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CO: Audit criticizes Colorado’s program for monitoring sex offenders
Colorado is overtreating many low-risk sex offenders in the mistaken belief that they cannot be cured, an independent consultant has found. As a result, the state's Sex Offender Management Board is wasting significant amounts of public money on supervision in the community, according to a report from Central Coast Clinical and Forensic Psychology Services. The report, released earlier this month, also concluded that Colorado's system...
BlogTalkRadio: The Fascists Are Coming! Registration Schemes Just Like 1930s Germany
Thursday at 6:00 pm - Call in to speak with the host (347) 324-5043 Special guest: Dennis Sobin, award-winning activist, author and playwright Dennis Sobin entitled Sex Registrant: How I Ended Up on the Sex Offender Registry—for Life. Based on a true story, this is a side-splitting (and taboo challenging) musical comedy that deals with Sobin’s actual experiences with the Sex Registry. But he dosen't...
NV: Nevada’s Disappearing Sex Offender
Big changes for sex offenders in the western US state of Nevada. If implemented on February 1, 2014 as planned, the stealth roll out of the Adam Walsh Act will have a number of unintended consequences. These include: a dramatic increase in the number of citizens required to register as sex offenders including all those as far back as 1956 who were convicted of...
Guards May Be Responsible for Half of Prison Sexual Assaults
A new Justice Department study shows that allegations of sex abuse in the nation’s prisons and jails are increasing — with correctional officers responsible for half of it — but prosecution is still extremely rare. The report, released today by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, takes data collected by correctional administrators representing all of the nation’s federal and state prisons as well as many county jails....
Former Lamar Alexander aide, dead in suicide
A former aide to Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) who faced charges of possessing and distributing child pornography, hanged himself and died Thursday in a Maryland home, his family and police officials said Friday. Full Article
Supreme Court weighs how much one person should pay pornography victim
A woman with the pseudonym Amy Unknown was at the Supreme Court on Wednesday as justices discussed the horrible events that changed her life: Her uncle raped her when she was a young girl, recorded that assault and other sex acts and put the images on the Internet, where they have been viewed tens of thousands of times. All the justices seemed to think that those...
GA: New state law gives ex offenders hope for landing a job
A new state law is a beacon of hope for job seekers with a criminal history. Albany Second Chance hosted workshops for ex-offenders Monday at Albany Technical College and Albany State University. Speakers from the Georgia Justice Project said state is the second worst in the nation for barriers that keep ex-offenders from finding jobs, but they hope the Record Restriction Law will help. Many...
NY: Mount Pleasant police chief faces child-porn charges
Mount Pleasant Police Chief ____ ____, accused Thursday of possessing child pornography, told federal investigators his alleged habit began when he was researching material for school classes he was teaching about the dangers of sexual abuse, according to papers filed in U.S. District Court in White Plains. “But shortly thereafter (____) began viewing child pornography for personal interest,” the 10-page complaint says. Full Article
CO: Greeley police chief supports easing sex offender living restrictions
GREELEY - Sex offenders against children could be allowed to move closer to schools and parks in Greeley. "We're trying to strike a balance between the need for public safety. We want to protect our kids from sex offenders, versus being able to have these folks rehabilitate and not re-offend out here," Greeley Police Chief Jerry Garner said. Garner supports an ordinance that would reduce...
Sex offender fights registry by registering his registerers [updated]
UPDATED with related story If nothing else, ____ ____ is not your typical ex-con. At first glance, he looks like the model returning citizen: After serving more than a decade in prison, ____, 70, returned to the District, started a gallery for prison art and ran for mayor. ... So, for his latest act, ____ has decided to protest his treatment by creating his...
Who Really Commits New Sex Crimes?
In the recent months there have been a number of articles and news sources about politicians and other prominent people involved in sex crimes. There have also been a significant number involving police officers. This study will focus in part on the offense rate for police officers in comparison to other persons, it will also take a look at the re-offense rate for people...
PA: Juvenile Law Center Wins Second Ruling Declaring Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Sex Offender Registration Requirements Unconstitutional
For the second time in the last three months, a Pennsylvania judge has ruled that Pennsylvania’s juvenile sex offender registration requirements are unconstitutional. On January 16, 2014, Monroe County Court of Common Pleas President Judge Margherita Patti-Worthington ruled that Pennsylvania's law requiring juveniles convicted of sexual offenses be subjected to lifetime sex offender registration violates their rights under the Pennsylvania Constitution. (Read Judge Patti-Worthington’s opinion here.) Full Article
Living with 290: Traveling to Cabo San Lucas
My boyfriend and I traveled to Cabo San Lucas as we do every year. After several scans of our passports at us airport we board the plane. He's is a RSO from 20 years ago which was a *** deal to begin with!! We land in Baja head to Mexican customs we are pulled out of line taken into this little room where they...
D.A. will take sex-offenders fight to state Supreme Court
[UPDATED 1/14] SANTA ANA The Orange County District Attorney's Office plans to go to the California Supreme Court to defend local ordinances that ban registered sex offenders from city parks. A state appeals court on Friday struck down an Irvine law that barred registered sex offenders from city parks without written permission from police, a ruling that will become legal precedent. The court also struck down...
RSOL’s SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2014
RSOL's SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE will be held inDALLAS, TEXASJULY 16-19(that is Wednesday evening through Saturday afternoon - a change from past years) KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Lenore Skenazy ("Free-Range Kids" blogger and TV personality) Focus this year will be on building stronger advocates for the Cause. We'll be announcing other speakers, and as always looking for experts and experienced advocates to lead workshops on such topics...
Molest victim requests probation for sex offender
A 58-year-old Santa Rosa man who molested his step-grand-daughter was released from custody Thursday after serving about a year in jail. Prosecutors sought a 12-year prison sentence for ____ ____ ____, who was accused of molesting the girl when she was three or four years old and again when she was 10-years-old. They had, however, agreed to a plea bargain that allowed for the possibility...
Virginia anticipates need for more prison beds if oral sex is banned for teens
A Republican lawmaker in Virginia has proposed re-criminalizing oral and anal sex -- but only for teenagers. State Senator Thomas Garrett, who calls himself a "Cuccinelli Conservative," filed a bill on Wednesday to "amend and reenact § 18.2-361 of the Code of Virginia, relating to crimes against nature." Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to re-establish the ban on oral...
Petition: Pardon all people arrested and coviction of Internet Sex Stings
The internet sex stings concerning the solicitation of a minor are unconstitutional and do nothing more than test the will of average law-abiding males with consensual sex. These stings do not protect anyone because teens do not typically search for adults to have sex with on adult sites. These stings are nothing more than entrapment and the courts do not see the damage nor...
NY: Danger of a Different Kind – Firefighters Push to Keep Sex Offenders Out
The dangers of being a firefighter. Some are obvious. And others, not so much. That's why the New York State Firemen's Association is fighting to prevent what it claims is a danger of a different kind. Convicted sex offenders volunteering as firefighters. "Current labor law does give certain considerations and prohibits sex offenders from working in positions similar to firefighters that are entrusted with people's...
2014 Women Against Registry’s Operation Push Back
This Press Release was just sent out to all Missouri Media and Legislators: As Director of Women Against Registry, I am contacting your agency on behalf of over two million women, family members and those affected by the public sex offender registry. We have grown tired of the continued penalties registrants and their FAMILY members increasingly face. We have begun “Pushing Back” on legislation...