Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies: Criminal Law

Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs

OR PHONE (866) 635-1838 for Bankruptcy Help, (866) 635-6190 for Divorce,
(866) 635-2689 for Personal Injury or (866) 635-9402 for Criminal Defense

Find a Local Lawyer

Bankruptcy (866) 635-1838
Divorce (866) 635-6190
Personal Injury (866) 635-2689
Criminal Defense (866) 635-9402

Criminal Law

Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies

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.
By "eAdvocate"

Post Frequency: 10.2/day

Last Entry: October 03, 2020 at 00:40:04

FL- Homeless sex offender arrested for failing to update driver's license with address

Posted on April 08, 2009
This is beyond stupid and a complete waste of taxpayer money and discriminatory in that non sex offender drivers who fail to update their addresses are never held accountable for failing to do so. Further, this is proof that the Probation Officer's intent is not to help the probationer properly reintegrate into society, but to further punish on technicalities...

IA- Iowa court reverses plea in sex abuse case

Posted on April 08, 2009
eAdvocate Post 4-8-2009 Iowa:DES MOINES, Iowa - The Iowa Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed a man's burglary and sex abuse conviction because he was not told of the possible punishment before he entered a plea. Eddy Cortez entered an Alford plea in Polk County to charges of second-degree burglary and third-degree sexual abuse and was sentenced to 20 years in prison...

FBI database links long-haul truckers, serial killings

Posted on April 07, 2009
4-7-2009 National:The FBI suspects that serial killers working as long-haul truckers are responsible for the slayings of hundreds of prostitutes, hitchhikers and stranded motorists whose bodies have been dumped near highways over the last three decades...

CA- Child Porn Traffickers Cited in Missing Child Search

Posted on April 07, 2009
Post by eAdvocate 4-7-2009 California:In a precedent that could have a major impact nationwide, California police say they are looking at known child pornography traffickers in a missing child case.(TRACY, Calif.) - Police in Tracy, California, a city of 80,000 just east of San Francisco, are searching for an 8 year-old child, Sandra Cantu, who disappeared March 27th...

To access this complete feed in the blog feed reader login or register for free.

NH- Sex Offender Released After Missed Deadline

Posted on April 07, 2009
4-7-2009 New Hampshire:Officials Had Sought To Commit Man After SentenceMANCHESTER, N.H. -- A convicted sex offender who officials wanted to keep behind bars was released from prison Monday, and officials said a glitch in the system could be to blame...

MD- 'Sexting' Challenges Prosecutors To Walk Fine Line

Posted on April 07, 2009
4-7-2009 Maryland:Prosecutors in Maryland are working with schools to deal with the growing number of teenagers sending nude pictures of themselves over the phone to friends and others. While not strictly illegal if consensual, sexting, as the practice has come to be known, has led to prosecutions in some cases nationwide...

Loretta Laroche: 'Sexting' nonsense calls for a return to scare tactics

Posted on April 07, 2009
Post by eAdvocate 4-7-2009 National:I was blown away by the article on teenagers ?sexting.? How and why do you get to the place where you think it?s OK to send nude or partially nude pictures to friends or strangers?OK, the obvious answer is because you can, and the new technologies make it easy to do so...

NJ- Feds push states to get tougher with sex offender controls

Posted on April 07, 2009
4-7-2009 New Jersey:License plate numbers, regularly updated photos and workplace addresses of convicted sex offenders will soon be available online as part of a federal initiative to revamp sex offender laws. The U.S. Department of Justice is pushing states, including New Jersey, to change their laws to comply with guidelines under the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notifica-tion Act, or

Man accused of urging inmate to kill himself

Posted on April 07, 2009
4-7-2009 Canada:An Ontario man accused of counselling someone to commit suicide opted Wednesday to let a jury decide his fate.Reudi Leslie Schori, 41, of no fixed address faces a March 19 charge of counselling a man to kill himself.He's also charged with performing an indecent act Jan...

KS- ?It?s a reporting issue?

Posted on April 07, 2009
4-7-2009 Kansas:Risk factors for abuse not easy to pinpoint The area of southern Lawrence between Holcom Park and Louisiana Street, south of Clinton Parkway/23rd Street, is a mixture of apartment complexes, single-family homes, churches and businesses...

U.S. Supreme Court Reverses 3rd Circuit Over Federal Agents' Delay Tactics

Posted on April 07, 2009
4-7-2009 Washington DC:A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declared that federal agents cannot use unreasonable delay tactics to secure confessions.Reversing the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the justices voted 5-4 in holding that even a "voluntary" confession obtained by federal authorities may be deemed inadmissible if more than six hours elapse between an arrest and a

Police violated paedophile's human rights by telling employer about 20-year-old sex conviction, High Court rules

Posted on April 07, 2009
eAdvocate Post: 4-7-2009 United Kingdom:Police violated a paedophile's human rights when they told his employers about a 20-year-old conviction for sexually molesting a three-year-old boy, a judge ruled today.Mr Justice Nicol said the disclosure of the 1987 conviction - which led to the man being sacked from his job - was 'unnecessary'...

MO- State Supreme Court considers sex offender case

Posted on April 07, 2009
Post by eAdvocate 4-7-2009 Mssouri:JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ? The state Supreme Court is considering another challenge to Missouri?s sex offender registry. The court heard arguments today from 11 offenders. Some were convicted of sex crimes in other states before 1995, when Missouri?s registry law took effect...

TX- Oops: DPS Apologizes for Listing Woman as Sex Offender

Posted on April 06, 2009
(Post by eAdvocate) 4-6-2009 Texas:DPS blames data entry error for mistakeThe Texas Department of Public Safety apologized Friday and accepted blame for mistakenly posting a Dallas woman's name and photo on the state's sex offender Web site for nearly five years...

IA- Bills shaped at Statehouse with doors shut

Posted on April 06, 2009
I will skip a major portion of the article to get to the portion about sex offenders:(Post by eAdvocate) 4-6-2009 Iowa:Some Iowa lawmakers want to require public officials to be more transparent about new policies they are considering. Others want to mandate that the state disclose more information about the state budget...

MO- Missouri Supreme Court rejects challenge from sex offender

Posted on April 06, 2009
(Post by eAdvocate) 4-6-2009 Missouri:The Missouri Supreme Court rejected a challenge from a sex offender who incurred a prison sentence when he did not register a change of address notice within 10 days.The Supreme Court previously ruled that it was unconstitutional to require sex offenders convicted of crimes before Jan...

VA- Problems linger at sex-offender rehab center

Posted on April 06, 2009
(Post by eAdvocate) 4-6-2009 Virginia:A new report finds that problems at the Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation didn't improve much in 2008, despite the center's having moved to its new $62 million facility in Nottoway County.The program is the maximum-security home for 130 of the most dangerous sex offenders in Virginia...

MS- Bill changes vote for parole

Posted on April 06, 2009
I can hear the equal protections under the law lawsuit coming with this new bill, soon to be law.(Post by eAdvocate) 4-6-2009 Mississippi:JACKSON ? Convicted sex offenders and murderers will have to meet a higher standard to be paroled in Mississippi under a bill awaiting Gov...

GA- Georgia sex offender law shot down

Posted on April 06, 2009
(Post by eAdvocate) 4-6-2009 Georgia:Allan Hunt Show Description: A Federal Judge must agree with me because this past week he shot down a law requiring registered sex offenders from living 1000-feet from where kids congregate as being unconstitutional...

KY- Jail killing spurs inquiry

Posted on April 06, 2009
(Post by eAdvocate) 4-6-2009 Kentucky:COVINGTON - As most Sundays are at the Kenton County jail, March 29 was quiet. Inmates lounged in bed because there were no court hearings or visitations scheduled.It was sometime during that quiet time that Isaac Jackson, a 40-year-old homeless man, was strangled in bed...

AL- Victim, shooter identified in Good Hope murder

Posted on April 06, 2009
(Posted by eAdvocate) 4-6-2009 Alabama:The Cullman County Sheriff?s Office has released the names of the victim and shooter involved in a murder-suicide in Good Hope Saturday evening.Cullman Sheriff Tyler Roden confirmed Sunday that Sarah Francis Smithson Wren, 63, was shot and killed outside her home in a trailer park on Megan Lane...

MA- State Rep. Todd Smola of Palmer files bill that would make it a felony for a school employee to have sex with a student 17 or older

Posted on April 06, 2009
Here is an odd title which almost implies it is OK to have sex with those under 17. Bet the journalist wishes he wrote this one differently.(Posted by eAdvocate) 4-6-2009 Masachusetts:PALMER - At the request of the town's school superintendent, state Rep...

CA- MySpace Musings Aren't Private, Appeals Court Rules

Posted on April 05, 2009
4-5-2009 California:Hate rained down on Cynthia Moreno's family after her hometown newspaper in Coalinga, Calif., published her online rant about how much she despised the small Central Valley city in which she had grown up. So much so that her family claims it had to move away...

OK- Oklahoma sex offenders decry classification system

Posted on April 05, 2009
4-5-2009 Oklahoma:The number of Oklahoma sex offenders saddled with lifetime registration has doubled since 2007, when state officials implemented a classification system to come into compliance with the federal Adam Walsh Act. The law, named for the murdered son of "America?s Most Wanted? host John Walsh, increased the federal government?s role in dealing with convicted sex offenders...

NH- Sex offender treatment requires wait

Posted on April 05, 2009
4-5-2009 New Hampshire:Praised program doesn't have enough space There are 865 male sex offenders in the state's prison and only 90 spots in the 18-month treatment program most must take, meaning some sex offenders are being held past their parole dates while awaiting treatment...

RI- Implementing sex offender registration law may prove impossible

Posted on April 05, 2009
4-5-2009 Rhode Island:In 2006, Congress enacted legislation to standardize the way states classify and register sex offenders and to make it easier for the public to learn about an offender?s presence in their communities. Under the provisions of the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), each state and all federally recognized Indian tribes are required to set up

MA- FROM THE EDITOR: More than revenge, less than pity

Posted on April 05, 2009
4-5-2009 Massachusetts:The statue of Justice holds a balance in her hand and wears a blindfold. She is the ideal of fairness, intellect and the equality of all before the law.Justice on Thursday put a sick young man away, probably for the rest of his life, for his rape of a 6-year-old child in New Bedford's public library...

From Predator to Person, Then Back to Jail Again

Posted on April 05, 2009
(Posted by eAdvocate) 4-5-2009 National:Fear came so easily when I first heard about you, a child convicted of sexual assault, a child who would soon join my daughter?s homeroom class. I felt fear, based on the approximately seven sentences of information I knew about you from a closed meeting and a website...

FAILURE TO REGISTER: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF SEX OFFENSE RECIDIVISM

Posted on April 04, 2009
April 2009:A new research paper from Dr. Levenson:PURPOSE OF THE STUDYIn 2006, the Adam Walsh Act was passed, lengthening registration periods, requiring more frequent updating of registrant information, and expanding the number of sex offenders to whom notification requirements apply...

FL- The GEO Group, Inc. Announces the Opening of the New Florida Civil Commitment Center Replacement Facility

Posted on April 03, 2009
4-3-2009 Florida:BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The GEO Group (NYSE:GEO) (?GEO?) announced today the opening of the new $62.0 million Florida Civil Commitment Center (?FCCC?) replacement facility in Arcadia, Florida. FCCC provides a comprehensive treatment program for individuals who have sexually offended and are either detained or committed under Florida?s Sexually Violent Predator Act.

Previous | Next

Related Law Bulletins

2007 Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year: The Illegal Immigrant
The Dallas Morning News came up with a surprise today -- the newsp...

BREAKING NEWS - NJ Supreme Court's Decision in Mt. Laurel v. MiPro
Today, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued a decision in Mount Lau...

Medical Malpractice News Roundup
From the Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, a summary of recent de...

Insurance Department Issues Second Annual Ohio Medical Liability Closed Claim Report
COLUMBUS — The Ohio Department of Insurance has issued its secon...

Primary Ads Urge Voters To Probe Candidates On Church-State Issues
A series of newspaper and television ads have been launched in New...