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OFF TOPIC- New Google program turns voicemail into email

Posted on March 15, 2009
3-15-2009 National:WASHINGTON ? Internet search giant Google has expanded its push into the telephone market, offering a service that provides a single number for home, work and cell phones and turns voicemail into email.Google Voice automatically transcribes voicemail messages into email or SMS text messages and provides a transcript in a user?s email inbox on their mobile phone or computer...

Bills in Congress - HR 1149 and HR 1422

Posted on March 15, 2009
2-27-2009 National:Here we have two identical bills presented by different lawmakers.`Child Protection Reauthorization Act of 2009' and `Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Reauthorization Act of 2009' respectivelySponsor: Rep Brown-Waite, Ginny [FL-5]Introduced 2/24/2009 Bill HR 1149Sponsor: Rep Smith, Lamar [TX-21]Introduced 3/10/2009 Bill HR 1422The intent of the bills are: To reauthorize

Meeting the Health Care Needs of Pregnant Inmates

Posted on March 15, 2009
3-15-2009 National:Today, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health published a nationwide survey ? "Incarcerated Women and Abortion Provision: A Survey of Correctional Health Providers," by Carolyn B. Sufrin, Mitchell D. Creinin, and Judy C. Chang...

Homeless commit crimes to avoid sleeping rough

Posted on March 15, 2009
One thing is for certain, todays sex offender laws are causing many to become homeless. This article suggests that, the homeless will commit further -maybe lesser violent- crimes -during winter months, and colder climates- just to get 3 hots and a cot...

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Fair Punishment? -- Is sexting child pornography?

Posted on March 15, 2009
3-15-2009 National:On the books for some time are laws to cover child pornography. Now, with technology opening areas that no one could imagine when those child porn laws were enacted, should prosecutors be allowed to apply them to this new evolving technology spawning sexting pictures?Also on the books are specialized laws to deal with juveniles and inherent in them is a fairer and more

VA- Fourth Circuit reverses set of federal convictions under SORNA

Posted on March 14, 2009
3-14-2009 Virginia:From Sentencing Law and Policy:A split Fourth Circuit panel this afternoon reversed a set of convictions under the federal sex offender registration laws. The majority opinion in US v. Hatcher, No. 07-4839 (4th Cir. March 13, 2009), starts this way: In these consolidated appeals, William T...

MA- Massachusetts District Court Finds Civil Commitment Law Unconstitutional

Posted on March 14, 2009
3-13-2009 Massachusetts: From Sex Crimes Blog:A helpful reader let me know that there was a new decision out of the District of Massachusetts finding the federal civil commitment scheme for sex offenders under the Adam Walsh Act was unconstitutional. You can read the opinion here...

Technical problems - doing maintence

Posted on March 14, 2009
Please bear with us.eAdvocate

NE- Neb. high court upholds sex-offender law

Posted on March 14, 2009
3-14-2009 Nebraska:LINCOLN, Neb. - A Nebraska law that allows the state to commit sex offenders to treatment after their prison sentences have ended has withstood its first constitutional review by the state's highest court.In an opinion issued Friday, the Nebraska Supreme Court concluded that the law passed in 2006 by the state Legislature does not violate three clauses of both the U...

UK- Shattered parents talk for first time about how sex offender was allowed to prey on their family

Posted on March 14, 2009
3-14-2009 United Kingdom:THE devastated foster couple whose two children were preyed on by a teenage paedophile placed in their care today speak for the first time about the abuse scandal that has shocked the nation. THEY reveal how the 19-year-old?described to them as being ?no risk whatsoever? by social workers?raped their three-year-old son and indecently assaulted their nine-year-old

Bill in Congress - HR 781

Posted on March 14, 2009
2-27-2009 National:`Student Protection Act'Sponsor: Rep Putnam, Adam H. [FL-12] Introduced 1/28/2009 Bill HR 781The intent of bill is: To develop a national system of oversight of States for sexual misconduct in the elementary and secondary school system...

GA- Georgia law puts non-offenders on sex registry

Posted on March 14, 2009
3-14-2009 Georgia:Child molesters, rapists and other sex criminals often remain dangerous even after they?ve served their time, and Georgia?s sex offender registry is designed to keep a leash on them.The law, one of the nation?s toughest, tracks most offenders until they die, dictating where they can live and work...

MA- GAIL M. MACDONALD: Predator zones don?t work

Posted on March 14, 2009
3-14-2009 Masachusetts:QUINCY ? As the director of a preschool, I am entrusted with the care of 50 children every day. For that reason, I take safety issues very seriously and, like most everyone, abhor any person who would harm a child, particularly a sexual offender...

RI- Implementing sex offender registration law may prove impossible

Posted on March 14, 2009
3-14-2009 Rhode Island:In 2006, Congress enacted legislation to standardize the way states classify and register sex offenders and to make it easier for the public to learn about an offender?s presence in their communities. Under the provisions of the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), each state and all federally recognized Indian tribes are required to set up

NV- Inmate Internet access plan advances

Posted on March 14, 2009
3-14-2009 Nevada:Nevada lawmakers advanced a plan Thursday that would allow some state prison inmates ? who lost the use of personal typewriters starting in 2007 ? limited access to the Internet.Currently, inmates can't use the Internet but have access to electronic library materials on CD-ROMs...

NC- Police: Man arrested after binding hands, legs of man

Posted on March 13, 2009
3-13-2009 North Carolina:SHELBY - A 68-year-old man's alleged year-long relationship with another man's wife took a turn Friday night when he bound the husband's limbs and sent him outside into the street, according to police reports.Guynell Jones, of Oak Street, told authorities he didn't mean any harm by his actions...

CA- WILDOMAR: City to have its own sex offender law

Posted on March 13, 2009
A ordinance to cover 19 former offenders and no mention of backdating to exclude them. Another interesting point, it appears lawyers of different towns disagree on what is constitutional. Then to show the stupidity of this type of ordinance, kids are more likely to gather at someone's home say for a birthday party, than they are to in parks...

PA- Man, woman face trial on sexting charges

Posted on March 13, 2009
Sexting, as expected, has progressed to non human characters with a sexual connotation to the picture.3-13-2009 Pennsylvania:A man and woman from State College are each facing trial on a charge they sent sexually explicit text messages to a 15-year-old girl...

OH- Registry lists need to label offenders accurately

Posted on March 13, 2009
3-13-2009 Ohio:Convicted criminals don?t deserve sympathy often, especially those who held people, including children, hostage.But Danny Seals and others like him really don?t deserve the stigma attached to them long after they served their time in prison...

WA- Early-release offenders may get rent money

Posted on March 13, 2009
3-13-2009 Washington:The state may soon be lending a financial hand to offenders who qualify for early release from prison. The state Senate has passed a measure that would provide rental vouchers for inmates who qualify for release but can't leave because they don't have an approved place to live...

AL- Sex offender released after complying with address requirement

Posted on March 13, 2009
3-13-2009 Alabama:A convicted sex offender arrested Tuesday for failing to provide law-enforcement officials with a workable address before being released from Limestone Correctional Facility has since complied with the law and been released, an official said...

IL- Elgin teen says he was 'terrified' into pleading guilty to rape

Posted on March 13, 2009
3-13-2009 Illinois:An Elgin teen convicted of raping an 8-year-old girl now claims his attorney "terrified and coerced" him into pleading guilty. ____, 17, of the 600 block of Jefferson Avenue, made the allegations in recently filed court papers requesting a new trial in Kane County Circuit Court...

NY- Sex Offender Upset Over Law

Posted on March 13, 2009
3-13-2009 New York:(East Rochester, N.Y.) - By doing their time, some child sex offenders believe they?ve ?paid their dues.? But now a new residency law in East Rochester will dictate where registered sex offenders can not live.?My kids are my life, I had to give my daughter up because of this,? said Rusty Lamer...

CO- Sexual Assault Suspect Shot and Killed by Police

Posted on March 12, 2009
I cannot find any reason, in any version of this story, indicating why they killed him. It cannot be just because someone said "He will not go down alive," after all those are just words not actions.3-11-2009 Colorado:PUEBLO - A suspect wanted for two counts of sexual assault against a child has been shot and killed by police, concluding a manhunt in Pueblo that placed seven north side schools

Something to brighten your day and mine, this is important too..

Posted on March 12, 2009
Find the correct potato and you will be rewardedNow, promise me you will get other folks involved so that when the time comes, and it will soon, they too can provide input to Congress to advocate for RSOs, their families, and children.eAdvocate

NY- NYCLU Announces Findings about Statewide Impact of Rockefeller Drug Laws

Posted on March 12, 2009
One day there will be a similar report but the topic will be "Sex Offenders."3-12-2009 New York:The New York Civil Liberties today released a detailed report illustrating the disastrous effects the Rockefeller Drug Laws have inflicted on New York State...

ACLU Releases Report On Patriot Act Abuses

Posted on March 12, 2009
March 2009:RECLAIMING PATRIOTISM - A Call to Reconsider the Patriot Act"The American Civil Liberties Union released a comprehensive report today examining widespread abuses that have occurred under the USA Patriot Act, a law that was rushed through Congress just 45 days after September 11...

UPDATE on Hearing: Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA): Barriers to Timely Compliance by States

Posted on March 12, 2009
3-12-2009 National:A few things to report:It is important to all of us to be able to quote things that were said at the hearing, much of it was significant, and the only way to do that is to have the testimony available so we may copy from it when we comment in the future...

NC- N.C. officials: 2,116 of state's sex offenders found on MySpace

Posted on March 11, 2009
So what? Of all the RSOs kicked off these social networking websites, none of the AGs found them doing anything wrong. Yes a few violated parole or probation but that is not a new sex crime, it is a technical violation. The AGs want the public to believe there is wrongdoing going on, when in fact there is none...

States Failing to Comply with Sex Offender Registry

Posted on March 11, 2009
Title is misleading in that states are not "failing" but instead "unable" to comply mostly due to the guidelines and constitutional issues. Further, in today's hearing it was brought out that, while the actual AWA law permits "substantial compliance" when the SMART Office wrote the guidelines, they are written so as to require "complete compliance...

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