CEDAR CITY — A man was arrested after living under the radar in Cedar City for 20 years as an unregistered sex offender. Incarcerated in California for sex offense, ____ ____ moved to Utah and failed to register with Utah. Full Article
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WA: Exonerated Father Awarded $9 Million after 20 Years in Prison on False Sex Abuse Charges
A father who spent 20 years in prison based on sex abuse evidence fabricated by two former Clark County, WA, sheriff’s detectives was awarded $9 million by a federal court jury that ruled that the authorities violated his constitutional right to due process. Full Article
Read MoreFL: Daytona Beach park to keep neighborhood safe from sex predators
DAYTONA BEACH — A nationally recognized child abuse survivor — and abuse prevention advocate — is hailing a Volusia County children’s park as a great tool to keep child sex predators away from neighborhoods. Lauren Book is walking from Key West to Tallahassee as part of her fifth-annual Walk In My Shoes campaign aimed at raising awareness about prevention and pushing for change in Florida law to protect children from abuse. Her bus stopped at the Bayberry Lakes neighborhood park, located in Daytona Beach. The park, which is the first of…
Read MoreVA: ACLU questions validity of massive child pornography investigation in Louisa
LOUISA, VA (WWBT) – The American Civil Liberties Union is speaking out, saying it’s concerned with how police are handling a massive child porn investigation in Central Virginia. NBC12 was the first to tell you that authorities are looking into more than one thousand inappropriate pictures and videos posted online involving teens in Louisa, Hanover and Goochland. The ACLU goes as far to say that minors have the constitutional right to take nude photos of themselves and send it to most whomever they chose. While, according to investigators, they’re trying to save these teens from committing crimes…
Read MoreOH: Law would mandate sex-offender alerts at nursing homes
State lawmakers want to close a loophole that requires neighbors to be notified when a registered sex offender moves into a nursing home but not the people who live there or their families. “As it stands now, if I live next to a nursing home, I’m going to be notified if a sex offender moves in. But if I’m in the room with a sex offender, I probably won’t know it,” said Beverley Laubert, the state’s long-term-care ombudsman with the Ohio Department of Aging. Current law requires notification of anyone living…
Read MoreFL: Florida becomes the harshest state for sex offenders
Aljazeera America: Florida toughens laws detaining sex offenders indefinitely for crimes they haven’t yet committed In Arcadia, a town of 6,000 east of Sarasota, there’s a facility wrapped in sky-high barbed wire, where no one can choose to get in or out. This isn’t a prison, and its residents aren’t serving a sentence. It’s the Florida Civil Commitment Center, home to 650 men whom the state fears could molest, assault or rape again if released. Full Article (with video)
Read MoreVA: Underage Virginia ‘sexting’ ring ensnares 100 teens, uncovers 1,000 pictures
A sprawling central Virginian “sexting” ring was busted up by authorities after pictures of naked 14- and 15-year-olds sprang up on Instagram, cops say. The disturbing investigation revealed more than 1,000 pictures, some videos and more than 100 involved teens through six different counties who may not realize sharing such photos of underage kids can be a felony, police told the Central Virginian. Out of those thousand images, there are some of them that are not sexually explicit, but are what we would call inappropriate or provocative — in their…
Read MoreIL: Two men charged after child left with child sex offender
A Davis Junction man is accused of leaving a child in the custody of a child sex offender. ___ ___ ___, 45, was charged with leaving a child in the custody of a child sex offender, according to a news release from the Ogle County Sheriff’s Department. Also taken into custody was ___ _ ___, 57, also of Davis Junction, on a charge of violating the provisions of the state’s child sex offender registration law and trespassing, the release said. ___ was being held Wednesday in the Ogle County Jail in lieu…
Read MoreMO: Students to be charged with distributing child porn
ST. CHARLES COUNTY – St. Peters police say some St. Charles County students are likely to be charged with distributing child pornography. NewsChannel 5 has exclusively learned the case involves nude selfies taken and texted out by students at Fort Zumwalt East High School. Full Article / Video
Read MoreIL: It’s time to take juveniles off the sex offender lists
A new report by the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission takes aim at the disturbingly common practice of forcing juvenile sex offenders to comply with sex offender registries, often for life. Its conclusion: “Remove young people from the state’s counter-productive sex offender registry . . . There is no persuasive evidence that subjecting youth to registries improves public safety or reduces risks of future offending. The research does not indicate registries repair harm to victims.” Full Article
Read MoreAus: Sex offender squad faces axe
A specialist WA Police squad responsible for monitoring thousands of convicted sex predators could be axed as part of a push to shave millions off the police budget’s bottom line. A high-level razor gang has been examining the operations of the sex offender management squad, which tracks the movements of more than 3000 rapists and paedophiles living in the community. Full Article
Read MoreOpEd: Teens and the Sex Offender Registry – No Good Outcomes for Anyone
Last week, I hailed a taxi in Washington, D C, and asked the driver to take me to the Keck Building for a meeting with a committee of the National Research Council. The cabby recognized the address and asked if I was a scientist. I explained that I am a retired judge and that applying science and research to juvenile court could make us all safer, save taxpayer dollars and improve the futures of kids in the justice system. He said, “That makes sense but just how can that happen?”…
Read MoreFL: Gov. Rick Scott signs sexual predator laws
Gov. Rick Scott signed four landmark bills Tuesday designed to better protect children in Florida from sexual predator. “Today I am proud to sign this legislation for all the children who have been terribly affected,” he said. “I hope these measures and the awareness that we are bringing today will make a difference for generations to come.” Full Article
Read MoreKY: Viewing child porn not victimless crime; Ky. punishment fair (Op-Ed)
I am a clinical psychologist, lately retired after 12 years of service to the state as an approved provider of sex-offender evaluations to the courts. I wish to address misconceptions in the Guy Hamilton-Smith commentary, in which he complained that he was being unduly punished by being required to register as a sex offender and the subsequent letter of support from Marjorie Valentine of CAUTIONclick National Campaign for Reform. First, possession of or viewing child pornography is not punished as a violent crime in Kentucky, as the letter’s headline suggests.…
Read MoreVA: Navy increases base security after NSN shooting
The new measure requires drivers presenting a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) to be subject to a criminal history check by the National Crime Information Center database. The database will check for previous convictions or outstanding warrants that are grounds for denying the driver access to the base, according to Navy Region Mid-Atlantic access standards — not the TWIC eligibility criteria. That means if a driver has any felony convictions within the last 10 years, misdemeanor convictions within the last five years for crimes of violence, larceny, drugs or habitual…
Read MoreNH: Sex offender housing restrictions do more harm than good (Editorial)
Of all the constituents that politicians want to help out, sex offenders probably rank at the very bottom of the list. But the New Hampshire Senate should summon the courage to do just that. By helping sex offenders, as strange as it sounds, the Senate will end up making life safer for everyone else. Full Opinion Piece
Read MoreCO: Sex offender stabbed outside Lafayette home
BOULDER – A man convicted of Internet sexual exploitation of children was stabbed outside a Lafayette home Monday afternoon. Boulder County deputies say 26-year-old ____ ____ got out of his car, and was jumped from behind by a male wearing all black clothing in the 600 block of Snow Peak Lane in Lafayette. Deputies and K-9 units were unable to locate the suspect after a search of the area. Investigators say they found a knife, but said it was still being processed and they were not sure if it was…
Read MoreTX: Sex-offenders not allowed in San Antonio city parks anymore
SAN ANTONIO — The new San Antonio law that bans people who have been convicted of sex offenses from enjoying city-owned facilities went into effect Saturday. The law prohibits sex-offenders from entering any land operated, or managed, by the city, including: parks, trails and natural areas. Cemeteries and golf courses are not included in the ordinance. Woodlawn Lake is a favorite west-side destination and the site of the city’s largest Fourth of July party. On Saturday, it was home to Bark in the Park, with families and children scattered throughout the grounds. Article…
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