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NY - Inmates' rights protected - Middletown lawyers win statewide guarantees

Posted on November 12, 2008
View the article here 11/12/2008 By Oliver Mackson - Times Herald-Record ALBANY ? Two Middletown lawyers have reached an agreement with the state attorney general that will change the way state prison inmates receive sex-offender counseling. The lawyers, civil rights specialists Robert Isseks and Alex Smith, represent prisoners throughout the state who are covered by a 7-year-old class action lawsuit, which was filed in U...

PA - Nude student pics on cell phones

Posted on November 12, 2008
View the article here So my question, what gave the superintendent permission to violate someones privacy and search their phone and personal records? Yes, child porn should be eradicated, if possible, but violating someones rights, is wrong! 11/12/2008 By Mark Guydish (mguydish@timesleader...

PA - Police not likely to enforce city's sex offender law

Posted on November 12, 2008
View the article here 11/12/2008 By Marcia Moore - The Daily Item DA advises following state regulations, chief says SUNBURY -- A Florida man seems to be violating a Sunbury ordinance by living in a city hotel while awaiting word on whether he'll be allowed back home to serve 12 years of probation for a sex crime in Snyder County, but the city police chief said he does not intend to file charges against him...

CA - Sex Offender Attacks News Crews

Posted on November 12, 2008
View the article here View more comments from eAdvocate My question is, why does the media think it's their job, and not the police, to track down a sex offender? They could've been killed. This is a job for the police, not the vigilante media or public...

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UT - Students on school bus help catch sex offender

Posted on November 12, 2008
View the article here Congratulations, this is how it should be done. Teach your kids! 11/11/2008 By Cleon Wall Murray police are giving a bus load of teenagers the credit for helping catch an over-exposed sex offender. The Murray High students were on a bus at the intersection of 4800 South and State Street when a man pulled up in his car and held up a sign...

CO - Naughty but nice - Naked pumpkin runners dont deserve sex-offender status

Posted on November 12, 2008
View the article here You see, people are ok punishing people, until they are the ones being punished. If a person is labeled a sex offender for streaking, urinating in public, or having consensual sex when they are young, then, the law is the law, and they should be punished as well...

WI - Offender at the Bus Stop

Posted on November 12, 2008
View the article here Thanks to one sided media like this, the moral panic and mass hysteria continue to grow! 11/11/2008 James Walton. Michael Douville. Patrick Davis. Three men. One thing in common. They're convicted child sex offenders who live just two blocks from a school bus stop in Green Bay...

IN - Judge upholds Jeff sex offender ban

Posted on November 12, 2008
View the article here Since sex offenders and everyone else pays taxes on parks, do sex offenders who cannot use them, get a tax break? They should! 11/10/2008 A judge in Clark County has upheld the constitutionality of a Jeffersonville ordinance preventing convicted sex offenders from using the city?s parks...

FL - Former Rep. Mark Foley defiant, apologetic in interview

Posted on November 12, 2008
View the article here 11/12/2008 By Jim Turner (Contact) At times fighting tears, former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley repeatedly apologized for letting down his family, friends and constituents, but refused to be classified a pedophile, in his first interview since resigning from office on the eve of the 2006 election...

TX - Criminals, advocates target Texas parole restrictions as unfair to low-level offenders

Posted on November 12, 2008
View the article here 11/12/2008 By DIANE JENNINGS / The Dallas Morning News It's called Condition X: tough restrictions on the way some criminals, mostly paroled sex offenders, must live once they're out of prison. Condition X determines the minutiae of their daily lives ? whether they can visit a school or attend church; whether they can live with their families or in an apartment with a swimming pool; whether they can access the Internet, work at a convenience store, even whom they can date or marry...

GA - Sex offenders, as well as victims, need love of church to rehabilitate

Posted on November 12, 2008
View the article here 11/13/2008 By CHARLES OHRENSCHALL As a Christian, I believe firmly in the power of redemption. My life and my faith are enriched through service to my church community, particularly in reaching out to the marginalized and the oppressed...

IL - Exclusive: Ted Haggard Breaks His Silence

Posted on November 12, 2008
View the article here Related Article I find it ironic, that this, and the Mark Foley article, comes out the same day, and it sounds very similar to Mark's confession. 11/12/2008 By DAN HARRIS and LEE FERRAN Haggard Claims He Had Sexual Experience With Man at 7 Years Old Ted Haggard, the disgraced former evangelical leader, recently broke his silence on the second anniversary of the scandal that brought him down...

OFF TOPIC - Why Do Kids Kill?

Posted on November 12, 2008
View the article here 11/12/2008 By RUSSELL GOLDMAN 8-Year-Old's Killing Spree Raises Questions About Why Children Murder Investigators are still piecing together exactly what took place in an eastern Arizona home, where an 8-year-old boy allegedly shot and killed his father and another man, systematically reloading a rifle and firing at close range...

OFF TOPIC - LA - KKK Members Charged In Internet Murder

Posted on November 12, 2008
View the article here Racist, the new online predators, not counting the vigilantes, gangs, identity thieves, hackers, etc... 11/12/2008 NEW ORLEANS -- An Oklahoma woman who was lured over the Internet to take part in a Ku Klux Klan initiation was shot and killed after the ritual went awry, and the group tried to cover it up by dumping her body on a rural roadside and setting her belongings aflame, authorities said...

AU - The sex offenders? challenge

Posted on November 11, 2008
View the CharterBlog article here 11/11/2008 My guess last post was right. (Of course, presumably the whole legal community knew this, but not me.) It?s on!: Two convicted sex offenders are invoking Victoria?s human rights charter to appeal against being given an extended supervision order in what is a legal first...

Texas Voices - Radio - Welcome to Texas Voices!

Posted on November 11, 2008
Visit the Radio Site | Visit Texas Voices Texas Voices supports the prevention of child sexual abuse through carefully structured laws that target violent, forced, and/or dangerous predatory acts of sex against children. Existing laws encompass a wide range of offenders and require the exact same resources be used for both violent, dangerous offenders and those whose offenses were neither violent, forced, or dangerous...

TX - Teen sex outlawed?

Posted on November 11, 2008
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IN - Indiana seeks input on stopping sexual violence

Posted on November 11, 2008
View the article here 11/11/2008 Indianapolis - Losing a job and other economic uncertainties carry an added threat besides finding ways to pay the rent or grocery bills. For some women, and a few men, the pressure also raises the threat of rape and other sexual violence, experts said as the state prepared this week to hold 10 regional forums aimed at uncovering the social attitudes and other factors that contribute to sexual violence and finding ways to prevent it...

CA - Salem High sex photos spurs meeting

Posted on November 11, 2008
View the article here 11/11/2008 SALEM - Obscene photos of underage students circulated at Salem High School last week, but a meeting for parents last night focused on keeping their children safe in a high-tech world. The sexually explicit photos were sent by students via cell phone before one brought it to the attention of an administrator Wednesday...

GA - Update on Hearing this Week

Posted on November 11, 2008
Friends, We hope this finds you well. We have received many emails from you requesting information about the hearing this week and wanted to provide some information to this extent. The Court scheduled a hearing for November 13 to hear arguments, primarily on two limited issues: the Plaintiffs' preliminary injunction to prevent the State from criminalizing protected religious activity and the preliminary injunction to keep our first named plaintiff, Wendy Whitaker, from being evicted from her home...

OH - Village of Waterville halts sex-offender proposal

Posted on November 11, 2008
View the article here This is unusual, but I applaud the people for complaining against the draconian laws! 11/11/2008 By CARL RYAN - BLADE STAFF WRITER Residents pack meeting Responding to a tidal wave of complaints from citizens, Waterville Village Council voted 6-1 last night against adopting an ordinance that would restrict where registered sex offenders could live in the village...

MS - Mayor, ex-guard ask for trial delay

Posted on November 11, 2008
View the article here 11/11/2008 By Chris Joyner - chris.joyner@jackson.gannett.com Judge to rule today Attorneys for Jackson Mayor Frank Melton and his former police bodyguard, Michael Recio, pleaded Monday for another two weeks to read thousands of pages of evidence federal prosecutors provided last week...

You Might Be a Sex Offender If?

Posted on November 11, 2008
View the article here 11/11/2008 By Derek ?The Fallen One? Logue One of the prevailing myths in society is that everyone on registries are all violent rapists or pedophiles. However, landing on a sex offender registry (or even the prospect of landing on the registry) is a very real threat...

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Posted on November 11, 2008

ME - Effectiveness of Sex Offender Registries Explored By Legislators

Posted on November 10, 2008
View the article here 09/29/2008 By Reported by: A.J. Higgins As the lawsuits pile up in the state's courts over the constitutionality of Maine's sex offender registry laws, members of the Legislature and other key state leaders met today for a day-long conference on national sex offender policies in general and the effectiveness of registries in particular...

FL - Floridians for Reform of Sex Offender Laws

Posted on November 10, 2008
This comment was posted here Floridians for the Reform of Sex Offender Laws is the affliate group of reformsexoffenderlaws.org. We are currently organizing in Florida and need volunteers to help in anyway they can. Write letters, contact media, educate the public and anything else we can think of to change these laws that are punishing not only the offender but their families...

OH - Waterville may restrict sex offenders' neighborhoods

Posted on November 10, 2008
View the article here 11/10/2008 By CARL RYAN - BLADE STAFF WRITER Waterville Village Council will consider a proposed ordinance tonight that would restrict where registered sex offenders can live in the village. The ordinance, if enacted, would bar sex offenders from living in large parts of Waterville within 1,000 feet of day-care centers and parks...

FL - Sex Offenders Still Call Miami Bridge Home

Posted on November 10, 2008
View the article here 11/10/2008 MIAMI -- Despite being told to leave almost a year ago, several sex offenders are still calling the Julia Tuttle Bridge home. In March 2007, Local 10 learned that sex offenders were living under the bridge by order of their probation officers...

OK - Kids Having Kids: Teen Pregnancy in Oklahoma

Posted on November 09, 2008
View the article here Read the rest of the story, at the link above, or see the video below. 09/03/2008 Reported by: Kaci Christian - Email: kacichristian@fox23.com John McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate has propelled a controversial issue into the spotlight: teen pregnancy...

President-Elect Obama Launches Internet Portal to Advise and Listen to the People

Posted on November 09, 2008
Courtesy of eAdvocate 11/09/2008 On Thursday President-Elect Obama's transition team established a website Change.Gov to both, announce what is transpiring, AND, to listen to folks across the nation. His website has various sections Newsroom, Blog, Learn, Agenda, American Moment, America Serves, Jobs (w/his administration), and the ABOUT section...

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