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CA: Appeals court strikes down state law that banned early parole for youthful violent sex offenders

·April 11, 2019
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[sfchronicle.com - 4/10/19] Two men who received life sentences for a brutal sexual assault and robbery in Oakland when they were 19 must be given parole hearings during their…

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CA: Newsom seeks to halt parole for some murderers and serious offenders. What does that signal?

·March 26, 2019
·20 Comments

[latimes.com - 3/26/19] ____ liked to suck on the toes of young boys and has spent the last 16 years in prison because of it. A jury convicted him in…

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NJ: Huge increase in released sex offenders is draining resources from other inmates

·March 18, 2019
·9 Comments

Across the United States, a growing number of incarcerated individuals are being released to face the barriers to reintegration with no support. From 1990 to 2012, the number of max-outs…

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CA: Sex offender task force raids valley homes, checks felon compliance

·October 31, 2018
·31 Comments

With Halloween Wednesday, children across the valley will take to the streets for a night of trick or treating. How do you know whose doors they're knocking on...and if your…

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SCOTUS: Justices add three new cases to this term’s docket

·October 27, 2018
·20 Comments

In United States v. Haymond, the justices will weigh in on a challenge to the constitutionality of a federal law that requires additional prison time for sex offenders who violate…

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GA: All registered sex offenders will gather in Council Chambers on Halloween

·October 23, 2018
·44 Comments

[Updated] With Halloween right around the corner, Grovetown is rounding up registered sex offenders to make the night a little less frightening for parents and children out trick-or-treating. Full Article…

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CA: Gov. Brown signs Wilk’s sex offender bill into law

·August 28, 2018
·13 Comments

Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 1199 into law Monday evening, an attempt to correct the way Jessica’s Law led to a disproportionate number of sexual offenders being released to…

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OH: Springfield Township man claims Ohio’s sex offender parole law won’t allow visits with son

·July 28, 2018
·4 Comments

A Springfield Township man filed a federal lawsuit challenging Ohio’s sex offender parole law as unconstitutional because it forbids him from seeing his 14-year-old son. Full Article Related https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/30/sex-offender-status-prevents-dad-from-se

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CA: Registrant on Parole Challenges Social Media Ban

·June 7, 2018
·28 Comments

A lawsuit was filed today in federal court on behalf of a registrant who is on parole in order to challenge a parole condition that prohibits him from accessing all…

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MA: Victims’ advocate wants psychologists charged if sex offenders repeat

·June 4, 2018
·9 Comments

[bostonherald.com 6/3/18] A leading victims advocate wants state-appointed psychologists who declare sex offenders can be released from prison held accountable if the predators strike again. Jennifer Lane, president of Community…

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CA: Senate Public Safety Committee Stops Two Bills

·April 24, 2018
·25 Comments

During a hearing today, the Senate Public Safety Committee stopped two bills, SB 976 and SB 1143, that would have harmed registrants as well as their families. The first of…

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CA: Dangerous flaws in Proposition 57 could result in early release of sex offenders

·April 22, 2018
·3 Comments

Thanks to Proposition 57, hundreds of sex offenders could be released into our communities through an early parole program. As strong advocates for public safety and most importantly as mothers…

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CA: Pair of bills aimed at release of sex offenders pass Public Safety Committee

·April 11, 2018
·11 Comments

A locally authored bill about where the state places sex offenders once they’re released from prison passed the Senate Committee on Public Safety on Monday. Senate Bill 1198, introduced by…

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Monitoring the Use of Electronic Monitoring

·March 27, 2018
·4 Comments

One February night in 2009, our phone rang. It was two in the morning. My 95-year-old mother was on the line. She told me she was having chest pains, thought she…

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CA: Prop 57: Letting Californian Sex-Offenders On The Loose [Editorial]

·March 13, 2018
·9 Comments

Initially, Proposition 57 seemed to be a feasible solution to California’s prison overcrowding. It promised that nonviolent offenders would be offered parole if they had already served their primary sentences…

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MN: 50-year conditional release or probation terms for sex offenders

·March 11, 2018
·7 Comments

[www.revisor.mn.gov] A bill for an act relating to public safety; requiring sex offenders to serve 50-year conditional release or probation terms; establishing intensive probation for certain sex offenders; Read the…

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CA: Federal Judge Grants Injunction in Favor of Registrant

·December 13, 2017
·39 Comments

U.S. District Court Judge Dean Pregerson issued today a preliminary injunction (PI) ordering the CA Department of Corrections and Parole (CDCR) to allow a registrant to attend and participate in…

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IL: For Illinois Sex Offenders, Six Years Can Turn Into Life In Prison

·November 13, 2017
·4 Comments

[WBEZ News radio] J.D. Lindenmeier completed his six-year prison sentence in 2011, but he hasn’t been released because he has nowhere to go. Inmates call these extra years behind bars…

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