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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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NH- Judge recuses herself in Franklin sex offender case

Posted on March 31, 2009
3-31-2009 New Hampshire:A hearing to determine whether or not a convicted sex offender can move into his companion's home on West Bow Street while his lawsuit against the city winds its way through the courts was postponed for eight days when the judge scheduled to hear it recused herself...

OH- Evaluation of Sex Offender Center Released

Posted on March 31, 2009
3-31-2009 Ohio:The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections released a report today on the controversial Pogue Center in Over-the-Rhine. The facility, operated by the Volunteers of America on McMicken Street, houses and treats sex offenders. An executive review of the place was ordered after Anthony Kirkland was kicked out and later became a suspect in the murder of local teenager Esme

CT- Bill presented asking for the death penalty under certain conditions

Posted on March 31, 2009
3-31-2009 Connecticut:State Republican Senator Dan Debicella sponsored this bill, proposing the death penalty for the rape of a child under 13, and which effectively overrules Kennedy v. Louisiana.Presenting such a bill to the legislature does not mean that the state wants "Sex Offenders Killed" as is being claimed by another website...

Cheating husband caught on Google Street View

Posted on March 31, 2009
3-31-2009 Global:He didn't even say he was working late. No, no. He said he was away on business.However, his wife, bathing in uncontrollable suspicion, decided to do the only thing she could. She dialed up the local detective agency. Yes, Google Street View...

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Study: Enforcement spurs rise in Web sex arrests

Posted on March 31, 2009
I am looking forward to reading this study to see how it conflicts with the recent DOJ Press Release.UPDATE 3-31: Here is the new study, I will follow up with comments after I read it:3-31-2009 National:NEW YORK ? More people have been arrested in recent years for sexually soliciting youths online, but the sharp increase comes from better enforcement, and the Internet remains a relatively safe

GA- Sex-registry suit can go on

Posted on March 31, 2009
3-31-2009 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...

MA- Abuse: ?Almost an epidemic?

Posted on March 31, 2009
3-31-2009 Massachusetts:Economy likely tied to caregivers? stress As the economy worsens, straining some parents to the breaking point, child abuse in the Hub has soared, statistics show.From Jan. 1 to March 1, the Suffolk District Attorney?s Office had 256 child abuse cases, more than double the 105 it handled during the same period in 2008...

Bill in Congress - HR 1750

Posted on March 31, 2009
3-31-2009 National:`Tracking Registered And Convicted Known (TRACK) Sex Offenders Act'Sponsor: Rep Bachmann, Michele [MN-6]Introduced 3/26/2009 Bill HR 1750The intent of the bill is: To provide for the use of information in the National Directory of New Hires in enforcing sex offender registration laws...

Panel advises depression screening for US teens

Posted on March 30, 2009
3-30-2009 National:An influential government-appointed medical panel is urging doctors to routinely screen all American teens for depression ? a bold step that acknowledges that nearly 2 million teens are affected by this debilitating condition.Most are undiagnosed and untreated, said the panel, the U...

Conficker WORM time bomb ticks, but don't expect boom

Posted on March 30, 2009
Note: If you have UPDATED your system and your virus definitions IN THE PAST WEEK -as you should anyway to protect your system and files- and you had NO TROUBLE doing that update then you are likely as fixed as possible with what is known about this worm today...

PA- Federal judge blocks charges in Pa. 'sexting' case

Posted on March 30, 2009
3-30-2009 Pennsylvania:ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) ? A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a prosecutor from filing child pornography charges against three northeastern Pennsylvania teenagers who appeared in racy photos that turned up on classmates' cell phones...

CT- Legislation will toughen and expand reporting requirements of sex offenders

Posted on March 30, 2009
Adam Walsh Act & Connecticut: And so registration goes full circle, Connecticut & US Sup ct, from constitutional to unconstitutional. My prediction.3-30-2009 Connecticut:Changes to Sex Offender Registry Include More Frequent Reporting, New ID RequirementsGovernor M...

Is That "Sexting" Pic Illegal? A Scientific Test

Posted on March 30, 2009
A great post from Slashdot on sexting which everyone needs to read:3-30-2009 National:Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes " Amid the latest 'sexting' controversy, here is a proposal for a scientifically objective method to determine whether a picture constitutes child pornography...

NY- Councilman Eric Gioia: Keep sex offenders out of public housing

Posted on March 30, 2009
Lawmakers continually get this wrong, ALL sex offenders ARE NOT barred from public housing! see below:3-30-2009 New York:Councilman Eric Gioia is adamant about where New York's most dangerous pervs should not live - city housing projects.But when asked to suggest neighborhoods where they might reside he couldn't come up with a single suggestion...

Are we being mislead by DOJ Press Releases and State AG claims?

Posted on March 30, 2009
3-30-2009 National:As promised and resulting from a readers comment about my post of a DOJ Press Release: RECOVERY ACT PROVIDES $50 MILLION FOR INTERNET CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN GRANT PROGRAMS . The reader commented "Curious to know how many of the 5,000 were part of Internet sting operations?" Well, that got me thinking, so here goes:The Department of Justice announced today that $50 million is

NJ- Charges against Clifton girl spark debate about teens' lurid pictures

Posted on March 30, 2009
3-30-2009 New Jersey:In Pennsylvania, authorities are threatening to prosecute three teenage girls after finding risque images of them on a cell phone. In Indiana, a middle-school boy faces obscenity charges for transmitting naked photos of himself to female classmates...

Sex Offenders: The Modern Day Leper

Posted on March 29, 2009
3-29-2009 National:I want to tell you about Scott, a friend of mine who lives in the upstate of South Carolina. After a year and a half of being a modern day leper, he finally agreed to my interview. No, Scott does not have Hansen?s disease. However, he has been shunned and forced to live on the edges of society, similar to the lepers of Biblical times...

OR- 'Sexting' in Newport: Dumb prank or child porn?

Posted on March 29, 2009
3-27-2009 Oregon:NEWPORT -- To some, it might seem like a dumb teenage prank. To others, it's child pornography worthy of criminal prosecution. Either way, a 17-year-old Oregon girl faces years in prison after using her cell phone at a drunken party in Newport last year to record, for a minute or less, a 16-year-old girl involved in crude sexual activity...

Five Questions to Ask a Criminal Lawyer Before Hiring

Posted on March 29, 2009
3-29-2009 National:For most people, choosing the right lawyer (or doctor, or accountant, etc.) is difficult. Our work is highly specialized, so it's hard for regular people to know what questions to ask. Below are five questions you should ask criminal lawyers before hiring them...

TX- Bill targeting online predators calls for Texas sex offenders to report e-mail addresses, numbers

Posted on March 29, 2009
Something new found in this soon to be introduced bill is, "... and to give social networking sites permission to boot them offline." Why do those sites NEED permission? Obviously there is a right involved, which the State is coercing RSO to give up. Well, as insane as this is I must remember, this is the state with the highest executions and where Bush came from...

WA- Dead inmate was testicular shock test subject

Posted on March 29, 2009
3-29-2009 Washington:SPOKANE, Wash. -- A state prison inmate who died of unexplained causes participated in testicular shock experiments that led to a federal lawsuit.Investigators are awaiting test results that could indicate why 63-year-old George D...

GA- Ga. considers changes to sex offender law

Posted on March 29, 2009
3-29-2009 Georgia:ATLANTA -- Three years after adopting one of the nation's stiffest stances on sex offenders, Georgia lawmakers are rethinking some of the crackdown's toughest provisions.After complaints from civil rights groups and round after round of costly court challenges, powerful Georgia lawmakers are looking to soften some of the very parts of the law that incited the greatest debate.

OH- SEX OFFENDER'S PHONE, CABLE CUT

Posted on March 29, 2009
3-29-2009 Ohio:A sex offender's phone and cable service was cut apparently by someone disgruntled with him residing nearby.According to a Ross County Sheriff's Office report, the landlord of a residence on the 300 block of Valley Drive reported "all the neighbors are in an uproar" because he had rented to a sex offender...

KS- GROUP HOME'S CLOSING SENDS PAROLEES OUT ON THEIR OWN

Posted on March 29, 2009
3-29-2009 Kansas:Parolees sent out on own after cutsWICHITA - For the past decade, some of the most troubled convicts released from state prisons have lived temporarily in a Wichita group home.The prefab building -- at 3820 N. Toben, in an industrial park in northeast Wichita -- has housed the kind of men nobody wants as neighbors...

FL- Miami sex offenders still living under bridge

Posted on March 29, 2009
3-29-2009 Florida:MIAMI -- A sandy shoreline runs outside Patrick Wiese's front door. A white crane toes through gentle blue-green waters as the sun beams overhead. The view of downtown is spectacular, the fishing good and the rent free. Yet he'd give it all up for a bed in a warehouse...

RI- Bill proposes Sex-Ed to Kindergarteners

Posted on March 29, 2009
3-29-2009 Rhode Island:Parents say they are outraged over the proposalPROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - A controversial bill has sparked an age old debate on when is the right time to teach children about sex education.Some lawmakers are saying that the basics about the "birds and bees" should start in Kindergarten...

OR- Man Sent Urine-Soaked Coins To Pay $206 Ticket

Posted on March 29, 2009
3-29-2009 Oregon:PORTLAND, Ore. -- A Washington man tried to pay a traffic ticket by sending a plastic bag filled with $206 worth of urine-soaked coins to a county billing office, deputies said Wednesday.Police said Mike Lynch was recently stopped and cited for speeding in a construction zone...

DC- RECOVERY ACT PROVIDES $50 MILLION FOR INTERNET CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN GRANT PROGRAMS

Posted on March 29, 2009
A commenter asked a question about # of Internet Stings, that caused me to look closer at what the DOJ had to say, and tomorrow -Good willing and the creek don't rise- I will do a commentary on that portion of this DOJ Release. Hindsight sometimes reveals things positive...

NJ- Why girl who sent nude pix isn't a sex offender

Posted on March 28, 2009
Despite a statement to the contrary yesterday by New Jersey's attorney general, a 14-year-old girl accused of posting nude photos of herself on MySpace likely won't be branded a sex offender, a prosecutor said today.Passaic County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Susan Greco today said she couldn't discuss the case specifically -- primarily because she hadn't received any of the information yet from

Bill in Congress HR 1623

Posted on March 28, 2009
3-20-2009 National:Originally I provided an Advanced Notice of this bill which you can read here, with notes from when this bill was introduced in the last Congress (110th) where it died in committee. OK, now on to this year's version which is a massive bill and I will touch on the major points...

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