August 2016 – Page 2

WI: Lawsuit challenges Kenosha’s sex offender residency restrictions

·August 23, 2016
·2 Comments

The city of Kenosha’s restrictions on where registered sex offenders can live are so pervasive that, except in high-risk situations, police will not enforce them knowing it would effectively ban…

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TX: Iowa Park city council turns down father’s plea for sex offender exemption

·August 23, 2016
·2 Comments

An Iowa Park man was turned down after asking the City Council on Monday night to consider an exemption to the code of ordinances. After recently writing a letter to…

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CO: Legislature to blame for sentencing quandary (Opinion)

·August 22, 2016
·2 Comments

I feel compelled to respond to Chandler McCorkle's guest opinion ("Judge failed rape victim, society," Daily Camera, Aug. 14) because it proceeds from woefully erroneous assumptions about the nature of…

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IL: Sex Offender Pleads No Contest

·August 21, 2016
·5 Comments

52-year-old blind man, ____ ____ of South Roxana, was convicted in 2000 of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. ____ pleaded no contest Thursday to a violation of the state sex offender registration…

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WI: Sex offender ordinance hasn’t worked as planned, putting public at greater risk

·August 21, 2016
·3 Comments

Last summer, ____ ____ got a notice from the Milwaukee Police Department: He had to move out of his north side rental home. ____, a registered sex offender, hadn’t done anything…

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NJ: 40 people arrested in massive child porn crackdown

·August 21, 2016
·6 Comments

Forty men hailing from every corner of New Jersey have been charged in a statewide crackdown on the distribution of child pornography, authorities announced today. Full Article

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Janice’s Journal: Waiting for Justice

·August 20, 2016
·223 Comments

As summer comes to an end, we are waiting for justice. We are waiting for a judge’s decision in our challenge to the International Megan’s Law. We are waiting for…

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KS: Standoff outside convicted sex offender’s KCK home ends after 6 hours

·August 20, 2016
·4 Comments

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Police say from the very beginning after U.S. Marshals descended on ____ ____ home near North 56th Street and Parallel Parkway around 8:30 Tuesday morning, a…

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MO: Decades after ‘lie’ puts dad on sex offender registry, he’s pardoned

·August 20, 2016
·1 Comment

____ ____, a Clay County father who has long denied that he was a sex offender who molested his own son, received a telephone call Friday that he has wanted…

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CO: Sex offenders sue Englewood claiming city ordinance effectively bans them from city

·August 19, 2016
·0 Comments

Three convicted sex offenders have sued the city of Englewood in federal court claiming that its zoning ordinances effectively banish them from living in the city. Full Article Related Sex…

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Tustin City Council Begins Repeal of Residency Restrictions

·August 17, 2016
·1 Comment

The Tustin City Council, in a vote of 4 to 1, voted yesterday in favor of repealing the city's residency restrictions which prohibit registered citizens from living in most of…

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WI: Pleasant Prairie under legal fire for sex offender ordinance

·August 17, 2016
·1 Comment

A federal judge has been asked to order the village of Pleasant Prairie to notify residents that it is temporarily not enforcing an ordinance that effectively banishes registered sex offenders…

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OK: On His First Day Out Of Prison, A Convicted Sex Offender Faces Uncertain Future

·August 17, 2016
·3 Comments

____ ____ was scared to get out of prison. He was serving a six-and-a-half-year sentence in Lawton, Oklahoma, for having sex with an underage teenager. Now, one of about 800,000 registered sex…

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PA: Supreme Court ruling will reduce number of sex offenders required to register for life

·August 17, 2016
·15 Comments

A ruling issued by a sharply-divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court could greatly alter the registration requirements imposed on some types of convicted sex offenders. The decision by the court's majority states…

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Hebephilia flunks Frye test

·August 16, 2016
·7 Comments

In a strongly worded rejection of hebephilia, a New York judge has ruled that the controversial diagnosis cannot be used in legal proceedings because of “overwhelming opposition” to its validity…

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Murrieta Residency Restrictions Stopped Again

·August 16, 2016
·4 Comments

A federal judge issued a Preliminary Injunction (PI) on Monday that stops enforcement of residency restrictions in the City of Murrieta. The judge's decision, in effect, continues a Temporary Restraining…

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California gang database plagued with errors, unsubstantiated entries, state auditor finds

·August 15, 2016
·1 Comment

A California gang database maintained by law enforcement agencies is rife with unsubstantiated entries, names that should have been purged long ago and glaring errors, a state audit released Thursday…

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DE: Judge rejects ACLU challenge to sex offender GPS monitoring

·August 15, 2016
·3 Comments

A Chancery court judge has rejected the American Civil Liberties Union’s challenge to a state law requiring GPS monitoring of certain convicted sex offenders who have been released from custody and…

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Month: August 2016

WI: Lawsuit challenges Kenosha’s sex offender residency restrictions

TX: Iowa Park city council turns down father’s plea for sex offender exemption

CO: Legislature to blame for sentencing quandary (Opinion)

IL: Sex Offender Pleads No Contest

WI: Sex offender ordinance hasn’t worked as planned, putting public at greater risk

NJ: 40 people arrested in massive child porn crackdown

Janice’s Journal: Waiting for Justice

KS: Standoff outside convicted sex offender’s KCK home ends after 6 hours

MO: Decades after ‘lie’ puts dad on sex offender registry, he’s pardoned

CO: Sex offenders sue Englewood claiming city ordinance effectively bans them from city

Tustin City Council Begins Repeal of Residency Restrictions

WI: Pleasant Prairie under legal fire for sex offender ordinance

OK: On His First Day Out Of Prison, A Convicted Sex Offender Faces Uncertain Future

PA: Supreme Court ruling will reduce number of sex offenders required to register for life

Hebephilia flunks Frye test

Murrieta Residency Restrictions Stopped Again

California gang database plagued with errors, unsubstantiated entries, state auditor finds

DE: Judge rejects ACLU challenge to sex offender GPS monitoring