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CA - California lawmaker arranges improper deal on parolees

Posted on June 23, 2009
View the article here 06/23/2009 By Andy Furillo A California lawmaker arranged an improper deal with state corrections officials to stop an influx of parolees into his district 10 months before voters approved "Jessica's Law," the 2006 ballot measure he wrote to restrict where paroled sex offenders could live...

CHINA - China's Internet plan may backfire

Posted on June 23, 2009
View the article here 06/20/2009 By Evgeny Morozov The mandatory requirement that all computers sold in China carry security software has caused a stir among Chinese Internet users. Officially, the purpose of the Green Dam-Youth Escort software is to shield kids from online pornography, but most China watchers expect Beijing to use the program to block access to sensitive political and social online resources that the regime considers dangerous...

CO - Studies question sex-offender restrictions

Posted on June 23, 2009
View the article here 06/23/2009 By Sue Lindsay, Rocky Mountain News It all began in 1999 when five men dutifully went to the Lakewood Police Department to register as sex offenders. Each gave the same address, which grabbed the attention of city officials, who quickly took action to close the house...

CA - Operation Monitor Press Conference

Posted on June 23, 2009
Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin and Police Chief Jerry Dyer call press conference to announce the arrest of a registered sex offender who violated his parole by not registering with police. The suspect was arrested after an undercover operation to locate him near a homeless shelter...

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NV - Appeals court says DNA test violated Las Vegas inmate's rights

Posted on June 23, 2009
View the article here 06/23/2009 By ADRIENNE PACKER - LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL An appeals court panel ruled today that a Metropolitan Police Department detective violated an inmate?s rights when he forcefully extracted a DNA sample to determine whether the sex offender was involved in old sex offense cases...

OH - Cleveland: Former police officer sentenced for sex crime

Posted on June 23, 2009
View the article here 06/23/2009 CLEVELAND -- Duhamel Torres, 42 was sentenced to one year in jail for sexual battery and tampering with records. Crimes prosecutors say he committed while on duty as a Cleveland police officer. Torres was originally indicted on rape, kidnapping, tampering with records and other charges...

MO - Kansas Supreme Court upholds conviction of woman involved in the murder of lobbyist

Posted on June 23, 2009
View the article here 06/23/2009 By Justin Kendall The Kansas Capitol hasn't been the same without self-appointed homeless lobbyist and registered sex offender _____. Three years ago, I profiled _____ in the midst of lawmakers' sex-offender hysteria while _____ -- convicted of possessing child pornography in 1998 -- was walking the halls, which were often filled with children...

DC - 60,000 inmates sexually abused every year

Posted on June 23, 2009
View the article here See Also 06/23/2009 WASHINGTON ? A federal commission on prison rape has concluded that the risk of being attacked depends greatly on the type of prisoner, and where the inmate is locked up. More than 60,000 inmates are sexually abused every year, according to a report being made public Tuesday by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission...

Teen kills 4-year-old Sister To Protect Her?

Posted on June 23, 2009
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (Bill Of Rights) Sex Offender Issues (C) 2006-2009, All Rights Reserved!

S.O.S.E.N. Brochures - Download, print and put them anywhere you can

Posted on June 22, 2009
View the brochures here Download these brochures, print them out, and then put them in stores, malls, gas stations, or anywhere else you can think of. Just DON'T put them directly into people's mailboxes, that is illegal, and you could go to jail and/or prison for it...

MO - AG Investigates Sex Offenders On MySpace

Posted on June 22, 2009
View the article here 06/19/2009 Missouri Highway Patrol Tasked To See If Offenders Violating Parole Online LEE'S SUMMIT - Registered sex offenders are supposed to keep their distance from children in person and online. KMBC's Jana Corrie reports that Missouri Highway Patrol is investigating social networking sites to make sex offenders are not preying on children...

FL - Homeless Sex Offenders Under Julia Tuttle Bridge Continue to Be Targeted by State, Local Law Enforcement

Posted on June 22, 2009
View the article here FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 2, 2009 CONTACT: ACLU of Florida Media Office: 786.363.2737 or media@aclufl.org The following statement can be attributed to Jeanne Baker, ACLU of Florida Board President: State and local communities, including Miami and Miami Dade County and other local communities have enacted residency restrictions that impermissibly exceed state law...

CT - Blogger to appear in Conn. court

Posted on June 22, 2009
View the article here 06/22/2009 WEST HARTFORD ? A blogger is due in a Connecticut courtroom to face a charge of inciting violence against state lawmakers. A judge is expected to arraign Harold "Hal" Turner of North Bergen, N.J., in Hartford Superior Court...

FL - Miami's tent city for sex offenders

Posted on June 22, 2009
View the article here 06/21/2009 A Miami law is forcing many of the city's sex offenders to sleep rough under a bridge, reports Emilio San Pedro for the BBC's Americana programme. The area under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in downtown Miami has in recent years become the unlikely home for a growing community of about 70 convicted sex offenders...

AU - Child Molester walks free while father who beat him faces prison!

Posted on June 22, 2009
View the article here Just read the commentary at the end. Pure media vigilantism! I have sent an email to these people, to possibly warn this judge his life might be in danger! But, I think the man who beat the person molesting the child, was only defending his son, and should not be going to court over it...

DC - Court to rule on federal sex offenders law

Posted on June 22, 2009
View the article here 06/22/2009 WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of a federal law that permits sex offenders to be kept behind bars after they complete their prison terms. The justices, acting Monday, say they will consider the Obama administration's appeal of a lower court ruling that invalidated the law...

FL - Sex-offender laws burden neighborhood

Posted on June 21, 2009
View the article here So now they have pushed ex-sex offenders into certain areas of the state. So who about the children who live in the areas where ex-sex offenders are forced to congregate? It's just a never-ending shuffle game! 06/20/2009 By FRED GRIMM The surreal specter of people forced by the state to live under a bridge is only one of the unintended consequences of South Florida's overwrought sex-offender residency laws...

New Roar For Freedom Web Site and Forum

Posted on June 21, 2009
Web Site | Forums Betty and Mike have started a new Roar For Freedom web site and forum, click the links above to visit. Keep in mind, these are new, so it will take some time before they are completed, so check back often. "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety...

Is this what the politicians and government are hoping for, for society? If so, it's never going to happen!

Posted on June 21, 2009
DEMOLITION MAN TRAILER MINORITY REPORT George Orwell - 1984 "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (Bill Of Rights) Sex Offender Issues (C) 2006-2009, All Rights Reserved!

TX - Perry vetoes 37 bills, including 'Romeo and Juliet'

Posted on June 20, 2009
View the article here 06/20/2009 By TERRENCE STUTZ AUSTIN ? Gov. Rick Perry (Contact) on Friday vetoed a "Romeo and Juliet" sex offender measure along with 36 other bills passed by the Legislature this year ? including bicyclist protection legislation and a partial ban on toll road ads by the state Transportation Department...

GPS Devices Not a Silver Bullet, States Say

Posted on June 20, 2009
View the article here Feb 1, 2009, By Jim McKay, Justice and Public Safety Editor GPS monitoring ? embraced as a simple technological solution for tracking the whereabouts of convicted sex offenders ? is proving to be something less than a silver bullet for state and local public safety agencies...

NY - Sex Offender Bill (Pertaining to sending out emails when an offender changes registry info) Passes Assembly

Posted on June 20, 2009
View the article here 06/19/2009 LEGISLATION MIRRORING SCOZZAFAVA BILL PASSES ASSEMBLY Residents will soon receive e-mail notifications when changes are made to sex offender registry Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava (Email) (R, I, WF ? Gouverneur) today announced the passage of legislation in the Assembly that mirrors legislation for which she has been advocating that enables residents to sign up for e-mail alerts when level 2 and 3 sex offenders move into their communities...

CA - Newly Enforced Law Puts Sex Offenders Closer to Your Backyard

Posted on June 20, 2009
View the article here 06/19/2009 By Cindy Nixon A state law designed to protect the public from sex offenders, is now drawing outrage from those impacted by it. For more than a year, landlord Gary Womack housed 14 sex offenders in this Tehama County home and two others like it...

TX - House impeaches federal judge from Texas

Posted on June 20, 2009
View the article here 06/19/2009 By SUZANNE GAMBOA The House on Friday impeached a federal judge imprisoned for lying about sexual assaults of two women in the first such vote since impeaching former President Bill Clinton a decade ago. The impeachment of U...

Happy Father's Day!

Posted on June 20, 2009
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (Bill Of Rights) Sex Offender Issues (C) 2006-2009, All Rights Reserved!

OFF TOPIC - Kitty Wake Up! (Leave me the "F" Alone!)

Over Reacting - Excerpts from Penn & Teller's Bulls--t! (Season 6 Episode 8 "Stranger Danger")

Posted on June 20, 2009
WARNING: Contains adult language, viewer discretion is advised! Free Range Kids Blog "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (Bill Of Rights) Sex Offender Issues (C) 2006-2009, All Rights Reserved!

Another Shade of Gray - Some Surprising Truths about the Sex Offender Situation

Posted on June 20, 2009
NOTE: The text below is copyrighted and posted with permission by the author. Do not put it on your blog or web site, without their permission. How do we begin to address such an emotionally charged topic? A subject that by and large, is distasteful to most, and directly problematic to all too many...

AL - Concerns about sex offenders

Posted on June 19, 2009
View the article here Alabama State Laws 06/19/2009 Questions continue to arise about where convicted sex offenders can live once they are released from prison. When an individual is convicted of a sex crime, they must register as a sex offender...

TX - Supreme Court finds convicts have no right to test DNA to prove innocence

Posted on June 19, 2009
View the article here Yeah, because the state doesn't want to look bad for locking up innocent people! They should allow DNA testing in all states, regardless of the years gone past. It would prove someone is innocent of guilty. My question is, why did they not use the DNA in the first place? 06/18/2009 The Supreme Court said Thursday that convicts have no constitutional right to test DNA evidence in hopes of proving their innocence long after they were found guilty...

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