Sex Offender News And Research

Georgia's sex offender restrictions depend on when offense occurred

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:18:00 +0000

Excellent explanation about the complexities of the law, something the general public never realizes when they support some lawmaker who thinks his new idea is getting tougher on sex offenders. The...

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Juveniles convicted of sex crimes to register as sex offenders in Virginia

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:45:00 +0000

2-12-2012 Virginia: The Virginia Senate passed a bill on Friday that requires juvenile sex offenders to register with the state. This newly created registry would apply only to juveniles who are...

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Sex offender treatment budget slashed

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:37:00 +0000

2-12-2012 Oregon: The budget for sex offender treatment in Klamath County has been cut by about 25 percent. It's part of ongoing cuts to the state-funded Klamath County Community Corrections...

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Illinois urged to investigate doctors with tainted records

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:32:00 +0000

2-12-2012 Illinois: State ranks 20th in rate of serious disciplinary actions against physicians Six years ago, Oklahoma took away the medical license of a physician over sexual misconduct. A...

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West Virginia city limits sex offenders from a long list of places; ordinance may be tweaked

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:13:00 +0000

The nonsense continues, one good thing that will come out of all these restrictions, it will be easier for courts to declare this unconstitutional.2-12-2012 West Virginia: HURRICANE, W.Va. — A new...

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Man stuck between clashing sex offender registration laws

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:02:00 +0000

Federal regulations (SORNA Guidelines for States) are "guidelines" they have no force of law. These guidelines are for state lawmakers not for application to individuals.2-11-2012...

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Commission undecided on sex offender proposal

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:32:00 +0000

2-9-2012 Texas: A more focused proposal for regulating where some registered sex offenders can live in Amarillo didn’t clear up questions two Amarillo city commissioners have about whether such a...

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State cuts $8.5M to L.A. County for services like sex offender registry

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:44:00 +0000

2-9-2012 California: California is withholding the money it used to give Los Angeles County to provide services like issuing absentee ballots and maintaining a sex offender registry, forcing the...

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Sex offender bill introduced

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:23:00 +0000

2-9-2012 Rhode Island: Comprehensive bill introduced in the House PROVIDENCE, RI (WPRI) - Legislation has been introduced in the House of Representatives to set sex offender registration and...

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Hundreds Kept Imprisoned In Georgia Despite Serving Their Sentences

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:15:00 +0000

If this is happening in Georgia, how many other states have the same circumstances and we have not heard about them?2-8-2012 Georgia: Georgia penitentiaries continue to feed, clothe and pay...

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Assembly rejects 3-tier plan for sex offenders

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:03:00 +0000

2-8-2012 California: Legislation to create a tiered sex-offender registration system designed to focus attention on violent criminals was killed Monday by the Assembly. Assembly Bill 625 died...

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Editorial: Keep politics out of sex offender release

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:49:00 +0000

2-8-2012 Minnesota: A workable strategy is needed -- not partisan point-scoring. It's no surprise that the state's first judicial discharge of a civilly committed sex offender would prompt...

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Lake County toughens restrictions on sex offenders

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:10:00 +0000

I guess Lake County has not heard of the constitutional "Right of Association," as to offenders living close to each other, possibly in the same apartment building. However, Florida has been out of...

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Hurricane bans registered sex offenders from parks

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:41:00 +0000

Allowing for the possibility that the police claims are true, the proposed resolution is absolute nonsense. Does any one think there are NO binoculars that can see more than 500 feet? 2-7-2012 West...

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Utah House OKs changes to sex-offender registry

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:44:00 +0000

2-7-2012 Utah: The Utah House on Tuesday unanimously passed a measure Tuesday that would allow some people stuck on the sex-offender registry for the least egregious crimes to petition their way...

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ABC 24 Reporter Mistakenly Listed as Possible Sex Offender

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:51:00 +0000

While there is likely no problem with the license plate scanning portion of this software, that cannot be said of this tagging of "Possible Sex Offender" feature. That feature causes this software to...

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South Florida a gateway for child sex trafficking

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:34:00 +0000

2-3-2012 National: FORT LAUDERDALE — As Super Bowl Sunday approaches, police are sounding the alarms about the problem of children being sold to partiers for sex. South Florida is a gateway for...

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Teacher sexual abuse: How to catch a predator in school

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:17:00 +0000

2-3-2012 Alaska: Shocking charges that surfaced this week against Mark Berndt raise questions about how long teachers may be able get away with sexually abusing their students before the law...

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In rare ruling, Ramsey County court allows release of Minnesota sex offender

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:58:00 +0000

2-3-2012 Minnesota: A Ramsey County District Court panel made a rare ruling Friday to discharge a Minnesota sex offender who has been incarcerated in a state treatment facility for nearly two...

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Fifth-graders get caught playing ‘rape tag’

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:48:00 +0000

2-3-2012 Minnesota: Our increasingly disturbing youth culture hit a new low point this month when some fifth-graders at a Minnesota elementary school were caught playing “rape tag.” The game is...

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Suit: CLTV broadcasts pic of wrong man as sexual assault suspect

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:25:00 +0000

2-3-2012 Illinois: CHICAGO (WLS) - A Chicago area television news station broadcasted the wrong picture of a man with the same name in connection with a sexual assault of a boy last year, a...

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Attorney claims Madison sex abuse suspect has alibi

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:27:00 +0000

2-3-2012 Alabama: MADISON, AL (WAFF) - WAFF is uncovering new information about a Madison County attempted rape suspect. The attorney for a man accused of sexually assaulting a teen outside her...

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Over 1000 email addresses exposed by Metropolitan Police blunder

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:14:00 +0000

2-2-2012 Scotland Yard: 1136 victims of crime have had their email addresses inadvertently shared with one another, according to reports. The victims - mostly of theft and criminal damage -...

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A Blog as Therapy for Teenagers

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:05:00 +0000

2-2-2012 National: THE SOURCE “The Therapeutic Value of Adolescents’ Blogging About Social-Emotional Difficulties,” by Meyran Boniel-Nissim and Azy Barak. IN the days before the instantly...

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GINATTA: Give child offenders chance at rehabilitation

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:33:00 +0000

2-2-2012 Virginia: Last summer, Andrew, a 14-year-old boy from Pennsylvania, engaged in inappropriate behavior that put him before a juvenile court judge. Andrew (a pseudonym) pressed his bare...

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