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Murdered in the United States - 2008: Registered Sex Offenders & Others.

Posted on February 18, 2009
2-18-2009 National:The 2008 year was the worst year ever for deaths of RSOs, Persons accused of sex offenses and others. This year brought so many new circumstances that we have had to restructure our statistical methods to be able to report what has happened...

House Republicans File Brief for Mandatory Minimum Sentence

Posted on February 18, 2009
Adam Walsh Act Sentences: Are they too long?House Reps: Lamar Smith, Eric Cantor, Mike Pence, F. James Sensenbrenner Jr, Elton Gallegly, Daniel E. Lungren, Ted Poe, Thomase J. Rooney, Gregg Harper 2-18-2009 National:A group of House Republicans filed a brief Wednesday challenging a federal District Court's ruling that a 30-year mandatory minimum prison sentence was a cruel and unusual punishment

Textual Misconduct

Posted on February 18, 2009
2-18-2009 National:What to do about teens and their dumb naked photos of themselves.Say you're a middle school principal who has just confiscated a cell phone from a 14-year-old boy, only to discover it contains a nude photo of his 13-year-old girlfriend...

Facebook Privacy Change Sparks Federal Complaint

Posted on February 18, 2009
Policy can be changed if enough folks get together and pressure the site. I remember all the RSOs who were on these sites and were doing nothing but exercising their rights of associating with others and political rights as well. Any other thoughts?2-18-2009 National:The backlash against Facebook's updated privacy policies is about to expand...

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NE- Second Mailing From Police Union Blasts Candidates

Posted on February 18, 2009
Obviously sex offenders are a political tool for elections, why are other crime types not used? Ask your politician....2-18-2009 Nebraska:Brown, Vokal Claim Dirty PoliticsOmaha?s police union continues to get involved in the upcoming city elections.For the second time in a week, the union has sent out a mailing dealing with sex offenders...

FL- Perversion and Justice

Posted on February 18, 2009
2-18-2009 Florida:Will the state help with the growing sex offender colony under the Julia Tuttle Causeway?Miami's colony of sex offenders is a lot like a big, stubborn pimple on the nose of the city: Nobody likes it, yet it just keeps growing.So it's no surprise that after nearly two years of policymakers ignoring the problem, it has gotten uglier...

NV- Police: Slain home intruder had long criminal record

Posted on February 18, 2009
2-18-2009 Nevada:The home intruder gunned down by a northeast valley resident Sunday was a registered sex offender with a long criminal history, Las Vegas police said.The Clark County coroner?s office identified the dead man as Mark Clinton Vains, 42, of Las Vegas...

AL- Capital Punishment for Certain Pedophiles?

Posted on February 17, 2009
2-17-2009 Alabama:Pedophiles who rape young children could face the death penalty in Alabama?if one state lawmaker gets his way. State Representative Steve Hurst of Munford in Talladega County is proposing a new law that would allow a judge to use capital punishment if someone older than 21 is convicted of raping a child 6 years old or younger...

PA- 3 offenders file suit claiming probation process unfair

Posted on February 17, 2009
2-17-2009 Pennsylvania:In June, Darrell Keener was about to complete his two-year state prison sentence for corruption of minors. Following his release, the convicted sex offender was to serve an additional year of state probation.But because he couldn't find housing in compliance with state regulations, that meant before even getting out of prison, he was back in, this time in the Allegheny

WI- Sex offender sues to return to Brookfield home

Posted on February 17, 2009
Pay particular attention to highlighting, then see notes in the full article!2-17-2009 Wisconsin:Brookfield - A convicted sex offender is asking a judge to rule he can move back to his Brookfield house after living in Illinois to serve probation there...

CA- Out-of-state offenders need not register

Posted on February 17, 2009
2-17-2008 California:A federal judge's decision to dismiss an indictment against a Brownsville man, charged with failing to register as a sex offender, got a reception from residents as chilly as the patches of snow that line roads in the foothill community...

Judges Should Control Sex Offender Registration, ABA House Says

Posted on February 16, 2009
2-16-2009 National:Congress should amend existing statutes to allow judges to determine whether juveniles convicted of sex crimes should be required to register as sex offenders, the ABA?s policy-making House of Delegates said today.Federal law currently require all youths 14 years old or older who are convicted of sex-related offenses to register as sex offenders for at least 25 years...

FL- Counselor charged with extorting sex offender

Posted on February 16, 2009
2-16-2009 Florida:Bartow, Florida -- Deputies have arrested a mental health therapist on charges he tried to extort money from a sex offender he was counseling. They say Dr. Paul H. Sandman, PhD., of Winter Haven, owner and operator of Adjustment & Awareness, took advantage of one of his court-ordered clients...

UK- Neighbourly act led to attack on innocent man

Posted on February 16, 2009
2-16-2009 United Kingdom:WHEN Edward Johnson got a letter saying he was in the clear over a sex allegation, it should have been good news.Mr Johnson struggles to read or write and so asked his neighbour to do him a good turn and read it out to him.But his so-called friend, next-door neighbour Paul Armstrong, misinterpreted the letter as meaning Mr Johnson was a sex offender and gave him a severe

FL- Editorial: Lee sheriff?s proposed bans

Posted on February 16, 2009
2-16-2009 Florida:Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott wants to ban known sex offenders and predators from around beaches and parks.He also targets the areas of libraries, zoos and carnivals, among others.He says rather than wait for convicts to re-offend, he would rather be proactive and be able to arrest them when they come near...

CA- Editorial: Jessica's Law doesn't have it right

Posted on February 16, 2009
2-16-2009 California:LIKE TOO MANY voter-approved initiatives that weren't very well thought out, Proposition 83, also known as Jessica's Law, has had costly, unforeseen consequences.The ballot measure, backed by 70 percent of voters, prohibits paroled sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school, park where children regularly gather...

SC- Iva Police Chief releases officer?s name

Posted on February 16, 2009
2-16-2009 SOuth Carolina:IVA ? A dispute over a stolen prescription was a flash point that left a 41-year-old Anderson man dead, an Iva police officer and a 71-year-old woman injured.Iva Police Chief Thomas Miller on Monday identified the officer who fired the fatal shots at Mark Monroe Evans as Sgt...

NV- Sex offender act might not be worth its cost to Nevada

Posted on February 16, 2009
2-16-2009 Nevada:The Adam Walsh Act was an instant controversy in Nevada. As soon as state lawmakers adopted the federal sex offender legislation in 2007, lawyers drew up lawsuits that have kept it tied up in court to this day.But all the debate between advocates and attorneys over whether the Walsh Act is legal or logical now seems for naught...

Facebook: Students Are Going From Sexting...Sextortion?

Posted on February 16, 2009
2-16-2009 National:On December we wrote about the good reasons of not becoming friends with your student in Facebook. Before, we've also asked how social networks such as Facebook can be used in Education?We've also referred to the dual chances that social networks could be either, good or bad to making friends but also cyberbullying...

MI- Sex offender list: Too close to home

Posted on February 16, 2009
2-16-2009 Michigan:I was reading an article about sex offenders when I decided to go where I had never gone before: to the Michigan Public Sex Offender Registry.A few moments of pause, a few questions ("Do you really want to do this, Oneita?") and a few mouse clicks later, I am staring at a face I know...

FL- Trailer where Jessica Lunsford died is torched

Posted on February 16, 2009
2-16-2009 Florida:HOMOSASSA ? Officials say the mobile home where a repeat sex offender raped and murdered a 9-year-old Florida girl in 2005 has burned down.Citrus County officials said Monday that the fire was suspicious. John Evander Couey?s former trailer was vacant when the fire started Sunday night, but officials say it?s a ?total loss? because of extensive damage...

MA- Perv tracking system stumbles in Mass.

Posted on February 16, 2009
2-16-2009 Massachusetts:It?s the most sweeping sex offender tracking law in history - and it?s considered virtually illegal by the Bay State?s top court.The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act - named for the brutally murdered 6-year-old boy whose father became a crusader against predators - was passed by Congress in 2006...

CA- Sacramento judge finds sex offender law unconstitutional

Posted on February 14, 2009
See earlier story:2-14-2009 California:In only the third such ruling in the nation, a Sacramento judge has found to be unconstitutional a statute that makes it a federal crime for someone to fail to register as a sex offender and relocate from one state to another...

Canada- No warrant needed to trace Internet use

Posted on February 14, 2009
This is likened to following someone in the public, however, in the U.S. a warrant is needed to get the IP Address from a Internet Service Provider unless the person has already waived that right. However, even though there is no privacy right in movement throughout the Internet, there is a privacy right in the sites visited and what occurrs on that site...

WI- Wisconsin fights sex offender registry mandate

Posted on February 14, 2009
2-14-2009 Wisconsin:Delay sought on law requiring thousands more names, detailsWisconsin is fighting to stall a federal deadline to change its sex offender registry that likely will require adding thousands to the list, including those convicted of minor offenses...

MySpace, Facebook show tools to ward off child predators

Posted on February 13, 2009
2-13-2009 Global:At meeting of MySpace-formed task force, social networks show how kids are kept safeMySpace is using technology to analyze whether potential users trying to sign up for the social network may be registered sex offenders, the company's chief security officer said Wednesday...

When real sex crimes decrease, and politicians still need votes, then create new sex crimes, right?

Posted on February 13, 2009
At what point does the public make lawmakers responsible for their ill conceived, and poorly worded, laws? If adding a youngster who had sex with his girfriend and ends up as a sex offender on the registry irks you, then read on to learn about the new sex offender to come under the umbrella...

MA- Youths called to 'sexting' hearing

Posted on February 13, 2009
At what point will the public need a lawyer on retainer just to respond to the ill conceived sex laws of lawmakers, and also get a tax deduction for the lawyer? Our society has reached a sex crazed hysterical state!2-13-2009 Massachusetts:FALMOUTH ? Several of the six local boys who face possible child pornography charges for allegedly "sexting" a photograph of a partially naked 13-year-old girl

DE- Del. court upholds offender registry

Posted on February 12, 2009
To say that the Adam Walsh Act does not violate rights is to stick one's head in the sand and ignore the very meaning of the words "further punishments" simply because, as a judge, you can and no one dare question you. Here we see the political decision not any real analysis of the facts as it affects the majority of cases...

WV- City Mulls New Sex Offender Regulation

Posted on February 12, 2009
2-12-2009 West Virginia: Weirton officials aren't satisfied with having information about convicted sex offenders who live there - they also want to be informed of any such prisoners who may want to live there upon their release. City leaders soon may consider an ordinance to adopt a stricter version of Megan's Law, which requires law enforcement to make information available to the public

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