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Sex offenses, sex offender issues in prison, jail, civil commitment and the community including residency laws. Adam Walsh Act, recidivism, dangerousness, tiers, community issues, harassment, vigilantism, sex offender therapy issues.
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U.S. justices question sex offender confinement law

Posted on January 15, 2010
1-15-2010 Washington DC:WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supreme Court justices on Tuesday expressed skepticism about the Obama administration's argument that the U.S. Congress can keep sex offenders in custody for an indefinite time beyond their prison sentences...

Missouri Sex Offenders: Do you qualify?

Posted on January 15, 2010
Missouri Sex Offenders Convicted AFTER 8-28-2008The ACLU of Eastern Missouri would like to talk to you about the possibility of participating in a lawsuit to contest the Missouri Halloween restrictions. Key: Must have been convicted AFTER 8-28-2008.Contact Anthony Rothert at tony@aclu-em...

N.C. law doesn't address freed sex offenders (Civil Commitment)

Posted on January 15, 2010
1-15-2010 North Carolina:U.S. Supreme Court to rule if feds can indefinitely hold inmates labeled dangerous.If states are left with the responsibility of monitoring sexually dangerous inmates turned loose from federal prisons, North Carolina isn't ready...

Static-99R - Revised

Posted on January 15, 2010
OverviewThe Static-99 is a ten item actuarial assessment instrument created by R. Karl Hanson, Ph.D. and David Thornton, Ph.D. for use with adult male sexual offenders who are at least 18 year of age at time of release to the community. It is the most widely used sex offender risk assessment instrument in the world, and is extensively used in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom,

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Federal judge vacates local authority in sex offender registry challenge

Posted on January 15, 2010
This federal judge is stopping any state court from litigating ANY issue of state law based on the state constitution, saying that if the issue is related to the Adam Walsh Act, that state courts have -in essence- no jurisdiction, and that only federal courts can render decisions...

Registry change hits resistance from Attorney General

Posted on January 14, 2010
1-14-2010 Idaho:AG's criticism of tiered sex offender plan stuns committeeThe committee of legislators proposing to change the sex offender registry were caught off guard by objections from Attorney General Marty Jackley on Wednesday, the second day of the session...

Lincoln Man Fears New Sex Offender Law Could Ruin His Life

Posted on January 14, 2010
1-14-2010 Nebraska:The new Sex Offender Registration law that went into effect last week is creating debate across the state. And for one Lincoln man, he's worried the new law could potentially ruin his life.The new Sex Offender Registration law that went into effect last week is creating debate across the state...

Is the recent Missouri Supreme court decision -as to Halloween restrictions- correct for all Missouri sex offenders?

Posted on January 14, 2010
1-14-2010 Missouri:Reviewing only the Halloween portion of the court decision, the decision prohibits applying the 2008 law to those convicted before its passage (August 28, 2008). As to those convicted after that date, the law requires offenders to stay in their homes, turn off exterior lights, and post a sign saying no treats are available...

Judge suppresses ?devastating' testimony in death-penalty case

Posted on January 14, 2010
1-14-2010 Georgia:A judge has suppressed "devastating evidence" in Atlanta's only federal death-penalty case -- a chilling interview with Brian Richardson boasting about killing his cellmate and vowing to kill again.Richardson, 46, is serving more than 60 years in prison for bank robbery...

'Sexting' Case to Take Center Stage at 3rd Circuit

Posted on January 14, 2010
1-14-2010 Pennsylvania:A federal appeals court on Friday takes up the growing practice of "sexting" -- in which teenagers transmit nude and semi-nude photos of themselves and others by phone -- as the judges tackle the vexing question of whether such images can be deemed child pornography...

Police fight cellphone recordings

Posted on January 13, 2010
1-13-2010 Massachusetts:Witnesses taking audio of officers arrested, charged with illegal surveillanceSimon Glik, a lawyer, was walking down Tremont Street in Boston when he saw three police officers struggling to extract a plastic bag from a teenager?s mouth...

AFSCME's Garrett: Legislature's Failure to Act Places Public at Risk

Posted on January 13, 2010
1-13-2010 Michigan:Albert Garrett, President of Michigan Council 25 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), AFL-CIO, issued the following statement:"Because the Michigan Legislature has failed to approve a transfer of funds within the Department of Human Services, the Department will be forced to close two halfway houses and a residential treatment center,"

Power to Detain Beyond Prison Term at Issue in High Court

Posted on January 13, 2010
Justice Kennedy's comment relates to the -retroactivity of the Adam Walsh Act- in that, if they allow this statute to stand, then the Bureau of Prions could seek to civilly commit anyone who has been in a federal prison back to the beginning of time. 1-13-2010 Washington DC:WASHINGTON (CN) - Lawyers argued before the Supreme Court Tuesday over whether the government can detain those judged

Supreme Court hears arguments on detaining sex offenders

Posted on January 13, 2010
1-13-2010 Washington DC:Despite concerns, most justices seem inclined to uphold a federal law permitting authorities to confine 'sexually dangerous' people after their prison terms have been completed.Reporting from Washington - A group of dangerous sex criminals who took their case before the Supreme Court on Tuesday had one clear champion: Justice Antonin Scalia...

Supreme Court debates right to commit sexual predators after prison terms

Posted on January 13, 2010
1-13-2010 Washington DC:A majority of Supreme Court justices seemed inclined Tuesday to accept that the federal government has the power to indefinitely hold prisoners who are deemed sexually dangerous, even if they have completed their sentences. Solicitor General Elena Kagan told the court that, when Congress passed a law authorizing civil commitments in such cases, it was doing "something

Supreme Court Weighs Authority, Not Legality, of Civil Confinements

Posted on January 13, 2010
1-13-2010 Washington DC:WASHINGTON ? The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday about the controversial practice of keeping sex offenders locked up after they have completed their criminal sentences ? but from an unusual angle. The question was not whether the continued civil commitment of prisoners for fear that they remain ?sexually dangerous? violates due process principles...

German high court rules against detention of sex offender

Posted on January 13, 2010
Lets see, does the U.S. Supreme court need a few justices from Germany? Germany considers "preventative detention" following a prison sentence, which is likened to "civil commitment" just heard by our high court, unconstitutional! 1-13-2010 Germany:A German high court has ruled against putting a released sex offender in preventive detention, deciding instead to place him under 24-

Federal Prisoners Kept Beyond Their Sentences

Posted on January 12, 2010
1-12-2010 Washington DC:The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a case that tests the federal government's power to keep convicted sex offenders behind bars after they have served out their prison terms. Currently, 84 such prisoners are indefinitely confined for treatment at a federal prison in North Carolina...

Montville: No sex-offender home here

Posted on January 12, 2010
1-12-2010 Connecticut:12-bed treatment facility had been proposed next to prisonMontville, Conn. ? Montville town leaders Monday night blasted a state proposal that could bring a sex offender treatment facility to the community.The Town Council directed Mayor Joseph Jaskiewicz to send a letter to Gov...

Missouri Supreme Court limits use of two sex offender laws

Posted on January 12, 2010
1-12-2010 Missouri:Laws regulating where sex offenders live and what they do on Halloween cannot apply to those convicted before the laws took effect, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled today.The 4-3 decision in two cases from eastern Missouri addressed the 2004 law preventing convicted sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a school or child-care facility and the 2008 law that controlled

Justices hear case on releasing sex offenders

Posted on January 12, 2010
I have not yet read the full oral arguments, and after I do I will post more. Here is the link to the oral arguments. PS: This article seems to imply that the Justices viewed the person being held as someone sick and dangerous, but, so far -unless embedded in the oral arguments- there is no proof that the person being held is either sick or dangerous...

Georgia sex offender challenges registry

Posted on January 12, 2010
1-12-2010 Georgia:ATLANTA (AP) - A man convicted of aggravated child molestation is asking the Georgia Supreme Court to rule that requiring him to register as a sex offender after he serves his sentence violates his constitutional rights. The court is scheduled on Tuesday to hear arguments from Jim Phillip Hollie...

UPDATE: Murder suspect identified

Posted on January 11, 2010
California Parole and Probation offices most definitely have a problem with connecting the dots; intuition lacking. Do the names Jaycee Dugard and offender Phillip Garrido and the Parole and Probation problems brought to light by that case ring a bell, again here? 1-10-2010 California:Man was arrested in the Operation Falling Sun sweepA convicted burglar, arrested on a parole violation during

Prison lifer accused of drowning inmate in toilet dies

Posted on January 11, 2010
1-11-2010 Michigan:Ionia -- A prison lifer has died just weeks after he was charged with first-degree murder in the drowning death of a fellow inmate at the Macomb County Correctional Facility in Lenox Township, state police said today. Andrew Terence Neal, 42, who was relocated to Ionia Correctional Facility after admitting to investigators that he used bedding to restrain an inmate and forced

Muslim prisoners 'refuse to take part in group therapy as it's against religion'

Posted on January 11, 2010
1-11-2010 United Kingdom:Muslim prisoners are refusing to take part in group therapy sessions saying it's against their religion to talk about their 'past crimes' in front of others. Scores of Britain's 10,000 Muslim prisoners - one in eight of all inmates - are refusing to take part in Offending Behaviour Programmes (OBPs ), claiming it is 'forbidden' or 'Haraam'...

Supreme Court looks at constitutionality of sex offender law

Posted on January 11, 2010
1-11-2010 Washington DC:The Supreme Court Tuesday considers a law that allows the federal government to detain offenders it considers "sexually dangerous," even after completion of their sentences. Critics say the sex offender law intrudes on states' authority...

Missouri Judge Disagrees with Federal Sex Offender Law

Posted on January 11, 2010
This case keeps popping up, a "suspended sentence," is that like a "not guilty" in Missouri? Anywhere else a "suspended sentence" could have multiple reasons but I've never known it to include "not guilty - acquitted." If anyone has a better explanation I'm all ears...

Notes from eAdvocate on Sex Offender Issues

Posted on January 11, 2010
1-11-2010 National:U.S. Supreme court:Tuesday, Jan. 12 Oral Arguments:United States v. Comstock (08-1224) ? the constitutionality of continued imprisonment of a sex offender, after that individual has completed serving a prison sentence for the crimes...

Plan would trim sex offender list

Posted on January 10, 2010
1-10-2010 South Dakota:Removal option would apply to certain lesser crimesAs it is now, Tacy Chrispen's son probably will spend the rest of his life on South Dakota's sex offender registry.The then-18-year-old high school senior's crime: Having consensual sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend, who was 3 years, 23 days younger...

Alleged white supremacist charged with killing convicted registered sex offender

Posted on January 10, 2010
1-10-2010 California:PALM SPRINGS - An alleged white supremacist has been charged with using California's Megan's Law registry to track down and kill an convicted sex offender, it was reported today. Steven Banister, 28, had been free from prison less than one month when he killed a 75-year-old Palm Springs man in his house on Aug...

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