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CCUSO 'Release Program' explained

Posted on May 12, 2010
Civil commitment spin-ology continues, after 12 years no one has ever reached a point of release and spinology is used to deny these folks years after year! 5-12-2010 Iowa:Eight of 80 Cherokee patients progressing in treatment Eight of the current 80 patents sentenced to the Civil Commitment Unit for Sex Offenders (CCUSO) at the Cherokee Mental Health Institute are progressing through CCUSO's

Amended Lee County rule on sex offenders to go to hearings

Posted on May 12, 2010
If it is true that, you cannot criminalize -mere presence- how does that square with residency laws which declare a RSO's living (presence) in a residence, in a prohibited area, a crime?5-12-2010 Florida:Panel to hear comments on ordinance on May 25Lee County commissioners approved for public hearing Tuesday an amended ordinance restricting the movement of registered sex offenders...

9 sex offenders near freedom

Posted on May 11, 2010
5-10-2010 Iowa:Eddie Risdal calls himself the Million Dollar Man.The 61-year-old figures that's how much taxpayers have spent to keep him locked up since he was convicted of felony sex abuse involving two teenagers in 1986.And that cost will only grow: Risdal spent 20 years behind prison bars, but he and 79 other sex offenders have been judged such a risk to society that they're now being held

Last Day to Submit Comments to Eric Holder re: Prison Rape Elimination Standards

Posted on May 11, 2010
5-11-2010 National:The Department of Justice has solicited public comment on whether it should adopt the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission?s proposed standards, and today is the final day to submit comments. (See my earlier blog post here.) If you haven?t already, take five minutes to sign the Just Detention International petition at Change...

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Are police and other registering agencies violating registrants privacy rights?

Posted on May 11, 2010
Please note most all registering agencies are making copies of documents concerning sex offender registrants. Watch this video and think about who else may have copies of those documents? AND, have you made copies of any documents at say, the local library or other place like that? SOURCE: Buffalo, you have a problem!

Iowa sex offenders provide accurate info to law enforcement, study finds

Posted on May 11, 2010
5-11-2010 Iowa:Iowa is first-in-the-nation for STAR programFederal authorities who double-checked addresses of Iowans required to register as sex offenders discovered that only a small percentage provided erroneous information to authorities.U.S. Marshals teamed with local law enforcement to conduct the Sex offender Tracking And Registration (STAR) project in the 52 counties that comprise the

Offender registry called too strict

Posted on May 11, 2010
5-11-2010 Maryland:Delaware's list includes juveniles as young as 9Their youthful faces stare from the pages of Delaware?s online sex offender registry, some obviously scared, some scowling, some expressionless.These are photographs of children who committed sex crimes...

County Budget Cuts May Impact Sex Offender Monitoring

Posted on May 10, 2010
5-10-2010 California:SAN DIEGO -- The budget axe is about to swing in San Diego County and there are new concerns about the county's probation department and its supervision of high-risk sexual offenders.The San Diego County Probation Department is under close scrutiny now, with many wondering about the monitoring of sexual predators and if the new county budget might mean less

Case highlights challenges of keeping child molesters safe in prison

Posted on May 10, 2010
5-10-2010 Maryland:A Montgomery County judge shaved 14 years off a child molester's prison sentence Friday, a ruling that followed the same judge cutting almost 16 years off another molester's sentence in 2008. In shortening the latest sentence, Circuit Court Judge Eric M...

Michigan not alone in seeking changes to sex offender registry

Posted on May 10, 2010
The entire Adam Walsh Act is "dracomian" and "vindictive" in its attempt to unseat constitutional protections for registrants.5-10-2010 Michigan:The state of Michigan is not the only state struggling to comply with the changes required by the federal Adam Walsh Act to the state?s sex offender registry...

Molloy: Sex offender registry rule unconstitutional

Posted on May 09, 2010
6-13-2008 Montana:A federal judge in Missoula this week ruled that a provision of the national Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act is unconstitutional and dismissed a felony indictment accusing one sex offender of failing to register in Montana...

State Pushing for Federal Sex Registry Changes

Posted on May 08, 2010
5-8-2010 Maine:The federal law's provision regarding juveniles is troublesome, state officials say. Maine officials are pushing Congress to make changes in the federal sex registry law. Attorney General Janet Mills says particularly troublesome is the federal requirement that juvenile sex offenders be placed on state registries for life...

Anatomical ridicule raises body-scanning concerns

Posted on May 08, 2010
This story now raises many issues with respect to scans of minors! 5-8-2010 National:Full-body scanning machines may reveal a little too much, if an incident of workplace violence this week among Transportation Security Administration screeners is any indication...

Lemmy?s Pizzeria owner denied Cereal Malt Beverage license

Posted on May 07, 2010
5-7-2010 Kansas:Last night, city commissioners unanimously voted to decline a Cereal Malt Beverage license for Jason Lembright, owner of Lemmy?s Pizzeria and registered sex offender. The commissioners also unanimously voted to accept the proposed plan for the Community Development Block Grant...

California parole agency breaks up sex-offender encampment in Anaheim

Posted on May 07, 2010
Interesting how quickly Parole Agents solved the problem, when it caused them to park way away from the Parole office and walk to get to work! 5-7-2010 California:On Wednesday, officials with the Parole Department relocated 30 to 40 paroled offenders who had been living in cars and RVs outside its office on Coronado Street, police say...

Facebook vigilante who outed 6,000 paedophiles is 'attacked by shamed offenders' (and he's set to name 8,000 more)

Posted on May 06, 2010
This man claims he is not a vigilante, but notice, he is taking the law into his own hands, and even violating the rights of many. The court records are secretly accessed and not available to the public, so where does he get the right to do this?Is similar vigilantism the next step here in the U...

States Vary on dealing with youth sex offenders

Posted on May 06, 2010
5-6-2010 National:ATLANTA ? When Ricky Blackman was 16, he pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl, and an Iowa judge ordered him to register as a sex offender.But if Blackman had lived in at least a half-dozen other states, his name would never have appeared on a registry because states are deeply divided on how to deal with the nation's youngest sex offenders...

Ordinance would ban sex offenders from most affordable housing

Posted on May 06, 2010
Since logic and evidence are not tools that will keep political folks in office, they will ignore same in favor of "it sounds good" to garner public support. Of course public safety is not enhaced following political sounds good theory but they simply do not care...

Appeal denied for sex offender

Posted on May 06, 2010
How the Texas high court ever came to this conclusion is beyond me. Clearly this is a excessive punishment for an administrative offense: "In interpreting the Eighth Amendment, it will be regarded as a precept of justice that punishment for crime should be graduated and proportioned to the offense...

Federal Judge Bars 'Sexting' Prosecution of Pa. Girls

Posted on May 05, 2010
5-4-2010 Pennsylvania:A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction barring northeastern Pennsylvania prosecutors from filing charges against several teenage girls in connection with racy cell phone photos.U.S. District Judge James Munley issued the order Friday after Wyoming County District Attorney Jeff Mitchell said he had no plans to file charges against three girls who filed a federal

Justice Denied To Registered Sex Offender

Posted on May 04, 2010
Justice delayed is justice denied!5-3-2010 Connecticut:We ask a lot of clients when we ask them to trust that justice will be done in the courts. While we seek to improve public confidence in the courts, there is still plenty of reason to be suspect. Consider a case of mine...

Sex offender public park ban bill goes to governor

Posted on May 04, 2010
Further proof that lawmakers refuse to look at the circumstances of the case they use to support a law. Notice, the man they cite has NEVER BEEN CONVICTED of any sex offense. Accordingly, how can lawmakers use such a case to support this law? Lawmakers make connections that are plain dumb and do not care who they hurt in the process...

U.S. Prosecutor crusades to falsely crucify a man for child porn

Posted on May 04, 2010
5-4-2010:From Sex Hysteria Blog:Carlos Alfredo Simon-Timmerman was arrested for possession of child pornography. The only problem was that it wasn?t child pornography and any cop or prosecutor with a double-digit IQ should have known that. Unfortunately, anti-sex crusaders have never been known for their intellectual prowess...

What qualifies any state legislature to make medical / psychological terms mandating those in that industry to follow?

Posted on May 03, 2010
5-2-2010 National:Interesting: In all court cases when a "Qualified Expert" testifies the court, through the lawyers, must make sure that EXPERT is qualified on the subject they are testifying about.In civil commitment cases the defense usually calls a "expert witness" to testify about their client, and before the court allows that to happen, the expert must be qualified...

Sex questions deleted from teen risk survey

Posted on May 03, 2010
5-3-2010 Wisconsin:JANESVILLE ? Janesville middle and high school students took a survey last week about risky behaviors such as drug use.But they weren?t asked about sexual activity.Janesville school officials decided those questions should not be asked...

Feds recognize Delaware's work to go after child predators

Posted on May 03, 2010
Another state that will be violating rights of their registrants using the Adam Walsh Act, the Act of entrapment!5-3-2010 Delaware:Wilmington, Del. ? Delaware has become just the second state in the country to achieve compliance with the federal Adam Walsh Act...

Difference Makers - Robert Ekas: First Amendment Freedoms

Posted on May 02, 2010
Think carefully about this video (as to FREE SPEECH not flipping the bird) when it comes to denying RSOs their right to FREE SPEECH on social networks and similar Internet sites. While politicians say, its only providing Internet IDs to protect children, in reality such is used to deny RSOs rights granted by the Constitution: FREE SPEECH, children are but a pretext to kick RSOs off the Internet!

Megan's Law doesn't work

Posted on May 02, 2010
5-2-2010 New Jersey:For the past 15 years, the public has been left with a false sense of security. A federally funded study has determined that Megan's Law does not work.Conducted by independent psychologists along with staff from the state Department of Corrections' Office of Policy and Planning, this comprehensive study looked at 21 years of sex offense rates...

Adam Walsh Act Substantial Compliance Means What To Lawmakers?

Posted on May 02, 2010
Excellent video put together by SexOffenderIssues on Adam Walsh Act Compliance:

Return of predator evals sought

Posted on May 02, 2010
One has to wonder whether anyone confined was really a threat, or is this system nothing more than an end-run around constitutional protections. Any system that thinks it can predict what color socks someone will wear tomorrow, is suspect in this writer's eyes...

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