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Attorney general says sex offender law will stand up to challenge

Posted on December 18, 2009
12-18-2009 Nebraska:OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Attorney General Jon Bruning says he's not threatened by a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of recent revisions to the state's sex offender registry law.Bruning says the concepts included in the changes passed by lawmakers earlier this year have withstood challenges in other states, including in federal courts...

One-Third of Online Americans Use Social Media for Health

Posted on December 18, 2009
When RSOs are denied access to the Internet and Social Networks, this is the type of information that is denied to them and to their families. 12-18-2009 National:While medical professionals remain a keystone of the US healthcare delivery system, patients and caregivers are empowering themselves in record numbers when it comes to managing their own health and the health of their families, according to new data from Manhattan Research, which revealed that the internet surpassed physicians as the most popular health resource for the first time last year...

Update: 2 arrested in slayings of missing men

Posted on December 18, 2009
12-18-2009 Alabama:GADSDEN, AL (WAFF) ? Etowah County Sheriff's Department will hold a press conference Thursday morning to discuss information on the human remains found believed to be those of two missing men and the Attalla couple arrested in connection with the slayings...

Cyber Lives of Teens Pose New Parenting Challenge

Posted on December 18, 2009
12-18-2009 National:When she was 13, Susan -- not her real name -- fell victim to cyber bullying.One of her friends on Facebook posted a picture of actor Robert Pattinson, of "Twilight" fame. Susan left a lukewarm comment, saying the "Twilight" novels (which spawned the movies) were fine, but there were other, more interesting books to read...

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Piedmond doctor pleads no contest to sex sting charge

Posted on December 18, 2009
12-18-2009 California:Piedmont oncologist Dr. Maurice Wolin, who challenged his prosecution in connection with a sexual predator sting operation in Petaluma in August 2006, pleaded no contest this afternoon in Sonoma County Superior Court to attempting to commit a lewd or lascivious act with a child under age 14...

Lawsuit challenging Neb. sex offender law

Posted on December 18, 2009
12-18-2009 Nebraska:OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A federal lawsuit is challenging the constitutionality of Nebraska's sex offender registry law.The lawsuit filed by nearly two dozen unnamed eastern Nebraska residents says the recently revised Nebraska Sex Offender Registration Act infringes on rights guaranteed by the state and federal constitutions...

2 sex offender cases to be reviewed

Posted on December 18, 2009
12-18-2009 Ohio:The Ohio Supreme Court accepted two Richland County sex offender reclassification cases for review Wednesday.Jeffrey Elko and Dennis McGuire are challenging their classifications by the Ohio attorney general, under the Adam Walsh Act...

Former St. Joseph County officer sentenced on sex charge

Posted on December 18, 2009
12-18-2009 Indiana:A judge today approved a binding plea agreement allowing a former St. Joseph County home detention officer to avoid prison for a sex crime against an offender.St. Joseph Superior Judge Jerome Frese accepted the agreement that prosecutors reached with Andre Lawson last month...

Kiddie porn: Risky to ignore

Posted on December 18, 2009
12-18-2009 National:From: "In the news by Karen Franklin"Let's say you are a defense attorney assigned a criminal case that has nothing to do with sex. A garden-variety case of robbery and murder. No rape, no pedophilia, nothing sexual at all.You might want to think about sex, anyway...

Changes needed in bill barring sex offenders from health care jobs

Posted on December 17, 2009
Here is something very interesting and typical of lawmakers whose goal is 15 minutes of fame and voters supporting them. First, in the comments to the article is one from Rep. Jones, he says: "" The ACLU was "blowing smoke" at the committee. The law is clearly aimed at adults who commit horrible crimes...

Lee sex offender ordinance language deemed too vague by judges

Posted on December 17, 2009
Two issues are relevant:1) If it takes a judge and a couple of lawyers to decide whether or not a person violated a law, then the person is innocent simply because laws are supposed to be written so that "a reasonable man/woman" can understand them; this one is not easily understood from how it is written;2) There is no proof that "children regularly congregate" anywhere, their parents may take them to places (designed by adults to attract or lure children to come...

Another day, another story from Mich.?s sex offender registry dragnet

Posted on December 17, 2009
Concerning the "force or coercion" there are a few possibilities why this could be wrong: 1) Most likely is, the information for the registry is inputted by local police and they could have skipped reading his file at all (time consuming); 2) It may have to do with the way he was charged, the specific MCL code used and his attorney didn't pick it up...

Ex-con faces year in jail for living in location police approved

Posted on December 17, 2009
12-17-2009 Michigan:A man who was convicted of sexual assault for having sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend when he was 17 faces a year in jail for living too close to a school -- even though he says police told him the location was acceptable.By many people's standards, Matthew Freeman shouldn't even be on a sex offenders' registry for having sex with his girlfriend, two years his junior, when they were teenagers...

Editorial: Sex offender laws flawed

Posted on December 17, 2009
The bigger issue is not what this editorial thinks, rather it is, where does the state -OR- local officials derive their authority to modify -even collaterally- the criminal sentence after the fact by adding -civil sanctions- which are not applied accross the board to all folks convicted of crimes...

Court: Ark. guard must pay inmate for retaliation

Posted on December 17, 2009
A rare time when the truth is revealed, judge was kind about perjury issue... 12-17-2009 Arkansas:An Arkansas prison guard accused of moving a prisoner to a mosquito-infested cell in retaliation for a grievance filed by the inmate must pay him $2,500, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday...

Judge overturns part of state sex offender law

Posted on December 17, 2009
12-17-2009 North Carolina:Pittsboro, N.C. ? A judge in Chatham County ruled Thursday that part of the state law restricting the activities of registered sex offenders is to too vague to be enforced, and he declared it unconstitutional.Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour also dismissed criminal charges against two men who had been indicted under the law because they were around children while attending church...

Judge rules NC sex offender law unconstitutional

Posted on December 17, 2009
12-17-2009 North Carolina:PITTSBORO, N.C. -- A judge has ruled that a North Carolina law limiting sex offenders' ability to worship is unconstitutional.Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour (bah-'DOO-er) ruled Thursday that two parts of the law aimed at protecting children from child molesters are too vague and broad...

Rights group condemns execution of juvenile offender in Iran

Posted on December 17, 2009
12-17-2009 Iran:Amnesty International on Thursday condemned the execution of a juvenile offender in Iran, which constituted at least the fifth such execution in 2009.Mosleh Zamani was hanged this morning at Dizel Abad Prison in the western city of Kermanshah, along with four other unidentified prisoners, said the London-based human rights organization...

Court orders Google to turn over blogger identity information

Posted on December 16, 2009
12-16-2009 New York:New York State Supreme Court Judge Joan Madden ordered Google to turn over account information about an anonymous blogger to model Liskula Cohen in order to enable her to pursue a claim of defamation. The blogger had used Google's blogging service to create a blog entitled "Skanks in NYC" and had posted derogatory pictures and references to the model...

FBI still probing Cleveland suspect?s Okinawa activities

Posted on December 16, 2009
12-16-2009 Ohio:The FBI said Tuesday that it is too early to know whether any cold cases at U.S. military facilities on Okinawa are linked to alleged serial killer and former Marine Anthony Sowell.The 50-year-old convicted sex offender is charged with 11 counts of murder and a string of other charges in an 85-count indictment that includes rape, assault and abuse of a corpse after police in Ohio found the decomposing bodies of 11 women at his Cleveland home in October...

Community, shelters help Shore homeless as temperatures dip

Posted on December 16, 2009
12-16-2009 Maryland:OCEAN CITY -- It is mid-December and the weather is getting colder and colder, which can become deadly without a place to hang your hat.Fortunately, there are a lot of kind-hearted people on the Lower Shore who never remain indifferent to the problems of others...

Daily paper and its nonprofit journalism outfit must correct their erroneous sex-offender story

Posted on December 16, 2009
12-16-2009 California:Last week in CityBeat, Kelly Davis reported that an investigation by the local nonprofit journalism outfit The Watchdog Institute, published on Nov. 29 in the Union-Tribune, spread misinformation about sex offenders and Jessica?s Law...

Lee judges: Law restricting sex offender movements too broad

Posted on December 16, 2009
12-16-2009 Florida:A Lee County ordinance that excluded sex offenders from recreational sites like beaches and swimming pools was deemed too broad by a pair of county judges in a ruling released Monday.Yet, judges Radford R. Sturgis and John E. Duryea Jr...

Va. panel refuses to recommend legislation regarding 'sexting'

Posted on December 16, 2009
12-16-2009 Virginia:RICHMOND, Va. -- Members of the Virginia State Crime Commission refused Tuesday to recommend legislation concerning sexting, but the issue is likely to come before lawmakers next month. Currently, it's up to commonwealth's attorneys whether to charge teens and young adults who send sexually explicit pictures or videos through text messages or e-mails with possessing or transmitting child pornography...

New Sex Offender Law Prompts Mistaken Identity Concerns

Posted on December 15, 2009
Here we see one kind of error that can result from registry information (same name similar likeness), but this is rare. The worst error results from someone taking registry information, then posting it elsewhere on the Internet (Secondary Dissemination (SD))...

Truly Homeless Sex Offenders

Posted on December 15, 2009
Even if all registrants of registries wore GPS units, that will do nothing but track them, GPS units do not prevent crime. Additionally, if the police are sitting at a screen watching the dots move around, the screen cannot tell the viewer what the person is doing...

Carr -v- United States Briefs Filed

Posted on December 14, 2009
12-14-2009 US Supreme Court Case:Docket: 08-1301 Issue: Whether a person may be criminally prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. � 2250 for failure to register when the defendant?s underlying offense and travel in interstate commerce both predated the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act?s enactment ; whether the Ex Post Facto Clause precludes prosecution under � 2250(a) of a person whose underlying offense and travel in interstate commerce both predated SORNA?s enactment...

Adultery still a crime in N.H. after 200 years

Posted on December 14, 2009
12-14-2009 New Hampshire:Some lawmakers believe it's time for the law to come off the books CONCORD, N.H. - The original punishments ? including standing on the gallows for an hour with a noose around the neck ? have been softened to a $1,200 fine, yet some lawmakers think it's time for the 200-year-old crime of adultery to come off New Hampshire's books...

Bid to ban serious sex offenders from shelters draws fire

Posted on December 14, 2009
Shelters prohibit registered sex offenders access even in sub-zero temperatures. Lawmakers nationally fail to resolve this issue.. We urge folks to contact your local lawmakers and shelters, and ask them to resolve this issue before another freezes to death...

Fighting Wrongful Convictions

Posted on December 14, 2009
12-14-2009 National:BU law students focus on freeing the innocentStanley Fisher slides open a cabinet door in his office and reveals a couple of file boxes, generic cardboard containers. Inside lies the fate of several souls, New England prisoners who claim they?ve been falsely incarcerated...

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