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SC- Child abusers escape jail time

Posted on April 12, 2009
4-12-2009 South Carolina:In at least 10 S.C. cases since 2002 involving death or serious injury, judges gave offenders probationIn 2001, Steven McCarter was accused of killing his 3-month-old daughter, Anna, by shaking her to death.He initially was charged in the Chester County case with homicide by child abuse, which carries a minimum 20-year sentence...

MS- Lawmakers vow to take up pardon

Posted on April 12, 2009
4-12-2009 Mississippi:Efforts by Coast lawmakers to require public hearings before the governor may pardon an incarcerated person have failed for this legislative session, but the legislators say they?ll bring it up again next year. The measure was in response to the public outcry that arose in South Mississippi in 2008 after Gov...

PA- Battle on porn online

Posted on April 12, 2009
4-12-2009 Pennsylvania:Nils Frederiksen has worked on every one of the 203 Internet arrests since the state Attorney General's Child Predator Unit was created in 2005. And he's seen the world of child pornography change drastically in the past few years...

CNET News- Worm infiltrates Twitter

Posted on April 12, 2009
4-12-2009 National:A worm apparently infected Twitter on Saturday.The worm may originate with the StalkDaily.com site, and Twitter warned people against visiting the site or linking to it."If you have been locked out of your acct due to the StalkDaily issue, pls do a p/w reset; we may have reset your p/w for safety," Twitter informed its users on Saturday afternoon...

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WA- Level 1 sex felons see better scrutiny

Posted on April 12, 2009
Sad, succes is defined by the act of effectively updating a telephone book, what a price to pay for such menial work. Notice not one mention of crime before or after updating the phone book.4-12-2009 Washington:But ?wildly successful? address verifications need new state budget funds to continueFor nearly two decades, most of the hundreds of low-risk registered sex offenders living in Pierce

AZ- Strip-Search Case Could Redefine Student Privacy

Posted on April 12, 2009
4-12-2009 Arizona:SAFFORD, Ariz. -- April Redding was waiting in the parking lot of the middle school when she heard news she could hardly understand: Her 13-year-old daughter, Savana, had been strip-searched by school officials in a futile hunt for drugs...

CO- Colorado teens won't face trial for cell phone sex photos

Posted on April 11, 2009
4-11-2009 Colorado:Case raises question of how best to manage teens who use their camera-equipped cell phones for "sexting"COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado ? A teenage couple from Air Academy High School faced the threat of being prosecuted as sex offenders after they were caught exchanging cell phone images they recorded while engaging in consensual sex...

IN- Recidivism rates falling

Posted on April 11, 2009
4-11-2009 Indiana:Rehab programs contribute to decrease in repeat offendersChanging the thinking patterns of criminal offenders is one key to keeping them from reoffending, prison officials say.From looking at the number of repeat offenders in state prisons, it must be working, as the recidivism rate over the past three years has declined, the Indiana Department of Correction reported...

Bill in Congress - HR 1727 (New registry arsonists / bombers)

Posted on April 10, 2009
4-10-2009 National:`Managing Arson Through Criminal History (MATCH) Act of 2009'Sponsor: Rep Bono Mack, Mary [CA-45]Introduced 3/26/2009 Bill HR 1727The STATED intent of the bill is: To establish guidelines and incentives for States to establish criminal arsonist and criminal bomber registries and to require the Attorney General to establish a national criminal arsonist and criminal bomber

New push for national registry for arsonists

Posted on April 10, 2009
4-10-2009 National:The measure, modeled on the sex offenders registry, is one of several proposals in Congress as wildfire season nears.Reporting from Washington -- As a federal prosecutor, Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank) struggled to tie an accused arsonist to a string of fires in the San Bernardino National Forest...

FBI Targets Scammers Posing as Minors to Target Would-Be Pedophiles

Posted on April 10, 2009
4-10-2009 National:Sexual predators who victimize children on the Internet are now becoming targets of a different kind of online predator ? and law enforcement officials are hunting them all down.In the past five years, federal authorities have arrested more than 11,000 "online predators," at least in part as a result of officers posing as minors on the Internet to attract would-be pedophiles.

TX- Dallas County needs treatment program for young female sex offenders

Posted on April 10, 2009
4-10-2009 Texas:Dallas County's juvenile department is seeing an alarming crime trend among young girls. The number of misdemeanors committed last year by girls was up 73 percent since 1995. Assaults, for example, were up 47 percent. Disorderly conduct cases more than doubled...

OH- Sexting - don't do it

Posted on April 10, 2009
eAdvocate Post 4-10-2009 Ohio:Brown County teens face serious chargesThe Brown County Sheriff?s Office is currently investigating an incident that occurred on March 25. According to Brown County Sheriff Dwayne Wenninger, officers from the Sheriff?s Office were dispatched to the Eastern Junior High School for a report that a student had nude pictures of a female on his cell phone...

PA- Cyber bullying and 'sexting' the focuses of presentation

Posted on April 10, 2009
4-10-2009 Pennsylvania:When the relatively new violation of "sexting" recently made headlines at two nearby Westmoreland County school districts, it drove home for guidance counselor Sheila Mendicino the need to arm her older students at Saltsburg Elementary School and their parents against the many hazards youngsters could encounter through the Internet and today's various means of electronic

Confining Sex Crimes

Posted on April 10, 2009
See earlier coverage here and here.4-10-2009 National:JAY STREET ? Civil confinement of sex offenders often presents a difficult dilemma for the courts. For instance, last week, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Albert Tomei dismissed an Article 10 petition filed under the Mental Hygiene Law seeking to civilly confine a convicted rapist who had served his sentence...

NH- Judge dismisses case against 3rd NH sex offender

Posted on April 10, 2009
There must be something unique in New Hampshire law not found in other state laws.4-10-2009 New Hampshire:CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A judge has dismissed the case against a third New Hampshire man considered by prosecutors to be a sexually violent predator, but he apparently won't be freed like the others...

Bill in Congress - HR 1374

Posted on April 09, 2009
4-9-2009 National:`Elder Abuse Prevention Act'Sponsor: Rep Chandler, Ben [KY-6]Introduced 3/6/2009) Bill HR 1374The STATED intent of the bill is: To prevent the abuse and exploitation of older individuals.UPDATE: Thanks to a reader reminding me of a portion of the U...

NH- Rapists' release prompts unanimous vote

Posted on April 09, 2009
Commentary to follow when amendments to SB 142 are posted. 4-9-2009 New Hampshire:CONCORD ? The New Hampshire Senate yesterday passed a change in state law that would make it easier for the state to hold dangerous sexual offenders after their prison terms are served...

Constitutional interpretation and citizen rights

Posted on April 09, 2009
4-9-2009 National:Normally it would not seem the United States Constitution and Lemuel Gulliver would have much in common, but this fictional character and our bedrock document of government have received similar treatment.Just as our traveler, Gulliver, was a giant in the land of Lilliputians, so our Constitution is in our Republic...

NY- State at fault in frenzy over sex offender

Posted on April 09, 2009
4-9-2009 New York:Pittsford, N.Y. ? When word got out roughly two weeks ago that Level 3 sex offender Albert Dickerson was about to move to Pittsford, an angry and frightened outcry erupted from residents of the Long Meadow neighborhood where he planned to take up residence...

CO- Registered sex offender, 13, arrested in school incident

Posted on April 09, 2009
4-9-2009 Colorado:BOULDER, Colo. ? A 13-year-old male student and registered juvenile sex offender was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of attempted unlawful sexual contact with a girl in one of his classes at Manhattan Middle School, police said Thursday afternoon...

GA- Senator irked at failure to fix sex offender law

Posted on April 09, 2009
4-9-2009 Georgia:While bill stalled, judge enjoined law banning sex offenders from church work When a federal judge last week halted enforcement of Georgia 's law banning sex offenders from volunteering at churches, one state lawmaker could easily have said, ?I told you so...

VT- Inmate challenges Rutland sex offender ordinance

Posted on April 09, 2009
4-9-2009 Vermont:The man convicted in a series of Rutland trash bin fires has challenged Rutland's sex offender residency ordinance.James Oney, 37, an inmate at the South Burlington prison, filed a lawsuit in Rutland County Superior Court, though court officials said they could not release the complaint because not all parties had been served as of Wednesday afternoon...

WI- Sentence: Defendant can't hand out Halloween candy

Posted on April 08, 2009
In a case first reported in Dec. 2008, today comes a report of sentencing this man for apparently taking pictures of children in a halloween display. As mentioned in Dec. I still cannot find any Wisconsin law prohibiting such conduct. So, I am still open to anyone who knows of such a law...

NH- Judge mulling stands over sex offender residence curbs

Posted on April 08, 2009
4-8-2009 New Hampshire:CONCORD ? A convicted sex offender will have to wait until at least Monday to know if he can live with his companion and three children in Franklin while his challenge to the city's sex offender residence restrictions makes its way through the state's courts...

What just happened with AWA and Civil Commitment?

Posted on April 08, 2009
4-8-2009 National:In answer to a few reader questions here is a general rundown of what recently occurred.Background: State Civil commitment schemes were declared constitutional under the Clinton administration. see Kansas v. Hendricks, 521 U.S. 346 (1997)...

FL- Civil Commitment residents moved in 3 days

Posted on April 08, 2009
At least their living conditions are better, the prior facilty was reported to be horrible.4-8-2009 Florida:ARCADIA -- Almost 700 residents of the former Florida Civil Commitment Center were moved into a new facility over three days this week, with no significant problems...

Commentary: Is 'sexting' child pornography?

Posted on April 08, 2009
4-8-2009 National:ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- "Sexting."Have parents out there ever even heard of this term?Whether you want to admit it or not, teenagers are sending sexual messages and naked pictures of themselves to their boyfriends and girlfriends. In most cases it's the girl sending a picture or message to the guy...

NH- Sex offender snagged by new registration law

Posted on April 08, 2009
Obviously the state has tricked many offenders by making some technical change, and likely hiding it in the wording of their forms, and hidden such that registrants would not likely see it, then BAM arrested. Study the forms guys, and find a good lawyer there is a due process question here...

MO- Mo. legislature considers sex offender amendment

Posted on April 08, 2009
SJR 3 a proposal to place a question before the voters, in the next election, to decide if they wish to amend the state constitution and -for sex offenders alone- allow retroactive application of the sex offender registry law. SJR 3 has passed the Senate but has not passed the House as of today...

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