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NV: State reluctantly implements ‘harsh’ sex offender law
Full implementation of a 6-year-old Nevada law may soon cause a dramatic increase in the number of registered sex offenders — raising questions about whether the intended punishment fits the crime. One state lawmaker suggested dumping part of the “terrible, overly harsh law” as it applies to juvenile offenders. Congress approved the Adam Walsh Act in 2006 as a guideline for state laws on...
Sierra Madre Stops Enforcement of Sex Offender Ordinance
The City of Sierra Madre has agreed to stop enforcement of its sex offender ordinance, which prohibited all registered sex offenders, from residing in most of the city and from being present in child safety zones that included the city's schools, parks and public library. The Sierra Madre City Council approved this action on December 10 after being sued in federal district court by one...
GA: Student suspended for a year for hugging teacher
A Duluth High School senior has been suspended for one year and won't graduate on time for hugging a teacher last month. ____ ____, 17, was suspended last week when a school hearing officer found he violated the Gwinnett County Public Schools' rules on sexual harassment. Full Article
Symposium: Predators, Porn & the Law
The growing enactment of sex offender restrictions has been one of the most notable developments in criminal law in recent decades. Thus far, courts across the country have been relatively complacent in allowing legislatures to test the limits of various civil liberties. The Ex Post Facto Clause has been among the first constitutional victims of these new laws. Whereas the Clause was once construed...
Juror in child molester case removed for using dictionaries
Judge finds juror committed ‘serious, willful misconduct' for using standard dictionaries to look up a critical word during deliberations. SANTA ANA – A juror was removed for misconduct Wednesday for using dictionaries to look up a word during deliberations in a trial to determine whether a twice-convicted child molester should remain locked up in a mental hospital as a sexually violent predator. The juror...
OH: Changing Sex Offender Penalties (700 WLW Radio)
Scott talks with Derek Logue about the push to get penalties for sex offenders changed. Link
Senator’s chief of staff arrested on child porn-related charges, authorities say
(CNN) - U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander’s chief of staff was arrested on Wednesday on child pornography related charges, federal prosecutors said. ____ ____ ____, 35, was held pending a planned hearing on Thursday in federal court in Washington, according to a Justice Department statement. "I am stunned, surprised and disappointed by what I have learned," Alexander, a Tennessee Republican, said in a statement earlier...
MA: Court overturns escort’s sex offender label
BOSTON (AP) — The state's highest court on Wednesday overturned the classification of a former escort service manager as a low-level sex offender, finding that the state's Sex Offender Registry Board should have considered research showing women are less likely than men to commit new sex offenses. Full Article
Police overkill has become the default American policy
If all you’ve got is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail. And if police and prosecutors are your only tool, sooner or later everything and everyone will be treated as criminal. This is increasingly the American way of life, a path that involves “solving” social problems (and even some non-problems) by throwing cops at them, with generally disastrous results. Wall-to-wall criminal...
CT: 2 Legislators Want To Keep Sex Offenders Away From Children
A Republican and a Democrat announced plans last week to push for a law to prohibit sex offenders from living near places where children gather. The proposal comes from Rep. Themis Klarides, R-Derby, and Sen. Joe Crisco, D-Woodbridge. In a joint press release, the two legislators called for legislation establishing a 1,000-foot radius around schools, daycares, “and other locations where children typically gather.” The...
Push to ban crime box on job applications expands
San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim wants to make this question virtually obsolete on job applications in San Francisco: Have you been convicted of a crime? Kim is proposing to expand the city's existing ban by having it include most private employers, publicly funded housing providers and city contractors. Ten states and more than 50 cities have adopted some version of "ban the box," and a...
CO: 6 year old suspended for kissing a girl
DENVER (AP) — The suspension of a 6-year-old boy for kissing a girl at school is raising questions about whether the peck should be considered sexual harassment. The boy's mother said officials at Lincoln School of Science and Technology in Canon City, a southern Colorado city of 16,000, are over-reacting. Jennifer Saunders said her son was suspended once before for kissing the girl and...
Former San Diego Mayor gets 3 months home confinement
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO — Disgraced former Mayor Bob Filner received three months of home confinement and three years of probation in a sentencing hearing Monday, the final chapter in Filner’s stunning fall following from his repeated inappropriate sexual behavior toward women. The sentencing by Superior Court Judge Robert Trentacosta came after Filner pleaded guilty in October to one felony charge of false imprisonment and two...
Living with 290: The James D. Anderson Story
My name is James D. Anderson and I've been fighting The Sex Crime Witch Hunt for over 25 years now after being falsely accused of rape in 1985 by a deranged, serial false accuser who accused me in order to file a million dollar lawsuit. Check out my blog, The Jessica's Law Nightmare in California at www.jessicaslawnightmare.blogspot.com/
Ruling may have vast effect on sex-offender registry, attorney says
Appeals court decision involving an Orange County case could impact thousands seeking to have their names removed from the ‘Megan’s Law’ list. SANTA ANA – A court ruling involving an Orange County case could result in hearings for thousands of California sex offenders seeking to have their names removed from the “Megan’s Law” registry, says an attorney who represents a sex offender. California’s 4th...
CO: Freeing sex offenders (Opinion)
The backlog of sex offenders waiting for treatment in the Colorado Department of Corrections has gotten a lot of attention lately, and with some justification. If these child molesters and rapists want to admit to the grievous harm they've caused their victims and learn how to manage their deviant behavior, by all means, they should. And Colorado taxpayers ought to gladly ante up for...
Yet another effective review of the child porn restitution challenges facing SCOTUS
I have already blogged some previews of the fascinating Supreme Court case of Paroline v. United States even though oral argument is still six weeks away because the issues strike me as so interesting and dynamic. (The parties' main briefs and now lots of amicus briefs are now available via SCOTUSblog on this Paroline case page.) And I suspect we are seeing other notable coverage of the case already because lots of others...
TEMECULA: Guilty pleas in vigilante baseball bat attack
A Temecula father, his teen daughter and her friend have pleaded guilty in connection with the vigilante beating of a man the girl had accused of raping her. The father, David Ray Mills, 36, pleaded guilty Tuesday, Dec. 4, to being an accessory to the Jan. 13 attack at a Temecula park in which ____ ____ ____, 20, was beaten with a baseball bat....
TX: Sex offenders banned from S.A. parks, River Walk
SAN ANTONIO — City Council on Thursday unanimously approved an ordinance to restrict registered sex offenders from city parks and a portion of the River Walk. The ordinance creates park safety zones that registered sex offenders can't enter. They can't live within 1,000 feet or loiter, whether standing or in a car, within 300 feet of a park safety zone, the draft ordinance states....
Certificate of Rehabilitation Help for Veterans – San Jose
The Veteran's Administration is sending over a Veterans lawyer. His name is Andy Chin to do the Certificate of Rehabilitation paperwork to any Hon. Discharged Veteran with a 288(a) conviction. He will see if the veteran meets all the requirements and if so will do the Certificate of Rehabilitation paperwork free of charge to the veteran on a first come first served basis. He...