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FL - Lawrence Taylor on Soliciting Prostitutes, Registering as a Sex Offender

Posted on March 23, 2011
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LA - Gov. Jindal announces bills to crack down on crime

Posted on March 23, 2011
Original Article Take note at how many times they mention children in this article, then read the quote at the top of this blog. 03/23/2011 Gov. Bobby Jindal announced last week that he is supporting five bills in the upcoming regular session of the Legislature to crack down on crime in Louisiana...

CA - Supervisors Approve Sex Offender Law

Posted on March 23, 2011
Original Article 03/22/2011 By TRACY WOOD The Orange County Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted to move ahead with a new law that makes it a misdemeanor for registered sex offenders to enter county parks, beaches and harbors without permission from authorities...

NE - Sex-offender list too inclusive?

Posted on March 23, 2011
Original Article 03/23/2011 By Paul Hammel LINCOLN ? Saying Nebraska's current sex-offender registry law unfairly punishes some minor offenders, a group of state senators wants to remove those offenders' pictures and addresses from a public list. Supporters of the change include Omaha Sen...

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TX - Former officer (Byron Shane Burkhart) sentenced to 7 years in prison

Posted on March 23, 2011
Original Article 03/22/2011 By Bob Thaxton SEGUIN - A former police officer was sent to prison Tuesday after pleading guilty in a case that involved allegations of sexual contact with an underage girl. Byron Shane Burkhart, 42, who spent eight years serving with the Seguin Police Department, pleaded guilty to a charge of injury to a child, and District Judge Dwight Peschel ordered Burkhart to serve a seven-year sentence in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice...

MA - Expert: Door-to-door sex offender notification not more effective than other forms

Posted on March 23, 2011
Original Article It is my opinion that all of us who are fighting these laws, need to start fighting fire with fire. We need to start DEMANDING that ALL CRIMINALS are put on an online registry, residency restrictions set, and public notifications done...

PA - Victim of vigilante mob sues Philly police

Posted on March 23, 2011
Original Article 03/22/2011 PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -- A man attacked by a mob who wrongly believed he had raped an 11-year-old girl has sued Philadelphia police, saying they encouraged street justice. [name withheld], 28, who filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday, names both the city and the police department as defendants, the Philadelphia Daily News reported...

NY - Sex offender says eviction from home was wrong

Posted on March 23, 2011
Original Article 03/22/2011 ALBANY - A man convicted of patronizing an underage prostitute told the state's top court Tuesday that he posed no danger to his five children and that county officials were wrong to conclude that his return home from jail constituted child neglect by him and his wife...

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Posted on March 23, 2011
U.S. v. BURNS - Leagle.com Defendant Keith Lee Burns was convicted of traveling interstate and knowingly failing to update his sex offender registration as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act ("SORNA"). 18 U.S.C. � 2250(a) (2006) ("failure-to-register statute"); 42 U...

MI - Court documents reveal why former Goshen College student (Jessica De La Vega) filed false rape report

Posted on March 23, 2011
Original Article 03/23/2011 By John Paul GOSHEN ? Jessica De La Vega said she was abducted from Goshen College at knife-point and then raped at a nearby park. Investigators say it was all a lie ? that she made the story up as an excuse to her parents for being gone from home too long...

GA - Living Life Under A Microscope

Posted on March 23, 2011
Original Article 03/23/2011 By John Madewell Imagine most of your actions under scrutiny. That is reality for people on parole. NewsChannel 9 rode along with two parole officers from the post in LaFayette, Georgia. Officers Ben Colkmire made two surprise stops and two announced stops...

Facebook booting '20,000' underage users per day

Posted on March 23, 2011
Original Article 03/23/2011 By Austin Carr According to a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, nearly half of all 12-year-olds in the U.S. are using social network sites, despite not meeting the minimum age requirements for sites like Facebook...

DE - Bills bar licenses to sexual felons

Posted on March 23, 2011
Original Article 03/22/2011 By CRIS BARRISH Tighter rules proposed on reporting, discosure Three bills were introduced Monday in the General Assembly that would prohibit sexual felons from working as registered nurses, dentists, psychologists and in other related fields...

LA - Civil Rights Suit Tackles Law Dubbing Oral Sex a "Crime Against Nature"

Posted on March 22, 2011
Original Article 03/21/2011 By Alex DiBranco Over a year ago, I wrote about a law in Louisiana that treats oral and anal sex as felony "crimes against nature." It's a vestige of extreme homophobia that has been mainly struck down by the Supreme Court, but the law remained on the books and serves a new purpose: putting sex workers behind bars as felony sex offenders...

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Posted on March 22, 2011
STATE v. MULLINS - Leagle.com In 2004 appellant entered a plea of guilty to one count of rape as defined in R.C. 2907.02, a felony of the first degree. In exchange for the plea, the prosecution dismissed two additional rape counts found in the indictment...

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Posted on March 22, 2011
STATE v. LAWSON - Leagle.com Defendant-appellant, Jerry G. Lawson ("appellant"), appeals the judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, which denied his petition to contest his reclassification as a Tier III sex offender. For the following reasons, we reverse the trial court's judgment and remand the matter with instructions...

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Posted on March 22, 2011
M.S. v. STATE - Opinion Delivered March 16, 2011. On April 26, 2010, the Crittenden County Circuit Court entered an order requiring appellant M.S. to register as a juvenile sex offender.1 M.S. filed a timely notice of appeal on May 10, 2010...

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Posted on March 22, 2011
STATE v. WILLIFORD - Leagle.com Defendant Clarence Randell Williford appeals from the trial court's order imposing lifetime satellite-based monitoring ("SBM"). Although we dismiss his appeal for failure to give proper notice of appeal, we allow Defendant's petition for writ of certiorari in order to review the SBM order...

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Posted on March 22, 2011
STATE v. HILL - Leagle.com On September 17, 2007, the Lorain County Grand Jury indicted Hill on one count of sexual battery in violation of R.C. 2907.03(A)(2), a felony of the third degree. From August 14, 2009, through August 15, 2009, the case was tried to the court...

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Posted on March 22, 2011
U.S. v. ROCK - Leagle.com After a jury trial in district court,1 William Junior Rock was convicted of failure to register as a sex offender, in violation of 18 U.S.C. � 2250(a). He appeals. Having jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. � 1291, this court affirms...

OH - Ex Post Facto Unconstitutional Punisment?

Posted on March 22, 2011
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OFF TOPIC - Software Conflict: Wife 1.0 Upgrade

Posted on March 22, 2011
Last year, after hearing how great it was for so long, a friend of mine upgraded from Girlfriend 3.0 to Wife 1.0. He has found Wife 1.0 to be a resource hog, leaving him very little free space for other applications. Wife 1.0 is also spawning Child-Subroutines, which further consumes valuable system resources...

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Posted on March 22, 2011
STATE v. JOLLY - Leagle.com William Jolly pleaded guilty to one count of rape, an off-grid person felony pursuant to K.S.A. 21-3502(a)(2) and (c). Per K.S.A. 21-4643(a) (Jessica's Law), the prescribed sentence was life imprisonment with a mandatory minimum of 25 years...

NY - Steve Wilkos: Falsely accused of rape - Feminazi's in action!!!!!

Posted on March 21, 2011
These men did nothing wrong, they did not have sex with the lady or rape her, yet they are booed off stage because others in the audience were molested. What????? THEY DID NOTHING, yet they are guilty automatically! HEIL HITLER!!! Related article Video Link

OH - More homeowners associations banning sexual offenders

Posted on March 21, 2011
Original Article 03/21/2011 By Dean Narciso Homeowners associations increasingly are seeking to ban sexual offenders and predators in an attempt to improve safety and maintain property values. "There's an explosion in Franklin County," said David W...

NJ - Dad of murdered Fla. girl urges NJ to enact tougher child sex offender sentences

Posted on March 21, 2011
Original Article 03/21/2011 By ANGELA DELLI SANTI TRENTON - The father of a Florida rape and murder victim, whose death led 44 states to enact stricter sex offender laws, was in New Jersey on Monday to encourage passage of a law imposing mandatory minimum sentences on child predators and anyone convicted of aiding them...

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Posted on March 20, 2011
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NE - Tighter restrictions for sexual predators, offenders

Posted on March 19, 2011
Original Article 03/18/2011 By Emily Nohr Nebraska lawmakers are considering tighter regulations for people convicted of sex crimes. Sen. Dave Bloomfield of Hoskins proposed a bill that would prohibit sexual predators from lving within 500 feet of a park...

MN - Minnesota Sex Offender Program still plagued with problems, according to a new report

Posted on March 19, 2011
Original Article 03/18/2011 By Paul Demko The fundamental flaws of the Minnesota Sex Offender Program have long been known. Despite operating for nearly two decades and spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, the program has never successfully rehabilitated and released a civilly committed sex offender...

MN - Editorial: A reboot for debate on sex offenders

Posted on March 19, 2011
Original Article 03/18/2011 Legislative auditor's report paves the way for real solutions. A new, fact-based legislative auditor's report (PDF) is exactly what's needed to reboot Minnesota's long, unproductive debate over its controversial sex offender treatment program...

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