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Will Texas Be Safe for Romeos and Juliets?

By "eAdvocate"

1-15-2011 Texas: According to the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee, the state should go its own way when it comes to the registration and monitoring of sex offenders. In its interim study report released last week, the committee, chaired by Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, recommends that the state unbind itself from federal laws that provide for minimum offender registration requirements ? clearing the way for the state to devise its own methods of assessing the risks individual offenders pose to the community at large and (finally) allowing the state to create a much-needed path to allowing qualified offenders off the list. As of Jan. 6, there were 64,565 names on the state's sex offender registry, which is maintained by the Department of Public Safety...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on January 15, 2011 (boomark / email).