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Sex offenses, sex offender issues in prison, jail, civil commitment and the community including residency laws. Adam Walsh Act, recidivism, dangerousness, tiers, community issues, harassment, vigilantism, sex offender therapy issues.
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Maryland Sex Offender Denies Killing Kidnapped Girl

Posted on December 30, 2009
12-30-2009 Maryland:SALISBURY, Md. ? An attorney for a man charged in the disappearance of an 11-year-old Maryland girl says his client denies harming the child.Authorities say Sarah Haley Foxwell was abducted from her home last week. Her body was found in the woods on Christmas Day after a search that involved thousands of volunteers...

Decision denies access to sex offender treatment

Posted on December 30, 2009
12-30-2009 New Zealand:Corrections decision denies access to sex offender treatment?The Department of Corrections decision to employ its own clinical psychologist in Nelson, forcing the Nelson Sex Offenders Programme to close, flies in the face of government?s recent announcement about tackling justice sector fragmentation?, says Kim Workman, Director of Rethinking Crime and Punishment...

Treating Sex Offenders

Posted on December 30, 2009
12-30-2009 Utah:All individuals sentenced to prison for a sex offense - both new commitments and parole violators - will receive a treatability assessment from a member of the Sex Offender Treatment Team. The offender's name and the results of the assessment will then be placed on the Department's Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP) tracking list...

Sexual predator law came with price

Posted on December 30, 2009
12-30-2009 Kansas:State lawmakers have shown no enthusiasm for building a proposed $42.5 million, 90-bed expansion of the state's Sexual Predator Treatment Program at Larned State Hospital. And no wonder ? with a $300 million-plus hole in the next state budget, spending even a dollar more on sex offenders seems like a really bad idea...

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Maine sex offender first in US to be committed by federal court

Posted on December 29, 2009
2-13-2009 Maine:A Maine man with a history of sexual assaults on teenage boys was ordered held by a federal judge yesterday as a sexually dangerous person, making him the first person in the country to be successfully committed by a federal court, according to US Attorney Michael J...

Neb. attorneys ask to combine sex offender cases

Posted on December 29, 2009
See earlier posts: HERE -and- HERE -and- HERE -and- HERE. 12-29-2009 Nebraska:OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Attorneys for the state have asked a federal judge to consolidate two cases challenging the constitutionality of Nebraska's new sex offender registry law...

Idaho Supreme Court overturns no-contact order

Posted on December 29, 2009
12-29-2009 Idaho:BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The Idaho Supreme Court has reversed a district court order banning a convicted sex offender from being within 100 feet of any minor, including his two young children.The justices were asked to reconsider a similar decision reached by the Idaho Court of Appeals, which ruled in December 2008 that the order imposed on Brian C...

Senate takes up measure to jam cell phones in prisons

Posted on December 29, 2009
The Senate Bill is S-251 -and- the related House Bill is HR-560 and here is the Senate Report 111-079 - SAFE PRISONS COMMUNICATION ACT OF 2009 12-29-2009 National:WASHINGTON The man calling Texas state Sen. John Whitmire could recite the names, ages and addresses of Whitmires daughters...

Nursing homes with razor wire

Posted on December 28, 2009
12-28-2009 National:Sometime in the 1970s, the United States began a love affair with incarceration that continues to this day. After holding nearly steady for decades, our prison population began to climb as criminal justice policy took a sharply punitive turn, with the massive criminalization of drug use, "three strikes" laws and other harsh sentencing practices...

Removing shoes at courthouse detector upsets county prosecutors

Posted on December 28, 2009
12-28-2009 California: With sensitivity dialed up on the courthouse metal detector, Shasta County's attorneys - prosecutors in particular - are complaining that they now have to take off their shoes more often when they enter the courthouse."For people who have to go to court several times a day, it's a little bit humiliating," said Stew Jankowitz, the county's senior deputy district attorney

When is sexting just a huge mistake and when is it a crime?

Posted on December 28, 2009
12-28-2009 Texas:FORT WORTH, Texas -- Teenagers text-messaging explicit photos of themselves or classmates is undeniably a mammoth lapse in judgment.But is it a crime?It's a question that experts say has confounded law enforcement agencies nationwide as the trend known as "sexting" grows in popularity...

Update: offender plea garners attention

Posted on December 28, 2009
12-28-2009 Georgia:In this economy finding a job is tough, and as a registered sex offender ? it?s almost impossible.The Rome News-Tribune featured Otto Jabar Orr?s predicament as a registered sex offender in October. Orr wants to work with-in the system but is finding that increasingly difficult...

Sex offender registry laws driven by fear, not reason

Posted on December 28, 2009
12-28-2009 Michigan:It is heartening to know that Matthew Freeman ("Pittsfield Twp. man struggles with sex offender label" - Ann Arbor.com, Dec. 15) and others with similar stories are coming forward, and that members of the media are telling of their plight...

New Ill. laws hit texting, cover shoes, not budget

Posted on December 28, 2009
I must admit laws for sex offenders get dumber and dumber, can you imagine how quickly a computer would be rendered useless if worthless temporary files were not deleted. Its like how quickly a car would be destroyed if one never changed the oil. Is there a lawmaker anywhere that knows anything about a computer, or the Internet?12-28-2009 Illinois:While Illinois lawmakers were unable during

Md. girl's death sharpens criticism of sex offender laws

Posted on December 27, 2009
There is nothing more heartbreaking than a story like this, our hearts go out to the family of this little girl. It appears the police have not yet finished gathering evidence so that they can properly charge the offender -alleged to be this Thomas Leggs fellow- with murder along with what they have already charged him with (kidnapping) and anything else that evidence may reveal...

Court wants sex offender law revised

Posted on December 27, 2009
See earlier report for comments and court decision.12-27-2009 Maine:PORTLAND, Maine ? Maine?s highest court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that a 1999 law requiring certain sex offenders to be placed on a sex offender registry for life cannot be applied retroactively...

Walmart reaches settlement in S.C. case involving sex offender

Posted on December 27, 2009
12-27-2009 National:COLUMBIA -- A family's long legal battle against the nation's biggest retailer that helped spark stricter hiring practices companywide to protect child customers from employees with criminal histories has ended with a confidential settlement...

State hears plan to expand sexual predator program

Posted on December 27, 2009
12-27-2009 Kansas:TOPEKA ? In a time where the Kansas Legislature has been asked to cut spending in all areas of state government, the House Building Committee heard a proposal to do just the opposite.Earlier this week, the committee heard a proposal that would spend $42...

Cellphone Searches

Posted on December 26, 2009
12-26-2009 Ohio:The Ohio Supreme Court has struck an important blow for privacy rights, ruling that the police need a warrant to search a cellphone. The court rightly recognized that cellphones today are a lot more than just telephones, that they hold a wealth of personal information and that the privacy interest in them is considerable...

Michigan Faces Constitutional Case Over Cash-Strapped Public Defenders

Posted on December 26, 2009
12-25-2009 Michigan:Are Michigan's public defenders improperly pushing the poor into copping pleas? The Michigan Supreme Court will consider that question this spring when it hears a case challenging how publicly appointed lawyers represent poor criminal defendants...

Study turns sexual predator image upside down

Posted on December 25, 2009
12-25-2009 Korea:The conventional image of a serial sex offender might be a sinister loner with social problems that prevent him from sustaining meaningful relationships.Surprisingly, Korea?s first-ever profiling of 54 serial sex criminals now in prison suggests the opposite...

Fund approved for investigator in baby homicide case

Posted on December 25, 2009
Ultimately this is probably the first case which will be documented, as resulting from an intense psychological fear of a future life under sex offender laws. Where a woman can claim "Battered Woman's Syndrome" based on her past relationship with a man, here "Future Sex offender Life Syndrome" describes what I am eluding to...

Homeless sex offenders may have to wear GPS devices

Posted on December 25, 2009
If there is any truth to the principle that, "if one person of a group/class commits a wrong then all persons of that group/class must be equally punished even those in the past," then, since Mark Foley went bad, this lawmakers ought to be released from his appointed post...

Records shed light on baby killing

Posted on December 25, 2009
Earlier story is HERE. 12-25-2009 Ohio:HAMILTON - Court records shed new light on the case of a Hamilton mother facing the death penalty for allegedly killing her 35-day-old son to avoid being prosecuted for having sex with the boy's underage father.Asuncion Avila-Villa, 26, faces possible execution if convicted - but her lawyers are challenging the constitutionality of Ohio's death-penalty laws,

(Civil Commitment) Program upgrade on outs

Posted on December 25, 2009
12-25-2009 Kansas:Bid to expand state's sexual predator program questionedTOPEKA (AP) ? A proposal by the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services to spend more than $40 million to expand the state's Sexual Predator Treatment Program received a lukewarm response from lawmakers dealing with a budget crisis...

NY Times Editorial: Smart Answers to Recidivism

Posted on December 25, 2009
12-25-2009 National:Faced with soaring prison costs, states are finally focusing on policies that would help former prisoners stay out of jail after they are released. Some legislatures are reshaping laws that land parolees back inside for technical violations that should be dealt with on the outside...

Merry Christmas Folks

Posted on December 25, 2009

Sex offender law faces ruling (Case-1)

Posted on December 24, 2009
12-24-2009 Nebraska:LINCOLN ? A federal judge probably will block parts of Nebraska's new sex offender law from taking effect Jan. 1.U.S. District Court Judge Richard Kopf said he won't issue a ruling until next week. But he indicated at a hearing Wednesday that he was inclined to bar enforcement of two provisions in the law...

9 treating state's sex offenders lose jobs

Posted on December 24, 2009
I need to understand why, why spend millions of dollars on tracking sex offenders -which does not prevent new sex offensaes- and the state cannot spend a dime on treatment which does prevent new sex offenses. It seems to me that, the answer here is to divert some of the funding to PREVENTION if the real goal is to prevent new sex offenses...

Nebraska Cases Challenging Changes Mandated by the Adam Walsh Act

Posted on December 24, 2009
12-24-2009 National:There is no doubt that the Adam Walsh Act is going to cost millions (if not more) just in challenges to states which are/have made changes to comply with AWA which is being mandated by Congress. These costs are not figured into the cost of implementation by any state, but taxpayers will pay the price...

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