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Jarred Harrell's Aunt: Officials are Questioning the Wrong Man

Posted on February 13, 2010
2-13-2010 Florida:MERIDIAN, Miss. -- In an interview at her Meridian home, Kriss Mizelle, Jarred Harrell's aunt, told First Coast News Harrell is a gentle young man who "couldn't hurt a flea." However, locals in the small town are talking about two things: the arrest of Jarred Harrell and the snowfall...

Former Marion County Sheriff's Deputy Pleads Guilty in 'Sexting' Case

Posted on February 13, 2010
Anyone else would get prison. This is a case of JUST-US! 2-12-2010 Indiana:Joe McKinney will spend four years on probation. FAIRMONT -- A Marion County sheriff's deputy accused of sending sexual text messages to a 17-year-old girl, was back in court Thursday...

Panel approves changes to South Dakota sex offender registry

Posted on February 13, 2010
Reporters, at times and this is one, miss the most important facts! Senate Bill 12 also says:Sec.-4: Any person who is on the state sex offender registry on the effective date of this Act shall be deemed to have been assigned to Tier III. However, any such person may petition the court, pursuant to § 22-24B-17, for appropriate reassignment in accordance with the provisions of this Act...

Facebook takes down 30 prisoners' pages after victim taunts

Posted on February 13, 2010
2-12-2010 United Kingdom:Jack Straw, the justice secretary, says the offending pages brought to the attention of Facebook had been removed within 48 hoursThirty Facebook pages have been taken down because prisoners were using them to taunt their victims, Jack Straw, the justice secretary, has revealed...

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Panel OKs death sentence for child rapists

Posted on February 12, 2010
Nothing like wasting the time of lawmakers with a unconstitutional bill. If the bill becomes law, it will cause a lawsuit by anyone so convicted and cost the state tons of money it can ill afford. How do these folks get into office... 2-12-2010 Oklahoma:OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Repeat sex offenders convicted of raping a child 6 years old or younger would be eligible for the death penalty under a

Sex offender assaulted, bullet shatters car

Posted on February 12, 2010
2-12-2010 Connecticut:A 37-year-old registered sex offender was assaulted and robbed Thursday morning, six hours after a bullet shattered his back windshield while he was driving south on South Main Street, police said.Officers have not yet determined if the two incidents are related or just coincidental because parked cars were also hit by gunfire in the area of South Main Street where the

Lawmakers struggle with sex offender issues

Posted on February 12, 2010
2-12-2010 Maine:AUGUSTA, Maine ? Lawmakers struggling to amend Maine?s sex offender registry weighed expert testimony on Thursday aimed at determining which offenders should be included in the state?s public list and how long they should remain there...

Fewer sex offenders living in Ludington in wake of ordinance

Posted on February 11, 2010
2-11-2010 Michigan:Fewer registered sex offenders are living in Ludington two years after the city council passed an ordinance requiring landlords to check if renters in school zones are on the Michigan Sex Offender Registry.?We were able to clear the (sex offenders) living in those zones out of those zones and keep them out and as a result we have fewer sex offenders living in the city,? said

Loophole frees sex offender

Posted on February 11, 2010
2-11-2010 Pennsylvania:A legal loophole allowed a convicted sex offender to go free last week.Matthew D. Benkoe, 25, who was convicted of sexual offenses against children in Ohio, worked last summer for an amusement company at the Lycoming County Fair in Hughesville...

How often do the police speak -Negatively- about sex offender laws?

Posted on February 11, 2010
2-11-2010 Oklahoma:This story may suprise you, and then again, when you hear what the author of the law in question says, it may not suprise you? However, consider that the law's author was likely pushing for some political gain under the pretext of public safety when he first proposed the law...

Juveniles crowd Mich. sex offender registry

Posted on February 11, 2010
2-11-2010 Michigan:More than 3,500 teen and pre-teen sex offenders on state listNearly eight percent of Michigan?s sex offender population is made up of juveniles, according to statistics compiled by the Michigan State Police in response to a public records request from the Michigan Messenger...

States get new leeway to tally prisoners in census

Posted on February 11, 2010
2-11-2010 National:WASHINGTON?States are getting new leeway in tallying their prisoners in the 2010 census -- a move that could reshape the political map, increasing urban population numbers while reducing the figures for rural voting districts where inmates are incarcerated...

DA says Internet sex prosecutions go beyond words

Posted on February 11, 2010
2-11-2010 Massachusetts:Despite a court decision overturning a conviction in a similar case, a district attorney whose office prosecuted four local men in a 2006 Internet sex sting said the operation could likely withstand legal challenge.Led by the Plymouth County DA's office, the investigation led to 11 arrests of people who were accused of trying to arrange sex with minors online...

Panel approves changes to sex offender registry

Posted on February 11, 2010
Reporters, at times and this is one, miss the most important facts! Senate Bill 12 also says:Sec.-4: Any person who is on the state sex offender registry on the effective date of this Act shall be deemed to have been assigned to Tier III. However, any such person may petition the court, pursuant to § 22-24B-17, for appropriate reassignment in accordance with the provisions of this Act...

CIvil Commitment Attorneys Subject of Debate

Posted on February 11, 2010
2-11-2010 North Dakota:County officials in North Dakota say it is increasingly difficult to find attorneys to represent people in civil commitment hearings and pay for their services. They want the state to take over the system, as it has with a system that provides public defenders for indigent defendants...

Sheriff names child porn suspect a person of interest in Somer Thompson slaying

Posted on February 11, 2010
2-11-2010 Florida:Family friends of the former Clay man said they are sickened by the newsORANGE PARK ? A former Clay County man arrested Thursday in Mississippi on child pornography charges was named by Sheriff Rick Beseler as a person of interest in the Oct...

Man named person of interest in Somer Thompson's death

Posted on February 11, 2010
2-11-2010 Florida:ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- Authorities have arrested a man they are calling a person of interest in the kidnapping and killing of a northeast Florida girl whose body was found in a landfill after she vanished on her way home from school. Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler said Jarred Mitchell Harrell, 24, who had lived in the girl's neighborhood was arrested in Mississippi Thursday on

DSM-V Draft Promises Big Changes in Some Psychiatric Diagnoses

Posted on February 10, 2010
2-10-2010 National:Substantial changes are in the offing for the "psychiatrist's bible," the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, according to a draft of the forthcoming fifth edition.The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has posted the draft of DSM-V on a special Web site, www...

Sex offenders: new rule

Posted on February 10, 2010
Either the reporter has misunderstood something or someone is on wacky weed because they clearly have no idea of the interaction between counties and federal law. This article is riddled with errors. Secondary websites and dissemination of information is NEVER BETTER than one original source which everyone inputs changes to...

Molester Attacked Outside Court

Posted on February 10, 2010

Notes from eAdvocate on Sex Offender Issues (2-10-2010)

Posted on February 10, 2010
2-10-2010 National:Today while updating old murder cases I found a news report which put a reason on how Edward Vaughn Keeley was killed, the killers used the public sex offender registry to find him. Click on his name to read the full case.Because he was killed by use of the public registry his case qualified for my list of those who were "Killed by Law," a list which is slowly growing...

Gideon has a GREAT post today on the Adam Walsh Act

Posted on February 10, 2010
2-10-2010 Connecticut:Gideon begins:The Adam Walsh fearmongering and bleeding money Act I have been in somewhat of a blog slumber. I haven?t posted in a while (and frankly, since Scott returned from his vacation, there?s no more opportunity for me to sneak in and steal his readers)...

Leggs Served With Indictment For Foxwell's Murder

Posted on February 09, 2010
2-9-2010 Maryland:SALISBURY, Md. - More than a month after Sarah Foxwell's body was found in a Delmar field, one man has finally been officially accused of her murder.On Monday, we sat down with Wicomico County State's Attorney Davis Ruark, who says Leggs has been served with an indictment, charging him with the 11-year-old's murder, as well as sexual offense charges...

Neighbors Want to get Lincoln County Sex Offenders' Haven Closed

Posted on February 09, 2010
If it is determined that something is not according to law about the Haven, hopefully whatever it is, is also applied to others living in the vicinity. It would be a shame -or unlawful- to apply a different standard to the Haven than to other folks in the vicinity...

FOXWELL CASE: Prosecutors charge suspect with murder, will seek death penalty

Posted on February 09, 2010
2-9-2010 Maryland:SALISBURY ? The Grand Jury for Wicomico County has indicted the sole suspect in the murder of 11-year-old Sarah Haley Foxwell, a move that has been expected for more than a month as prosecutors mounted a case against him.?The evidence has been developed as such that the state will file a notice of intent to seek the death penalty and the notice of intent to seek life without

Pawlenty seeks longer sentences for sex offenders

Posted on February 09, 2010
Everything this Gov is doing here is plain wrong, to increase sentences just to save money, also denies these men treatment. Recently U.S. Supreme court Justice Kennedy criticized California for its prison and sentencing policies, and here is no different...

Sex-Offender City

Posted on February 09, 2010
2-9-2010 Florida:Driving through Broadview Park, a square-mile neighborhood west of Fort Lauderdale, Randy Young splits his attention between the single-level stucco homes outside his window and the laptop affixed to the dashboard of his Toyota pickup...

PURSUIT OF JUSTICE

Posted on February 08, 2010
2-8-2010 Oregon:A lawyer fights for a young man he says was wrongly prosecutedA small-town Oregon lawyer remains so outraged over what prosecutors did to a Central Oregon teenager in 2006 that he intends to go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to seek redress...

Vt. Internet sex registry facing tweaks, challenges

Posted on February 08, 2010
2-8-2010 Vermont:MONTPELIER ? Coming amendments to a 2009 law that expanded the state's Internet sex-offender registry appear to have staved off at least one lawsuit challenging the new statute. However civil-rights advocates say it's only a matter of time before the broadened Web-based registry faces a more strenuous constitutional challenge...

Do harsher sex offender laws really work?

Posted on February 08, 2010
2-8-2010 Maryland:After the recent kidnapping and murder of 11-year-old Sarah Foxwell in Salisbury, Md., an alleged sex offender by the name of Thomas J. Leggs Jr. was charged with kidnapping and burglary. Little Sarah's body was found badly burned on Christmas Day 2009...

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