Sunday, May 13, 2012

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NEW ZEALAND - Sex offender orders 'might breach rights'

SO Issues at Sex Offender Issues - 16 hours ago
Original Article These same documents, which the US is a part of, affect us as well. They are the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. *05/13/2012* *By ADAM DUDDING* Corrections has warned the Government that new "*public protection orders*" for keeping dangerous sex offenders locked up beyond their original sentences could be challenged by the United Nations on human rightsgrounds, and that they risk breaching the Bill of Rights. Last week Justice Minister Judith Collins announced Cabinet had signed off on the publ... more »

CA - Officials speak of nuanced approach to monitoring sex offenders

SO Issues at Sex Offender Issues - 16 hours ago
Original Article Ms. Dumanis, I don't think joking about people's constitutional rights are funny! You took an oath to defend those rights, which you are not doing, so IMO, you are just showing how corrupt the government is and should be voted out of office and/or not re-elected! *05/11/2012* *By* TERI FIGUEROA Crafting Chelsea's Law (PDF) ---- named for slain Poway teen Chelsea King---- was a " *bipartisan success*," but other California laws to monitor sex offenders are problematic, state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, said Friday. At a panel discussion with San Diego County D... more »

FL - Mothers of sex offenders share responsibility, burden of label

SO Issues at Sex Offender Issues - 1 day ago
Original Article *05/12/2012* *By Emanuella Grinberg* *(CNN)* -- Christine *[last name withheld]* will never forget the moment she watched her 21-year-old son being led out of a Florida courtroom in handcuffs. "*This is not happening, this is not happening, this is not happening*," she recalls thinking at the time. "*Take me instead*." She sobbed because there was nothing she could do. *[name withheld]*, the second of her three children, was going to prison after pleading guilty to 10 counts of possession of child pornography. A judge in Duval County sentenced him in April 2010 ... more »

GA - Former police officer (Marcus McReynolds) sentenced to prison, counseling and a fine

CA - Treatment of sex offenders at issue in conference

SO Issues at Sex Offender Issues - 1 day ago
Original Article *05/11/2012* *By* TERI FIGUEROA Posting photos of sex offenders on the Internet and lumping all of those convicted of the crimes into one category is probably not keeping anyone safer, according to a member of the California board tasked with managing sex offenders. The question of how California deals with sex offenders was under scrutiny Thursday, as dozens of professionals from social workers to law enforcement officers met in San Diego for an annual conference offered by the California Coalition on Sexual Offending. Janet Neeley, a member of the California S... more »

NC - Family Focus: Police use proactive approach to protect children from sex crimes

SO Issues at Sex Offender Issues - 1 day ago
Original Article View the video at the link above. Education is the key to help your child protect themselves online and off, not fear and hysteria! *05/11/2012* *By Erica Bryant* *CHARLOTTE* - Last year, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police investigated more than 1,200 sex crimes against children. - So how many of these "*crimes*" had someone charged and convicted? Detectives are getting proactive with a program to try to protect kids. A video called "*Julie's Story*" warns children about online sexual predators. Detective David Wright shares the lesson in area schools to prevent stude... more »

Female Teacher/Coach Sex With Students

SO Issues at Sex Offender Issues - 1 day ago
We have a major double standard in this country, well pretty much the world. When a male commits a sex crime against a male or female child, they are seen as an evil pedophile predator, but when a woman does it, it's a "*right of passage*" or okay? This needs to change! Women can be pedophiles and predators as well. Playlist Link | YouTube Channel

NJ - Vote on Jessica's Law Possible For June 4

SO Issues at Sex Offender Issues - 1 day ago
Original Article *05/11/2012* *By* Anthony Bellano *The bill concerns sex offenders and those who harbor them* Senate bill S-380 (PDF), which concerns sentencing of sex offenders and persons who harbor them, would require electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders and creates child protection zones, goes before a vote by the Senate Law and Public Safety Committee on Monday, June 4, Galloway resident Anna Jezycki said at the council meeting on Tuesday night, May 8. “*I spoke with Sen. Donald Norcross last week and he told me it would come before a vote June 4*,” Jezycki said.... more »

Boca firm that makes software tracking child porn lays off workers

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) at Congress, Courts and Decisions - 2 days ago
5-11-2012 Florida: TLO, a Boca Raton investigative research firm that works with local law enforcement agencies to track sexual offenders and child predators, laid off a majority of its staff this... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Monitoring High-Risk Sex Offenders with GPS Technology: An Evaluation of the California Supervision Program

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) at Sex Offender Statistics - 2 days ago
April 2012 California: Abstract: Despite the increasing number of high-risk sex offenders (HRSOs) who are being placed on electronic monitoring programs, little is known about how effective these programs are in increasing offender compliance and in reducing recidivism. The purpose of this evaluation is to determine the effectiveness of the global positioning system (GPS) monitoring of HRSOs who are released onto parole. This study integrates outcome, cost, and process evaluation components. The outcome component assesses the impact of the California Department of Corrections and...... more »

Charges not filed in underage sex case involving former Fort Bragg soldier

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) at Congress, Courts and Decisions - 2 days ago
5-11-2012 North Carolina: A former Fort Bragg soldier who confessed to having sex with four underage girls was discharged from the Army without facing prosecution, according to Army... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Editorial: Sex crime scales of justice are out of balance

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) at Congress, Courts and Decisions - 2 days ago
5-11-2012 California: It's either now being reported more often as a crime or instances of adult females having sex with teen boys are more common than ever before. And the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Prostitute gets 10 years for 'degrading' killing of Sydney teacher

eAdvocate at Sex Offenders: Murdered + - 2 days ago
5-11-2012 Australia: A 24-year-old male prostitute who subjected a respected Sydney high school teacher to a "cruel and degrading death" by binding and gagging him and leaving him to die, has been sentenced to 10 years' jail. A Supreme Court judge said Yutian Li had demonstrated a "complete lack of humanity toward a fellow human being" when he killed Ian Craigie in his inner city flat in September 2009. Mr Craigie, 63, a retired barrister who taught Classical Greek at St Ignatius' College, Riverview, was reported missing on September 21 when he failed to turn up to school. He was...... more »

Man accused of rape files countersuit

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) at Sex Offender Research and News - 2 days ago
5-11-2012 New Mexico: An Oklahoma man accused of raping a Tennessee woman in Santa Fe three years ago has responded to the woman's rare civil lawsuit by accusing her of defaming him. The... [[This,an article summary.Please visit my website for complete article, and more.]]

CA - Registered sex offender camp has been attacked by a group of vigilante thugs

SO Issues at Sex Offender Issues - 2 days ago
Original Article Yet another blaring example of why the registry should be taken offline and used by police only! By leaving the registry online, the police, media and politicians are basically allowing human beings to be harassed, assaulted and/or murdered by vigilantes, and if you think this is not a real problem, I beg to differ. Homelessness is also a big problem with these draconian and unconstitutional laws. *05/10/2012* *By RLitchfield1* *This is the twenty-fifth in a series of articles on Auburn-area homeless people, written by local attorney, author, and Sierra College ... more »

FL - Bond lowered for former cop (Alysia Flynn) accused of sex with teen

SO Issues at Sex Offender Issues - 2 days ago
*Alysia Flynn*Original Article Watch the video at the link above. *05/10/2012* *BREVARD COUNTY* - A former Cocoa police officer who was accused of having sex with a 15-year-old boy was in court Thursday morning, trying to get her bond reduced, WFTV leaned. Investigators said *Alysia Flynn* was arrested in March on more than 90 charges, including unlawful sex with a minor. Prosecutors filed charges after a second teenager came forward also claiming to have had sex with 32-year-old Flynn. Flynn was being held in the Brevard County jail on a $1.4 million bail. Flynn didn't address a... more »

After An Exoneration, A Rape Victim and An Innocent Man Still Bound By A Terrible Crime

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) at Sex Offender Research and News - 2 days ago
5-10-2012 Texas: This week's feature tells the story of Debbie Jones, a Richardson woman who was raped and robbed at knifepoint in 1985, when she was 19. Soon after the crime, Jones picked... [[This,an article summary.Please visit my website for complete article, and more.]]

Underwear-clad man stabs computer with samurai sword because it was full of child porn

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) at Sex Offender Research and News - 2 days ago
5-10-2012 Florida: Most guys I know hide their porn simply by labeling their computer’s porn folder something they know their girlfriends won’t be interested in, like “Reason” or “The Ability to... [[This,an article summary.Please visit my website for complete article, and more.]]

Justices: Courts cannot assume sex offender is under a duty to register

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) at Congress, Courts and Decisions - 2 days ago
5-10-2012 Ohio: A sex offender convicted in Texas cannot be convicted of failing to register as a sexually oriented offender in Ohio because the state failed to prove he was required to register... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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 ALEC exempted from lobbyist status in three separate states
5-8-2012 National:

This spring has brought constant controversy for the American Legislative Exchange Council, the conservative group of legislators and corporations that pushes free-market model legislation in the states -- but it may not be over yet. Read more

MI - 'Romeo' not cleared, gets life on list

SO Issues at Sex Offender Issues - 3 days ago
Original Article *05/09/2012* *By Ken Kolker* *Request denied to take him off Sex Offender list* *GRAND RAPIDS (WOOD)* - He was a poster child for what was wrong with Michigan's sex offender registry -- a teen on the list for a one-night stand with an under-age girl. Then, the state passed sweeping reforms to the sex offender list, and it appeared *[name withheld]*'s name would be erased, and his life would change. A year later, Target 8 found his life has changed -- for the worse. Not only is *[name withheld]* still on Michigan's public sex offender registry, but he now is lis... more »

NY - Viewing child porn on the Web 'legal' in New York, state appeals court finds

SO Issues at Sex Offender Issues - 3 days ago
Original Article *05/09/2012* *By M. Alex Johnson* Viewing child pornography online isn't a crime, the New York Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in the case of a college professor whose work computer was found to have stored more than a hundred illegal images in its Web cache. The court dismissed one of the two counts of promoting a sexual performance of a child and one of the dozens of counts of possession of child pornography on which *[name withheld]* was convicted. The court upheld the other counts against *[name withheld]*, an assistant professor of public administration at Ma... more »

Picking predators not simply 'Tier 3'

noreply@blogger.com (eAdvocate: A Voice) at Sex Offender Research and News - 3 days ago
Clearly this article attacks Lawmakers purpose in assigning tier levels; a good thing! Good because tiers tell folks nothing and assigning them was done BEHIND CLOSED DOORS! Everything with respect... [[This,an article summary.Please visit my website for complete article, and more.]]

Barbaric: It is 'worth the risk' to punish innocent college men in order to nab more sex offenders

Archivist at False Rape Society - 4 days ago
http://www.cotwa.info/2012/05/barbaric-it-is-worth-risk-to-punish.html

Morals and Faith

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~Adlia Stevenson U.S. Vice President (1893–1897) and Congressman (1879–1881)

On a Personal Note

Thanks for the opportunity to express my thoughts regarding the issue of citizens’ rights, particularly addressing certain sex offenders’ crimes that do not fit the devastating, inequitable and endless punishment given.


As you know, many young men and women lives across the nation are being destroyed by incarceration, life-time registry and restrictive laws that do more harm than good. For those individuals, there is no second chance.

Below is a personal letter to President Obama:
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“Dear President Obama,

I truly agree with your sentiments that individuals, such as ex-felons, should be able to receive a second chance at life. Since we all know that one can veer off that path of life and travel along rough, rocky terrain, sometimes running off and ending up in some ditch. We all have made our fill of mistakes and sometimes those held a costly consequence that changed life forever. So we lived through it, trying harder to make things right with family, friends and those around us, but what about those who aren’t able to make things right even if they tried…because they’re labeled as too dirty, a leper, a person who is rejected from society and home.

But what if they’re a seventeen year old and had sex with a fifteen year old, consensual at that? Or they’re a teen that had gotten so enraged after a breakup that he sent out naked pictures of his girlfriend on his cell phone or email? Or an individual urinates where someone just happens to see them?

All are wrong and a travesty but do they deserve the life of no second chance with a registry that ends all. They are labeled, no jobs, no where to live…they have been deemed a menace to society, a plague. These certain circumstances, and many other situations similar to these, I believe still deserve a second change.

Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

After my son’s early release and two years of prison, I thought I had handled that fact graciously knowing after serving his time he would be able to get that fresh start, that second chance. He was an exemplary inmate, GED, college courses and vocational classes. Little did I know that a second chance on the outside was the farthest from the truth? He now struggles and lives in a trailer park sharing a trailer with another and surrounded by others in the same rocking boat, one to float endlessly in shark infested waters. I see him little because of probation requirements (he couldn’t live with us because we were 800 feet near a school). My family is afraid of what would happen to them if he lived with them…vigilantism. My son has no other place to stay since others condemn him of his crime that is screamed from the highest rooftop. Sex offender, sex offender!

Not all sex offenders are pedophiles or predators but some are simply young kids that make one stupid and rash decision that eventually changes everything, and they have no idea what they’ve done until their life is never their own. Exactly, where is that second chance for those sex-offenders who are lumped together with pedophiles and predators? Now, it makes me sick to think of my son’s future and many like him that are on the registry and many with no second chance…ever. I am asking you as a mother and as another concerned citizen of the United States that these laws are looked at again and taken into serious consideration in what they are doing to the Constitution of the United States, not for sex offenders in general but the future rights of every citizen, before anymore are put into effect. They unjustly strip an offender of their rights and place them in a guillotine that can be easily set off by anyone and at anytime. Where is the second chance for ex-sex offenders in the present, pending and future laws?”
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What truly saddens me is the weakness and deterioration of what the sex offense issue is doing to our once, great nation. Across Europe, others are seeing the injustice and disregard of rights, but we ignore this problem and it makes me wonder where humanity is heading….

We have become a hysterical society in which our latest witch-hunt is a sex offender--no matter his/her crime.

Below is a email sent from a foreign advocate to a father of a sex offender:
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“The tragic story of your son's death is just so sad that it's difficult to explain how. It was very hard to read your letters. It seems almost unbelievable that this can take place in a democracy! From our point of view, there is no justice in this. Not in any way: not for you, your son, the former girl friend – or even the state.

It is an abusive legal system. It seems barbaric. And we are so very sorry that this takes place. That's why it's so important for us to try to neutralize the debate with this…, hopefully making some changes. ….. to show the every day life of the sex offenders, trying to show how they keep on being punished, even after served prison time…..But we will for sure tell the story of the injustice that your son has been exposed to.”
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I appreciate everyone's commitment and backing to protect everyone's civil rights, plainly as noted in the Constitution of the United States and is presupposed, giving ALL men are “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.”