What to do when the feds come to town
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‘Totalitarian Justice:’ Criticisms of Campus Sex Assault Panels Intensify
WASHINGTON / April 24, 2013 – Three articles sharply critical of the handling of sex assault cases by campus disciplinary committees were published this past week. The critiques suggest college…
General Comments April 2013
Comments that are not specific to a certain post should go here, for the month of April 2013. Contributions should relate to the cause and goals of this organization and…
CO: Civil rights lawsuits attack excesses of Colorado’s sex offender laws
Colorado's tough sex offender laws are supposed to keep predators under tight supervision. But a series of lawsuits claim that the system is violating even minor offenders' rights to free speech…
IN: Mother crusades to save other bullied kids after losing daughter
TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. (WLFI) - As a matter of policy, WLFI does not cover suicides. Numerous studies point to a potential "copycat effect" following media coverage of suicides. But when…
Patty Wetterling questions sex offender laws
On an overcast spring day in 1996, a handful of people filed out of the Oval Office and assembled on the driveway of the White House before a scrum of reporters. They…
WI: De Pere City Council Votes to Repeal Sex Offender Residency Ordinance
De Pere becomes the first community in Northeast Wisconsin to repeal its sex offender residency ordinance. In a 5-to-3 vote last night, the city council moved to no longer limit where…
FL: Threats posted on Facebook are crimes
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida appeals court has decided that posting threats on one's personal Facebook page can be prosecuted under the state's "sending written threats to kill or…
NM: Mass sex offender transfer planned
The state Department of Corrections plans to start moving the first of up to nearly 300 violent or predatory sex offenders to a privately run detention facility in Otero County…
UK: Belfast Giants abandon franchise after owner is revealed as registered sex offender
In January, the Belfast Giants of the Elite Ice Hockey League (U.K.) – yep, the “All I Want For Christmas Is You” franchise – announced that American ____ ____ had…
SC: Boyfriend gets lifetime sex offender status for cellphone video
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- ____ ____ will spend the next 18 months in a federal prison for 15 minutes worth of sex videos he made with his teenage girlfriend. The girlfriend,…
OH: Web sites profiting from mug shots sued
There’s a good chance that if you’ve been arrested in the past decade, your mugshot is available online, probably on numerous Web sites. A Toledo-based lawyer, Scott Ciolek, is taking…
The Science of Sex Abuse
On a Saturday night in the summer of 1998, an undercover officer logged in to a child-pornography chat room using the screen name Indy-Girl. Within minutes, a user named John…
TX: Proposed law would force sex offenders to list crimes on social media profiles
SAN ANTONIO -- Texas Voices, a group dedicated to supporting registered sex offenders and their families, estimates 111 new names hit the sex offenders registry every week in the Lone…
European courts spare accused pedophile, hacker from American justice
_____ _____ is a fugitive and accused pedophile, and to some, he's also a poster child for a European judicial system that often would rather let criminals roam their streets…
NE: State told to pay $292K to firm that challenged sex offender laws
A federal judge has ordered Nebraska to pay more than $292,000 in attorneys' fees in a lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of changes to the state's sex offender registry laws.…
Arizona, states failing to find places for sex offenders to live
Arizona is not unique in its struggles to monitor and house sex offenders. No state does it well, experts say. An eight-month review by The Arizona Republic found troubling gaps…
New study finds federal sex offender law not effective
According to a report released last week by the U.S. Department of Justice, the federal tier-based sex offender registration and management system put in place in 2006 does not predict…