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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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Sex Offender Register is a Waste of Money

Posted on September 06, 2010
9-5-2010 United Kingdom:Major criticism has recently been expressed with regard to the UK Sex Offender Register. Many senior police officers think it is a waste of time and money and nobody really believes it has ever prevented an offence from being committed...

Georgia town to residents: Uphold the law -- uphold your pants

Posted on September 06, 2010
Will this cover exposed diapers? If so, Moms watch your little ones, they may be considered a sex offender... Just when you've thought you have heard it all...9-6-2010 Georgia:(CNN) -- The town of Dublin, Georgia, is putting saggy, baggy pants in the category of indecent exposure, with violators facing fines of up to $200...

Court ruling undermines sexual predator law

Posted on September 06, 2010
9-6-2010 Washington:The state Supreme Court?s message Thursday to state lawmakers might as well have been: Try again.In a 5-4 decision, the high court ruled that legislative efforts to retake the reins of the state?s sexually violent predator law went too far...

Cyberbullying and Electronic Dating Violence

Posted on September 06, 2010
9-6-2010 Global:Our cyberbullying work continues to take our research agenda in new and interesting directions. One phenomenon which we have been exploring in recent months is ?electronic dating violence,? which we define as: ?emotional or psychological harm in a romantic relationship perpetrated through the use of computers, cell phones, or other electronic devices...

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Sheriff's sex crimes registry a 'model'

Posted on September 06, 2010
The analogy here of equating a one horse town system, programmed by a systems analyst, with one terminal entry to a statewide system with hundreds of entry points is laughable. Considering this one horse town system a model for the state without addressing the logistics of statewide needs, is more than proof that this should never happen...

Couple charged with attempted murder

Posted on September 05, 2010
9-5-2010 OregonA Philomath woman and Silverton man have been charged with attempted murder and other offenses, including kidnapping and beating an Alsea woman to keep her from reporting an alleged sexual assault on a child.Peggy Tennessee Watkins, 35, of Philomath, and Bryan Eugene Dover, II, 32, of Silverton, have been charged with attempted murder, first-degree assault, four counts of

Is Sex Offender Listing Too Tough For Some Offenses?

Posted on September 05, 2010
9-5-2010 Iowa:A Drake University law professor questions the stringent punishment of being listed on the sex offender registry in the case of a 24-year-old non-licensed youth counselor convicted Wednesday for kissing a 16-year-old.?Her chances for employment just dropped to zero,? Robert Rigg, also director of Drake?s Criminal Defense Program, said after the verdict came in...

Prisoners have the right to safety, whatever their crime

Posted on September 05, 2010
9-5-2010 United Kingdom:Prison Officers at Grendon prison are cynically blaming budget cuts for the death of a sex offender this week. According to the warders, the cuts have ?put pressure? on the system. That cynicism is bad enough but it pales into insignificance when compared with the vitriol that was poured out on BBC Radio 5 live by participants in the phone-in dealing with this

Sex offenders find home, fresh start in Oklahoma City mobile home park

Posted on September 05, 2010
9-5-2010 Oklahoma:The Rev. David Nichols started Hand Up Ministries in 1996 with the intention of helping convicted felons get a fresh start. It has since evolved to help mostly sex offenders who have no other place to go.There is an unusual warning posted outside a common-looking mobile home park in southeast Oklahoma County...

Housing group files lawsuit against property owners who evicted families

Posted on September 04, 2010
9-4-2010 Florida:Families out; sex offenders inLANTANA, Fla. - Tara Whyte remembers the stress. "Every day it was a knock on the door. Have you found somewhere yet? Have you found somewhere yet? Have you found somewhere yet?"The knocking came after a letter that Whyte and other families living in Pelican Lake Village near Pahokee received in December of 2008...

Afghanistan's dirty little secret

Posted on September 03, 2010
9-2-2010 Afghanistan:Western forces fighting in southern Afghanistan had a problem. Too often, soldiers on patrol passed an older man walking hand-in-hand with a pretty young boy. Their behavior suggested he was not the boy's father. Then, British soldiers found that young Afghan men were actually trying to "touch and fondle them," military investigator AnnaMaria Cardinalli told me...

Florida Sex Offenders Must Register With New Permanent or Temporary Address

Posted on September 03, 2010
The insanity of law. Follow the highlights, if a RSO visits their parents home for an aggregate days in a calendar year, then s/he is deemed to live there. And, must change driver's license and any other ID's they may have (like Internet ID's etc.) for each visit? Courts should deem this unconstitutional because it is over breadth and more control of lives than generally, probation or parole

New Pilot Program to Nab Sex Offenders Being Tested in Phoenix Schools

Posted on September 03, 2010
Obviously these alleged geniuses have never read the reality of face scanning: "Airport Face Scanner Failed" (The system failed to correctly identify airport employees 53 percent of the time) Wired News. Then the cost WOW!!!!!!!!!! 9-3-2010 Arizona:We are a nation focused on eradicating sex offenders from the lives of our children...

Judge says L.A. County parolees aren?t subject to Jessica?s Law

Posted on September 02, 2010
9-2-2010 California:Registered sex offenders on parole in L.A. County will no longer be subject to Jessica?s Law?s residency restrictions, per a ruling yesterday by L.A. County Superior Court Supervising Judge Peter Espinoza.In his ruling (pdf), Espinoza points out that the court?s received 300 petitions asking for relief from the law and ?dozens of parolees continue to file new petitions every

Father of Well Known Kidnapping Victim Stumps For Those Still Missing

Posted on September 01, 2010
Are folks now seeing the "Give me, give me, donations" which are being spent to support these advocates and not for effective legislation, are a waste of time and money when folks need it to live day to day?9-1-2010 Missouri:Ed Smart's Daughter, Elizabeth, Has Been Found, So Many Others Have NotST...

California lawmakers OK 'Chelsea's Law'

Posted on August 31, 2010
8-31-2010 California:A group of bills related to child abduction and sex offenders, including one that would incarcerate the most violent sex offenders for life without parole and provide harsher sentences for forcible sex crimes, is awaiting the signature of Gov...

Vicious, feared attack leaves Pa. inmate comatose

Posted on August 30, 2010
8-29-2010 Pennsylvania:SCRANTON, Pa. ? If his diary and witness accounts are to be believed, Nicholas Pinto endured months of physical, sexual and mental abuse in prison. Guards roughed him up, made him stand naked in a cold cell for hours at a time, and taunted him relentlessly...

Cordray Announces New Efforts to Track Sex Offenders

Posted on August 30, 2010
First notice the micro management of the lives of registrants. i.e. e-mail addresses and phone numbers. Of course this new system of tracking likely will catch offenders unaware and maybe arrested, when they are actually compliant. For instance, if a phone is shut off because one cannot pay a bill, that would cause the registrant to be arrested...

Georgia sex crime registry filled with errors

Posted on August 30, 2010
For a moment ignore all the errors spoken of, and focus on what I have highlighted. What you will notice is, that duplicate registries exist: The State and 159 Local registries. That means all those folks are eligible for federal funding for maintenance etc...

Court says prosecutor's evidence didn't exist

Posted on August 30, 2010
8-30-2010 Kansas:A Kansas appeals court has ordered a new trial for a convicted sexual predator, saying a prosecutor falsified evidence in a court proceeding."We can fathom no greater prejudice... than the use of nonexistent evidence by the State in the case against the respondent," noted the Kansas Court of Appeals in an opinion issued Friday...

Ruling Limits Ability of Judges to Inflate Sex Offender Sentences

Posted on August 30, 2010
8-30-2010 Pennsylvania:The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has stopped an end-run around sex offender laws in their efforts to get offenders sentenced to harsher penalties. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has stopped prosecutors and judges from employing an end-run around sex offender laws in their efforts to get offenders sentenced to harsher penalties...

WREG Investigators Track Down Sex Offenders

Posted on August 30, 2010
For a moment ignore the slew of registry errors talked about below, and focus on what I have highlighted. The essence of that comment means there is a local registry and the state registry; two registries. That means both the state and the local agency, are eligible for federal grant money, assuming they both apply for it and likely they do...

Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans

Posted on August 30, 2010
8-30-2010 National:As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it?s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren?t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U...

Alabama court to decide if sex offenders must have a home

Posted on August 29, 2010
Obviously the prosecutor, by suggesting places which are not mentioned or eluded to in the statute as a possible residences, and if he is correct and has proved I (defendant) was not sleeping at any of those places which I assume he has sent police to check, and the court has evidence that I was not sleeping at those places by police testimony, then yes your honor I am guilty...

Mark Lundsford will be coming to several cities as part of a biker group, "Ride for Their Lives"

Posted on August 29, 2010
8-29-2010 National:Mark Lundsford will be visiting several major cities with a Biker group known as "Ride for Their Lives."OnceFallen has covered the claims being made by the biker group, which intends to raise $1,000,000.00 dollars for another group Mark is part of, The Surviving Parents Coalition...

State Assembly Postpones Vote For Chelsea's Law

Posted on August 28, 2010
8-27-2010 California:Vote Tentatively Set For MondaySAN DIEGO -- The state Assembly postponed taking a final vote Friday on a proposed law named for slain Poway High School student Chelsea King.AB 1844 -- Chelsea's Law -- calls for mandatory life sentences for violent sex crimes against children...

Proposal: Bar sex offenders from Halloween

Posted on August 28, 2010
8-28-2010 California:Handing out candy, putting out a pumpkin and turning on a porch light on Halloween night could soon become punishable offenses for registered sex offenders living in Perris. The City Council on Tuesday will consider following in the footsteps of the state of Missouri and one California city by barring registered sex offenders from engaging in a few time-honored Halloween

Are sex offenders the bait, to get public attention?

Posted on August 28, 2010
8-28-2010 California:I am sure folks have heard of what Gov. Schwarzenegger is doing to notify the public when paroled sex offenders do not comply with GPS monitoring. Two of many news reports follows, but there is something most folks do not realize, see my commentary following news reports...

Germany to create non-penal custody for sex offenders

Posted on August 27, 2010
8-26-2010 Germany:Berlin - Pressed by a European Court human-rights rebuke, Germany agreed Thursday to change its law on detaining persistent sex offenders who are believed to be a threat to the community.Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition agreed at talks in Berlin to change the law...

Google and CIA Invest in a Minority Report-Like Technology That May Make Our World a Less Certain Place

Posted on August 27, 2010
8-27-2010 Global:An article that appeared Wired Danger Room yesterday reveals that the CIA and Google are now in cahoots to invest in a new company called Recorded Future -- a real-life version of Minority Report, one that's all fact and no fantasy, It's purpose is to know the present and predict the future, totally...

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