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ME: Maine’s highest court finds decision in sex offender case flawed
Justices tell a lower court to look again at a man's challenge to being placed on the list retroactively in the wake of new legislation. A Maine judge must give further consideration to whether a man’s rights were violated by legislative action requiring him to be placed on the state sex offender registry retroactively, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled Tuesday. Full Article
Disgust, Dehumanization, and the Courts’ Response to Sex Offender Legislation
Sex offenders have been subject to unprecedented restrictions and punishment. The government’s treatment of sex offenders is a clear example of the dangers of laws derived from and upheld because of the emotion of disgust. Disgust has led to a dehumanization of this category of people, which has led to a stripping of their constitutional rights. The law’s treatment of sex offenders is a...
Locals Call California’s Sex Offender Registry Into Question
Sex offenders are required by law to register their name, photo and address online at meganslaw.ca.gov. A disclaimer on the website says The Department of Justice does not assess the specific risk that any convicted sex offender on the site will commit another offense. However, the website does have a Risk Assessment Score. Another disclaimer says that score determines the statistical probability that an...
California RSOL to Lobby Sacramento in Support of Tiered Registry
California RSOL will lobby state legislators in Sacramento on January 27 and 28 in support of a tiered registry. Registered citizens, family members and supporters are invited. The legislative effort will begin with a two-hour training session on Tuesday, January 27, at 9 a.m. in the offices of MVM Strategy Group, 1211 L Street, Suite 607. Attendees will then be divided into teams comprised...
$18 Million in Taxpayer Dollars for a Program That Feeds the Sex-Offender Industry and Does Little Else
The Associated Press not only buries the lead in a story about California's paroled Registered Citizens now being subject to periodic polygraph exams. The AP utterly misses the point. Never mind that polygraphs simply are not reliable. They're boogie-men used mainly to scare people into admitting to crimes they probably didn't commit. The real story here, the story The AP can't see, is about...
FL: To Entrap an Innocent
Florida police use sex-crime laws to bait men with no apparent interest in underage trysts. After a year-long investigation, WTSP, a CBS affiliate in Tampa Bay, Florida, has uncovered an alarming pattern of police trying to entrap innocent adults in sex crimes. The stings follow the basic pattern familiar to anyone who has seen To Catch a Predator, except "many of the men whose...
Living with 290: Continuous and Greater Punishment
Living with 290 Unlike most post on the subject, I am not going to share, much, details about my crime, except I pleaded to 1 count 288(a) and four counts 647.6 in 1989 and I received some jail time, SO Treatment and 5 years probation, which I deserved. I was able to keep my government job and after becoming adults, my victims voluntarily sought...
Living with 290: My Life
I was born in california in 1972, I come from a small town near our state capital. As a child i was very naive and friendly, always talking to everyone, no one was a bad person in my eyes. my father left my mother when i was two and she remarried to the man that later adopted me. I had a young uncle through...
Sex offender laws loosened
Three cities in San Diego County repealed their laws restricting sex offender access to city parks and schools last year, and one is still working to resolve a lawsuit filed over the now defunct rules. La Mesa, Santee, National City and more than 70 other cities across the state received letters last Spring warning them they could be sued if they didn’t rescind their...
California making sex offenders take lie-detector tests
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For the first time, California will make paroled sex offenders take periodic lie detector tests as a way to gauge their behavior patterns and perhaps prevent new sex crimes. The move came in response to several high-profile cases involving parolees who raped and killed. Full Article
UK: The utterly ludicrous and petty campaign against Ched Evans
He has served the required amount of his sentence, and he should be allowed to do the job he chose and is qualified for A new name to help us welcome in the new year: Jean Hatchet. A name which is almost certainly too good to be true for a perpetually infuriated radical feminist — much as, say, Roz Termagant or Betty Hitler would be....
Offensive offender list (Editorial)
Kids do stupid things. And sometimes they do stupid things that are criminal. But unlike adults who commit a crime, we don’t subject kids to the same consequences, which sometimes can be harsh and life-changing. We take into consideration their immaturity and the likelihood that a young person’s behavior can be altered via counseling, oversight and education, and we cut them a break. Full...
Constitutional or Unconstitutional: Sex Offender Registration
The Constitutionality of Sex Offender Registration, Public Registries and the ever changing and expanding Federal, State and Local restrictions and regulations (via law) is a regular topic for writers, reporters and attorneys. Yes, the U.S. Supreme Court Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84 (2003), ruled that registration is administrative not punitive but since 2003 every state took that ruling and ran with it as...
Living with 290: 18 year old high school senior
Here's my story... I was an 18 year old senior in high school. I'll be first one to admit I was an asshole by my actions, but am I refuse label myself sex offender. I slept with three girls in ages (15,15,16) from the summer of 2002 to the end of winter 2002. An angry guy who wanted to date two of these girls...
FL: Police lured innocent men into online sex stings and seized their property, records show
Police posed as underage teens online to lure men into breaking the law as part of an apparent revenue scheme by Florida law enforcement agencies, according to an investigation of newly released public records. Emails and other online communications analyzed by WTSP-TV revealed that many of the men who were eventually arrested were not interested in meeting children but were instead seeking adult sex...
Living with 290: One night.. lifetime destroyed?
How should I describe this nightmare to you? Many of those that come on this page are very familiar of the hardships.. I was a young man back then... I was going to be career soldier like all those in my family.. I signed on at 18.. been deployed and seen the world. Did my part, the good and bad.. A friendly smile handing...
NY: Where should sex offenders live?
Albany - A local attorney told the state's top court Monday that a county law restricting the residency of convicted sex offenders within 1,000 feet of schools should be superseded by state law and not be enforced. Full Article
Living with 290: SWAT Team at the door
In 2009 I sent several emails (thinking that I would remain anonymous) to someone under the age of 18. The emails did not contain anything even remotely obscene, threatening or overtly sexual. But since this person’s parent decided the email was “inappropriate” she contacted the police who initiated an investigation which included; firstly, identifying me through my computer’s IP address; secondly, the surreptitious placing...
General Comments January 2015
Comments that are not specific to a certain post should go here, for the month of January 2015. Contributions should relate to the cause and goals of this organization and please, keep it courteous and civil.
Canada: Border agents stopped 150 U.S. sex offenders from entering Canada
Canada Border Services agents stopped more than 150 U.S. sex offenders from entering Canada, in part due to a partnership with United States customs, the federal government announced Monday. Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney made the announcement Monday morning at Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport. In 2014 alone, information provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents helped CBSA agents refuse entry to 59 sex...