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LA: Lafitte Police Department honored for sex offender arrest
Fisher Middle High students recently made a huge banner and a batch of fresh, homemade fudge brownies to say thank-you to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office and to the Lafitte Police Department for their arrest of a sex offender. The banner, signed by 100 Fisher students, and brownies were personally delivered by five Fisher Middle students. Full Article Admin Note: Initially we were not sure...
AUS: Sex abuse fears driving men from teaching
Fear of false child-sex abuse accusations is driving Australian men away from a career in teaching, according to high-profile education officials. Full Article
International Megan’s Law moves through Congress
The International Megan’s Law cleared a major hurdle Friday when the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed it. Rep. Chris Smith (R-4th Dist.) has worked to pass the bill, which would expand the system of registering and tracking sex offenders to the international community, since 2008, when he first introduced the legislation. It was previously approved by the House in 2010. Full...
Living with 290: Certificate of Rehabilitation is possible
In CA it it possible to apply and receive a COR. I was granted in March a COR and no longer am required to register as a 290 citizen. So heads up folks. There's relief for some who apply. Contact the Public Defender's office in you CA. city to see if you are eligible for this valuable relief. Lawyers just want your money. Public...
How GPS monitoring fails in critical public-safety ways
Experts say law-enforcement agencies have a poor track record of sharing GPS data for proactive purposes. They work well in investigating crimes; less so in detecting them. New details in the high-profile case of two accused Orange County serial killers have revived concerns that federal supervision of California sex offenders is deeply flawed. Full Article
PA: Megan’s Law sex offender list grows under new state rules
...Neither the judge, nor the prosecutor, nor ____'s defense lawyer raised the possibility that he would one day be required to register as a sex offender, a transcript of the proceeding shows. That's not surprising since at the time, the crime ____ admitted to — second-degree misdemeanor indecent assault — didn't invoke Megan's Law, which aims to protect the public from sex offenders by publishing...
Sex offender seeks $215K for time served in Calif. prisons
SACRAMENTO - A state hearing officer is recommending a convicted sex offender be paid $215,200 for the nearly seven years he spent in California prisons for failing to register after he moved from his native Rhode Island. ____ ____ ____, 50, doesn't deny sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl in Providence in 1991, but claims the Rhode Island conviction for second-degree child molestation did not...
Finding sex offenders via Facebook app
A new Facebook app helps you find out who your "friends" really are. It scans your list of "friends" and notifies you if any of them are on the national sex offender register. In a world where more friends and more views helps you get your name out there, there's always the potential for danger. Full Article Related: This app told me my uncle, roommate, and...
OK: Removes 2,400 Registered Sex Offenders After Supreme Court Ruling
Oklahoma has removed 2,400 sex offenders from its registry since a state Supreme Court decision six months ago. The legislature passed a law in 2007 increasing the number of years sex offenders have to register and it was applied to people already convicted, but the Oklahoma Supreme Court said the law could only apply to people going forward. Full Article
Living with 290: 1st Annual Registration
As every registrant knows visiting local law enforcement for annual registration can be a pain in the butt. The law says registration updates must occur within five days before or after a person's birth day each year. For me this meant calling the local police station and setting up an appointment. I figured calling five days prior to my birthday should have automatically provided...
OH: Ex-Sex Offender Comes in Solid Third Place in Cuyahoga County Executive Race
Tim Russo ran one hell of a race. A race worthy of a vote. I am not afraid to say that, yes, I voted for a sex offender to run Cuyahoga County. There were many more people out there who punched a ballot with Russo's name on it. He gathered 9,171 votes in the race, well behind Armond Budish, who was pretty much anointed...
TX: Burned body, missing sex offender linked
The investigation into the death of a man found in a burning storage building behind a home on County Road 495 continued today as detectives try to determine how he died. Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith said he had not received official word as to the man's identity, but the Tyler Morning Telegraph has learned the person listed at the residence is a 36-year-old...
NH: Sex offender registry law is unconstitutional (Editorial)
Today, New Hampshire’s Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that will turn on the basic constitutional principle that criminal laws cannot be retroactive, thus punishing someone for an act that was legal at the time. Nor can the punishment for a crime be changed after the fact. Full Article
MO: My Son, the Sex Offender: One Mother’s Mission to Fight the Law
In the run up to Halloween one year, Sharie Keil saw something that really made her jump: Missouri governor Jay Nixon, then the attorney general. He was on television to announce that registered sex offenders were hereby banned from participating in her favorite holiday. On threat of a year in jail, they had to stay inside and display a sign saying they had no...
CO: Reasonable residency rules for sex offenders in Commerce City
Commerce City's solution to deciding where sex offenders can live is a model for how communities can reasonably handle residency requirements. Commerce City on Monday passed an amendment to its residency requirements, allowing registered sex offenders who aren't sexually violent to seek exceptions to rules that ban them from living within 1,000 feet of a school, park, playground or day care center. Full Op-Ed...
Santa Ana Ordinance Challenged in Federal District Court
The City of Santa Ana was sued today in federal district court challenging a city ordinance that prohibits some registered citizens from being on or within 300 feet of city libraries, learning centers, schools, parks and museums. Santa Ana is the 7th city or county to be sued in a period of seven weeks. "The City of Santa Ana ordinance violates both the federal...
SC: Sex offender’s killers kiss after verdict, would have ‘killed more’
UNION, S.C. —A man and his wife pleaded guilty to shooting and killing a registered sex offender and his wife and kissed in court after they were sentenced Tuesday. Full Article
Fullerton Council to Revise Sex Offender Ban in Parks
Fullerton’s ban on convicted sex offenders in city parks will likely be revised in the wake of court rulings and a potential lawsuit. Since the 1940s, California has wrestled with laws that deal with convicted sex offenders and what they can and cannot do after they are released from prison and complete parole. In the past four years, about half of Orange County cities adopted...
MO: Area Counties to Charge for Sex Offender Registration
(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) Sheriff's departments from nine counties across northwest Missouri will be taking advantage of a law allowing them to charge sex offenders for maintaining the Sex Offender Registry program. Representatives from four of those counties met at the Buchanan County Sheriff's office Monday to talk about the charges. Full Article
CO: Sex offender residency restrictions being scaled back
Less than 10 years after many cities rushed to draw restrictions and boundaries on where registered sex offenders could live, the trend is now reversing after a court case ruled one city's restrictions in conflict of state interests. Full Article