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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.
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IN- Vigo schools look at sex-offender policy

Posted on February 24, 2009
I've always liked folks with spunk, this guy gets an apple!2-24-2009 Indiana:TERRE HAUTE ? A registered sex offender cautioned the Vigo County School Board about going too far with a policy aimed at keeping such offenders out of schools and off school property...

MI- Charge against sex offender dropped

Posted on February 24, 2009
Given there is no clear definition of "loitering" I'm not surprised at this outcome.2-24-2009 Michigan:MUSKEGON COUNTY -- A misdemeanor case against a Norton Shores sex offender, charged in November with hanging out near an elementary school, has been dismissed "for further investigation...

IL- Kane County's homeless programs get $1.3 million

Posted on February 24, 2009
But not for sex offenders, if they have a lifetime registration requirement! -- MI- Man found in snow had no place to turn 2-24-2009 Illinois:Kane County will get an infusion of nearly $1.3 million this year -- about $15,000 more than requested -- to help 11 initiatives that assist the homeless, or those at risk of becoming homeless...

KY- Agencies that aid the city's homeless will receive $6.4 million in federal funds

Posted on February 24, 2009
But not for sex offenders, if they have a lifetime registration requirement! -- MI- Man found in snow had no place to turn -- MI- Man found in snow had no place to turn 2-24-2009 Kentucky:Agencies that aid the city's homeless will receive $6.4 million in federal funds for housing programs, mental health efforts and other services...

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PA- Ex-guard gets probation for forcing inmates to sing nursery rhymes, bark like dogs

Posted on February 24, 2009
2-24-2009 Pennsylvania:A former corrections officer at Westmoreland County Prison will serve probation after pleading guilty Monday to forcing inmates to kneel and sing nursery rhymes and bark like dogs. Scott A. Rogers, 39, of Mt. Pleasant was a 10-year guard before he was charged with three misdemeanor charges of official oppression...

Running a Business After Doing Time

Posted on February 24, 2009
2-24-2009 National:THIS year, nearly 700,000 people will be released from state or federal prisons. They will join the worst economy in decades, many of them with limited education and little or no legitimate employment experience. And a criminal record will make it that much harder to find a job...

Internet Child-Protection Bill Raises Too Many Questions

Posted on February 24, 2009
2-24-2009 National:Are you a child molester? I know I'm not. And yet U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. Lamar Smith apparently think that there's a pretty good chance we both are. They've introduced bills that would require Internet service providers to keep customer records for two years...

ME- Court to shape sex offender registry debate

Posted on February 23, 2009
2-23-2009 Maine:AUGUSTA, Maine ? Two similar state Supreme Court cases or a soon-to-be-debated piece of legislation likely will spur changes to Maine?s sex offender registration and notification act. Earlier this month, oral arguments were heard by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in the cases of two men who are challenging the constitutionality of the registry...

Term 'sex offender' misused

Posted on February 23, 2009
2-23-2009 National:What do you think of when you hear the term "sex offender?" I imagine most of you immediately envision a monster of a person, someone who is a vile and immoral creature who has been convicted as a pedophile, rapist or sexual predator...

KS- Wichita Receives HUD Homeless Funds

Posted on February 23, 2009
2-23-2009 Kansas:City of Wichita officials announced on Monday that Wichita will receive slightly more than $2 million in funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, to continue providing shelter and other resources to assist the homeless...

NJ- N .J.'s top court broadens ability to institutionalize sexual predators

Posted on February 23, 2009
I finally figured civil commitment out.. Civil commitment, society's way of saying, well all of our punishment schemes apparently didn't work, so lets pigeonhole this person in a place where s/he will never get out again, and we will spin the person through legal hoops so they can never figure out how to get out...

FL- Sex offender finally released

Posted on February 22, 2009
2-22-2009 Florida:Florida Supreme Court rules he served his time, and much moreFor nine years, William Todd Larimore told anyone who'd listen that he didn't belong behind bars.The 50-year-old Jacksonville sex offender complained to guards, cops, reporters and the courts that he'd completed his sentence more than a decade ago...

Posting will resume on Monday

Posted on February 22, 2009
2-20-2009:Just so folks know, I am performing subtle updates on all of the blogs, and I will resume posting here on Monday.The recent "Murders in the U.S. 2008: RSOs & Others" report has tweaked many minds and some in high places. That was my ultimate goal and I will keep updating it as incidents occur...

OK- Sex offenders leave city for country

Posted on February 22, 2009
2-22-2009 Oklahoma:State restrictions on where they can live leaves them with fewer choices. Others just don't register.Some registered sex offenders who once lived in Tulsa are moving to neighboring rural counties while others appear to be moving underground, a Tulsa World analysis of Department of Corrections data indicates...

Response to a viewer's question

Posted on February 21, 2009
This post is for a specific viewer, and no one is authorized to copy it anywhere else. eAdvocate (All Rights Reserved 2009)2-20-2009 eAdvocate:To the viewer asking the question about clusters of sex offenders and possible higher rates of recidivism within those clusters...

MI- Should inmates be released?

Posted on February 21, 2009
2-20-2009 Michigan:Linda Woodward?s brother, Melvin Cook, was sent to prison in 1985 for a minimum sentence of 20 years. He?s still there after 24 years.But that could change under Gov. Jennifer Granholm?s proposal to release nonviolent inmates who have served their minimum sentences...

GA- After Prison, Few Places for Sex Offenders to Live

Posted on February 20, 2009
Georgia, second only to Florida, proves their legislators lack insight into solving problems of society in a way that keeps everyone in society working together for the better good. Legislators have only one thing in mind, banishment and keeping the general public in a state of hysteria over false beliefs...

Facebook has removed 5,500 (HONEST) sex offenders since May

Posted on February 20, 2009
Facebook like MySpace remove accounts of persons who earlier had a sex conviction, who have committed no current wrongdoing in society or on their website. If anything this makes Facebook and other sites doing same, more dangerous for any children having accounts...

MI- Frozen homeless man died holding 97 cents, no photos of his son

Posted on February 20, 2009
Reporter attempts to track various pieces of information about Mr. Pauli, except one important fact, did anyone visit him while he was in prison? There is an answer to this question if one looks for it. At least he is now in a far better place, and some will remember him...

Lawmakers Unveil ISP Data Retention Bill

Posted on February 20, 2009
Typical of many news reports, they are getting it wrong, this ONLY pertains to companies that HOST users, this does not pertain to individual users even if they have a WiFi network.2-20-2009 National:House Judiciary Committee ranking member Lamar Smith and Sen...

UK- Town man?s life sentence for brutal murder of sex offender

Posted on February 20, 2009
1-28-2009 United Kingdom:A MACCLESFIELD dad of three has been jailed for life for brutally murdering his 60-year-old flatmate after learning he was a convicted paedophile.Ex-butcher Lea Mason, 33, formerly of Turnock Street, will serve a minimum of 17 and a half years after launching a "violent and frenzied attack" on his victim...

TX- HPD: Boy says he killed man who sexually assaulted him

Posted on February 20, 2009
Note: The man killed does not have a history of a sex offense according to this report.2-20-2009 Texas:Dead man's nephew disputes boy's story, but says uncle led a violent lifestyleA 15-year-old boy has told police that he shot and killed a man in northeast Houston this week after the man grabbed him on his way to school and sexually assaulted him, investigators say...

NV- Sex offender bill killed by Nevada lawmakers

Posted on February 19, 2009
2-19-2009 Nevada:A legislative committee has killed a bill that would have changed lifetime supervision requirements imposed on convicted sex offenders. The bill had faced criticism that the changes would violate constitutional due process protections...

WI- Less Restrictions for Offenders?

Posted on February 19, 2009
2-19-2009 Wisconsin:Governor Doyle's recent budget proposal changes a sex offender monitoring program that he signed into law in 2005. The proposal no longer makes GPS tracking for certain more dangerous and high risk sex offenders mandatory after they've been out of prison and on parole for one year...

MI- Market owner held in fatal shooting of man who urinated behind building

Posted on February 19, 2009
2-19-2009 Michigan:The 69-year-old owner of an east side Detroit fish market is in custody after he allegedly shot and killed a man for urinating on his building.Meanwhile, longtime business neighbors say there has to be more to the story.?Peeing on the side of the building isn?t going to make someone that mad,? said David Short, owner of Gratiot Pelkey Auto...

WI- Manitowoc sex-offender ordinance halted

Posted on February 19, 2009
I'm flabbergasted, lawmakers here actually used logic in making their decision to not go forward with residency laws. This is a rare moment in history!2-19-2009 Wisconsin:MANITOWOC ? A proposal to keep convicted sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of areas frequented by children in the city of Manitowoc was knocked down tonight by the Public Property and Safety Committee of the City

OH- New bill would apply retroactively

Posted on February 19, 2009
Lawmakers allege they are doing this to protect children, but they ignore all things dangerous, other criminal types and things physical and the crimes actually happening to children in these protected places, and want folks to ASS-U-ME that former sex offenders are the ONLY danger to children...

NY- Albany judge says sex offender law usurps state

Posted on February 19, 2009
2-19-2009 New York:ALBANY -- A City Court judge has dismissed a charge against a convicted sex offender accused of violating a county law that limits where sex offenders can live, ruling the county's law usurps state authority. The decision this week by Judge Thomas K...

UK- Man jailed for attacking sex offender

Posted on February 19, 2009
2-19-2009 United Kingdom:A man was today jailed for seven years for a vigilante attack on a convicted sex offender in Telford. The victim was slashed with a craft knife in the attack. John Webb, 41, was jailed after admitting unlawfully and maliciously wounding Steven Simmons with intent...

FL- Man pleads guilty to killing child molester

Posted on February 19, 2009
See original report:2-19-2009 Florida:DADE CITY -- Luis Angel Rivera, accused of killing a convicted sex offender in Lacoochee in 2006, pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.Authorities said Rivera (pictured), 26, killed 72-year-old William Medley in a robbery sometime between Aug...

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