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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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IL- Man target of fake sex offender flier

Posted on July 05, 2009
Someone gets mad at another person and then calls them a "sex offender" because they know that label will inflict harm on that person in every facet of their life. This is similar to the Nebraska case this week!7-5-2009 Illinois:GENEVA, Ill. - A flier distributed in this western suburb of Chicago calls a real estate agent a sex offender when the man actually has no criminal record, authorities

How to React to Exhibitionists and Indecent Exposure

Posted on July 04, 2009
7-4-2009 Global:Are Flashers Dangerous?You are out for a walk or run and ahead of you on the path is a man. As you approach, you notice he is displaying his genitals. How should a walker or jogger react when a man commits indecent exposure towards them? Are exhibitionists dangerous? What is the Difference Between a Nudist and an Exhibitionist?"Nudists and exhibitionists are totally different

IA- Clarity sought on sex offenders New rules may go unenforced until after an explanatory conference.

Posted on July 04, 2009
7-4-2009 Iowa:Confusion clouds Iowa?s new restrictions on registered sex offenders just days before they take effect Wednesday.The new rules include exclusionary zones limiting where registered sex offenders can go and alterations to Iowa?s 2,000-foot residency restriction, among other changes...

IN- Ind. Supreme court finds residency law not retroactive

Posted on July 04, 2009
7-4-2009 Indiana:INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Indiana Supreme Court says convicted sex offenders need not relocate if they resided near places frequented by children before a 2006 state law that restricts where they live.The court ruled this week that the law violates the Indiana constitution by retroactively punishing ____ of Blackford County...

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Happy 4th of July

Posted on July 04, 2009

LA- JPSO investigating River Ridge murder

Posted on July 03, 2009
7-3-2009 Louisiana:NEW ORLEANS ? Jefferson Parish Sheriff?s Officers are investigating the early morning murder of a man in River Ridge after responding to a call of subject shot. Sheriff Newell Normand said officers found Anthony E. Paul, 23, shot several times in the 500 block of Richard Street in River Ridge at about 1:30 a...

IL- Same Story, Different Day: Another Teen Suicide Associated with Bullying

Posted on July 03, 2009
7-3-2009 National - Illinois:From Cyberbullying Blog:Another story has surfaced where a teen committed suicide after experiencing bullying. The Chicago Tribune reports that Iain Steele, a 15-year-old boy from a western suburb of Chicago, hung himself in the basement of his home...

Convictions against Lori Drew overturned today; case dismissed

Posted on July 03, 2009
I agree with the judge about the law being misapplied, however, let no one forget this woman is responsible for the death of a child. Accordingly, it is hoped that she will be placed on every state's "Central Registry" so that every state's Child Protective's Service is notified of her past...

CA- Haylee headed to foster care upon her return

Posted on July 03, 2009
As I thought Haylee would: 7-3-2009 California:MANSFIELD ? Haylee Donathan will be placed with a foster family ? not with her grandmother ? when she returns from California.The 4-year-old has been at the Polinsky Children?s Center in San Diego since June 23, when her mother, Candace Watson, and her mother?s fugitive sex offender boyfriend, Robbi Potter, were arrested...

VT- Brooke Bennett: One Year Later, Part 1

Posted on July 03, 2009
7-3-2009 Vermont:A massive search for 12-year-old Brooke Bennett was underway one year ago this week. That search eventually led local police and the FBI to Michael Jacques, and a shallow grave a mile and a half from his home. One year later the man accused of killing Brooke Bennett is in a federal prison while he and Bennett's family wait for his trial to begin...

FL- Sexual Predator Assigned to Live Under a Bridge (A NEW BRIDGE)

Posted on July 03, 2009
One day and he went back to prison because he couldn't get back to the bridge in time for curfew! Check DOC comment "No other sex offenders are living under bridges." Someone is not well informed!7-3-2009 Florida:See the video.PUTNAM COUNTY, FLORIDA -- The view couldn't be better...

VA- Underbelly: Sex Offender Registration in Virginia

Posted on July 03, 2009
7-3-2009 Virginia:Those Among UsWe know their names, ages, addresses and faces. They live and work among us. Registered sex offenders are a part of the Loudoun County community, whether we know about it or not. We know their names, ages, addresses and faces...

VT- Brooke Bennett: One Year Later, Part 3

Posted on July 03, 2009
7-3-2009 Vermont:July 2 marks exactly one year since investigators found the body of 12-year-old Brooke Bennett buried in a shallow grave in Randolph. News of her murder came as a devastating shock to her family who held out hope during the one week search that she would be found alive...

NV- Vegas Detective Kills Accused Child Molester

Posted on July 03, 2009
7-3-2009 Nevada:Man Suspected Of Child Sex Abuse, Domestic Violence, Metro SaysLAS VEGAS -- A child-molestation suspect was shot and killed by a Las Vegas Metro detective on Wednesday.The shooting occurred just before 1 p.m. near North Rancho Drive and West Alexander Road...

FL- Sex offender murdered, $1,000 reward

Posted on July 03, 2009
See earlier report:7-3-2009 Florida:A Tampa Bay registered sex offender was murdered on June 13, 2009. Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward for any information that leads to the identification and arrest of the suspects. Walter George Patey was 54 years old when his body was located near N...

AR- Court: Failing to register as sex offender can?t be punished with restitution

Posted on July 02, 2009
7-2-2009 Arkansas:LITTLE ROCK ? Failing to comply with reporting requirements for sex offenders is not an offense that can be punished with an order of restitution, the state Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.The court reversed a Sebastian County circuit judge?s decision to revoke the suspended sentence of Keith Owens, who pleaded no contest in June 2001 to failing to comply with the Sex and

MI- Mistakenly released sex offenders back in custody

Posted on July 02, 2009
Michigan is a state full of fools all working for the DOC! How difficult is it for a Parole Officer to tell a parolee, hey instead of going to Program A you will go to Program B. Instead of following a logical procedure, they reincarcerate the parolees to simply tell them the same thing, but now they have to go through all the paperwork of releasing them back into the community...

RI- Sex-offender bills stall in R.I. Assembly

Posted on July 02, 2009
7-2-2009 Rhode Island:PROVIDENCE ?? Lawmakers introduced at least 14 bills dealing with sex offenders this session. With the General Assembly in recess, five have made it through either the House or Senate, but not both.To reach the governor, the proposals hinge on whether the House and Senate reconvene ?? and what their sessions encompass ?? this month or next...

VT- Brooke Bennett: One Year Later Part 2

Posted on July 02, 2009
7-2-2009 Vermont:Starting today 12-hundred new sex offenders will be part of the Vermont sex offender registry. The addition is just part of the massive statewide reform effort that came about in the wake of Brooke Bennett's murder. Word that Bennett's suspected killer is also a convicted sex offender who was released from probation early, prompted calls for immediate review of Vermont laws.

FL- Homeless sex offenders creating problems

Posted on July 02, 2009
The very first thing to remember, as to those sex offenders who are on parole or probation and have been told to live under the bridge, there is a resolve to this dilemma. This place under the bridge is a "facility" of the parole and probation department (Owned by the state), a place they send such folks to live in...

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE FOLKS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

Posted on July 02, 2009
7-2-2009 National:First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints...

PA- [ Former Perverted Justice ] computer programmer accused of attempting to bring down websites that ridiculed him

Posted on July 01, 2009
6-30-2009 Pennsylvania:NEWARK -- A computer programmer was charged in federal court today with trying to cripple nine websites, including RollingStone.com, that posted articles about him being duped into meeting a fictitious woman he met online. Bruce Raisley, 47, of Monaca, Pa...

VT- Court issues injunction against Barre

Posted on July 01, 2009
7-1-2009 Vermont:A judge has blocked Barre from enforcing an ordinance that would have required a convicted sex offender and his family to move.____, 29, had been ordered by city officials to move under an ordinance passed last year that blocks convicted sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools or other places children gather...

MO- Necessary sex offender list fails test of balanced justice

Posted on July 01, 2009
7-1-2009 Missouri:The symbol most often seen on law offices and court houses is an image of a set of balanced scales. What we want from our penal system is justice, balanced justice, in which we can reliably believe that the punishment fits the crime...

ME- Maine State Prison Comes Under Legislative Scrutiny

Posted on July 01, 2009
7-1-2009 Maine:Over the past year, the Maine State Prison has been the scene of a murder (Sex Offender Sheldon Weinstein, 64, from New Hartford, N.Y), a hunger strike and a hostage crisis that have frayed nerves at the 900-inmate facility in Warren. Besides pitting prisoners against corrections officers, the incidents have also increased tensions between the admininistration and staff...

IL- Judge Posner's Proposal: Save a Newspaper, Kill a Blog

Posted on July 01, 2009
7-1-2009 Illinois 7th Cir Judge:Sure, the newspaper industry is in trouble. But not even old-guard media companies have proposed as extreme a remedy as what Judge Richard Posner recommends. In a recent blog post, Posner proposed barring online links to copyrighted materials without the consent of the copyright owners as a way to help revive the failing newspaper business...

MI- Ypsilanti Township man shot by deputy had threatened parents, was facing trial on rape charge

Posted on July 01, 2009
7-1-2009 Michigan:When Uvon Bevins petitioned a Washtenaw County court for a personal protection order against her adult son in late 2000, she feared for her life."Last night he yelled all night that he was going to kill me today," Bevins, who also used the name Yvonne, wrote in a hand-written note attached to a court filing seeking a personal protection order for herself and her husband...

WA- 1 of 2 car prowlers answers nature's call in patrol car

Posted on July 01, 2009
Will they be declared sex offenders?7-1-2009 Washington:MOUNTLAKE TERRACE ? Call it an escape of sorts.The men were in handcuffs and seated in the back of a Mountlake Terrace patrol car early this morning, Mountlake Terrace police Sgt. Doug Hansen said...

OH- "[P]olice may not stop an individual for the sole purpose of compelling him to identify himself"

Posted on July 01, 2009
7-1-2009 Ohio:"[P]olice may not stop an individual for the sole purpose of compelling him to identify himself." State v. Holly, 2009 Ohio 3081, 2009 Ohio App. LEXIS 2604 (8th Dist. June 25, 2009):[*P15] Applying these principles, we find that the investigatory stop of Holly was unlawful...

DC- Unconstitutional Strip Search Does Not Strip School Officials of Qualified Immunity

Posted on July 01, 2009
7-1-2009 Washington DC:The United States Supreme Court ruled in Safford Unified School District #1, et al. v. Redding that a school official's search of a thirteen-year-old student's bra and underpants violated her Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches...

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