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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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RI- R.I. Supreme Court rejects sex offender?s risk challenge

Posted on June 03, 2009
Important to note, this decision pertains ONLY to Thopmas Germane. Within the court's decision is this comment "For the reasons set forth below, it is our view that a portion of chapter 37.1 of title 11, in some instances, could be irreconcilable with the constitutionally protected right to procedural due process...

IA- New sex offender law could present challenge for Shelter House

Posted on June 03, 2009
The definition of loitering gives new meaning to the word "over-broad," potential victims can be found anywhere in the world. Every time lawmakers go behind closed doors, anywhere in the nation, the concoction they come up with defies logic. Today's definition, not applicable to non registered sex offenders who commit the majority of new sex offenses, allows their conduct to continue without

CO- Charged sex offender shot to death in Colorado Springs

Posted on June 03, 2009
6-3-2009 Colorado:The body found Monday in Palmer Park has been identified as Jon Hazard, 43, who was to face trial next week. Hazard was charged with ten felonies including sexual assault with a pattern of abuse, sexual assault on a child from a person in a position of trust, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor...

FL- Miami Tries To Shutdown Sex Offender Camp

Posted on June 03, 2009
There is something NEW in this report, the State takes a position, while it may not yet be official it is the first time the state has spoken on such issues. If the state makes its position known OFFICIALLY, then it has basically overridden local residency laws -as to distance-...

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WI- Knowing the Pros and Tracking the Cons of Green Bay's Sex Offender Ordinance

Posted on June 02, 2009
6-2-2009 Wisconsin:City leaders learned more about the pros and cons of the Green Bay sex offender ordinance Monday night, as some argue the ordinance should be reconsidered.The ordinance prohibits sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools, day cares, and other places children gather, which effectively puts 93-percent of the city off-limits...

VT- New law stops criminal defendants from profiting on cases

Posted on June 02, 2009
Note registry comment:6-2-2009 Vermont:RUTLAND ? Jennifer Cavacas knows the legislation she inspired won't bring back her brother or the assets of his estate, which were transferred after he was fatally shot last year.But on Monday, when Gov. James Douglas signed her bill into law at the Rutland Police Department, Cavacas said she hopes her work will help others...

CA- Corrections officials reverse themselves: Sex offenders can return to camp on creek

Posted on June 02, 2009
6-2-2009 California:Reversing course, California corrections officials said Monday that homeless sex offenders on parole may once again live along Black Rascal Creek.The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation had ordered that by Friday the camp in west Merced be cleared after it heard complaints about trespassing...

RI- New agency, rules at homeless shelter

Posted on June 02, 2009
6-2-2009 Rhode Island:CRANSTON ? The state has hired a new agency to run the Harrington Hall homeless shelter, ending a controversial arrangement in which beds were being reserved for convicted sex offenders.Starting July 1, the Urban League of Rhode Island will be out, and the House of Hope Community Development Corporation will be in...

MA- Connecting from inside

Posted on June 02, 2009
Let us never forget that, upon renetry prisoners do best and are not likely to recidivate, if they have a strong support system. This is one way they have to develop such a system and it helps to protect society in the long term...6-2-2009 Massachusetts:WEB ALLOWS INMATES TO FORM RELATIONSHIPSA baby-faced young man in a white T-shirt stares from the computer screen...

TX- On the predator list? It?s even harder to find a job

Posted on June 02, 2009
It is hard to find reporters who will report stories without adding their own form of subtle prejudices and bias. Here we have one using the term "Predator List" and "Low Risk Registrants" simultaneously, obviously low risk registrants are not predators...

RI- Hope city

Posted on June 02, 2009
6-2-2009 Rhode Island:There is, perhaps, no more potent symbol of economic distress than a shantytown. It is the domestic exposed. It is life in the cold.So the tent city that sprouted under the Crawford Street Bridge in Providence four months back has attracted its share of media attention...

Alton attorney accidentally sues himself

Posted on June 02, 2009
Came across this during research, it pays to know who your clients are or were!3-5-2005 Funny: Alton attorney Emert Wyss thought he could make money in a Madison County class action lawsuit, but he accidentally sued himself instead. Now he has four law firms after his money - and he hired all four...

TN- Mom Chases Sex Offender Who Reportedly Propositioned Daughters

Posted on June 02, 2009
6-2-2009 Tennessee: Kids ride their bikes along Homer and Fairmont Streets near Binghampton.But Friday afternoon, a bike ride turned into something more for 12 year old Tamira Sims and her 14 year old sister Tiara, when a stranger in a white car stopped them...

CA- Prudish Prosecutors Charge Teenagers with Pornography and Worse For Sexy Text Messages

Posted on June 02, 2009
6-2-2009 California:The police captain might be right, in one sense. Particularly for the unskilled or ill equipped, getting the angle right, the focus and lighting just so, might be an effort--too much for the unsteady hand, the shy poser, the butterfingers...

WA- SEX OFFENDER HOMELESS IN SHELTON

Posted on June 02, 2009
This makes no sense, there are no known set of facts that prove a person is a specific risk level, much less any risk, and now because this man is homeless they assess him the highest risk possible. Effectively this is criminalizing him for his social status!6-2-2009 Washington:A sex offender has recently become homeless in the Shelton area and the Mason County Sheriff's Office has raised his

Critics wary of changes to sex offender registry

Posted on June 02, 2009
6-2-2009 Canada:Tories "tying to look tough on crime": OliphantIt began on Monday morning with a cross-country media blitz. Conservative MPs and cabinet ministers in nearly every major city in the country ? 13 Tories in all, including those at an announcement in Ottawa ? were touting the government's plan to "strengthen" the national sex offender registry...

GA- Sex-registry suit can go on

Posted on June 02, 2009
6-2-2009 Georgia:Judge allows class action: Ruling strikes down ban on church work by sex offenders.A federal judge on Monday banned the state from enforcing a provision of Georgia?s tough sex-offender law that prohibits offenders from volunteering at churches...

MS- Murder victim was convicted sex offender

Posted on June 02, 2009
Here we have a murder and the police are looking for who did it, but more important to the reporter is the man's prior convictions; notice the reporter's sequences of facts in the story!6-2-2009 Mississippi:The Sun Herald has confirmed that the murder victim from a weekend shooting in Moss Point was a convicted sex offender...

NH- Murderer's suit seeks parole

Posted on June 01, 2009
6-1-2009 New Hampshire:He's refused sex offender program Robert Breest, convicted of murdering an 18-year-old Pembroke woman 38 years ago, is seeking parole through a federal lawsuit filed last week. In his suit, Breest claims he convinced the Department of Correction in Massachusetts, where he's serving 40 years to life, that he should be reclassified from medium to minimum security, leaving

Criminalizing Comic Book Porn

Posted on June 01, 2009
6-1-2009 Iowa:From Crime & Federalism blog:Interesting case for those of you who follow free speech issues. (UPDATE: Read the comments.) Some dude in Iowa is going to prison for collecting comic book images of cartoon children being molested. At first I thought Ashcroft v...

FL- Florida Epidemic: Teachers Sleeping with Students

Posted on June 01, 2009
6-1-2009 Florida:If you're the parent of a teen-aged boy in Florida, you probably muttered "not again" while reading your morning newspaper this week. There on the front page was yet another case of an adult female teacher being arrested for admitting to having had sex with an underage male student...

NY- Therapists: Tough to spot women who abuse their pupils

Posted on June 01, 2009
6-1-2009 New York:She might be lonely and have trouble forming adult relationships. She might believe she has fallen in love. And she could be difficult to spot.In the wake of accusations last week that a West Babylon woman who taught middle school in Queens had a sexual relationship with a student, experts said limited research makes it tough to pin down a profile for female teachers who have

VT- Sex offenders not getting treatment

Posted on June 01, 2009
6-1-2009 Vermont:BENNINGTON ? Local officials have expressed concerns after learning that the Department of Corrections has not provided treatment for sex offenders living in local communities in Bennington and Rutland counties for several weeks because the contract to provide that service was broken...

Targeting Teens For Sexting

Posted on June 01, 2009
6-1-2009 National:More Youngsters Are Transmitting Racy Photos Of Themselves Via Cell Phones And The Web, Running Afoul Of Child Porn Laws(CBS) "Sexting" is the new term we apply when people electronically transmit racy, even nude photos of themselves to each other - not the best of ideas, and all the worse when those caught doing it are underage teens...

Ottawa to overhaul ineffective sex-offender registry

Posted on June 01, 2009
It appears there is a belief that sex crimes are solved by looking at former offenders (see highlight). If that is what they are implying then they have not looked at their own recidivism stats.6-1-2009 Canada:OTTAWA ? The Conservative government will announce Monday that it will overhaul the national sex-offender registry, which has not been responsible for solving a single sex crime since it

NY- Sex offender law questioned in wake of shooting

Posted on May 31, 2009
5-31-2009 New York:Miller says he will seek changesALBANY ? At least two of New York?s nine most dangerous sex offenders freed under a two-year old civil confinement law have faced arrest on sex charges again, including one who this week shot a police officer then killed himself...

Homeless cave found in L.A.

Posted on May 31, 2009

Peter Cumming's recent speech on "Sexting"

Posted on May 31, 2009
5-31-2009 Canada:"Sexting" has been in the news recently (see here here and here) as the result of a conference speech ( Youth, Sexuality, and Technology ) by Peter E. Cumming, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Division of Humanities, and Coordinator, Children's Studies Program...

OH- Exclusive: Facebook bans Akron sex offender after nearly 'friending' WKYC

Posted on May 30, 2009
And he did nothing wrong, didn't use false information (as a noteable person recently did on a similar site), didn't violate Facebook's Terms of Agreement which says nothing about the alleged policy that former registered sex offenders are not allowed to have accounts; he did nothing wrong!5-29-2009 Ohio:AKRON -- A convicted child molestor had his Facebook profile deleted Friday as the social

LA- Louisiana House Appropriations Committee OKs fee measure to fight Internet crime

Posted on May 30, 2009
Notice the absence of any support that Internet crimes are really increasing; heresay legislated.5-29-2009 Louisiana:Internet users in Louisiana would be subject to a new tax under a bill moving through the Legislature that aims to beef up the attorney general's ability to investigate online sex predators...

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