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OH- Bill Would Name Sex Offenders Who Live In Nursing Homes

Posted on June 11, 2009
Here we have a lawmaker who fails to address the issues that surround a sex offender's need for a nursing home, looking only at welll known myths and sound bites. One would hope that lawmakers would resolve issues without prejudices and biases such as found here, and look for real resolves to help all those who have needs...

TX- Teen gets 100 years for child sex abuse

Posted on June 11, 2009
This is a cruel and unusual sentence, while his crime are also wrong, two wrongs do not make it right. The teen is recognized as one who "has profound mental disabilities" and therefore is in the wrong court. Hopefully he will get a real appellate attorney to have this entire mess overturned and receive an appropriate sentence along with help for his mental disabilities...

ME- Inmate's death ruled a homicide

Posted on June 11, 2009
6-10-2009 Maine:WARREN (June 10): Maine State Police have ruled that the April 24 death of an inmate at the Maine State Prison was a homicide. Sheldon Weinstein, 64, from New Hartford, N.Y., died of blunt force trauma, the state Medical Examiner's Office confirmed Wednesday...

MA- Who cares: Rehabilitation, not registration

Posted on June 11, 2009
WOW, I couldn't disagree more with this editorial. I also think a drug registry, not for known users, would be beneficial in the war on drugs.6-11-2009 Massachusetts:Oh, who are the people in your neighborhood?In your neighborhood?In your neighborhood?Say, who are the people in your neighborhood?The people that you meet each day...

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LA- Paranoid Police Defamed Him, Man Says

Posted on June 10, 2009
The demonization of men; would this happen if he were a woman stopping to rest as he did?6-9-2009 Louisiana:NEW ORLEANS (CN) - A man claims Terrebonne Parish and a Houma police officer warned school districts that he was "essentially a child predator" because the cop saw him resting after a 2-mile run on a public jogging path near a school...

MA- DA decides not to retry child abuse case

Posted on June 10, 2009
6-10-2009 Massachusetts:PITTSFIELD ? Prosecutors have decided not to retry a Pittsfield man whose child molestation conviction was vacated after he served 21 years of a life sentence.Berkshire District Attorney David Capeless said today that trying Bernard Baran again is "not in the interests of justice...

MI- Novi police ID woman who kissed girls

Posted on June 10, 2009
If this was a man do folks think it would have resulted in a sex charge?6-10-2009 Michigan:An anonymous tip has revealed to Novi police the identity of a woman who kissed two 11-year-old girls as they were running on Taft Road, according to a statement issued today...

CO- Bogus letter claims Aurora man is sex offender

Posted on June 10, 2009
6-10-2009 Colorado:AURORA - The wording of a letter recently sent anonymously to people in one metro-area neighborhood would scare any parent. But the allegations made against Aurora Hills Middle School security officer Ray Hall are not true.The letter claims a sexual predator is on the loose that neither the "City of Aurora nor the Schools want you to know" about...

Legislative Hearing June 9 on "Juvenile Justice Accountability and Improvement Act"

Posted on June 09, 2009
6-9-2009 Congress:From The Sentencing Project website:Today, the U.S. House of Representative's Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security will convene a hearing at 3:00 p.m. in the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2141, to listen to testimony about sentences of juvenile life without parole (JLWOP)...

NH- ACLU wants to bow out of suit over sex-offender ordinance

Posted on June 09, 2009
6-9-2009 New Hampshire:The lawyer for the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union has asked a Merrimack County Superior Court judge to release her from representing a convicted sex offender who is challenging the city's sex-offender registration restrictions...

FL- Close the camp

Posted on June 09, 2009
6-9-2009 Florida:OUR OPINION: The shantytown of sex offenders under the Julia Tuttle Causeway is fast becoming a public-safety and health crisisThe year: 2020. The place: Under the Julia Tuttle Causeway. Population: 500 homeless sex offenders living in a shantytown created with the help of state and local officials...

NJ- Less restrictive sex offender bill passes hurdle

Posted on June 09, 2009
6-9-2009 New Jersey:TRENTON -- State lawmakers are moving forward with a bill that would allow municipalities to restrict where convicted sex offenders may live, but the measure is less strict than ordinances adopted by Hamilton and Robbinsville. Drafted in response to a recent state Supreme Court decision striking down ordinances in about 118 municipalities, the bill would allow towns to bar

CA- CA court: SVP defendant must be competent

Posted on June 09, 2009
6-9-2009 California:A excellent article by Karen Franklin, PhD over at the In the News blog:Appellate court bucks national trend In another important SVP decision, a California appellate court has ruled that it is Unconstitutional to civilly commit a sex offender who is incompetent to stand trial...

FL- Bay County Juvenile Among 77 Statewide Cybercrime Arrests

Posted on June 09, 2009
While I'm sure many will not view my comments as a ray of hope, others will see them as proof of what advocates have been saying for years now and which has been proven by the U.S. Bureau of Justice statistics. Arrested: 77, of those arrested were 4 registered sex offenders...

IN- Court of Appeals rules Dowdell allowed in Jeffersonville parks

Posted on June 09, 2009
6-9-2009 Indiana:The Indiana Court of Appeals has reversed a decision by Clark County Superior Court No. 1 banning convicted sex offender Eric Dowdell from going in Jeffersonville parks.An ordinance, which was passed by the Jeffersonville City Council in January of 2007, prohibits sex offenders from ever entering Jeffersonville?s municipally-owned parks...

House curbs 'virtual strip searches' at airports

Posted on June 08, 2009
6-8-2009 National:WASHINGTON--The Transportation Security Agency's plans to use X-rays to peek under air travelers' clothes may soon be shelved. In a 310-118 vote on Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation that curbs the growing use of what critics call "virtual strip searches" at airport checkpoints...

PA- City may change sex offender law

Posted on June 08, 2009
No one is protected by this illusion, politicians just want to look good before the public. They know the truth and to cover 25 persons, what a waste of time and resources and lkely a hefty lawyer fee.6-8-2009 Pennsylvania:SUNBURY ? No one has ever been fined or jailed for violating the city ordinance that prohibits registered sex offenders from loitering within 1,000 feet of public places where

Vigilante Justice Proves To Be Unjust in Kensington

Posted on June 08, 2009
6-8-2009:From TalkLeft blog:The principal reason to favor due process and the presumption of innocence over "swift and certain" vigilante justice is illustrated by two ugly displays of street justice in Pennsylvania. After the police identified Jose Carrasquillo as a "person of interest" in the repeated rape of an 11 year old girl, "justice-seeking" residents of Kensington began looking for him.

Our view on hard-times budgeting: States releasing prisoners early may pay for it later

Posted on June 08, 2009
6-8-2009 National:High recidivism means short-term cuts won?t equal long-term savings. In any context, cost cutting in times of economic stress tends to produce shortsighted solutions. But several states struggling to cope with the recession have settled on one approach that is a certain recipe for long-term trouble...

Professor: Many sex offenders have "brainwashed" themselves

Posted on June 08, 2009
The real question here is, who has been "brainwashed," while I am sure there may be some sex offenders as she describes, but to use the word "many" is very likely exaggerating. In the world of sex offenders there are facts and there are myths, here it seems the myths reign...

MA- Court says re-evaluate sex offender?s risk

Posted on June 08, 2009
Obviously this court has not heard of the Adam Walsh Act because under that law the ONLY thing that is used to determine risk level is, the state crime code. AWA does not consider anything else its purpose is to make the registrant as dangerous as possible and have the public IGNORE everything that both the State and the registrant has done since the crime...

NC- Keeping track of sex offenders

Posted on June 08, 2009
Hummm, like registrants -those not on parole or probation- have nothing to do all day but sit home waiting for a STUPID registered letter from a paranoid police agency. Some folks could be visiting on vacation or away for other reasons normal to life, then wind up in prison because they didn't return a STUPID letter within 3 days...

Report points to prison security failures

Posted on June 08, 2009
6-8-2009 National:WASHINGTON ? A government inquiry into the most recent fatal assault of a federal correctional officer details multiple security breakdowns and underscores a fear among federal officials who say inmates have grown increasingly violent in their dealings with prison staff...

Terms of Service: Have they changed?

Posted on June 08, 2009
6-8-2009 Global:Ever wonder, if you've read them at all, if the Terms of Service have changed since you first signed up for whatever service you are thinking about?Well here is a great site which keeps track of such changes for many well known sites.Google just changed its TOS on June 2, 2009...

ME- Legislature Makes Changes to State's Sex Offender Registry

Posted on June 08, 2009
6-8-2009 Maine:Two bills that will change policies regarding convicted sex offenders have been enacted by the Legislature and are being supported by the governor. Under one measure, certain offenders would be able to have their names removed from Maine's online Sex Offender Registry if they can prove that they have not committed any crimes since their initial conviction...

GA- Lawyer argues sex offender law off target, unconstitutional

Posted on June 08, 2009
6-8-2009 Georgia:Sexual act need not be committed for someone to be on registryA Fulton County judge was asked Monday to declare a facet of Georgia?s sex-offender registry law unconstitutional because it makes people who have not committed sex crimes register as sex offenders...

ME- Study reveals 'hidden homeless' in rural America

Posted on June 07, 2009
6-7-2009 Maine:BRUNSWICK ? The old, run-down trailer in the backcountry near Norridgewock wasn't much to look at, but it was home.That was before the landlord died, setting in motion events that left Michelle DeStoop, Bobby Landry and their six children without a place of their own...

Holding of the U.S. Supreme Court on Anonymous free speech

Posted on June 07, 2009
McIntyre v. Ohio Elections CommissionDocket: 93-986Citation: 514 U.S. 334 (1995)Facts of the CaseOn April 27, 1988, Margaret McIntyre distributed leaflets to persons attending a public meeting in Ohio expressing her opposition to a proposed school tax levy...

NH- Predator law faces big tests (Civil Commitment law)

Posted on June 07, 2009
Unfortunately the media is using the wrong terms here, it is important to distinguish between "Prison and Civil Commitment." Compounding the problem is that New Hamshire civil commitment program is "Detaining" sex offenders in the state's "Secure Psychiatric Unit / Residential Treatment Unit" which happens to be in the State Prison at Concord...

NH- Sex offender to remain incarcerated (Detained in Civil Commitment)

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