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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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Do Interactive Websites Have a Legal Duty to Remove Malicious Content?

Posted on May 20, 2009
5-20-2009 National:At times, people post damaging false or private information about others on websites, and in Internet chat rooms. What happens if someone finds himself or herself to be the target of such postings ? yet the website is slow to de-post, despite promises that it will do so?A recent decision by the U...

AR- Why, oh God, am I homeless?

Posted on May 20, 2009
5-20-2009 Arkansas:Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of stories exploring homelessness in northwest Arkansas. The stories are written by David Lanier, a former sports editor of The Benton County Daily Record, who has been homeless for the better part of the past five years...

FL- Sex Offenders Forced To Live Under Miami Bridge

Posted on May 20, 2009
5-20-2009 Florida:In Miami, a causeway in the middle of Biscayne Bay has become home to one of the county's least desirable populations: sex offenders. What began a few years ago as a stopgap solution has become de facto public policy. For sex offenders with few resources who want to stay in Miami, there's just one option: an encampment of tents and shacks on the Julia Tuttle Causeway...

Monitoring federal agencies for changes in rules and guidelines

Posted on May 19, 2009
5-19-2009 National:Why is this important to monitor for changes?Well simply because federal agencies have jurisdiction of various federal laws and are able to change, add to, or otherwise amend those rules or guidelines, and such activity may affect a person covered by that federal law...

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ME- Man arrested with rifle complained of 'pedophiles'

Posted on May 19, 2009
5-18-2009 Maine:Herbert Jones, 46, said he was targeting people in an AA meeting in a church behind Portland High School. A school resource officer nabbed him.5:30 p.m.PORTLAND -- Portland police say a man arrested with a high-powered rifle this morning outside an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in a church basement claimed there were pedophiles inside...

NC- Sheriff: Inmate had been in fight (Jailed for Failure to Register as a Homeless Person)

Posted on May 19, 2009
5-19-2009 North Carolina:MORGANTON - The inmate who apparently killed himself in jail on Thursday was recovering from injuries he received during a jail fightTimothy Lee Hurd, 48, a Catawba County inmate at the Burke-Catawba District Confinement Facility, was pronounced dead just before 10 p...

KS- Vigilante mom relieved to see molester sentenced

Posted on May 19, 2009
5-19-2009 Kansas:Wichita ? An admitted child molester who was on the receiving end of some vigilante justice by his victim's mother was sentenced to more than four years in prison on Friday.One week ago, it looked like Scott Phillips might go free, even after a jury convicted him of fondling an 8-year-old girl...

MI- Cedar Springs man pleads guilty, sentenced to year in jail as part of Internet sex sting; father says it was entrapment

Posted on May 19, 2009
5-18-2009 Michigan: (Phase-I)GRAND RAPIDS -- ____ chatted online with a girl he thought was just 14, and even drove by what he thought was her Grand Rapids Township home.But he never met with the teen and, when police working with on an Internet predator sting caught up with ____, the 34-year-old insurance representative was more than 20 miles from the girl's alleged home...

OH- Sex Offenders List Park Benches, Woods As Address

Posted on May 19, 2009
5-19-2009 Ohio:Park benches, wooded areas, alleys - they are all addresses given by homeless convicted sex offenders. The Hamilton County Sheriff says that makes it especially hard to check on them when they don't report to authorities, as required by law...

KY- CJ wins fight over sex-offender database

Posted on May 19, 2009
5-19-2009 Kentucky:A Franklin Circuit Court judge has ruled that the Kentucky State Police must provide The Courier-Journal with a copy of its sex-offender registry database under the state?s open records law.Shepherd?s ruling Friday affirms an opinion last year from Attorney General Jack Conway?s office that the material is public record ? an opinion state police had challenged in an appeal to

CA- Excessive-force allegations at Coalinga hospital probed

Posted on May 19, 2009
5-19-2009 California:Coalinga State Hospital scuffle prompts patient accusations.Coalinga State Hospital is investigating allegations that public safety officers used excessive force on a patient during a scuffle last week.A spokeswoman for the hospital for sex offenders said the altercation Thursday began when a patient being escorted by staff to his room became agitated, prompting public

NJ- SEX FELONS MUST MOVE, COURT SAYS

Posted on May 19, 2009
5-19-2009 New Jersey:KEARNY - New Jersey will have to find a new place to house sexually violent predators currently being held in Hudson County. An appeals court yesterday gave the New Jersey State Department of Corrections a year to move the offenders from the county correctional facility along Lincoln Highway in Kearny, where they've been held since August 1999...

NJ- How a Photo Can Ruin Your Life

Posted on May 18, 2009
5-4-2007 New Jersey:Your family photos could get you arrested. Just ask one New Jersey grandmother.Three-year-old Sarah M. is either a toddler in her birthday suit playing in the garden, or a nude temptress with a sultry look who requires protection from the culprits who took this photograph -- her doting parents...

FL- Family says I-4 rage led to mooning

Posted on May 18, 2009
5-25-2007 Florida:If convicted of flashing a teenager, the man could receive 15 years in prison and be a sex offender.SANFORD - A family driving west on Interstate 4 in a silver Mercedes-Benz on Sunday evening made the men in the black Chevrolet Tahoe mad...

CO- Students question streaker penalty

Posted on May 18, 2009
9-28-2007 Colorado:17-year-old may have to register as sex offender, if convictedIt's no official holiday, but a number of students at Boulder High School will be celebrating "Free Mason" day today.Mason Lacy, a 17-year-old senior and the impromptu holiday's namesake, will not be in attendance...

UT- Streaking student may face jail time

Posted on May 18, 2009
9-21-2007 Utah:A Pleasant Grove teen may face jail time after streaking during the Pleasant Grove High School homecoming pageant.An 18-year-old student at Pleasant Grove High school allegedly ran across the stage in the school's auditorium."We know who the suspect is," said Pleasant Grove police Capt...

WV- 'Sex offender' at Concord was merely a streaker: Imprecise categories on Pennsylvania Registry causes misunderstanding

Posted on May 18, 2009
2-2-2005 West Virginia:Concord University has a registered sex offender on the faculty, college officials confirmed Tuesday ? but he?s actually just a streaker. James Edward Parker, 58, is listed on the Pennsylvania sex offender registry as having committed ?indecent assault,? defined as sexual touching of a child under 13...

MN- Man Loses Fight to Avoid Listing on Sex Offenders' Registry

Posted on May 18, 2009
8-7-2003 Minnesota:A Minnesota man must register as a sex offender even though he has not been convicted of a sex crime, the federal appeals court in St. Louis ruled yesterday. That ruling "turns reason and fairness on its head," wrote Judge C. Arlen Beam, who nonetheless concurred in the unanimous decision of the three-judge panel of the court...

TN- DCS lists teen dad-to-be as sexual abuser because of age gap

Posted on May 18, 2009
10-29-2004 Tennessee:NASHVILLE, Tenn. An 18-year-old dad-to-be is being listed as a sexual abuser by the Department of Children's Services because his girlfriend was 13 when he married her out of state. Robert Benjamin Martin could be charged with statutory rape under Tennessee law because it is a crime for someone to have sex with a person under age 16 if there is at least a four-year age

WI- Teens who have sex charged with abuse: DAs are prosecuting even when both consent

Posted on May 18, 2009
3-8-2004 Wisconsin:Wisconsin: The LawWisconsin's child abuse law makes it a felony for anyone to engage in sexual activity with someone younger than 16. It applies to consensual sex, even between teens of the same age. Last summer, when she was made pregnant by her boyfriend at age 15, Sarah, a shy girl with a pretty face, went to a clinic with her mother for consultation...

PA- Teen who posted own photo charged with child porn

Posted on May 18, 2009
3-29-2004 Pennsylvania:State police have charged a 15-year-old Latrobe girl with child pornography for taking photos of herself and posting them on the Internet.Police said the girl, whose identity they withheld, photographed herself in various states of undress and performing a variety of sexual acts...

VA- 16 Year Old Girls Charged with Disseminating their Own Brand of Child Porn

Posted on May 18, 2009
4-7-2004 Virginia:Two Northside High School girls who took nude pictures of themselves and e-mailed them to their boyfriends last year said they only did it to be flirtatious. It wasn't long before they realized the consequences: loss of friends, no more school activities, seeing themselves on Internet sites and felony charges...

ME- Worker jailed for sex with inmate

Posted on May 18, 2009
7-23-2005 Maine:BANGOR ? A former kitchen worker at the Penobscot County Jail has been ordered to spend 30 days behind bars for having sex with an inmate. Dawn Chambers, 44, pleaded guilty Thursday in Penobscot County Superior Court to one count of gross sexual assault...

IL- He grabbed girl's arm -- now he's a sex offender

Posted on May 18, 2009
7-2-2005 Illinois:Fitzroy Barnaby said he had to swerve to avoid hitting the 14-year-old Des Plaines girl who walked in front of his car. She said he yelled, "Come here, little girl," before getting out of his car and grabbing her by the arm. He said he simply lectured her...

UT- Teen Mother Ruled A Sex Offender

Posted on May 18, 2009
12-31-2005 Utah:SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Utah Court of Appeals is upholding a judge's refusal to dismiss a sexual abuse allegation against a 13-year-old Ogden girl who became pregnant by her 12-year-old boyfriend.The appeals court on Friday ruled that the law's ``rigorous protections'' for younger minors include protecting them from each other...

MI- Online prank ends with child porn charges for teen

Posted on May 18, 2009
2-24-2006 Michigan:WAYLAND (NEWS 3) - It may have started as a prank, but police in Wayland have another name for Ryan Zylstra's decision to take pictures of classmates having sex: a felony. The 17-year old was arrested and charged with manufacturing, distributing, and using a computer for child pornography...

FL- Police blotter: Teens prosecuted for racy photos

Posted on May 18, 2009
2-9-2007 Florida:What: Teenagers taking risque photos of themselves are prosecuted for violating child pornography laws. When: Florida state appeals court rules on January 19. Outcome: A 2-1 majority upholds conviction on grounds the girl produced a photograph featuring the sexual conduct of a child...

RI- State lawmakers debate who needs GPS tracking

Posted on May 18, 2009
5-18-2009 Rhode Island:More than 90 convicted sex offenders listed on Rhode Island?s public notification Web site are considered a high risk to re-offend.Those who are now monitored using a global positioning system that tracks movements with regular updates by satellite signal? One...

TX- In Texas Legislature, not all bills seek tougher rules for sex offenders

Posted on May 18, 2009
5-18-2009 Texas:AUSTIN ? Some state lawmakers want to tweak how Texas deals with sex offenders, sparking a thorny debate over how to strike the right balance between protecting children and allowing low-risk offenders to avoid a lifetime of shame.Bills this session would regulate how sex offenders use the Internet, bar them from certain jobs and require homeless offenders to report regularly to

NJ- Morris child molester attacked by girl's mother before his sentencing

Posted on May 18, 2009
5-18-2009 New Jersey:MORRISTOWN -- A Morris County man who was awaiting sentencing for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl got attacked by her mother in a hallway outside the courtroom today.Just before Pascual Gonzalez, 39, was sentenced to five years in state prison in Superior Court in Morristown, Sheriff's officers had to restrain the mother from attacking Gonzalez...

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