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By Corey Rayburnyung

Sentencing Law and Policy notes an interesting New York Times article about sex offender tracking.  The article discusses the person who runs Parents for Megan?s Law and the Crime Victims? Center.  The organization "has been painstakingly compiling such information about sex offenders and distributing it ? first by hand, then by e-mail ? to their neighbors, including updates like a new car or new scar." A Northern California newspaper has this editorial which argues that tough state sex offender laws have made the risk of sex crimes by previous offenders higher.  California's sex offender law, approved as Proposition 83 in 2006, "severely restricts where sex offenders can live and requires that they be monitored with global positioning devices for life...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on March 10, 2008 (boomark / email).