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FL- Text lands teen on sex

Posted on March 11, 2009
In today's Congressional hearing on SORNA Rep. Bobby Scott repeditally asked Laura Rogers whether a 19 year old and a 15 year old (4 years apart) would result in the 19 year old having to register, and suffer all that follows from being publically listed...

OH- Ohio Senate Approves New Sex Offender Law

Posted on March 11, 2009
3-11-2009 Ohio:COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio Senate has passed a bill to prevent sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools or day care facilities even if they committed their crimes before passage of a state law prohibiting such residency.The Senate voted 30-0 Tuesday in response to a 2008 Ohio Supreme Court decision that says the sex offender residency law could not be applied

WI- Well-meaning Amber Alerts stoke fear of a rare danger

Posted on March 11, 2009
3-11-2009 Wisconsin:The story of a 17-year-old Elbow Lake girl kidnapped by her stepfather and stepbrother last weekend, allegedly at gunpoint, is another sad reminder of how profoundly a family can unravel. It also was a reminder to me to check a troubling hunch I've long had about Amber Alerts...

FL- Voting Rights Elude Some Florida Ex-Felons, Study Says

Posted on March 11, 2009
It appears that, as to sex offenders completeling their sentences before this new -restoration of rights procedure-, this violates the ex post facto clauses for them esp since it is based on their conviction, as is everyone else. Excepting murder, as to others they can apply and have rights restored...

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MI- Sex offenders arrested in statewide sweep

Posted on March 11, 2009
Nothing like driving up the costs of the criminal justice system for "inconsistencies in addresses" when it is the job of law enforcement to enter those addresses into the computer and likely they typed something wrong. I'd bet some will lose their jobs over these dumb inconsistencies...

UT- Utah lawmakers OK bill on 'sexting'

Posted on March 11, 2009
3-11-2009 Utah:SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah lawmakers have agreed to lessen the penalty for minors who send or receive nude pictures through their cell phones, called "sexting." House Bill 14, sponsored by Rep. Sheryl Allen, R-Bountiful, would reduce the penalty for someone younger than 18 to a misdemeanor from a felony...

UT- 911 tape released in police standoff, man's death

Posted on March 11, 2009
UPDATE on earlier story: 911 call is HERE:3-11-2009 Utah:TAYLOR -- A 64-year-old man who was killed after an armed standoff with deputies last month warned his son-in-law he was going to shoot himself and would harm the younger man if he tried to get in his way, according to the recording of a 911 call from family members...

SORNA Hearing in Congress - TODAY - March 10, 2009 2:00 PM

Posted on March 10, 2009
3-7-2009 National:Today is the first hearing, of many more to come, on the Adam Walsh Act, SORNA Title.Held by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Their schedule and agenda is:03/10/2009: 2:00 P.M. in 2141 Rayburn House Office BuildingHearing on: Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA): Barriers to Timely Compliance by StatesVideo link to

EDAR (Everyone Deserves A Roof), Inc. - What is it, see enclosed

Posted on March 10, 2009
Please pass this along to every shelter or mission you may know of. There is a need for this type of shelter in the homeless population. Be sure to see the video HERE. A simple but amazing invention. PS: The bike is not part of it, that belongs to the owner and is leaning up against the EDAR...

IL- Judge keeps homeless man off Oak Park ballot

Posted on March 10, 2009
3-10-2009 Illinois:A Cook County judge ruled today that a homeless man's name cannot appear on the April 7 ballot for Oak Park village trustee because he did not list a home address on his nominating papers.Attorneys for Daniel Fore said they will appeal the decision of Judge Patrick McGann...

VA- Stafford prosecutor muzzled on rape case

Posted on March 10, 2009
3-10-2009 Virginia:Stafford Circuit Judge J. Martin Bass stayed a juvenile court judge's ruling yesterday, blocking Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Eric Olsen from commenting on the records of a teen he prosecuted on a rape charge in 2007.The teen's alleged victim recanted her accusation more than two months after the former Aquia Harbour resident was convicted of rape and breaking and entering

OK- Tulsa man sentenced for nursing home rape

Posted on March 10, 2009
Here we have a tragic case, a sex offense by an employee of the nursing home, not by a former sex offender.3-10-2009 Oklahoma:TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A former Tulsa nursing home employee has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for raping a resident.James Mack was sentenced Monday after being convicted of first-degree rape in the August 2007 attack on the woman who lived at the Southern Hills

UPDATE on MSNBC Story "Pedophiles Gunning for Cuomo"

Posted on March 10, 2009
Yesterday we reported on a MSNBC story which claimed "Pedophiles Gunning for Cuomo" and that Nambla was somehow involved. We wondered if it some sort of a satire but as it turns out it is a cruel hoax. See the following Press Release posted on Nambla:PRESS RELEASEMarch 9, 2009For Immediate ReleaseContact: Arnold Schoen at arnoldschoen@yahoo...

Hearing on: Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA): Barriers to Timely Compliance by States

Posted on March 10, 2009
3-10-2009 Washington DC:Was held: Tuesday, 03/10/2009 - 2:00 P.M.2141 Rayburn House Office BuildingSubcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland SecurityBy Direction of the ChairmanRep. Bobby Scott opened the hearing and did indicate that some other folks wanted to tesify (ATSA and others) but there was not sufficient time to allow that, instead their written testimony was accepted for the

Conditional discharge for mad dad who attacked teens

Posted on March 10, 2009
3-10-2009 Canada:Hammer used after daughter, 5, molested by friend's sonsA father who literally took the law into his own hands after his best friend?s twin sons molested his young daughter was given a conditional discharge today.As a result, the 36-year-old Wetaskiwin man ? who pulled a gun on the teens and fired it and then hit one of them on the hand with a hammer ? will not get a criminal

VA- Students face 'sexting' charges

Posted on March 10, 2009
In today's Congressional hearing on SORNA Rep. Bobby Scott repeditally asked Laura Rogers whether a 19 year old and a 15 year old (4 years apart) would result in the 19 year old having to register, and suffer all that follows from being publically listed...

AL- Alabama AG reportedly under federal investigation

Posted on March 10, 2009
3-10-2009 Alabama:MONTGOMERY, Al -- Alabama Attorney General Troy King's office is reportedly under investigation by federal authorities. Reports published Tuesday said at least six former members of King's staff went before a federal grand jury meeting in Montgomery last week...

VT- A tougher stance against sex crimes

Posted on March 09, 2009
Nothing mentioned nor the Adam Walsh Act -if in place before Brooke's muder- would have prevented that crime. Lawmakers continue to believe TRACKING of FORMER OFFENDERS is the answer to preventing future crimes, when 95% of new sex crimes are committed by someone who has never committed a sex crime before...

WA- Gov. Gregoire Announces New Sex Offender Tracking Database

Posted on March 09, 2009
How can anyone be proud to announce spending $5,000,000.00 for a phone book of 18,136 former sex offenders ($275.00 each listing without annual costs), when they Yellow pages comes FREE and contains tens of thousands more people. How can this protect the public from new sex crimes when it is a well know fact that, 95% of new sex crimes come from people who have never before committed a sex

MI- Target 8: Beat down near Guiding Light Mission - Homeless man beaten by worker, caught on tape

Posted on March 09, 2009
The Guiding Light Mission is one of the missions that claimed it could not permit Thomas Pauli a place to stay the evening when it was -3 degrees and blowing winds outside. Thomas Pauli ultimately FROZE to death on January 26, 2009 in a nearby auto junk yard...

MSNBC Report - Pedophiles Gunning for Cuomo

Posted on March 09, 2009
Notice where they think the threat is coming from, then you will understand the "Revenge" graphic, if you are up on sex offender laws and issues. With that said, is it satire, look at the posting HERE or is there something to this. If true, this would not be the first threat lawmakers have received...

From article titled "What Other Surprises will Obama Show Us?"

Posted on March 09, 2009
3-9-2009 National:Comes this on the Adam Walsh Act:The Military Commissions Act was not the only, or even the first, congressional assault on the habeas corpus guarantee. An earlier, and more damaging, attack came in the form of the "Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006," which permits the open-ended "civil confinement" of those who are designated "sexually dangerous persons" (a

UPDATE- Are ALL sex offenders prohibited from living in federally assisted housing?

Posted on March 08, 2009
3-8-2009 National:A recent question came up: Will the Adam Walsh Act (AWA) have any effect on HUD law or rules concerning sex offenders and public housing?In addition to what is below, AWA is only effective in a state AFTER a state enacts its provisions in that state...

ME- Bangor Police Release New Info On Cold Case Homicide

Posted on March 08, 2009
UPDATE OF EARLIER CASE3-8-2009 Maine:BANGOR (NEWS CENTER) -- Three years after the body of a homeless man from Lubec was found burning beneath a bridge in Bangor -- police are releasing new facts about the case.Fire crews arrived at the scene on March 7, 2006 to find 2-foot flames shooting up from the body of 34-year old Trevor Paul Sprague...

New policy bars sex offenders from Navy housing

Posted on March 08, 2009
3-8-2009 National:But guidance not yet given to installationsSAN DIEGO ? Registered sex offenders are prohibited from living in base housing and barred from Navy Department facilities, according to an October memo from the Navy secretary. But five months after the order, the Navy has not yet put it in place...

MI- Budget cancels extradition of top sex offender

Posted on March 08, 2009
3-8-2009 Michigan:Budget cuts have led the Livingston County prosecutor's office to decide not to extradite a Green Oak Township man listed on the state's Most Wanted Sex Offenders list.William L. Tyrer, 44, who was convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, was wanted on a 2005 warrant in Livingston County for failing to register on the state's sex offender registry...

CO- Residency restrictions not a solution

Posted on March 08, 2009
3-6-2009 Colorado:A recent Greeley ordinance restricting where registered sex offenders may live may have unintended consequences. The staff and board of directors of the Sexual Assault Resource Center (formerly Sexual Assault Survivors Inc., or SASI) are concerned that the new ordinance is emotionally appealing but contradicts what is known about managing sex offenders...

Police caution would-be Ferguson vigilantes

Posted on March 08, 2009
3-6-2009 Australia:Queensland Police have warned the public they will take swift action against anyone who tries to interfere with serial pedophile Dennis Ferguson.Ferguson, 61, was yesterday acquitted of one count of indecent treatment of a child under 12 years in the Brisbane District Court...

VA- Fairfax County budget cuts would nix sex-predator monitoring team

Posted on March 08, 2009
3-6-2009 Virginia:A team of four detectives that closely monitors nearly 400 registered sexual predators in Fairfax County would be dissolved under County Executive Anthony Griffin?s proposed budget. The Sexual Predator Enforcement and Detection team is one of the many potential casualties in a brutal round of budget cuts to public safety, the hardest-hit sector in the fiscal 2010 spending

NJ- Sex offender registry mistake hits home for Hamilton family

Posted on March 08, 2009
3-6-2009 New Jersey:New Jersey's online registry of sex offenders is supposed to arm parents like Kalina Dixon with knowledge to keep their children safe. Visitors to the website can check to see if convicted sex offenders have registered at an address near their homes...

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