Archive for the ‘Sex Offenders’ Category
CA Pols Take On Risky Subject: Amendments To Sex Offense Law
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010California lawmakers this week will take up a subject regarded as politically risky: amendments to a sex offender measure, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Backers say the changes to AB1844 would focus the state’s limited resources on the worst child molesters and would make great strides toward fixing how California deals with people found guilty of sex crimes–even if, at first glance, some of its provisions appear to ease restrictions for some convicted criminals. Perhaps just as unusual–the revised bill is the result of a rare bipartisan collaboration. (more…)
Miami Sex Offenders Still Homeless After Camp Was Cleared Out
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Presumed Guilty
Monday, July 26th, 2010Unjustly accused child abusers face an uphill battle to clear their names
When Michigan psychologist Demosthenes Lorandos first met former kindergarten teacher Tonya Renee Craft, he was brutally frank about her chances of beating the 22 counts of child abuse and molestation brought against her by a Georgia prosecutor.
“I told her that she was a dead woman,” he recalled. “That things were over for her, that she was going to lose.”
Georgia Scales Back Its Tough Restrictions On Sex Offenders
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010Texas Offers $1K Crime Stoppers Award For Sex Offender Tips
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Juvenile Justice Advocates Find New Sex Offender Plan Confusing
Thursday, July 1st, 2010Sex Offender Treatment After Prison Can Cost $175,000
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Keeping sex offenders locked up in treatment after their prison sentences became a popular get-tough tactic in the 1990s, when states were flush with cash. The Associated Press reports that the costs have soared far beyond what anyone envisioned. The 20 states with ”civil commitment” programs will spend nearly $500 million this year alone to confine and treat 5,200 offenders considered too dangerous to put back on the streets. (more…)
Standoff Over Sex Offenders
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Four years after passage of the federal law creating a national sex offender registry, only a few states have complied.
It starts with the names: Jacob Wetterling, age 11; Megan Kanka, 7; Adam Walsh, 6. All were abducted, the latter two by men with histories of sex offenses.
Wetterling is still missing 21 years later; Kanka and Walsh were found murdered. Their tragic stories propelled enactment of federal laws that aim to prevent future sexual assaults against children.
Stringent Rules Push Cleveland Sex Offenders Underground
Monday, June 14th, 2010About two-thirds of the registered sex offenders who claim to live at a men’s homeless shelter on Cleveland’s East Side either have not spent a night there in the past three months or have never been there, reports the city’s Plain Dealer. The paper says several of them might be living surreptitiously in the suburbs. More than 100 of the 166 sex offenders registered to that address are unaccounted for. (more…)