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AK- Offender won't have to register

Posted on June 07, 2009
Old article but worth a read, and the case is available in the "Files Area" of our SO-News Group for members. Note: This is a State decision based on its Constitution and therefore not precedent elsewhere; to our knowledge Alaska has not done anything about this, rightfully so...

NJ- Legislators set to debate sex offender residency restrictions

Posted on June 07, 2009
In other words, the Legislature is trying to figure how to overrule the court's decision. What is so funny is, the court's decision is based on PRIOR legislators' thinking and laws enacted. The task: How to get around the ex post facto clauses?6-7-2009 New Jersey:Legislation that would allow New Jersey communities to impose residency restrictions for sex offenders will be debated Monday by an

UN announces launch of world?s first tuition-free, online university

Posted on June 07, 2009
6-7-2009 Global: A leading arm of the United Nations working to spread the benefits of information technology today announced the launch of the first ever tuition-free online university.As part of this year?s focus on education, the UN Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technology and Development (GAID) presented the newly formed University of the People, a non-profit institution

FL- Drawing of Jessica Lunsford is returned, so theft charge is dropped

Posted on June 06, 2009
6-6-2009 Florida:SPRING HILL ? At the request of Mark Lunsford, prosecutors Friday dropped a felony grand theft charge against a woman accused of stealing three large drawings from him, including one of his 9-year-old daughter, Jessica, who was kidnapped and killed in 2005...

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CA- Man arrested at Murrieta hospital on rape charges

Posted on June 06, 2009
6-6-2009 California:A man was arrested in a hospital emergency room where he had gone for treatment about an hour after a woman he allegedly raped bit off his tongue, police said.Murrieta police were summoned to the apartment in the 24000 block of Hancock Avenue around 10:23 a...

MA- Court gives sex offender another chance

Posted on June 06, 2009
6-6-2009 Massachusetts:The state Appeals Court has given new life to a convicted sex offender?s effort to be removed from the state registry.The man, who is referred to only as John Doe in a ruling issued Friday by the Appeals Court, was convicted of attacking and trying to rape a woman in Quincy in 1984 and was sentenced to a year in jail...

WA- Yakima cracking down on thong underwear

Posted on June 06, 2009
If your cleavage shows too much, you might be a sex offender!6-6-2009 Washington:The Yakima City Council is cracking down on what an ordinance delicately refers to as "cleavage of the buttocks."YAKIMA ? The Yakima City Council is cracking down on what an ordinance delicately refers to as "cleavage of the buttocks...

PA- Police: Man stole Internet, solicited sex

Posted on June 06, 2009
6-6-2009 Pennsylvania:Just in case you needed another reason to secure your wireless Internet connection: Pedophiles. Gail Hoffmaster was getting her kids ready for school Wednesday morning when state agents knocked on the door of her Falls home. Her first thought was that her husband was dead...

Internet use triples in decade; broadband surges

Posted on June 05, 2009
6-5-2009 Global:It's official: The Internet is a part of daily life.According to a new report by the Census Bureau, Internet use tripled from 1997 to 2007.Sixty-two percent of U.S. households used the Internet from home; 18% did that in 1997.Among those using the Internet in 2007, 82% did so using a high-speed connection...

Deadline extended for national sex offender registry compliance

Posted on June 05, 2009
6-5-2009 National:BENNINGTON ? The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to extend a deadline for states to comply with federal sex offender registry requirements, something Vermont officials have been pushing for. Compliance checks The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it will extend the July compliance deadline contained in the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, part of

KY- Death row inmate challenges Ky.'s DNA testing law

Posted on June 05, 2009
6-5-2009 Kentucky:LOUISVILLE, Ky. ? A death row inmate has challenged Kentucky's DNA testing law, asking the state's high court to either overturn his conviction or allow for more detailed analysis of the evidence by the state or an outside lab.Brian Keith Moore made the request Wednesday in an appeal to the Kentucky Supreme Court...

WI- Wis. Inmate Bound Over For Trial On Suicide Charge

Posted on June 05, 2009
6-5-2009 WIsconsin:JUNEAU, Wis. (AP) ? Walters was charged in April with assisted suicide in the death of 20-year-old Adam C. Peterson. Peterson, a college dropout, was serving a life sentence for the 2008 stabbing death of Madison resident Joel Marino...

MA- Mass. court: board must weigh sex offender?s acts

Posted on June 05, 2009
6-5-2009 Massachusetts:The Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled the state must weigh the entirety of a sex offender?s life, including what role alcohol might have played in the original crime, when determining if he must register as an offender indefinitely...

NM- Court rules against NM in tribal sex offender case

Posted on June 05, 2009
6-5-2009 New Mexico:SANTA FE (AP) - A New Mexico court has ruled the state's sex offender registration law does not apply to Indians on tribal land.The Court of Appeals decision involved three Navajos. They were arrested separately in northwestern New Mexico outside the Navajo reservation for failing to register as sex offenders under a state law...

ME- Prison employees on leave as probe of inmate's death continues

Posted on June 05, 2009
If this were a suicide, no one would be on paid leave. Accordingly, something is amiss with this case!6-5-2009 Maine:WARREN (June 4): Three employees of the Maine State Prison are on paid administrative leave as an investigation continues into the April 23 death of a prisoner...

Beaten man leaves hospital

Posted on June 05, 2009
6-5-2009 Pennsylvania:The man who was pummeled by Kensington vigilantes for his alleged connection to the rape of an 11-year-old girl was released from the hospital yesterday as new allegations arose that he groped another woman the day he allegedly attacked the girl...

TX- Texas blogger jailed after failing to turn PC over to judge

Posted on June 05, 2009
6-5-2009 Texas:Fifty-three-year-old Lyndal Harrington blogged some nasty things about Anna Nicole Smith's mother, resulting in a defamation lawsuit. The court ordered her to turn over her computer for evidence; after failing to do so, Harrington was thrown in jail...

FL- Busting camp offenders is not the answer

Posted on June 04, 2009
6-4-2009 Florida:P icnic Island #4 is about as much a park as Marc Sarnoff is a statesman.Picnic #4 rises out of Biscayne Bay as an obscure clump of a spoil island, accessible only by boat. (Or perhaps by amphibious sex offenders willing to swim 1,200 feet across open water from the Julie Tuttle Causeway...

PA- ACLU to Sunbury: Change sex offender ordinance or face suit

Posted on June 04, 2009
6-4-2009 Pennsylvania:SUNBURY ? The city will be named in a federal lawsuit next week if it doesn?t move to eliminate a 2006 ordinance prohibiting registered sex offenders from loitering within 1,000 feet of schools, day cares, playgrounds or any public place children congregate...

WY- Corrections dept. cuts inmate treatment programs

Posted on June 04, 2009
In other words, long term public safety is sacrificed? OH yes, and paroles will ultimately be denied because inmates have not completed these programs; which will be more expensive?6-4-2009 Wyoming:CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The Wyoming Department of Corrections is cutting inmate sex offender and mental health treatment programs to save money...

CA- Predator sting 'decoy' ordered to explain missing evidence

Posted on June 04, 2009
Is there some hanky panky going on here? Hopefully the judge will get to the hard drive on the 15th. Further, the court had better have someone prove that that drive was once installed in Von Erck's home computer which should also be brought to court for examination...

OH- Judge denies part of sex-abusers? appeals

Posted on June 04, 2009
6-4-2009 Ohio:LISBON ? Judge C. Ashley Pike of Columbiana County Common Pleas Court has denied part of 31 cases filed by sex abusers over their classifications that say how long they must report to authorities.The law, which went into effect Jan. 1, 2008, increased the length of time convicted sex offenders must register their names and addresses with law enforcement agencies...

Anatomy of a Child Pornographer

Posted on June 04, 2009
6-4-2009 National:What happens when adults catch teenagers "sexting" photos of each other? The death of common sense.On a chilly Tuesday morning in November 2007, 16-year-old Alex Davis was taking a shower before school when his mother, Betty, knocked on the bathroom door...

PA- Philly police: No charges against neighbors who beat man sought for questioning in girl?s rape

Posted on June 04, 2009
See earlier story:6-4-2009 Pennsylvania:Neighbors who beat man over rape won?t be chargedPHILADELPHIA ? Philadelphia?s police commissioner says there will be no charges against neighbors who beat a man sought for questioning in the rape of an 11-year-old girl...

PA- 'Person of interest' caught in child-rape case

Posted on June 03, 2009
6-3-2009 Pennsylvania:The man sought in connection with the rape of an 11-year-old girl this week was arrested late yesterday after residents in Kensington noticed him on the street and beat him before police arrived.Jose Carrasquillo, 26, was spotted near Front and Clearfield Streets yesterday afternoon, less than two miles from the backyard where the girl's assault took place Monday morning -

FBI Releases Preliminary Annual Crime Statistics for 2008

Posted on June 03, 2009
6-3-2009 National:According to the FBI's Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report released today, the nation experienced a 2.5 percent decrease in the number of violent crimes and a 1.6 percent decline in the number of property crimes for 2008 compared with data from 2007...

CA- La Verne adds penalties to laws regulating sex-offenders living in the city

Posted on June 03, 2009
6-3-2009 California:LA VERNE - The City Council has revised its city codes to criminalize registered sex offenders who live within 2,000 feet of a public or private school or any park where children regularly gather. The law, passed Monday night, was created to "protect the citizens of La Verne from sexual predators...

KY- Second House For Sex Offenders Shut Down

Posted on June 03, 2009
I think it is time for the government to step in a quell this vigilantism, and do so with punishments that shock the conscience, 20--30 years in jail. Do that once and it will end!6-3-2009 Kentucky:For the second time since January, the Catholic Action Center in Lexington has been forced to shut down a house they were providing for registered sex offenders...

Frequent Moves Linked to Childhood Suicide

Posted on June 03, 2009
6-3-2009 Global:SAN FRANCISCO, June 2 -- When a family relocates frequently, the children may be put at increased risk of suicidality, according to a Danish study.The risk for both attempted and completed suicide doubled among kids age 11 to 17 after three to five changes of residence, Ping Qin, Ph...

FL- Miami moves to force out sex offenders' causeway camp

Posted on June 03, 2009
6-3-2009 Florida:The city of Miami has asked Gov. Charlie Crist to remove the sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway, citing a nearby island deemed to be a public park.A rarely visited spoil island just a stone's throw from a homeless camp under the Julia Tuttle Causeway has spurred Miami leaders to attempt to uproot the sex offenders who are forced to live there...

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