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TX - Problems With the Texas Sex Offender Registry

Posted on May 09, 2009
View the article here 05/09/2009 By Patrick L. Hancock (www.hancockcriminaldefense.com) Discretion is the hallmark of the criminal justice system in Texas. The laws are written clearly, but the decisions are left to people. Juries are empowered to examine the facts of cases and make responsible decisions regarding guilt and innocence...

NY - Cops: Mother Used Sex Ads on Craigslist to Retaliate Against Daughter's Rival

Posted on May 09, 2009
View the article here 05/08/2009 It's one thing for a mother to stick up for her daughter ? quite another thing for a mother to retaliate against her daughter's rival by sending sex clients to the rival's mother through a fraudulent Web ad. Yet that's exactly what one New York mother is accused of doing, following a dispute between her 9-year-old daughter and another girl...

What Have We Become?

Posted on May 09, 2009
View the article here 05/09/2009 By Paul Kruger There has always been the occasional sociopath amidst our ranks. We used to hope we could count on our laws to protect us by providing appropriate sanctions to deter them from harming us. We count on our lawmakers to be wiser than the masses when they author legislation to protect the public...

VT - Bill enlarges Internet sex offender registry

Posted on May 09, 2009
View the article here 05/09/2009 MONTPELIER - Lawmakers on Saturday passed a bill quintupling the size of the state's Internet sex offender registry to protect "families and communities and kids." The action, which came as the Legislature prepared to adjourn for the year, moves the state closer to but still not into full compliance with a 2006 federal law designed to make responses to sex crimes more uniform around the country...

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TRENDS IN ARRESTS OF ?ONLINE PREDATORS?

Posted on May 09, 2009
View the PDF here | Archived Janis WolakDavid FinkelhorKimberly Mitchell How the National Juvenile Online Victimization (N?JOV) Study was conducted The N?JOV Study collected information from a national sample of law enforcement agencies about the prevalence of arrests for and characteristics of online sex crimes against minors during two 12 month periods: July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001 (Wave 1) and calendar year 2006 (Wave 2)...

AL - Sex Offenders near Colleges

Posted on May 08, 2009
Listen to what this man says: "Alabama is taking an active approach to keeping kids safe on college campuses!" How old are the college students? Come on, they are adults! Copyright � 2006-2009 Sex Offender Issues. All Rights Reserved.

Lawmaker Defends Imprisoning Hostile Bloggers

Posted on May 08, 2009
View the article here 05/07/2009 By David Kravets Sanchez, with the introduction of the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act, clearly has a great interest in censoring. Still, the Democrat from Los Angeles makes several valid points that cyberbullying has lasting consequences on our nation?s youth...

AR - Ark. Supreme Court reverses deputy's case

Posted on May 08, 2009
View the article here 05/08/2009 By CHUCK BARTELS LITTLE ROCK - The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a circuit court ruling that a former Crawford County deputy has to serve more jail time for sexual abuse of two children because he did not complete counseling for sex offenders...

NJ - Zoning out Megan's Law sex offenders gives towns a false sense of security

Posted on May 08, 2009
View the article here 05/08/2009 A sexual attack on a child is such a revolting crime that society's response tends to be more emotional than its reaction to other serious crimes, up to and including murder. The instinct to protect our children, not only from physical danger but from psychological trauma, is strong...

ME - Vote on sex-offender registry delayed

Posted on May 08, 2009
View the article here 05/08/2009 By Rebekah Metzler AUGUSTA - The stalemate among Maine's three branches of government over the state's sex-offender registry continued Thursday as legislators postponed a vote on a bill aimed at satisfying judicial and executive branch concerns...

Commentary: Internet Law and Your Rights

Posted on May 08, 2009
Courtesy of A Voice of Reason Click the image to read the article Copyright � 2006-2009 Sex Offender Issues. All Rights Reserved.

WE ARE NOT MONSTERS, WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS!

Posted on May 08, 2009
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Would many movies today be considered child porn?

Posted on May 07, 2009
See this item about music as well. I recently noticed that they put the movie "Blue Lagoon" on YouTube, which has a 14 year old Brooke Shields in it, and it shows her in many scenes, nude. Also, I checked Wikipedia, and also noticed at 12, she stared in a movie called "Pretty Baby," where she played a prostitute and was nude in several scenes...

NY - Sex Offender Safety? Or just a conference to spread more lies and promote a web site?

Posted on May 07, 2009
View the article here 05/07/2009 Sex offenders can live anywhere. That's the message behind a Sex Offender Watch Forum held in Sidney. It aims to create communities that are more aware, and more cautious. This round table discussion at the Sidney Civic Center teaches community leaders how sex offenders are identified and monitored...

The War on Sex Offenders: Community Notification in Perspective

Posted on May 07, 2009
View the article here | PDF November 2000: Abstract This article explores the contemporary phenomenon of ?naming and shaming? sex offenders. Community notification laws, popularly known as Megan?s Law, which authorise the public disclosure of the identity of convicted sex offenders to the community in which they live, were enacted throughout the United States in the 1990s...

NJ - Court strikes down sex offender residency limit

Posted on May 07, 2009
View the article here 05/07/2009 TRENTON (AP) - New Jersey's Supreme Court says towns around the state cannot ban sex offenders from living near schools, parks, or other places where children gather. Thursday's ruling, involving Galloway and Cherry Hill townships, will affect 120 other New Jersey towns that have passed ordinances restricting where convicted sex offenders can live once they've been released...

WI - Silver Lake passes sex offender residency limits

Posted on May 07, 2009
View the article here 05/06/2009 By JILL TATGE-ROZELL SILVER LAKE - The Silver Lake Village Board Wednesday approved a new ordinance preventing sex offenders from residing near children in the village. The vote came after Ruth Donalds, a supervisor with the state Department of Corrections, and Jennifer Arndt, a sex offender registration specialist with the department, suggested ordinances such as this undermine the registry, the supervision process and ultimately public safety...

Navigational Menu Modifications

Posted on May 07, 2009
I have modified the Navigational menu. I have removed the Blogs, Forums, Housing, Jobs and Web sites. Because I was having to duplicate stuff. The menu now has these links at the bottom of the menu, for easier access: Blogs Employment Forums Housing Video Sites Web Site & Organizations If you have a blog, web site or video channel, or know of any links that should be added to any of those pages, then leave a comment on that page...

NY - How To Spot Warning Signs Of Teacher Sex Abuse

Posted on May 07, 2009
View the article here 05/06/2009 NEW YORK (CBS) - School is meant to be a safe haven for children to learn, but more and more cases of teacher misconduct are coming to light. On Saturday, _____, a math teacher at Emerson High in Union City, New Jersey, was arrested for sexual assaulting of a 16-year-old student...

NM - Group offers help for sex offenders

Posted on May 07, 2009
View the article here Boy, the Sheriff looks like an a-- in the video! 05/06/2009 By Joe Vigil, KOB-TV, and Joshua Panas, KOB.com The Bernalillo County sheriff is blasting an unusual letter, which offers to help hundreds of Albuquerque-area sex offenders...

FL - Police: Teacher Sent Inappropriate Text Messages To Student

Posted on May 06, 2009
View the article here 05/06/2009 29-Year-Old Teacher Fired After Jupiter Christian School Learns Of Allegation JUPITER - A former Jupiter school teacher accused of sending inappropriate text messages to a 14-year-old student was arrested Wednesday...

SC - AGs v. Craigslist: Putting the Bully Back Into Bully Pulpit

Posted on May 06, 2009
View the article here 05/06/2009 By Matt Zimmerman Here we go again. On Tuesday, South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster notified craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster that unless craigslist removes its erotic services section within 10 days, "craigslist management may be subject to criminal investigation and prosecution...

Typical media fear-mongering and vigilantism!

CA - Boy: Teacher Gave Money For Drugs In Exchange For Sex

Posted on May 06, 2009
View the article here 05/06/2009 CHULA VISTA - The godson of a South Bay elementary school teacher testified Wednesday that he had sexual intercourse with the woman 30 to 40 times in the bedroom of her home, starting when he was about 12 years old...

FL - Commission Puts Sex Offender On County Board

Posted on May 06, 2009
View the article here Related Article This could be good news, but I am willing to bet they will just ignore anything the RSO says. 05/06/2009 By BUDDY NEVINS Martin Kiar is pissed. The youthful state representative is upset about one member of a newly-formed county commission task force ? a registered sex offender...

VA - Substance mailed to state police headquarters

Posted on May 06, 2009
View the article here 05/06/2009 Virginia State Police are awaiting lab test results to identify a white, powdery substance found this afternoon in an envelope mailed to the agency's administrative headquarters on Midlothian Turnpike. State police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said that shortly after 2 p...

MN - Minnesota Legislature Votes To Limit Internet Use Of Sex Offenders

Posted on May 06, 2009
View the article here 05/06/2009 This is bad policy. ST. PAUL - The highest-risk sex offenders will face limits on their Internet access under a bill the Minnesota Legislature voted unanimously to send to Gov. Tim Pawlenty (Email). Starting in August 2010, predatory offenders put on intensive supervised release won?t be able to access, create or maintain a personal Web page or social networking account if it permits contact with anyone under 18...

VT - ACLU sues on behalf of Barre sex offender

Posted on May 06, 2009
View the article here 05/06/2009 MONTPELIER (AP) - A sex offender ordered to get out of Barre is now suing the city, claiming a residency restriction unfairly bars him from living there. The American Civil Liberties Union's Vermont chapter has filed the suit on behalf of 29-year-old _____, who moved to Barre with his wife and two children this spring, not knowing that an "exclusion zone" set up as part of a safety ordinance banned him from living in the apartment he rented...

NY - Former officer spared from prison time

Posted on May 06, 2009
View the article here 05/06/2009 By Joe Arena Plead guilty in prostitution scandal LOCKPORT (WIVB) - A former Lockport Police Captain John Trowbridge has been spared from prison time for his role in a prostitution scandal. First it was former law Clerk Michael Stebick, who faced sentencing and avoided jail time...

TX - De-registration bill for consensual sex offenders passes House

Posted on May 06, 2009
View the article here 05/06/2009 By Emily Ramshaw Sex offenders who were convicted despite having consensual sex with their victims would be allowed to petition for removal from the state's sex offender registry, under a bill the House passed on Wednesday...

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