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FL- Miami-Dade sued over sex-offender housing law

Posted on July 09, 2009
7-9-2009 Florida:The ACLU of Florida on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging a Miami-Dade County ordinance that attempts to remove homeless sex offenders who live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway.The county's 2,500-foot residency restriction conflicts with state law, which makes it unlawful for convicted sex offenders to live within 1,000 feet of a school, day-care center, park or playground,

IL- Can sex offenders live in county home? Yes

Posted on July 08, 2009
7-7-2009 Illinois:The male resident who molested 10 female residents earlier this year at the La Salle County Nursing Home is no longer there, having been taken to an unidentified psychiatric facility.However, according to records, a registered sex offender lives in the county home...

The Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act and DOC Placement of Folks Under Bridges

Posted on July 08, 2009
7-7-2009 Florida:A educational walk through the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act.In Florida right now there are over 75 men and one woman living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway bridge. The majority of them have been told by the Florida Department of Corrections, Parole or Probation Division, that the is where they must live; key "told where they must live...

NJ- Millville repealing sex offender law

Posted on July 08, 2009
7-8-2009 New Jersey: MILLVILLE - City commission on Tuesday unanimously approved the first step toward repealing its long-suspended sex offender residency restriction law following a New Jersey Supreme Court decision in May striking down local ordinances that attempt to regulate where convicted sex offenders can live once released from incarceration...

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IN- Ex-sex offender hopeful after residency ruling

Posted on July 08, 2009
7-8-2009 Indiana:Two summers ago, nearly 30 Tippecanoe County sex offenders who had victimized children received hand-delivered letters stating that they had to move or else be criminally charged with a Class D felony.The letters were in response to a statute, passed in 2006, prohibiting such sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a school, public park or youth program center...

MI- Release of Lansing sex sting police reports raises concerns about disclosure of HIV status

Posted on July 07, 2009
7-7-2009 Michigan:Critics say details of arrested man's health should have been redacted; unauthorized release of such information may be unlawfulLANSING ? Buried at the end of one of the arrest reports from a controversial May 22 sex-sting operation in the capital city?s Fenner Nature Center is information that one of the men arrested was HIV positive...

OK- Oklahoma Corrections Department lacks funding to help sex offenders

Posted on July 07, 2009
7-7-2009 Oklahoma:Inmates being released before getting treated, state officials saySex offenders are likely being released from Oklahoma prisons without any treatment to curb their criminal behavior, a state Corrections Department official says. Oklahoma only has space for 55 inmates in the treatment program for sex offenders, who number more than 3,000 in state prisons...

NY- Sex offender fights police visits

Posted on July 07, 2009
This man is absolutely correct, there is nothing in state or federal law that permits home visits, the law requires the registrant to verify at predetermined intervals.7-7-2009 New York:In a case that could affect how closely sex offenders are monitored, a Town of Poughkeepsie man who allegedly paid a mother so he could have sex with her underage daughters in Manhattan may file a $100 million

OH- Update on law sought

Posted on July 07, 2009
7-7-2009 Ohio:Sex offenders subject of Senate debateWARREN - Residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities could get official word if a sex offender moves into the home under new legislation introduced this month by State Sen. Capri Cafaro, D-Hubbard...

States struggle to comply with sex offender database

Posted on July 07, 2009
Hopefully states struggle real hard because this law was written as though there never were any state laws or state constitutions to worry about. Effectively the Adam Walsh Act (written by a select few in Congress and a Secret Service Agent, passed under suspension of the rules with 20 or so present) tells states to ignore all state law and constitution except the fact that certain people were

NV- Detective Shot Suspect in the Back

Posted on July 07, 2009
The original story is here, and the real witness' version:7-7-2009 Nevada:The Clark County Coroner's Office is correcting the cause of death in the shooting death of a suspected child molester.Police say 32-year-old John Paul Hambleton ran and fought with 30-year-old Officer Jeremy Hendricks as Hendricks tried to arrest him...

KY- Prosecutors in Child Pornography Case to Seize Residence

Posted on July 07, 2009
7-7-2009 Kentucky:Prosecutors in the Eastern District of Kentucky don't just want to put Joseph Robert Leitner in prison for years. The federal government wants his house.Leitner, 62, pleaded guilty last week to charges that he possessed more than 30,000 images of child pornography, and he agreed to give up his home in the Chevy Chase subdivision of Lexington, court records show...

Should Minors Ever Face Life Without Parole?

Posted on July 07, 2009
7-7-2009 National:Four years ago the high court decided no minor should face the death penalty. Now it's poised to determine if youths should face life without a chance of parole.The Supreme Court's 2005 decision in Roper v. Simmons struck down the death penalty for juveniles, citing the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment...

CA- Murphy's Law: Bad legislation comes back to haunt author

Posted on July 06, 2009
7-6-2009 California:Sometimes bad laws have a way of coming back to bite the people most responsible for enacting them. That's the case with state Sen. George Runner, the principal sponsor of Proposition 83, the 2006 initiative popularly known as Jessica's Law, which voters approved overwhelmingly...

FL- Child porn's dirty secret: Dads often behind lens

Posted on July 06, 2009
7-6-2009 Florida:TAMPA - He told his young daughter he was going to make her a model.He shot pictures of her in skimpier and skimpier outfits.And when she slept, the Tampa man photographed himself molesting her.He created a Web site, charging strangers to view graphic photos of his daughter...

NJ- Acquitted in court, Edison man faces new challenges as he rebuilds his life

Posted on July 06, 2009
7-6-2009 New Jersey:Bruce Nealous knew he wasn't guilty.His wife, children and friends believed he wasn't guilty.Perhaps most importantly, a jury believed it, too.But nearly a month after Nealous walked free from a Middlesex County courtroom -- vindicated in theory -- the 48-year-old Edison man is finding it difficult to repair a life that's come undone and a reputation in tatters...

Why a Bill of Rights?

Posted on July 06, 2009
There is nothing wrong with the constitution as conceived, the Bill of Rights being part of it, the problem today is, those who read it with in ways that pervert it. The sad thing is, we all elected them...7-6-2009 National:Why did the founders of our nation give us the Bill of Rights? The answer is easy...

Pornography outlawed in Ukraine, unless it's ?medicinal?

Posted on July 06, 2009
7-6-2009 Ukraine:Possession of pornography is now a criminal offense in Ukraine, Lenta.ru reports, after Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed a law to that effect today. Human rights activists and members of the Ukrainian artistic community had asked the president to veto the law...

FL- Broward's Solution To The Tuttle Causeway Condundrum

Posted on July 06, 2009
7-6-2009 Florida:The task force assigned to sort through the difficulties associated with the myriad of sex offender residence restrictions and offer up recommendations for the Broward County Commission has released a draft of its findings. It's a thoughtful compilation that ought to resonate beyond Broward and into Miami-Dade County, where overreaching statutes have created the homeless mess

IL- A lurid past and a looming law limits teen sex offender's future

Posted on July 05, 2009
7-5-2009 Illinois:Teen sex offender who turned his life around finds his crime hard to shake -- and a federal law could make it even harderTim is 19, freshly graduated from high school, and like many people his age he's nervous about leaving home. He's not quite sure where he will go, what he will do -- or if the secret he has guarded for much of his life will be exposed...

OH- Judge hears first sex offender to offer challenge

Posted on July 05, 2009
7-5-2009 Ohio:LISBON - The first sex offender to challenge new classification requirements last year finally had his case heard by a judge, who said he should be designated Tier I, the level with the least requirements.Brendan McClaskey, who lived in the Salem when he filed his case, received notification from the state in December 2007 that he was being reclassified as a sexual oriented

CA- Banks must disclose facts that affect their properties

Posted on July 05, 2009
7-5-2009 California:QUESTION: I'm purchasing a bank-owned property (REO). What are the seller (bank) obligations regarding disclosure requirements for REO sales?ANSWER: Although banks that acquire a property through foreclosure may be exempt from certain California requirements, such as the Transfer Disclosure Statement, they are not automatically exempt from all other disclosures...

VT- State sex registry change spurs objections

Posted on July 05, 2009
A logical thought, if the state is retroactively applying this law to include xx more former offenders, then I guess the TERM of the registry should be calculated from the date of conviction, and not from the date this law was enacted. Whats good for the goose is good for the gander, right? EX: If the term is 15 years on the registry, and the conviction was 20 years ago, then that person is not

NE- Posters Hung Falsely Identifying Man as Sex Offender

Posted on July 05, 2009
Someone gets mad at another person and then calls them a "sex offender" because they know that label will inflict harm on that person in every facet of their life.On the sex offender registry is this warning:"Sex offender registry information shall not be used to retaliate against the registrants, their families, or their employers in any way...

NY- Woman accused of targeting girl, 9, with Craigslist ad

Posted on July 05, 2009
This should be a felony! Given that she placed a child at risk there is no doubt in my mind that she belongs on the state's "central registry" a registry of those who have placed children in harms way!Further, look close at the pic, why does Craigslist not show the age of the POSTER of the ad? There is a place for it...

NY- Study could ease concerns over hiring ex-offenders

Posted on July 05, 2009
See Carnegie Mellon info (and contact person) about the study below the USA Today news article. Also, while I am quite sure the result of the study would also be applicable to sex offenders, they are exempted from the Second Chance Act. However, if sex offenders had this study it is likely it would help them convince a potential employer to hire them...

In Prisoners? Wake, a Tide of Troubled Kids

Posted on July 05, 2009
7-6-2009 National:WASHINGTON ? Herbert Rashad Scott, whose parents were in and out of prison throughout his childhood, vowed to break his family?s cycle of self-destruction.The circumstances were not promising. Mr. Scott, 20, was awaiting sentencing for drug possession and robbery, but he was allowed supervised release from jail in May to attend a job preparation class ? a chance to turn his

PA- Court suggests lawmakers address Megan's Law loophole for homeless

Posted on July 05, 2009
The journalist claims, in two cases of homeless offenders where neither while homeless committed any offense whatsoever, were charged with failure to register and the courts holding that, due to the wording of the law they did not have to register. It seems to be that the legislature's silence screams that there is no public safety issue under these circumstances and therefore no change is

OR- Center angers 4-H Club parents

Posted on July 05, 2009
Absolute proof that the public is not capable of making decisions that is best for all concerned. The public is too biased and full of irrational prejudices.7-5-2009 Oregon:A treatment program for sex offenders has been next to the local youth office for 15 yearsThe Lane County sex offender treatment center has been located on West 13th Avenue for 15 years...

MI- Barbara Levine: Learn the facts about parole process

Posted on July 05, 2009
7-5-2009 Michigan:With controversial prison closures nearing and more prisoners being released, Derek Melot's June 30 column addressed the importance of telling the public who is being paroled. It noted the Oakland County prosecutor's request for a list of prisoners who will be considered this year...

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