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Lawmakers to consider revamp of Idaho?s sex offender requirements

Posted on March 08, 2011
3-8-2011 Idaho: Idaho could change its plan for managing sex offenders that includes requiring offenders to report more information, expanding a state board that oversees sex offenders, and ditching part of the state?s sex offender law that is unconstitutional...

East Moline man remains a sex offender after bill is defeated

Posted on March 06, 2011
3-6-2011 Illinois: ___ is a registered sex offender, but it's because when he was 17, his fiancée at the time was 16-years-old and pregnant with their now 7-year-old daughter. __, his wife, and their two young sons were hopeful a new bill introduced to the Illinois House would allow him to shed the sex offender tag...

Arciero files bill on sex offenders

Posted on March 06, 2011
Another new lawmaker who has succumb to the Political Hype that AWA (SORNA as to registrants) will protect communities. SORNA is nothing more than a "Address Book" w/pictures and a lawmaker's belief that one registrant is more of a risk than another to the community...

Controversial signs on front lawn target sex offenders

Posted on March 05, 2011
3-5-2011 Alabama: HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - How far does free speech really go? Signs out in front of a Huntsville mans home is creating quite the commotion. The signs have the power to create a traffic jam, plenty of conversation and even stir up emotion...

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SecureAlert, Inc. Subsidiary to Provide Sex Offender Patient Tracking for Minnesota Sex Offender Program at Moose Lake, Minnesota

Posted on March 05, 2011
Someone in power needs their head examined, and its not a patient. This is the most unbelievable waste of money I have ever seen, folks in Minnesota should petition the Gov. to have this person removed from office! 3-4-2011 Minnesota: SANDY, UT -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 02/25/11 -- Securealert Inc...

Convicted sex offender sues mother of victim over blog post

Posted on March 04, 2011
Most interesting in this case is, that, even if the FSO is absolutely correct about what the mother said about him, he is still very likely to lose this case. The reason is he forgot the "audacity factor" the other hidden party to this case, and never to forget that the public court system is controlled by the "audacity factor," whether he likes it or not...

Lawmakers Reject Sex Offender Registry Bill

Posted on March 04, 2011
3-4-2011 Illinois: WSIL TV -- The Illinois House rejected a bill Thursday that would have removed some sex offenders from the state's registry. The so-called Romeo and Juliet law would have allowed certain young sex offenders to petition a judge for removal from the list...

Warren police question son, 34, found in attic after slaying of father, 61

Posted on March 03, 2011
3-3-2011 Michigan: A man authorities believe killed his father this morning was found hiding in the attic of the family?s Warren home and is now in custody, police said this afternoon. Police hadn't been sure the son, identified as Jason Kinnie, 34, was in the home or whether he fled after the killing of his father, Donald Kinnie, at the home on the 30200 block of Madison Avenue near Warren?s city hall complex...

Judge Sends Alison Peck to Jail, She is Terminated from Sex Offender Treatment Program

Posted on March 03, 2011
3-3-2011 Missouri: Prosecutors say Peck is a danger to the community for not completing treatment A judge says a former teacher convicted of having sex in three counties must go back to jail instead of remaining out on bond. Greene County prosecutors say Alison Peck is a danger to the community for violating her probation at least three times...

McDonnell weighs change on filing sexual abuse lawsuits

Posted on March 03, 2011
3-3-2011 Virginia: Flipping through photographs five years ago, Becky Ianni came across an image that changed her life. The photo was of a 9-year-old Ianni with Monsignor William T. Reinecke, a pastor at her family's Alexandria church who she says molested her for two years after befriending her family...

Memphis Man Says He Was Wrongly Arrested During A Police Sex Offender Roundup

Posted on March 02, 2011
3-2-2011 Tennessee: FAST FACTS: ---Memphis Man Says He Was Wrongly Arrested During A Sex Offender Roundup ---Corey Dickerson Calls It A Case Of Mistaken Identity ---He Says He Will Take The Memphis Police Department To Court (Memphis 3/1/2011) Corey Dickerson's just been released from jail...

How far can - or should - communities go to restrict sex offenders?

Posted on March 02, 2011
3-2-2011 New York How can communities most effectively - and legally - protect themselves from convicted sex offenders? What kind of restrictions should be placed on the day-to-day lives of those deemed most at risk of re-offending? What role should local governments play in shaping those measures? A recent state Supreme Court decision asserts that state regulations supercede local measures when it comes to regulating where convicted sex offenders can live...

Immunity prevents arrest of Arizona lawmaker after freeway fight

Posted on February 28, 2011
2-28-2011 Arizona: An Arizona state senator involved in an apparent freeway-shoulder scuffle with his girlfriend was not detained because he has immunity from arrest while the legislature is in session, police said. Officers in Phoenix who were called to investigate a reported altercation found that both Sen...

Illinois sex offender law could remove some young offenders from registry

Posted on February 28, 2011
Personally I think any Legislature chosen age difference is a mistake, each case should go before a judge, and a decision be made on the facts presented. That would handle the extremes, if any, and cultural issues. Never forget this nation is a melting pot, and we have many from other countries as residents...

Slow fee collection from sex offenders

Posted on February 28, 2011
2-28-2011 Massachusetts: 10,995 people registered as sex offenders in 2010 BOSTON (AP) - An audit of the state Sexual Offenders Registry Board shows the agency lags in collecting the annual registration fee from offenders and notifying the Registry of Motor Vehicles to revoke the driver's licenses of offenders who fail to register...

Finding new homes for sex offenders

Posted on February 28, 2011
2-28-2011 Minnesota: Minneapolis leaders want state lawmakers to stop the trend of concentrating Minnesota?s sex offenders in the city Minneapolis is home to nearly half of all Level III sex offenders in Minnesota, even though the city?s population is only 7 percent of the state?s total...

Low-level Sex Offenders Close to Deregistering

Posted on February 27, 2011
If it is true that, "once a offender means always an offender," then here is what needs to be done. All those parents, grandparents, etc., that have committed a illegal sexual act, in their younger days, needs to march themselves down to the local police station and ask to register as a sex offender because of the past act...

Police: One person shot dead at Garfield Heights gas station

Posted on February 27, 2011
2-27-2011 Ohio: GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio - Garfield Heights Police said a man was fatally shot by officers after lunging at them with a billy club at a gas station Friday night. The Cuyahoga County Coroner's office has identified the victim as 50-year-old Sylvester Gavin...

Mom failed to report daughter's sex with adult man

Posted on February 25, 2011
2-25-2011 Tennessee: A Rutherford County mother was charged with 22 counts of statutory rape after police say she failed to report her underage daughter was having sex with a 23-year-old man. Joyce L. Green, 37, of Murfreesboro was indicted by a grand jury this month after an investigation by Murfreesboro Police Detective Tommy Roberts revealed she failed to report the criminal activities...

State Mulls an Out for Young Sex Offenders

Posted on February 25, 2011
2-25-2011 Illinois: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CN) - A bill in the Illinois House would let some young sex offenders be removed from the state's sex offender registry. The so-called "Romeo and Juliet" measure would allow sex offenders who were not more than 4 years older than their victim to petition to remove themselves from the registry if the victim was 14 or older, so long as force was not involved...

Former wrestler informed police of sex offender status, but not student status

Posted on February 25, 2011
2-25-2011 Michigan: Former Central Michigan University wrestler informed area police of his sex offender status before arriving on campus last fall. The 19-year-old Zeeland freshman wrote a full disclosure statement, which was reviewed by admissions, housing and local police, before he arrived on campus, Cheatham said...

Alaska's prison expenses rise: We need cures and fewer costly punishments

Posted on February 25, 2011
2-25-2011 Alaska: Earlier this month, Gov. Parnell requested more than $8.5 million in supplemental funding for Alaska?s prison system. Those additional costs account for almost 20 percent of this year?s supplemental request from the general fund. This shouldn?t surprise us...

Bill curbs parole of sex offenders, violent inmates

Posted on February 25, 2011
2-25-2011 New Hampshire: CONCORD ? New Hampshire failed to create an intense supervision program for hard-core, violent and sexual offenders before releasing them from prison, several people charged at a public hearing Thursday. The Senate Judicial Committee held a public hearing on a bill, SB 52 (click to view status and text), which would change two key components of the controversial SB 500...

Sound compromise on sex offenders

Posted on February 23, 2011
The comment, "separate by sight and sound" that is plain stupid, physically makes sense, but S&S. Plain unbelievable. 2-23-2011 Virginia: Virginia's civil commitment program for sex offenders aims to protect society from the worst of the worst and rehabilitate those most likely to offend again...

School Says Sex Offender Mother Can't Participate on Trips

Posted on February 23, 2011
2-23-2011 Florida: School Says Sex Offender Mother Can't Participate on Trips For almost nine years, Alashia Green has tried to put the conviction that makes her a sexual offender, behind her. But Tuesday, a lewd or lascivious battery charge from Bay County, reared its ugly head again...

Plymouth committee says no reason for local sexual offender regulation

Posted on February 23, 2011
2-23-2011 Massachusetts: They find no evidence of connection between recidivism and residency PLYMOUTH ? A special committee made up of Town Meeting Precinct Chairs has come out against local sex offender regulations with special residency or loitering restrictions...

Abuse Case Tests Ohel?s Adherence To Reporting Laws

Posted on February 23, 2011
2-23-2011 New York: Counselors, higher-ups at Brooklyn social service agency grapple with reporting of abuse to secular authorities. An inside look at an agonizing treatment process involving a mother and her young son. As the story of child sexual abuse in the Orthodox community has unfolded over the last several years, the issue of when, and even whether, to report such allegations to law enforcement has emerged as perhaps the most important and the most complicated...

Group working on behalf of sex offenders

Posted on February 22, 2011
Two cents in an to "Do sex offenders deserve to have their voice heard?" Have you heard that in this country there is something called the U.S. Constitution, I suggest it be read by anyone questioning a person's right to be heard, whether they have a conviction of not! 2-22-2011 Colorado: Do sex offenders deserve to have their voice heard? A group called Advocates for Change works to reform laws for those convicted of a sex offence, it something victims' advocates find hard to understand...

Editorial: Right track on sex-offense law

Posted on February 22, 2011
2-22-2011 Colorado: Legislators appear to have learned from last year's debacle in setting priorities for continuing a sex-offender oversight panel. The state legislature has a chance this year to get it right when it comes to reauthorizing Colorado's highly regarded sex- offender management board...

Sex-offender program heavily scrutinized in General Assembly under tight budget

Posted on February 22, 2011
2-22-2011 Virginia: The House Appropriations subcommittee tabled a Senate version of a sex-offender bill that would have legalized the physical castration of chronic sex offenders before it was eliminated and the entire bill was finally tabled. The General Assembly has been focusing on the sex-offender program in Virginia during this session due to the higher than expected numbers of committed sex-offenders who have raised the costs of the program...

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