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OR- Man and two teens face possible prison time for 'sexting' scandal

Posted on April 20, 2009
4-20-2009 Oregon:NEWPORT, Ore. -- Three people including two teenagers in the coastal town of Newport are accused of ?sexting? and it could put them behind bars. Dave Simpson, 30, and two teens face years behind bars in connection with cell phone video of a teenage girl in a sex act...

NJ- License tag law gets court test

Posted on April 19, 2009
Well, here is a lawyer who's thinking, might just be what sex offenders need, if he doesn't get laughed out of court! What next?4-19-2009 New Jersey:A New Jersey law that will require drivers younger than 21 to display identifying decals on their vehicle license plates is being challenged in court...

IA- Iowa crafts new sex offender bill

Posted on April 19, 2009
4-19-2009 Iowa:Schools, swimming pools, parks and public libraries would be off-limits to most registered sex offenders under a bill being considered by the Iowa Legislature. The bill would prevent any sex offender who victimized a child from going inside, working at or loitering within 300 feet of those facilities, as well as other places primarily for children, such as playgrounds...

VT- Putting laws to the test

Posted on April 19, 2009
One day the house of cards will come tumbling down and all these local ordinances will fall. The unfortunate result which occurred in Georgia was, a child was murdered because of the effects of clustering caused by many local communities forcing offenders to live together...

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CA- Local rules go even tougher on where registered sex offenders can - and can't - live

Posted on April 19, 2009
This has all the makings for a great lawsuit to overturn many of these ordinances. Notice the war between the state and local communities.eAdvocate Post: 4-19-2009 California:Trying to avoid becoming dumping grounds for registered sex offenders, area cities are moving to impose even more stringent residency restrictions that those outlined in Jessica's Law...

ME- A SILENCE-CLOAKED PROBE Police claim progress in investigating Augusta slaying, but remain mum otherwise

Posted on April 19, 2009
UPDATE: Maine murder of a registered sex offender; was this one also due to the public registry?4-19-2009 Maine:AUGUSTA -- Six months ago, 52-year-old Michael Roderick was slain in his home on the east side of the city, and most of the details remain a mystery...

FL- Tougher laws leave sex offenders with no options

Posted on April 19, 2009
4-19-2009 Florida:Here's where most respectable people want convicted sex offenders to live: Anywhere but near them.Here's where sex offenders are allowed to live, after a wave of get-tough residency restrictions imposed by South Florida localities: Almost nowhere...

IL- Child abductions by strangers actually rare

Posted on April 19, 2009
4-19-2009 Illinois:Crime wasn't an issue in tiny Benton, the southern Illinois town where Regina Freeman grew up."Two murders in 20 years," Freeman says wistfully, and one of them was the result of a drunken brawl.The other, she says, was committed by the unlikeliest of suspects: a friendly young man who lived near the local middle school and handed out candy to boys and girls passing by on

IL- Illinois Senate Approves Sex Offender Legislation

Posted on April 19, 2009
All I can say is, reducing the places (from 1,100) where folks can register will cause many bottlenecks in the remaining 102. I see major scheduling problems for RSOs and overload those registry workers, mistakes will abound.4-19-2009 Illinois:The Illinois Senate has approved a bill that would require all sex offenders to register with their county sheriff...

ME- Panel debates restrictions on sex offenders? housing

Posted on April 18, 2009
4-18-2009 Maine:Bill may prohibit towns from imposing residential limits AUGUSTA, Maine ? Members of the Legislature?s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee debated and largely supported a bill Friday that would prohibit municipalities from adopting residency restrictions on sex offenders...

PA- Attempt to oust sex offenders stalls

Posted on April 18, 2009
Gotta love Tom, problem not me its the state, go after them.4-18-2009 Pennsylvania:Former state Rep. Tom Armstrong denies he's breaking any borough rules by operating a group residence for sex offenders in Columbia Borough.At Monday's borough council meeting, two borough residents said the convicted sex offenders living in Armstrong's Mill Street property are unwelcome in their

VT- Alternative sought to Senate 'sexting' bill

Posted on April 18, 2009
4-18-2009 Vermont:Creating separate crime for teens among proposalsMONTPELIER ? Legislators sought Friday to allay concerns that they were condoning the new fad of ?sexting? among teens by bolstering a bill under consideration.The move comes after a Senate bill attracted national attention and had senators defending themselves against accusations that their bill condoned or legalized teens?

TN- Tenn. sex offenders still not registering all aliases online

Posted on April 18, 2009
A former name (i.e., herein a marriage name) is not an alias and a woman is legally in her right to use any LEGAL name she desires. Tennessee folks are trying to stretch the definition of "alias" to include misconstructions to satisfy the failure of the legislature to properly describe its intent within the law...

CA- Jury must decide whether to release state's oldest juvenile inmate, 36

Posted on April 18, 2009
4-18-2009 California:SANTA CRUZ ? A judge Friday determined a trial should be held before a man who drowned and was accused of sodomizing a toddler in a bathtub more than two decades ago should be released from the state Division of Juvenile Justice.And now jurors will decide whether the oldest inmate in the juvenile justice system remains a danger to society...

PA- Couple seeks to change Megan?s Law restrictions

Posted on April 18, 2009
4-18-2009 Pennsylvania:Haughwouts feel West Pittston?s residency laws on sex offenders are unfair.WEST PITTSTON ? A man who was deemed a violent sexual predator in 2001 and his wife believe the borough?s six-month-old residency restrictions on sexual offenders are unfair, and that Megan?s Law for Pennsylvania should be amended...

F.B.I. and States Vastly Expand DNA Databases

Posted on April 18, 2009
4-18-2009 National:Law enforcement officials are vastly expanding their collection of DNA to include millions more people who have been arrested or detained but not yet convicted. The move, intended to help solve more crimes, is raising concerns about the privacy of petty offenders and people who are presumed innocent...

CA- Public skeptical that woman killed, raped girl

Posted on April 18, 2009
4-18-2009 California:Callers have inundated the phone lines of Tracy police, saying it can't be. Veteran homicide and sex-crime researchers say they cannot recall a case quite like it. Even the investigators themselves looked at the evidence and initially said "no way...

VT- State?s Attorney opposes decriminalization of sexting

Posted on April 17, 2009
4-17-2009 Vermont:The Chittenden County State's Attorney says he doesn't want lawmakers to tie the hands of prosecutors in cases where minors use cell phones to send sexually explicit images - often of themselves. New legislation in Vermont would legalize the consensual exchange of graphic images between two people if they're between the ages of 13 and 18...

NH- Sexual offender denied motion for injunction in Franklin

Posted on April 17, 2009
4-17-2009 New Hampshire:FRANKLIN - The city of Franklin's restrictions on where registered sex offenders can live remains in force, at least until its challenger gets his day in court.A Merrimack County Superior Court judge ruled against Frank Singleton III's request to stop the city from enforcing its residency restrictions until his challenge to Code 247 is decided...

IN- Muncie police make first 'sexting' arrest

Posted on April 17, 2009
4-17-2009 Indiana:MUNCIE -- Sexting might be a foreign word to most adults, but it has caught the attention of the nation's teenagers -- and landed one local teen in police custody.Burris High School student Zachary A. Jones, 18, was arrested Wednesday night after Muncie police investigated reports that Jones had sent text messages to a 14-year-old female acquaintance in which he encouraged her

AR- Arkansas Supreme Court

Posted on April 17, 2009
4-17-2009 Arkansas:The Arkansas Supreme Court released opinions on Thursday. The court's ruling and the names of the cases are reprinted here. The full opinions and other court proceedings, including per curiam decisions, orders and submissions: 08-1165...

OH- Elderly sex offender poses dilemma

Posted on April 17, 2009
All of the federal compliance requirements of the Americans w/disability Act are ignored by this county's jail. Hummmmm..... Worse yet is, the jail's medical staff concluded "he was in a wheelchair and unable to take care of himself," anyone have any idea why he doesn't report to the Probation Officer? Seems that the law doesn't allow for physical disabilities as a defense...

CA- Porn for pedophiles

Posted on April 17, 2009
4-17-2009 California:The London Sun: California spends $152 million a year ?treating? child molesters by holding birthday parties, karaoke nights and a pedophile?s version of American Idol.Goofy does not begin to describe this story. Britain?s Louis Theroux filmed a documentary for the BBC on Coalinga State Hospital...

CA- Where they keep the paedophiles

Posted on April 17, 2009
4-17-2009 California:California thinks it has found a way to deal with recidivist paedophiles by putting them in a comfortable mental hospital. Indefinitely. But is this the answer, asks Louis Theroux. I'd been at Coalinga a couple of days when Mr Rigby showed me his dormitory...

IN- 12-year-olds involved in sexting case

Posted on April 16, 2009
4-15-2009 Indiana:Boy could face pornography chargesINDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Police are investigating another case of sexual text messages being sent between children. This time, a 12-year-old Perry Township boy could be facing felony pornography charges...

VT- Attorney challenges pornography probe

Posted on April 16, 2009
4-15-2009 Vermont:BRATTLEBORO ? The attorney for former Bellows Falls village trustee Stewart Read on Tuesday tried to undercut the credibility of law enforcement officials who investigated suspicions that Read still had child pornography in his possession, a violation of his earlier suspended sentence on child pornography charges...

PA- Borough tries to oust sex offenders

Posted on April 16, 2009
4-15-2009 Pennsylvania:Group home now moved to Columbia Columbia Borough is threatening to crack down on a former state representative operating a residence for convicted sex offenders.Tom Armstrong's group home for offenders already has been chased out of Marietta Borough and Conestoga Township...

WV- Police Arrest Man in ?Sexting? Sting Operation

Posted on April 16, 2009
4-16-2009 West Virginia:A two-month investigation into "sexting" culminated Wednesday in a Marshall County sting operation and the arrest of a Wheeling man now suspected of sending sexually explicit images to children.Police arrested George Rooker, 24, at 6 a...

DE- Sex abuser convicted of failing to register

Posted on April 16, 2009
4-16-2009 Delaware:Judge reserves judgment on defense motion to acquitWILMINGTON -- A federal jury Wednesday convicted 66-year-old Thomas Pendleton of failing to register as a sex offender.The jury came back after about 30 minutes of deliberation Wednesday, following about a day of testimony Tuesday...

PA- Perverse Outcome

Posted on April 16, 2009
4-16-2009 Pennsylvania:County's proposed limits on sex-offender residency would make dozens of communities off-limitsProtecting kids from sex offenders is a noble goal, but the best way to go about doing so is unclear -- a county ordinance, a lawsuit and pending appeal later, it's still contentious...

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