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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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Transient severely beaten after false accusation of rape

Posted on October 12, 2010
10-12-2010 Florida: PANAMA CITY BEACH ? A man was beaten bloody and senseless by an unknown group of people after someone falsely accused him of raping an intoxicated woman outside a bar early Sunday morning. About 12:44 a.m. Sunday, the Bay County Sheriff?s Office was called to Newby?s Too, 4103 Thomas Drive, in reference to a sexual battery, according to an incident report...

Sex Crime Suspect Wins, Loses, Wins

Posted on October 12, 2010
This is a rather interesting case. In essence, the man (charged w/sex crime) committed some kind of sexual act, but the jury found him innocent of any sex act, and instead found him guilty of a misdemeanor assault. Apparently the judge got ticked off, and sentenced him to register as a sex offender (which is not punishment)...

Juror: Sex offender law unfair

Posted on October 11, 2010
10-10-2010 Florida: She questions Jimmy Ryce Act, asks 'You can lock somebody up, throw away the key?' She was Juror Number 6, a woman with some mighty definite ideas about right and wrong. She's a conservative Republican, a law-and-order woman who doesn't want criminals coddled...

Teenage girls having more sex than boys study finds

Posted on October 11, 2010
10-11-2010 Australia: NEWS that more teenage girls than boys are having sex, according to a survey by La Trobe University, may come as a surprise to parents and other protectors of the fairer sex. The survey of year 10 and year 12 students, published in this month's issue of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, reportedly found sexual activity has surged in the past decade for both sexes, in tandem with increased risky alcohol use...

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Bill Wilson Center opens new program for youngest sex offenders

Posted on October 11, 2010
10-11-2010 California: When three foster children spent five days in juvenile hall in 2009 on suspicion of molesting their younger sibling, the jailing sparked an outcry from public leaders and cast a spotlight on the lack of court-approved options for very young offenders in Santa Clara County...

Student?s Discovery of GPS Tracking Device Brings Visits by FBI, ACLU

Posted on October 10, 2010
10-9-2010 Washington: A California student was visited first by the FBI and then by the American Civil Liberties Union after reports surfaced that his mechanic had found a GPS tracking device on his car. After Yasir Afifi discovered the device, a friend posted photos online, prompting ?wide speculation about whether the device was real, whether the young Arab-American was being targeted in a terrorism investigation and what the authorities would do,? Wired...

LA gets more sex offenders

Posted on October 10, 2010
10-10-2010 California: Restrictions also lead to rise in homelessness Residency restrictions in neighboring cities have forced an influx of sex offenders into Los Angeles, where the difficulty in housing them has led to a spike in homeless parolees, police said Tuesday...

ICE, Virginia officials announce criminal alien sex offender arrests

Posted on October 09, 2010
10-8-2010 Virginia: A joint effort between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Virginia law enforcement officials arrested 15 foreign nationals in Virginia and D.C. who have been convicted of sex crimes and are now slated for deportation, officials announced Friday...

NC justices uphold monitoring some sex offenders

Posted on October 09, 2010
Another law which will wind up in the U.S. Supreme court, this conflicts with at least Massachusetts (see Commonwealth -v- Cory) on the same issue. 10-9-2010 North Carolina: RALEIGH, N.C. -- Sex offenders in North Carolina can be electronically monitored even if they were convicted before the tracking law was passed, a divided state Supreme Court ruled Friday...

Man accused of beating neighbor (RSO) found guilty on all charges

Posted on October 09, 2010
10-9-2010 Maryland: William Bryan Bolton Jr. was convicted of first- and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and endangerment while intoxic A Boonsboro man accused of beating his neighbor with a club in 2009 was found guilty on all charges Thursday at the end of a bench trial before Washington County Circuit Court Judge John H...

Coach gets jail, but won?t be labeled as a sex offender

Posted on October 09, 2010
10-9-2010 Michigan: Christopher Moses sentenced to 75 days of incarceration Allegan County, MI ? A former Hamilton basketball coach will not be listed on the state?s sex offender registry, but he will serve 75 days in the Allegan County Jail for using a computer to view nude pictures of a 15-year-old student and to send her sexually explicit e-mails...

Audit questions corrections spending

Posted on October 09, 2010
10-9-2010 Illinois: A federal audit released Thursday questioned how the Illinois Department of Corrections spent half of a $2.2 million grant to help violent offenders adjust to life outside prison. The review also said there was no way to say whether the program succeeded because Corrections didn?t keep statistics on its participants, according to auditors, although one set of documents showed nearly half failed...

Courts should admit if "emperor wears no clothes"

Posted on October 09, 2010
10-9-2010 Washington: SVP evidence must meet legal admissibility standards, cautions high court justice in Washington The Supreme Court of Washington has made it easier for some civilly committed Sexually Violent Predators (SVP's) to challenge their detentions...

Tennesse Supreme Court Rules: Life Time Supervision for Certain Sex Offenses is Punishment

Posted on October 09, 2010
This is a rare occassion, but it appears whoever wrote this article about the Marcus decision, has erred. See highlighted portions below:10-9-2010 Tennessee: Tennesse Supreme Court sex offense ruling opens the door for possible challenges. First the article: In Tennessee individuals convicted of sex offenses must register as a sex offender with the State and are subjected to various living and working restrictions pursuant to the registration statute, T...

Riverside man charged with harassing sex offender

Posted on October 08, 2010
10-7-2010 New York: A Riverside man?s anger with a registered sex offender living and working at an area motel has landed him in Southampton Town Justice Court, where he faces second-degree harassment charges after he allegedly confronted the sex offender outside a local deli this summer...

Man allegedly kills neighbor with MS

Posted on October 07, 2010
This is another case of "death by sexual circumstances." 10-6-2010 California: A Fullerton man strangled his neighbor, who had muscular sclerosis, because he caught his 18-year-old son in bed with the 43- year-old woman, and then dumped her body in San Bernardino County nearly three years ago, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday...

Waco council on Sex Offender Treatment is against the Adam Walsh Act

Posted on October 07, 2010
We must remember that the Adam Walsh Act was conceived BEHIND CLOSED DOORS with a Bush appointed Secret Service agent in the midst of that tiny group of lawmakers, and other lawmakers were prevented from voicing their opinions, by use of "Suspension of the Rules" trickery when such a bill is not intended to be heard by suspending the rules...

Data Overload Block Tracking of Sex Offenders

Posted on October 07, 2010
10-7-2010 National: Data overload shuts down electronic tracking of sex offenders, others for 12 hours nationwide A company that provides electronic monitoring to track sex offenders, parolees and others said its system shut down after unexpectedly hitting its data storage limit, leaving authorities across 49 states unaware of offenders' movement for about 12 hours...

Iowa Court of Appeals rules in Clarke County sex offender registry case

Posted on October 06, 2010
10-6-2010 Iowa: The Iowa Court of Appeals has ruled in a Clarke County case involving registration requirements for convicted sex offenders. Joseph Adams was convicted of third-degree sexual abuse in 1999 and as a result is required to notify the Clarke County Sheriff when he changes his residence, and under the sex offender law is not allowed to live within 2,000 feet of a public elementary

Police: Spike in homeless sex offenders in LA

Posted on October 06, 2010
Homeless number skyrocket, and somehow, this makes society SAFER? Talk about warped thinking!10-6-2010 California: LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Increasing numbers of registered sex offenders are ending up homeless in Los Angeles as neighboring communities comply with Jessica's Law, a police official said Tuesday...

Sex Offender in Jail due to GPS System Failure

Posted on October 06, 2010
The idiots have it! Is it any wonder why states are going broke, they keep employing these idiots... This is another case of STUPIDITY!10-6-2010 Wisconsin: RHINELANDER - Convicted sex offender Christopher Sayers was back in jail Tuesday night, but not for anything he did wrong...

Judge Orders Sex Offender to Wear Shock Belt at Trial

Posted on October 05, 2010
10-4-2010 Wisconsin: Due to a courtroom outburst last Friday in Outagamie County, a judge orders a convicted sex offender to wear an electric shock belt during his upcoming trial. ____, 45, faces several first-degree child sexual assault charges as a repeat offender...

Sex registry lie not proven

Posted on October 04, 2010
Here we have a case where a prosecutor clearly abused his discretionary power. Simply said, he tried to over-charge this man, the court recognized that and dismissed the charge. 10-3-2010 New York: CANTON ? Raymond C. Miller Sr. was found innocent Wednesday by a St...

When the Abuser Is No Stranger

Posted on October 04, 2010
10-4-2010 National: Throughout her school years, Erin Merryn of Schaumburg, Ill., received plenty of lessons in the dangers her elders thought she could encounter during her childhood. She was taught how to ride out a tornado, instructed in the eight steps for turning down illegal drugs, and told how to react to a friendly stranger who might try to abduct her...

Third Circuit Requires Hearing Before in-prison Sex Offender Classification

Posted on October 04, 2010
10-4-2010 Pennsylvania: Plaintiff Charles Renchenski is serving a life sentence without the possibility for parole for murder in the first degree. Although he was never charged with, nor convicted of, a sexual offense, in 2005 Defendants classified Renchenski as a sex offender and recommended his enrollment in Pennsylvania?s Sex Offender Treatment Program (?SOTP?)...

A Lubbock man who challenged the constitutionality of the sex offender registry has lost that appeal.

Posted on October 04, 2010
In other words the court said "We don't want to listen to your arguments, whether they have merit or not."10-4-2010 Texas: A Lubbock man who challenged the constitutionality of the sex offender registry has lost that appeal. Virgil Lane pleaded guilty to one count of Failure To Register As A Sex Offender on the condition that he get to continue his appeal on constitutional grounds...

Changes in sex offender law expands number in registry

Posted on October 03, 2010
The issue of the child pornography requiring registration is a state issue, before this law that crime did not require registration. However, the portion of this article that mentions, folks no longer required to register, if they commit a new crime of any type then they must register again, that requirement will very likely be the thing that causes a court to declare the registry punishment.

Sex offender tracking goes high tech in Georgetown Co.

Posted on October 03, 2010
Some folks prefer to call the garbage man a sanitation engineer here we have the police claiming folks can use the registry to obtain a "Geographic Risk Assessment" using "geopgraphical tools" of the registry website. What a joke, the registry is noting more than a telephone book with pictures...

Know Your Rights - ACLU Brochure

Posted on October 02, 2010

C.A. Reaffirms Ruling Requiring Jury Findings to Impose Sex Offender Registration Requirement

Posted on October 01, 2010
9-30-2010 California: The Fourth District Court of Appeal yesterday reaffirmed its ruling that an order requiring a defendant to register as a sex offender subject to Jessica?s Law?s restriction on residency within 2,000 feet of a school or park where children gather must be based on facts found by a jury...

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