GA: Supreme Court Hears Arguments Over Sex Offender Law

The Georgia Supreme Court heard arguments Monday over a state statute that dictates how “sexually dangerous predators” are classified. ____ ____ was designated a “sexually violent predator” in 2013, which is the highest risk designation and requires him to wear an electronic monitor for the rest of his life. ____ was convicted for exposing himself and performing a sexually explicit act via webcam to an individual he believed was a 14-year-old girl, according to court documents. Full Article Case Info

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MD: Protest on sex offender’s involvement in Havre de Grace Seafood Festival stops council vote

The fate of next year’s Havre de Grace Seafood Festival is up in the air after residents complained to the City Council Monday about ____ and ____ ____’s involvement with the event. The City Council refused to entertain a motion to approve the festival for 2016, leaving the festival’s future in limbo. Full Article Related MD: In Havre de Grace, festival sees protest against former councilman convicted of sex offense

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Can We Please Stop Being Stupid and Cruel “For the Sake of the Children”?

A new law in Rhode Island will make sex offenders living beyond 300 feet of a school move to a place at least 1000 feet from a school. They have 30 days to uproot their lives. Guess who thinks this will make children safer? Only the R.I. Brotherhood of Correction Officers, which sponsored the bill. No one else. Not even law enforcers. Full Article Lenore Skenazy writes on her blog “Free Range Kids“, a commonsense approach to parenting in these overprotective times. She was the keynote speaker [video] at the 2014…

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FL: Miami-Dade Homeless Sex Offender Encampment Surpasses 200 People

The torture started in 2006. The cities of Miami-Beach and Miami got into a war of sex offenders because Miami Beach’s ordinance drove registrants without anyplace to live over to the mainland. Miami countered by passing their own ordinance to drive them back. The result, sex offenders couldn’t find anyplace to live and were living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway; the bridge that connects Miami Beach to Miami. Full Article

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