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Congressional Hearing Adam Walsh Act (2011) - The Reauthorization of the Adam Walsh Act

Posted on February 18, 2011
Original Video and Testimony

TX - The Dangerous (Moral Panic) of Social Networking and Children

Posted on February 18, 2011

MI - Ravenna YouTube Case Has "Constitutional Implications"

Posted on February 18, 2011
Original Article See Also 02/17/2011 By Lisa LaPlante MUSKEGON COUNTY - The story about a man charged with making a video in a Muskegon County classroom continues to get attention all around the country. Questions continue to grow about the case, including the felony charge that could mean a sentence of up to 20 years in prison...

IL - One-size-fits-all laws for sex offenders miss the mark

Posted on February 18, 2011
Original Article HB-1139 02/15/2011 By Gina Harkins [name withheld] is a 22-year-old college student. He plays guitar and writes and records his own music. He likes watching ?The Office? and ?Family Guy,? and will eat anything with bacon. He is also a registered sex offender...

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CA - Lawyers May Find Way Around Megan's Law for Old Sex Offenses

Posted on February 18, 2011
Original Article Listen 02/17/2011 By Ginny LaRoe SAN FRANCISCO ? A sex offender determined to keep his name off the state Megan's Law website hired a leading criminal appellate lawyer and lodged a constitutional claim that has reached the Ninth Circuit U...

MS - Biloxi officer (Darian LLewellyn Anderson) indicted in sexual battery of a minor

Posted on February 18, 2011
Original Article 02/17/2011 By MARGARET BAKER BILOXI -- A veteran Biloxi police officer who resigned in 2010 amid an investigation into alleged misconduct has been indicted on a charge of sexual battery of a minor. Darian LLewellyn Anderson, 49, surrendered Friday to Harrison County sheriff?s investigators...

TX - Sexting

Posted on February 18, 2011
Video Description: Press send and now you are registered as a Sex-Offender for the rest of your life. Sexting is about how our youth is being punished and given harsh sentences in the state of Texas. Help spread the word about sexting now, and later we can stop destroying lives...

MI - Picking out predators? Sex list no help!

Posted on February 17, 2011
Original Article 02/17/2011 By Ken Kolker GRAND RAPIDS (WOOD) - [name withheld] and his brother, [name withheld], live together on Grand Rapids' southwest side -- and both are listed on the sex offender registry. [name withheld] performed oral sex on a 12-year-old boy; [name withheld] molested a young relative -- details not available on Michigan's registry Web site...

LA - Girl says she traded sex for jail privileges with guards (Floyd Howard, Darwin Brown, Angelo Vickers, Christopher Turner)

Posted on February 17, 2011
Original Article 02/17/2011 By Eric Heisig HOUMA ? A teenage girl testified Wednesday that she performed sexual favors for guards at Terrebonne's juvenile lockup in exchange for privileges. Her testimony came in the second day of a trial for two former Terrebonne Parish Juvenile Detention Center guards...

FL - Sex Offenders Living In Woods To Be Evicted

Posted on February 17, 2011
Original Article Legislature who do not think or read laws, pass unconstitutional laws creating homelessness, and forcing people to live in the woods, then the police come along and kick them out of their only home. Once again, their real goal is to put them all in prison, that is obvious, except if they are other cops committing sex crimes...

GA - Subcommittee approves bill to restrict limits on photographing children

Posted on February 16, 2011
Original Article 02/15/2011 By Walter C. Jones ATLANTA -- A subcommittee gave its approval Tuesday to a bill that would allow people to take photographs of children without a parent?s permission as long as they?re not on the state?s sex-offender registry...

LA - Federal lawsuit challenges sex offender registration for prostitutes

Posted on February 16, 2011
Original Article 02/16/2011 By Laura Maggi People who must register as sex offenders because they were convicted of engaging in oral or anal sex for money filed a lawsuit against state officials last night, arguing the requirement is unconstitutional and discriminatory...

UK - Sex offender registration appeals to go ahead

Posted on February 16, 2011
Original Article View the two videos at the link above. 02/16/2011 Thousands of sex offenders in England and Wales are set to be given the right to appeal against having to register with the police for life. See AlsoWhen is a sex offender not a risk? David Cameron condemns supreme court ruling on sex offenders Sex offender ruling prompts 'imminent' human rights review Home Secretary Theresa May said the government would make the "minimum possible changes" to comply with a 2010 Supreme Court ruling...

WY - Wyoming teen sex registry bill moves forward

Posted on February 16, 2011
Original Article 02/15/2011 By JOSHUA WOLFSON CASPER ? A bill that would require teenagers who commit violent sex crimes to register as sex offenders cleared a state legislative committee Monday. Under the legislation, neighbors, school officials and law enforcement would be notified of certain juvenile sex offenders living in the community...

CA - Berryhill Pushes Sex Offender Legislation

Posted on February 15, 2011
Original Article 02/15/2011 By B.J. Hansen Sacramento - District 14 Senator Tom Berryhill is co-authoring a series of laws aimed at cracking down on sex offenders. The bills would require that sex offenders that have committed a crime against a child to receive a mark on their driver's license or ID card...

AL - Federal appeals court says former Alabama district attorney (John Pilati) must register as sex offender

Posted on February 14, 2011
Original Article 02/14/2011 By Kent Faulk A federal appeals court today ordered that a former Alabama district attorney will have to register as a sex offender when he is released from prison next month. Former Franklin County District Attorney John Pilati was sentenced in March 2008 to serve 42 months in prison for fondling five men -- ages 17 to 20 years old -- during searches while he was serving as prosecutor in that northwest Alabama county...

GA - Drivers licences may soon identify some convicted criminals

Posted on February 14, 2011
Original Article 02/11/2011 By Tina Terry AUGUSTA - Georgia lawmakers are considering a bill designed to protect police officers from criminals. The law would require certain convicted felons to have a code placed on their drivers license. The idea is to help prepare police officers during routine traffic stops...

SC - Sex Offender Residency Laws are now enforceable with OffenderWatch

Posted on February 14, 2011
And like usual, their presentation they are using shows the bogus "50% of sex offenders re-offend!" See here for more on Offender Watch.

The pursuit of safety - Sex offender policy in the United States

Posted on February 14, 2011
Original Article 09/01/2008 By Tracy Vel�zquez While high-profile sex crimes routinely grab headlines, the question of how well current sex offense laws are working rarely has been examined. This report provides an overview of sex offense policies, identifying key trends and examining what is known about the effectiveness of different approaches at meeting their aims...

VT - Vermont Mulls Ban on Aliases Online for Sex Offenders

Posted on February 12, 2011
Original Article Senator Urges Facebook to Change its Pseudonym Policy to Protect the Identity of Activists, Protesters 02/11/2011 By DAVE GRAM Vermont lawmakers consider ban on sex offenders using false names on social networking sites Vermont lawmakers are considering making it a crime for convicted sex offenders to use false names on social media sites like Facebook, after one such incident was reported in the state...

PA - Bill passed in state house to toughen Megan's Law

Posted on February 12, 2011
Original Article 02/12/2011 State Rep. Thomas Caltagirone, a Democrat from Berks County, said the House unanimously passed legislation that would close a loophole in state law to require convicted sex offenders who are homeless to register with Megan's Law...

IN - Former cop (William Hinesley III) gets 25 years in molesting

Posted on February 11, 2011
Original Article 02/11/2011 MARTINSVILLE (WISH) - A former sheriff's deputy from Morgan County was sentenced Thursday for child molesting. William Hinesley III, a former sheriff's deputy, will now spend the next 25 years in prison. The case started just more than three years ago when 43-year-old Hinesley was accused of having sex with his then 13-year-old foster daughter...

It's Time For Our Nation To Be Smart on Crime

Posted on February 11, 2011
Original Article Click the link above to see more videos and the rest of the article. Smart on Crime: Recommendations for the Administration and Congress provides the 112th Congress and the Obama administration with analysis of the problems plaguing our state and federal criminal justice systems and a series of recommendations to address these failures...

NACDL - The Problem of Overcriminalization

Posted on February 10, 2011
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SC - Are sex offender policies keeping you safer?

Posted on February 10, 2011
Original Article 02/10/2011 By Cleve Bryan They move among us in our daily lives. Thieves, murderers and other convicted criminals finished with prison pass us in the grocery store or running the bridge and we have no way of knowing who they are by sight...

NE - Sex Offender Registry challenge gets federal court date

Posted on February 10, 2011
Original Article 02/10/2011 By Ben Schwartz When it went into effect on Jan. 1, 2010, the updated Nebraska Sex Offender Registry Law caused an immediate sensation in Nebraska. The bill, espoused by Attorney General Jon Bruning to protect children, toughened penalties for convicted sex offenders and extended some penalties to people previously convicted as well...

OFF TOPIC - CT - Looney Proposes Gun Offender Registry

Posted on February 10, 2011
Original Article Like I've said many times, if a registry is okay for one group, then it should be done for all criminals, and all on one registry. Each new registry proposed, wastes tons of money, and if they put all criminals on one registry, it would save a ton of money...

KS - Kansas considers increasing buffer zone to 2,000 feet, and marking sex offender drivers licenses!

Posted on February 10, 2011
Original Article 02/10/2011 By JIM SULLINGER When a convicted sex offender from California moved 200 feet from Scarborough Elementary School last year, it upset an entire Olathe neighborhood. Neighbors mobilized to get the man to move away and see that a similar situation didn?t happen somewhere else...

KS - Judge sets $1 million bond in slaying case - Woman (Misty N. Cullens) murders a sex offender

Posted on February 10, 2011
Original Article 02/08/2011 By Steve Fry A 25-year-old woman arrested in the shooting death Monday of a man at an East Topeka duplex would have to post a $1 million bond in order to be released from jail, a Shawnee County District Court judge ruled Tuesday...

CA - Cops begin enforcing homeless laws again

Posted on February 10, 2011
Original Article I guess since a growing number of sex offenders in California are made homeless due to the draconian laws, they will just start rounding up the sex offenders and throwing them in jail/prison? 02/10/2011 By Juliette Vara SAN DIEGO -- The city of San Diego has reached an agreement that will let police ticket and arrest homeless people who sleep on the street for the first time in about five years, city officials said Wednesday...

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