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Sex addiction: Let's talk about it

Posted on February 02, 2010
2-2-2010 Michigan: Metro Detroit sex addicts are finding helpEvery week, all around southeastern Michigan, dozens of people gather in church basements and hospital classrooms to talk about their deepest sexual secrets. Sex addiction didn't start with Tiger WoodsTiger Woods is the latest in a line of celebrities to acknowledge or be linked to compulsive sexual behaviors...

Were inmates misled about their release?

Posted on February 02, 2010
Something is rotton in North Carolina? See earlier story about lifers.2-2-2010 North Carolina:E-mails, internal memos detailed statements by state officials about the status of lifers.RALEIGH In December, Department of Correction officials and a lawyer for the N...

Somer Thompson murder investigation is not a "cold case," Sheriff's Office says

Posted on February 02, 2010
2-2-2010 Florida:ORANGE PARK ? While Somer Thompson?s face may have disappeared from the nightly television news broadcasts, the Clay County Sheriff?s Office says the investigation into the Orange Park girl?s murder remains very active.A 15-member ?Team Somer? detective unit dedicated to catching whomever is responsible for the first-grader?s murder continues to work inside a small office at the

Sex-offender registry may only complicate tracking

Posted on February 02, 2010
See comment about recidivism quote which is likely in error.2-2-2010 Maryland:Pending expansions will increase number to be monitoredIn Maryland, Thomas Leggs lived with his parents on a quiet street in Salisbury.In Delaware, he served time for raping a teenage girl on the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk...

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Focusing on sex offenders

Posted on February 02, 2010
2-2-2010 North Carolina:CHAPEL HILL -- The term "deviant sex offenders" might seem redundant. How could anyone who commits a sexual offense be anything but deviant?In reaction to such sentiments, there has been a federal attempt since 2006 to create a policy that allows federal officials to civilly commit offenders deemed too sexually dangerous to release even after they have served their

A law for sex offenders under the a Miami bridge

Posted on February 01, 2010
2-1-2010 Florida:The Julia Tuttle Causeway is one of Miami's most beautiful bridge spans, connecting the city to Miami Beach through palm-tree-filled islands fringed with red mangroves. But beneath the tranquil expanse sits one of South Florida's most contentious social problems: a large colony of convicted sex offenders, thrown into homelessness in recent years by draconian residency

Mixed ruling on sex offender residency law

Posted on February 01, 2010
See earlier comments 2-1-2010 California:The state Supreme Court left the door open Monday to contentions that strict restrictions on where some registered sex offenders can live are unconstitutional, but turned away other legal challenges to a 2006 law that toughened laws against sexual crimes...

Menifee school panel will review banned dictionary

Posted on January 31, 2010
1-30-2010 California:The Menifee Union School District is forming a committee to review whether dictionaries containing the definitions for sexual terms should be permanently banned from the district's classrooms, a district official said Friday.The 9,000-student K-8 district this week pulled all copies of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary after an Oak Meadows Elementary School parent

Sex offender registry fails to show crime details

Posted on January 31, 2010
Now the public wants -crime novels- to read in their quiet moments. I would object to this vehemently because somewhere the victim will be reliving the crime and her neighbors will know all these dirty little secrets, which will not help victims. 1-31-2010 Connecticut:Changes to the state?s sexual offender registry have made it easier for residents to locate the 5,076 registered offenders

ERROR ????: High court may review Pa. county's predator law

Posted on January 30, 2010
It appears that this news report is in error. The question is one that ONLY the Pennsylvania Supreme court can answer, and as of this moment it has not answered it.In another news report, they got it right, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals is asking the Pennsylvania Supreme court to render a decision on the question...

Law Has Little Effect on Early Release for Inmates

Posted on January 30, 2010
1-30-2010 New York:COXSACKIE, N.Y. ? With his swollen legs and a throaty rasp that whistles like a kettle through his broken teeth, Eddie Jones is an unlikely man to make history. He is 89 and dying, a former loan shark who, at 69, shot another man dead on a Harlem street in what he claimed was self-defense...

Teens charged in 'sexting' case

Posted on January 30, 2010
1-30-2010 Washington:LACEY, Wash. - Thurston County Prosecutors charged three teenagers Friday with Class C felonies for allegedly texting a naked picture of an underage girl.Earlier this week authorities confiscated nine cell phones with the "sexted" picture on it...

Runner Defends Jessica's Law As Supreme Court Rules To Hear Sex Offender's Case

Posted on January 30, 2010
1-30-2010 California:Author of landmark sex offender law says ?challenge to sex predator law is without merit'Sen. George Runner (R-Antelope Valley) released the following statements in response to the California Supreme Court's ruling yesterday to hear a challenge to Jessica's Law...

Legislature Debates Changing Sex Offender Registry

Posted on January 29, 2010
1-29-2010 Maine:Supreme Court Ruling Necessitates ChangesAUGUSTA, Maine -- Lawmakers met in Augusta Thursday to discuss changing the state's sex offender registry to satisfy the concerns of the Maine supreme court.The court said it is unconstitutional to impose new laws that are retroactive for people convicted of sex crimes in the 1980s and 1990s...

Constitutionality of 'Jessica's Law' questioned

Posted on January 29, 2010
1-29-2010 California:Treating sex predators differently from other violent offenders may violate equal protection guarantees, the California Supreme Court says.The California Supreme Court ruled 5 to 2 Thursday that a 2006 ballot initiative that permitted the state to lock up sexually violent predators indefinitely may violate constitutional guarantees of equal protection...

Plan to change registry altered

Posted on January 29, 2010
1-29-2010 South Dakota:AG proposal means sex offenders must petition to move to lower tierA state Senate committee Thursday accepted an amendment proposed by the attorney general on the much-debated sex offender registry bill.The amendment now will become the base for Senate Bill 12, which would create a three-tiered system to classify sex offenders and give those convicted of lesser crimes an

Middle school students charged in 'sexting' case

Posted on January 29, 2010
A Juliet Juliet case? Or, is it a crime at all? The prosecutor (County Prosecutor Brian Gensel) should be charged with "Failure to use discretion" and "Political-itis" obviously he wants to make a name for himself -its election time-, at the expense of these young folks! Please remember, traditionally a criminal matter must have a "victim" and an "offender" can you define who is who? 1-28-2010

State Supreme Court Decision Expected Monday On Homeless Sex Offenders

Posted on January 29, 2010
1-29-2010 California:Homeless sex offenders in San Francisco will find out whether they'll be able to finally move indoors on Monday. The state Supreme Court will issue its decision about the constitutionality of the Jessica's Law restrictions banning sex offenders from living 2,000 feet from a school or park -- which, in San Francisco, have forced nearly all paroled sex offenders into

Naming of teenage rapist 'violates UN law'

Posted on January 28, 2010
Europe is covered by a different Human Rights Declaration than folks in the U.S.1-28-2010 United Kingdom:A judge's decision to name a 13-year-old rapist violates the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), according to a leading children's rights campaigner...

The untouchable Mean Girls

Posted on January 28, 2010
1-28-2010 Massachusetts:Like a lot of kids her age, Phoebe Prince was a swan, always beautiful and sometimes awkward.Last fall, she moved from Ireland into western Massachusetts, a new town, a new high school, a new country, a new culture. She was 15, when all that matters is being liked and wearing the right clothes and just fitting in...

3rd Wisconsin woman cops plea for role in glue attack on ex-lover's penis

Posted on January 28, 2010
1-28-2010 Wisconsin:Wendy Sewell has accepted a plea deal in a Wisconsin court over her role in helping to lure Donessa Davis to a motel room in Stockbridge, Wisc., and then gluing his penis to his abdomen.The 44-year-old woman is one of three charged in the episode...

George Edenfield to undergo evaluation in Barrios slaying

Posted on January 28, 2010
1-28-2010 Georgia:They decide if he can stand trialBRUNSWICK - George Edenfield might be inching closer to standing trial on murder and other charges in the sexual abuse slaying of his 6-year-old neighbor, Christopher Michael Barrios, nearly three years ago...

Pornographic text sparks tribal war

Posted on January 28, 2010
1-28-2010 New Guinea:Two people are dead after a pornographic text message sparked tribal violence in Papua New Guinea's southern highlands.The violence flared on Saturday when a young man from the Tapo clan in Tari sent a pornographic text message to a woman in the Pipi clan...

Close the camp

Posted on January 28, 2010
1-28-2010 Florida:OUR OPINION: Revamped rules will end squalor under causewayThe convicted sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway now have a better chance of finding decent living quarters, thanks to the Miami-Dade County Commission. Commissioners unanimously repealed 24 different laws enacted by cities in favor of a single countywide ordinance...

Ordinance limiting where sex offenders can live heads to supreme court

Posted on January 28, 2010
1-28-2010 Pennsylvania:The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to determine if a local ordinance restricting where sex offenders can live is pre-empted by state law.Allegheny County officials filed an appeal with the Third Circuit following a decision in March in which U...

Conn. tries to stop inmates seeking dirt on guards

Posted on January 28, 2010
1-28-2010 Connecticut:HARTFORD, Conn. ? Connecticut could join at least a dozen other states by restricting prison inmates from using FOI laws to get personal information to harass or threaten their guards ? and, in some cases, prosecutors or other inmates...

Proposed NH restrictions on child killers and sex offenders draw opposition in Concord

Posted on January 28, 2010
When will lawmakers recognize the waste that results from a registry, and that registries cannot prevent the ill they are seeking it to do. Knowing where someone sleeps for a few hours of a day, will never PREVENT future crimes. There are cars, trains and buses and the registrant can walk if they have a mind to do further harm...

Governor Martin O'Malley Introduces Legislation to Protect Marylanders from Sexual Predators

Posted on January 28, 2010
Again we see a lawmakers wanting to heap restrictions on FORMER OFFENDERS for the crimes of new offenders, most of which will never be subjected to these new restrictions. Nothing in these suggestions will PREVENT any new sex offense, which for the most part are committed by folks never before convicted of a sex offense...

After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site

Posted on January 27, 2010
1-27-2010 New York:In late October, Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall. The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to take the plunge by putting up a pay wall, so in media circles it has been followed with interest...

Whats Happening with Sex Offenders - in the Courts?

Posted on January 27, 2010
1-27-2010 National:Our big day is here, our NEW blog is now available to folks. The blog has one main purpose, and that is to answer this question: "Whats happening with Sex Offenders - in the Courts." This blog is to replace a section of our old website which was lost when Yahoo closed Geocities, hence that site is now history...

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