life for killing son - Florida Wires - MiamiHerald...

OFF TOPIC - Black is White: Experiment on Suggestion

Posted on February 03, 2011
Black is White: Experiments on Suggestion

IN - Former officer (Shawn Kennedy) accused of using position for sex

Posted on February 03, 2011
Original Article 02/03/2011 By Stephan Johnson JEFFERSONVILLE (WDRB Fox 41) - A former Jeffersonville Police detective is accused of using his position to tip off a suspected drug dealer and get sexual favors from a 19-year-old woman. Thursday, Fox 41 News reported exclusively the case was actually uncovered by the FBI...

CA - Without a home - Sex offenders press judge for relief from Jessica?s Law

Posted on February 03, 2011
Original Article 02/02/2011 By Kelly Davis In 1989, Mike pleaded guilty to misdemeanor sexual assault. It was a he said / she said case: His girlfriend at the time accused him of touching her breasts after she?d told him to stop. Though he disputed her version of events?and still does?he was told that the crime was so minor that the easiest thing would be to plead guilty...

VA - 'Physical castration' removed from Virginia sex offender bill

Posted on February 03, 2011
Original Article You see folks, we can make a difference, you just have to get up and speak out. 02/03/2011 By Amanda Hess Virginia state Sen. Emmett Hanger has revised the language of his now-infamous bill requesting that the state consider the possibility of physically castrating sex offenders as a form of post-incarceration treatment...

UT - Former police officer (Jeffrey Westerman) sentenced to jail for sex assault

Posted on February 03, 2011
Original Article 02/03/2011 By Dan Metcalf Jr. PROVO (ABC 4 News) - A former Provo Police officer was sentenced to 6 months in the Utah County Jail on Thursday over a sex assault on a woman involved in a traffic crash. Jeffrey Westerman pleaded guilty in December to attempted forcible sex abuse and obstruction of justice...

AR - Bill to require sex offenders to register computers, e-mails advances through committee

Posted on February 03, 2011
Original Article 02/03/2011 LITTLE ROCK (AP) ? A bill to require sex offenders register their e-mail addresses, user names and computers has passed out of an Arkansas legislative committee and goes to the state House for a vote. The bill by Democratic Rep...

NY - Neighborhood upset over sex offender

Posted on February 03, 2011

WA - Spokane County Sex Offender Task Force In Danger Of Losing Funding

Posted on February 03, 2011

PA - Sex-predator label 'capricious'

Posted on February 02, 2011
Original Article 02/02/2011 By Richard Gazarik A psychiatrist who studied the policies of Fayette County Children and Youth Services said caseworkers "capriciously decide" who is, or who is not, a sexual predator rather than basing decisions on scientific rationale...

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