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Top court to weigh privacy rights

Posted on March 19, 2011
Original Article 03/18/2011 By William Matthews Thanks to increasingly sophisticated communications technology and ever-expanding interconnected data bases, even small-town police can run detailed background checks to discover criminals during routine traffic stops...

NY - Are sex offender phone apps worth anything?

Posted on March 19, 2011
Video about iPhone/iPad application "Offender Search" Video Link

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Posted on March 19, 2011
Tampa man abducted, raped as a child gets 25 years for attempted murder as an adult - St. Petersburg Times This is the son of vigilante Judy Cornett.

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Posted on March 19, 2011
Massachusetts Couple Accused of Killing 4-Year-Old Girl - FoxNews.com

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Posted on March 19, 2011
3 Children Killed; Evidence Of Meth Found In Fire - News Story - WSB Atlanta

Sex offender legislation moving through Albany

Posted on March 18, 2011
Original Article 03/17/2011 By Michael Cusenza Two bills ? both addressing the employment of sex offenders ? are moving through the state Legislature this month as lawmakers ramp up protection efforts after recent borough cases revealed holes in the system...

Sex Crimes and the City: the aftermath of Jessica's Law

Posted on March 18, 2011
Original Article 03/17/2011 By Rina Palta Listen - Rina Palta's documentary "Sex Crimes and the City: the aftermath of Jessica's Law" pulls back the curtain on a part of society we'd rather ignore. The documentary confronts the truth about whether California's great designs for monitoring convicted sex offenders have made us safer ...

MS - Bob Mitchell openly harassing a sex offender

Posted on March 17, 2011
Original Article 03/16/2011 By Bert Case PEARL (WLBT) - Some residents in Pearl are hoping the signs they've posted along Areo Drive will make a registered sex offender want to move from the neighborhood. Bob Mitchell plays a guitar for a living at a local nightclub...

RI - Lawmakers consider sex offender bill

Posted on March 17, 2011
Original Article 03/17/2011 Bill would establish new registration requirements PROVIDENCE (WPRI) - A new bill at the state house would make it easier for Rhode Islanders to be notified about registered sex offenders in their neighborhoods. The new legislation is being sponsored by Cranston Representative Peter Palumbo...

MI - Editorial - Reform state's sex offender registry to better fit the crimes

Posted on March 17, 2011
Original Article 03/17/2011 Politics remains the art of the possible. So sometimes, a small step forward beats standing in place, especially with an issue as onerous as the online Michigan Sex Offender Registry. Bills sponsored by state Sen. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge, would at least undo one of the most egregious elements of the registry: the so-called Romeo and Juliet cases involving consenting teens...

FL - New Port Richey looks at tightening sex offender ordinance

Posted on March 17, 2011
Original Article 03/17/2011 By Robert Napper NEW PORT RICHEY ? The City Council is seeking a legal review of its sex offender ordinance to give it more teeth. New Port Richey's ordinance already bans registered sex offenders convicted in Florida of a sex crime on a child under 16 from living within 2,500 feet of a school, day care center, library, church, park or playground...

MN - Committee OKs tougher sex offender sentences

Posted on March 17, 2011
Original Article 03/17/2011 By Don Davis ST. PAUL -- An 8-year-old effort to keep sex offenders in jail longer began a new trek on Tuesday through the Minnesota Legislature. The House Public Safety and Crime Prevention Committee unanimously approved a proposal that would force many of the worst offenders to spend 60 years in prison, followed by a decade of supervised release...

NY - Local Leaders Fill in County Exec Hopeful on Homeless Sex Offenders

Posted on March 16, 2011
Original Article 03/14/2011 By Joseph Pinciaro Suffolk County Executive hopeful and current Babylon Supervisor Steve Bellone said he knew a little bit about how the county currently holds homeless sex offenders. But some things he heard on Monday afternoon, on the first day of his Suffolk County "listening tour," caught him off guard...

UK - Lucy Faithfull Foundation - Rehabilitating sex offenders

Posted on March 16, 2011
Over all, I think this is a good video, but they need to stop grouping all sex offenders into one group. My comments left on the video (pending approval): "Even in your own video, you say it's to "protect the children," but we all know, if you'd do some searching, that not all sex offenders harm children, yet you continue to say that in generalized terms as if all have harmed children...

ID - House committee approves sex offender school bill

Posted on March 16, 2011
Original Article 03/15/2011 BOISE (AP) - A bill that would require registered sex offenders to notify public school officials before they enter schools has cleared a House committee. The House Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee approved the bill Tuesday 10-4 and sent it on to the full House for debate...

FL - Judge seals criminal record of former deputy's wife (Jessica Wink) who had sex with 16-year-old

Posted on March 16, 2011
Original Article 03/16/2011 By Daphne Duret WEST PALM BEACH ? A judge this morning agreed to seal the criminal record of a 26-year-old former sheriff's deputy's wife arrested in 2007 after her husband turned over a video of her having sex with a 16-year-old boy...

OH - Former Constitution Party candidate (Eric W. Deaton) makes plea deal in teen sex case

Posted on March 16, 2011
Original Article 03/16/2011 By Lou Grieco DAYTON - Eric W. Deaton, the former Constitution Party candidate for U.S. Senate accused of having sex with a teenage girl, pleaded no contest Wednesday to two misdemeanor counts. Deaton, 43, of New Lebanon, was indicted on one count of unlawful sex with a minor, a felony...

GA - Ex-DeKalb Cop (Javier Garces) Must Register As A Sex Offender

Posted on March 15, 2011
Original Article 03/14/2011 DEKALB COUNTY - A former DeKalb County police officer accused of forcing two women to perform oral sex in lieu of arrests must now register as a sex offender. Javier Garces pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of sodomy and one count of violating the oath of office...

CA - The Death Of Victor Segovia

Posted on March 15, 2011
Original Article 03/15/2011 Early Saturday morning, the 5th of March, 2011, Civil Detainee Victor Segovia died in California's Coalinga State Hospital. He had complained to medical staff of chest pains and difficulty breathing earlier in the evening but was left untreated and told to go to bed...

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MN - Our View: New ideas welcome on offender policies

Posted on March 15, 2011
Original Article 03/14/2011 State policy makers may finally be able to do what has eluded them for the past decade: Have a reasoned and meaningful debate about changing the Minnesota sex offender treatment program. It?s long been clear changes are needed in a program that doesn?t work, is growing in size and cost and is on shaky constitutional ground...

ID - Overhaul of sex offender laws raises some concerns

Posted on March 15, 2011
Original Article 03/15/2011 By Brad Iverson-Long The board that assesses Idaho?s most dangerous sex offenders is asking lawmakers not to drop the violent sexual predator (VSP) designation in a proposed overhaul of the state sex offender laws, though that tag has come under constitutional fire...

It's Time For Our Nation To Be Smart on Crime

Posted on March 15, 2011
Original Article I do not see anything pertaining to sex offender laws, but over all, it's a good read. Smart on Crime: Recommendations for the Administration and Congress provides the 112th Congress and the Obama administration with analysis of the problems plaguing our state and federal criminal justice systems and a series of recommendations to address these failures...

FL - Sex-Abuse Survivor Plans 1,000-mile Walk for Victims, New Law

Posted on March 14, 2011
Original Article 03/14/2011 By Lane Wright As if walking 500 miles across the state of Florida wasn't enough, one sexual abuse survivor is doubling down for victims of sexual abuse. Lauren Book, daughter of high-powered lobbyist Ron Book, is aiming to lengthen her stride and broaden the reach of her message, by walking 1,000 miles from Key West to Tallahassee...

YOUR SAY - Part 2 - Registered Former Sex Offenders and their Families Speak Out!

Posted on March 12, 2011
This is part 2 in our YOUR SAY series. If you would like to know more about this, click here. Video Link

OFF TOPIC - Powerful quake hits Japan

Posted on March 11, 2011
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NH - We are losing the war on sex offenders

Posted on March 11, 2011
Original Article Old article, but one others should read. 05/12/2010 By Chris Dornin But not the way you think. The stereotype of the mean stranger watching the schoolyard underlies the last two decades of sex offender laws. Ironically, these feel-good, knee-jerk statutes endanger the very kids they aim to protect...

Story from a loving mother

Posted on March 11, 2011
My son was 18 years old, still in high school and obviously hanging around with underage kids. I don?t know the details of what happened because the attorney we hired said for us not to discuss the case at all on the rare case that I?d get called to the stand, so we respected that...

MN - Audit: Sex offender program costly, inconsistent

Posted on March 11, 2011
Original Article 03/11/2011 By PAUL McENROE and WARREN WOLFE The Legislative Auditor concluded that dangerous offenders in Minnesota receive inadequate treatment, while others don't need confinement. Hundreds of Minnesota sex offenders confined in state treatment facilities receive inadequate therapy from under-qualified staff at excessive cost, according to a report released Friday by Legislative Auditor James Nobles...

MA - SJC takes up challenge to state sex offender law

Posted on March 11, 2011
Original Article 03/11/2011 By Julie Manganis SALEM - Just how far can the government go to prevent a man prosecutors call an "incorrigible" exhibitionist from re-offending? That's the question the state's highest court took up yesterday during a hearing in the case of a North Shore man named [name withheld]...

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