Living Among the Outcasts; a Shattered Family
09/24/2011
By SAM SACKS
Russell Banks
is a chronicler of American untouchables. In his 17 works of fiction he has depicted illegal immigrants, trailer-park dwellers, drug addicts and runaways. His brilliant new novel, "Lost Memory of Skin" (Ecco, 416 pages, $25.99), is about a homeless colony of convicted sex offenders living on the south Florida coastline. It may be his boldest imaginative leap yet into the invisible margins of society.The novel tells the story of a 22-year-old called only the Kid who has been found guilty of soliciting sex from a minor. At one point, the Kid reflects on how deeply his anonymity ran even before he was caught for the crime and expelled from society: "He was no more or less than what he seemed to be—a fatherless white kid who graduated high school without ever passing a single test or turning in a single paper, a kid who could barely read and write or do math beyond the simplest level of arithmetic, who was hooked for years and maybe still hooked on porn . . . and never had a girlfriend or a best friend and belonged to no one's posse."
The racing run-ons of the Kid's inner monologue make "Lost Memory of Skin" read like a continuation of Mr. Banks's scarily exhilarating 1995 coming-of-age classic "Rule of the Bone
," about a homeless boy's odyssey among biker gangs and drug traffickers. But the two novels are better thought of as opposite sides of a coin. The narrator of "Rule of the Bone" is a 14-year-old victim of sexual abuse; the Kid has been busted after showing up at a house where he expected to have sex with a 14-year-old girl he met in an Internet chat room. The girl turned out to be a police officer.The Kid's punishment, after a short jail sentence, is a 10-year probation period during which he must wear a tracking monitor and isn't allowed to live within 2,500 feet of any place children regularly gather. Because he also can't leave the county, there is effectively only one place he can go: a rat-infested strip of land beneath a causeway where other sex offenders have erected a shantytown. Mr. Banks is superb at individualizing these "Bridge People," as they're called, who range from public flashers to child rapists. (The creepiest is a former state senator nicknamed the Shyster, who talks about his pedophilia with unnerving sangfroid.)
Even in this clan, though, the Kid is an outsider. He's a sex offender but also, uniquely, a virgin (the one time he ventured beyond pornography he was arrested). He's guilty of a heinous offense, but his status as a pariah gives him a striking purity of vision—since the scarlet letter
of his crime is visible in his ankle monitor or in online registries, he has no secrets or hidden shames to cover up. Mr. Banks introduces the novel's richest motif when the Kid reads the Adam and Eve story from the state senator's Bible. His first reaction is to wonder whether "the whole tree of knowledge of good and evil thing was set up by God as a kind of prehistoric sex-sting with the snake as the decoy." He himself is abjectly fallen, yet he retains a strange prelapsarian innocence and honesty.The story is driven by the appearance of a social scientist called the Professor, who is himself a social outsider because of his intelligence—he is reputed to be the smartest man in the county—and his extreme obesity (he weighs nearly a quarter-ton). When the Professor waddles down to the encampment, the Kid is put in mind of "God stopping by to visit the Garden of Eden." The Professor wants to interview the Kid and help him turn the camp into an orderly, habitable society, and there is a threat early on that Mr. Banks will use the social scientist as a megaphone for his own theories about the causes of sex crimes. But this novel offers few lectures. It turns out that the Professor has a secret past—unlike the Kid's entirely exposed history—that becomes integral to the well-paced plot.
"Lost Memory of Skin" is a haunting book, made so by the fraught, enigmatic relationship of the Professor and the Kid. The contradictions that seem to split the Kid—his obsession with sex but innocence of it, for instance—are never resolved. Mr. Banks in not an apologist, only an observer; he has brought the novelist's magnifying glass to bear on figures we otherwise try hard not to notice.
Charles Frazier's "Nightwoods
" (Random House, 259 pages, $26) is the first of his novels—after the historical epics "Cold Mountain
" and "Thirteen Moons
"—to take place in the 20th century. Set in the "vertical country" of small-town North Carolina in the 1960s, it's a simpler affair that borrows the conventions of a romantic crime novel. When Lily, a young mother of twins, is murdered by her husband, the traumatized children are given shelter by her sister, Luce, at the remote mountain lodge where she is the caretaker. But then the husband, Bud, is freed when his murder trial ends with a hung jury. He sets out to track down the children, intending to extract a secret from them that their mother took to her grave.But just because the story is simple doesn't mean that Mr. Frazier has abandoned the grandiose, needlessly wordy style that helped make him a millionaire. Why write simply that neither child could speak, or describe a character as yelling angrily, when saying that "neither child displayed language" and someone is "yelling proclamations of anger" sounds so much more literary? The empty swagger of the writing, along with Bud's portentous philosophizing ("Blood mattered above all else, the sacred shedding of it"), is all there is to tide the reader over for hundreds of pages before the promised showdown between Bud and Luce. "Bud's patience had a fuse," we're told—about 50 pages past the point where ours had fizzled out.
UK - Gang attack paedophile
Notice how this "reporter" just glosses over the vigilantes attacking the man? They should all be brought up on charges for assault!
09/24/2011
Vigilantes took their revenge on a paedophile who preyed on girls as young as eight, a Doncaster court heard.
Sexual predator [name withheld] suffered rough justice at the hands of a gang of men who beat him up to the point he needed hospital treatment after some of his victims finally spoke up.
[name withheld], a father of three girls now in their teens, pleaded guilty to six charges of sexual assault on girls under 13, who were aged from eight to 11. The offences, which he admitted, went on until 2009.
Lisa Roberts, defending, said feelings ran high when the offences came to light and said events culminated in him being attacked by a group of six men.
She said: “His van was smashed up and he was hospitalised as a direct result of his offending."
- He was hospitalized due to vigilantes thugs.
“He has lost an awful lot, his wife, his children, and he deeply regrets his behaviour and actions.”
Judge Jacqueline Davies, sentencing [name withheld] to four-and-a-half years in jail with an extended period of four years on licence, said he posed a significant risk to the public of serious physical or emotional injury if he committed further offences.
The judge told the 44-year-old: “Your new offences began only a short time after a conviction in February 2004 and show an emerging pattern of behaviour.”
Nicola Peers, prosecuting, told the court one of the girls sexually assaulted by [name withheld] said she ‘felt sick because it felt so creepy’.
Some of the girls told their mothers but they decided not to tell the authorities for the sake of their children.
But the facts emerged and he was reported to police.
He initially denied the allegations and said the girls were making them up - but pleaded guilty when the case reached Doncaster Crown Court.
Miss Peers said [name withheld] initially was placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register in 2004 when he was convicted of inciting a 10-year-old girl to commit an act of gross indecency at a market stall.
The girls’ parents were shocked to hear the railway supervisor was already on the Register for a previous offence when he started committing the sexual assaults at his home on Daw Lane, Bentley, in 2004.
After the hearing, one father of [name withheld]’s victims criticised the sentence as too short.
He said: “Four and a half years is nothing - I’m disgusted. The sentence is not long enough for what he did."
“The feeling in the community is very strong, and I think he should have been put away for 10 years.”
AL - Marshall County woman in land dispute with sex offender
09/23/2011
By Stephen McLamb
GRANT (WAFF) - There is a land dispute in Marshall County between a woman and a convicted sex offender.
He has allegedly moved onto the woman's property without permission.
That's at 588 Newport highway just outside of grant, the property owner told us she's working to get him off her land.
The man was living next door but was picked up in a roundup last month when it was discovered a child was living there.
He then created a residence next door and law enforcement says they cannot do anything about property line disputes.
"That's definitely an issue when you have little girls running around. I mean, you worry about the children," said Karla Hardin, who says the man is on her property.
Hardin said she always worries about sex offenders living near her but she never believed it would be on her own property.
"So he lives in a shed running a power cord from his shed to his wife's single wide," said Hardin.
Sheriff's officials confirmed to WAFF 48 news that [name withheld] was picked up in a recent roundup when it was determined he was living in a mobile home with a child.
But after he made bond, Hardin says he put up a shed she said is 30 feet on her property, so she sought law enforcement to have him removed.
"I went to the courthouse and I've been told to go to civil court over this because it's a property line issue," said Hardin.
Despite having a survey done Wednesday and the property line marked between the structure and his former residence, Hardin says he hasn't left.
For now Hardin told us all she can do is warn the public about who is living on her property with a sign, but she says even that caused trouble.
"Police were out here last night and they left and my sign is still hanging," said Hardin.
Southers said the deeds were messed up years ago and that he's on his own property.
Hardin says she will have to spend her money for civil court to get him off of her property.
PA - Supervisors to consider repealing sex offender residency restrictions
09/23/2011
By Joan Hellyer
The Falls supervisors have begun laying the groundwork to repeal the township's sex offender ordinance.
The supervisors voted last week to advertise the repeal of Chapter 193 - Sex Offender Residency Restrictions. They are expected to vote on the repeal in October.
The ordinance was adopted about six years ago. It restricts convicted sex offenders from residing or living "within 2,500 feet of any school, park, amusement park, skate park, roller rink, arcade, skating rink, athletic fields, movie theater, playground or child day-care facility" in the township.
Similar restrictions in an Allegheny County ordinance were declared invalid by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in May because they could amount to creating "localized penal colonies" for sex offenders.
Falls is among a handful of local municipalities that have or will consider repealing their respective ordinance in response to the state court ruling.
"It's an issue of pre-emption," Michael P. Clarke, the Falls supervisors' solicitor, said last week.
"The monitoring of sex offenders is pre-empted by state law," he said, because the issue has to be handled at the state level.
Towns would risk facing legal challenges if they continue to enforce their own local ordinances now that the state court ruling has been handed down, Clarke said.
"It goes way beyond lawsuits. Police who try to enforce the ordinance could lose their livelihoods, too," the solicitor said.
Township authorities have never enforced the ordinance since it was enacted six years ago, Clarke said. Those responsibilities were left to state probation officers, he said.
In addition to the Falls supervisors, the Newtown Township supervisors also are expected to consider repealing their municipality's sex offender residency restriction ordinance in October.
The Doylestown Township supervisors voted to repeal their ordinance in August.
FL - Vigilante Barbara Farris Plans For Nazi Style Sex Offender Village In Sorrento Florida
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| Barbara Farris (Right) |
Vigilante Barbara never stops! She's been harassing ex-offenders for years now. So when are the police going to arrest her? I think she's doing this for publicity myself, for her "child abuse" business. She saw the money that could be made from people exploiting their child's death, like John Walsh, Mark Lunsford, etc.
09/23/2011
SORRENTO - A Tampa woman is planning to open a village within a Lake County town that would house sex offenders and predators--perhaps hundreds or thousands of them.
Barbara Farris (Videos of Her) said the town of Sorrento is a great place to re-locate registered offenders because of its distance from the hustle and bustle of places like Orlando.
- Did you tell the folks in Sorrento about your plan?
"[It's] far enough from civilization from where they're not around parks and kids," Farris said. "They're not going to be surrounded or have temptations."
Farris recently started a company called SOS, which is short for Sex Offender Solutions. It provides registered offenders with housing, transportation, jobs and counseling.
- Oh, now she is stealing the name of SOSEN (Sex Offender Solutions and Education Network). I wonder if SOSEN can sue her for copyright issues? I guess the "Bee Aware" and her "reality show" didn't work out?
When asked if the idea of a town for sex offenders could actually happen, Farris said she thinks it could.
"It's absolutely realistic," Farris said. "We've joined on with some people making it very realistic for us."
But many people in Sorrento didn’t agree.
Gregg Welstead, Director of the Lake County Conservation and Compliance Department, said the county does not have any specific rules related to this.
But the county relies on and follows the guidelines set in state statute with regard to distances that sex offenders can live from schools, parks and playgrounds, he said in a statement.
He also said there could be zoning issues or density considerations that might require a public hearing.
Farris said she has plans to open other housing villages in South Florida and California.
"The goal is to prevent another abduction, death or abuse," she said.
- Really? I think it's free publicity myself! And even if it wasn't, your Nazistic plan would not prevent another crime either.
DC - Sex Offender has been arrested for farting on kids in public!
09/23/2011
By Joe Poot
WASHINGTON - A mother and her two young kids were shopping at Walsmart, when they said a man approached them and started farting on her kids. The mother said "Sickos like that man, should be locked up for life!"
She immediately called the police and contacted the local store manager, but she could no longer locate the man in question.
The continued to search for the suspect until police arrived.
When the police arrived, they had a hard time finding him. Eventually they found him in the bathroom farting to Christmas tunes.
Anus McRunny was arrested and taken to jail. If convicted, he could face 20 years in prison for violating his orders to stay away from kids, and not to fart on anyone.
He was later released on a $1 million dollar bail.
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LA - Joe Somar - Harassing an offender using registry info, a crime!
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| Joe Somar |
It was a video of the person outside a sex offenders home, screaming and yelling for the man to come outside (Now Deleted). See our video below. Tell us, do you think the voice in our video, which is from his original deleted video, and the voice in his new video below match?
The description on the video was "[name withheld] is a sex offender. I'm going to bother him until he fights me or I get bored."
My friend then left a comment on the video telling them that harassing an offender by using information on the registry (see below) was a crime.
That is all that was posted on the video, no threats were made.
He also had a link to his site on the YouTube channel, which is how we found the other info about him.
As soon as the comment was made by my friend, the person deleted the video and the entire channel.
Now, another channel just popped up, the date on the channel shows 09/23/2011, but we believe it was created today, with the persons machine having the wrong date, but we could be wrong. Doesn't matter anyway.
We did not say we were going to press charges against him, like he claims in his new video (which we've also downloaded).
We simply emailed the LA sheriff's office (SOCPR@dps.state.la.us) asking about using the registry to harass someone. Someone we know contacted the person he was harassing, and they are aware of Mr. Somar. Him and his wife were frightened about the incident, and are talking with a lawyer.
Anyway, this is all we will say about this. We posted it, not to harass anybody, but to show how people use the registry to harass those on the registry, and to show why the registry should be taken offline and used by police only!
You can check out Google for Mr. Joe Somar, yourself.
Louisiana Registry Warning: (Link)
Any person who uses information contained in or accessed through this Website to threaten, intimidate, or harass any individual, including registrants or family members, or who otherwise misuses this information, may be subject to criminal prosecution or civil liability.
No Safety in Numbers
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| COSA |
09/15/2011
By Steven Yoder
It’s a Monday evening in February, and four people sit around a conference table at a United Church of Christ in Fresno, California. The fluorescent lighting makes the room feel cold. But the people here have a warm demeanor and a seriousness of purpose. They’re part of a group called Circle of Support and Accountability (COSA), and they help manage recently released sex offenders.
The focus of the group’s work is “Jim,” a convicted offender in his 40s who’s near the end of his parole. Each member says a few words about how their week has been. Jim’s hasn’t gone so well—he’s felt lonely. He has a temp job and a 7 p.m. curfew, so after work every day, he goes home, eats dinner, and goes to bed. Even his brother doesn’t always want to talk to him. Warning flags go up for Clare Ann Ruth-Heffelbower, the program’s 63-year-old director, as Jim talks about how cut off he feels. “Do you think you’re going to do things that you know you shouldn’t do?” she asks.
He admits that he’s thought about drinking again. “Wasn’t that something that was a big part of your life before?” asks Heidi, a seminary student with a pierced tongue and multiple earrings. “You can’t blame what you did on your drinking problem, but as we’ve talked about, it’s something that you have to pay attention to.”
“I know,” he says.
“If you’re needing to meet people, find something to occupy your time, you could go to Alcoholics Anonymous,” suggests Ruth- Heffelbower. “You can make some new friends, maybe even meet a female friend that you like,” she says.
“Well, OK, that’s a good idea,” he says softly. “I’ll go.”
When they reconvene the following Monday, Jim admits he hasn’t made it to AA. This time Ruth-Heffelbower brought a meeting schedule, though, and Jim says he’ll go on Saturday. Another COSA volunteer suggests someone who could give him a ride.
This strategy runs counter to the prevailing approach to managing those convicted of sex crimes. In every state, once offenders are released from prison they are required to register their names, addresses, and photos. Putting such information in the public domain, the theory goes, will make them less likely to commit another sex crime because they know they’re being watched. But in practice, it hasn’t been that simple.
Registries began as a sound idea that grew from a terrible crime. On an October night in 1989, a masked gunman abducted Jacob Wetterling, an 11-year-old Minnesota boy. He was never found. Over the next five years, Jacob’s parents successfully pushed for legislation requiring sex-offender registries that would be accessible to the police, though not the public. President Clinton signed the Jacob Wetterling Act in September 1994. It gave police a critical tool that they could use to quickly check suspects early in a sex crime case.
On July 29, 1994, as the Wetterling Act was making its way through Congress, a 7-year-old in New Jersey named Megan Kanka was raped and strangled by a neighbor with a history of sex offenses. Kanka’s parents lobbied for Megan’s Law, which Clinton signed in May 1996, expanding the Wetterling Act to require states to open up their sex-offender registries to the public. “In some ways,” says Jacob Wetterling’s mother, Patty, “Megan’s Law hijacked our intentions.”
The impact of putting offenders’ identities into the hands of a fearful public was predictable. In a 2005 study, 47 percent of 121 sex offenders interviewed said they’d been harassed as a result of being on a registry, and 16 percent said that they’d been assaulted. Since 2005, at least five sex offenders have been murdered by people who used a registry to track them. A 2007 Human Rights Watch study (Video) found that private employers were reluctant to hire sex offenders, and a 2008 U.S. Department of Justice report concluded that cases of offenders being forced into homelessness were “widely reported.”
While registries have been very effective at marginalizing convicted offenders, a December 2008 study (Video) on the impact of Megan’s Law in New Jersey found that the law “has no effect on reducing the number of victims involved in sexual offenses.” Studies in other states came to similar conclusions. In 2009, analysts at the Washington State Institute for Public Policy looked at seven studies on recidivism by registered offenders. Only two showed that being on a registry decreased the chances that an offender would commit another sex crime.
The public, however, remains convinced that registries work. In a national poll of 1,005 people early last year, 79 percent said they thought registration is an effective deterrent. And offender registries are making inroads in other areas of crime policy. Since 2005, at least 13 states have launched websites listing those convicted of a range of offenses, from manufacturing meth to drunk driving.
By these standards, COSA’s approach seems crazy. But the model is almost as old as sex-offender registries themselves. In the summer of 1994, a psychologist at the Correctional Service of Canada named Bill Palmer was desperate to prevent a high-risk child molester named [name withheld] from victimizing another child. While sex offenders’ risk of committing another crime varies considerably, reoffense rates for untreated offenders who target children can run as high as 40 percent. So Palmer connected [name withheld] with a local Mennonite minister, Harry Nigh, who agreed to have several members of his congregation help keep an eye on [name withheld].
That group, which called itself “Charlie’s Angels,” was the first COSA, a model that has since been adopted in 16 sites in Canada and has spread to four U.S. states and Great Britain. The service matches each offender with four to six volunteers, who provide emotional support and lend a hand on practical details, from job applications to transportation. Volunteers are trained to monitor the offender’s behavior for signs of relapse. “We’re not there to hold the hand of a sex offender because he’s a poor sad guy who everybody despises,” says Andrew McWhinnie, national adviser to the Correctional Service on the COSA program. “Yes, we’re there for that, too, because he’s a human being and no one is disposable. But the reason is that we don’t want to see any more sexual victims.”
[name withheld] died in 2005 having never committed another sex crime. The first study of the program, published in 2005 by the Correctional Service of Canada, found that offenders who had been through COSA were 70 percent less likely than those who hadn’t to return to prison because of a sex offense. A second study conducted in 2007 and a third, published in the journal Sex Abuse in 2009, both found an 83 percent drop.
Attempts to replicate COSA in the United States are in early stages, but when the Fresno group was evaluated in September 2009, none of the 16 offenders who had been through the program had reoffended, according to Ruth-Heffelbower.
Jim’s experience shows that while support and accountability go together, keeping sex offenders on the right track isn’t easy. He never made it to AA. The week after the COSA meeting, his parole officer searched his hotel room and found pornography, a violation. So he went back to prison for two months.
But Ruth-Heffelbower wrote to him, and Jim replied that he wanted to continue meeting with COSA when he got out. Ruth- Heffelbower sees progress: “When people like him mess up, if they continue working with us when they come out, they’re much more serious and open.”
MA - Swansea official proposes town's first-ever sex offender bylaw
09/22/2011
By Deborah Allard
SWANSEA - A new sex offender bylaw will likely be one article voters will decide upon at the upcoming Special Town Meeting to be held in November or early December.
Town Administrator James Kern said a date has not yet been set.
The sex offender bylaw, proposed by School Committee Vice Chairman Christopher R. Carreiro, will be a first for the town.
“It’s a simple bylaw that says level 2 or 3 sex offenders cannot live within 500 feet of a school, park or the Town Beach,” Carreiro said.
Carreiro said most people he’s spoken with in town assumed there was already a bylaw in effect. But, cities and towns must enact such bylaws on their own. Massachusetts law does require sex offenders to register their address, which is entered into a database and available as public record.
“People were so surprised there wasn’t something in place,” Carreiro said.
There are sex offender bylaws in neighboring towns and cities, including Somerset which enacted its own bylaw in 2008.
Level 2 and 3 sex offenders are given those particular designations by state law to make the community aware of the offenders’ level of dangerousness and likelihood of re-offense. A level 3 offender poses the highest risk of re-offending.
Carreiro said that through his own research, he discovered there are 19 level 2 sex offenders and two level 3 sex offenders living in Swansea.
Carreiro said the new bylaw will aid police and residents in protecting children and others in town.
“I think it’s another tool,” Carreiro said. “It’s not the only solution, but it gives police officers the ability to do something about it.”
Locations included in the bylaw are the Swansea School Administration Building, all four elementary schools, Joseph Case Junior High School and Joseph Case High School. Also included is the Swansea Town Beach, Swansea Boat Ramp, Nike Site Playing Complex, Little League baseball fields, basketball hoops, playground and tennis courts, recreational facilities, and the Swansea Public Library.
Carreiro worked with Police Chief George Arruda, Superintendent Christine Stanton, Town Administrator James Kern, Town Planner Steve Antinelli,and School Committee member Eric Graham on drafting the new bylaw.
CA - Kidnap Victim Jaycee Dugard Sues Government
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| Jaycee Dugard |
09/22/2011
(NewsCore) - Jaycee Dugard filed a lawsuit against the US government Thursday for what she said was its failure to monitor the paroled sex offender who kidnapped, raped and imprisoned her for 18 years.
The complaint, filed in federal court in San Francisco, says the government's oversight of convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido was so lacking that the "gross neglect borders on virtual complicity."
Garrido, 60, was sentenced to 431 years in prison in April for the rape and kidnapping of Dugard, who was 11-years-old when he grabbed her from a bus stop near her home in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.
His wife, Nancy Garrido (Video), 55, was sentenced to 36 years to life in prison for sexual assault and kidnapping
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Dugard's lawyers said federal authorities "failed on numerous occasions" from December 1988 to March 1999 to properly monitor Garrido, who had been convicted in 1977 of raping and kidnapping a 25-year-old woman.
He was on parole and under federal supervision when he kidnapped Dugard in 1991.
The complaint alleges that Garrido repeatedly violated the conditions of his parole, including testing positive for drug and alcohol use.
Authorities also ignored reports of sexual misconduct and failed to properly check on Garrido, visiting his residence less than a dozen times in ten years, the complaint alleges. For the final three years of his federal parole, from 1996 to 1999, no investigator went to his home at all, the complaint said.
After 1999, California was responsible for monitoring Garrido. Still, it took 10 more years until authorities found Dugard.
Dugard's lawyers said she is not seeking a specific sum for damages, but rather will trust the judge to decide compensation. Any money collected from this complaint would be put toward her foundation, attorney Dale Kinsella said.
Last year, California paid Dugard and her two children $20 million in damages.
US Department of Justice spokesman Charles Miller said government attorneys will review the complaint and "make a determination about how we will ultimately respond in court."
The horrific details of Dugard's captivity were released in testimony to a grand jury. Dugard told the jury her kidnapper forced her to have extended periods of sex with him -- often on camera – with Garrido telling her she was helping with his "sex problem."
Dugard, who was hit with a stun gun when she was kidnapped, told the grand jury,"I was very scared," she said. "I didn't know why he was doing this. I just wanted to go home."
Dugard said Phillip Garrido continued to carry his stun gun the months after her kidnapping.
When asked by the grand jury why she never tried to escape, Dugard said, "Well, in the beginning I was scared. I was afraid of I guess what he would do, Phillip."
Dugard, now 31, said Phillip and Nancy Garrido "stole my life."
NJ - Court: Electronic monitoring of sex offender violates his constitutional rights
It's about time a judge sees the laws for what they are! Now hopefully other judges who took an oath to defend the Constitution, will do the same? Also, will he also be taken off the online registry and not have to live by the residency restrictions, which are also ex post facto laws? Also, I am sure the AG will appeal, so it's not over yet.
09/22/2011
By Michelle Sahn
A state appeals court ruled that forcing a sex offender convicted more than 20 years ago to comply with GPS monitoring rules that were enacted about four years ago violates his constitutional rights.
In the 2-1 decision, the Appellate Division of Superior Court reversed a state parole board decision that required [name withheld], a Tier III sex offender, to wear a GPS ankle bracelet. The court said the requirements of the monitoring program constituted a level of punishment that violates the constitutional provision barring retroactive laws.
“We conclude that although the Legislature's intention in enacting the Sex Offender Monitoring Act was civil and nonpunitive, the act is so punitive in effect that it violates the ex post facto clause,” Judges Stephen Skillman and Marianne Espinosa said in their decision.
In his dissent, Judge Anthony J. Parrillo said while the GPS monitoring may be more burdensome than the yearly registration requirements for sex offenders, “it does not rise to the level of a direct and punitive disability or restraint,” and is far less restrictive than the involuntary civil confinement some sex offenders are subject to upon completion of their prison terms.
“Simply put, the majority's constitutional tolerance of laws that register, publicize, monitor and indefinitely institutionalize sex offenders after completion of their criminal sentences cannot logically be reconciled with its avowed distaste for a rule requiring the most serious sex offenders, who remain free to live, work and walk wherever they please, to submit to a form of electronic surveillance,” he wrote.
Because the appellate decision was split, if the state Attorney General’s Office files an appeal, the case would automatically be heard by the state Supreme Court.
[name withheld] did not have an attorney – he filed briefs pro se, or acting on his own behalf – and he did not argue in court.
But the appellate division allowed both the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey and the state Office of the Public Defender to argue as a friend of the court – meaning that although those two groups did not represent [name withheld], they entered the case because of an interest in the legal issues surrounding it.
Alison S. Perrone, the Burlington County-based attorney who handled those arguments, said that with Thursday’s ruling, the court “reaffirmed a fundamental Constitutional principle – that a person can’t be subject to retroactive punishment.”
Lee Moore, a spokesman for the state Attorney General’s Office, said: “We’re still reviewing the decision and considering our legal options.”
[name withheld], of Eatontown, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for a 1986 attempted sexual assault. According to newspaper accounts from that time, [name withheld], an Eatontown sanitation worker, telephoned an 11-year-old girl, whose family lived on his route, and suggested they have an intimate relationship.
With permission from the girl’s family, police recorded the phone calls and [name withheld] was arrested when he showed up at the family’s home, the newspaper reports said.
He was convicted at trial and ordered to serve that sentence consecutive to a term he was already serving for a parole violation. According to newspaper stories, in the 1960s [name withheld] was sentenced to 62 to 65 years in prison for rape, robbery, assault and weapons offenses that occurred in several communities, including Colts Neck, Howell and Neptune. Those prison terms did not carry mandatory minimum sentences, according to records.
In the 1960s, he wore a ski mask and preyed on young couples parked in lovers’ lanes, according to newspaper accounts. In some cases, he assaulted the men with a rifle, then sexually assaulted the women, the newspaper said.
[name withheld], now 78, was released from the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center – the state’s prison for sex offenders in the Avenel section of Woodbridge – in February 2009.
Because he finished the prison sentence – or maxed out – he was not subject to parole, although he was subject to Megan’s Law registration requirements.
About six months later, the state Parole Board notified [name withheld] that he was subject to 24-hour a day, 7-day-a-week GPS monitoring because he had been classified as a Tier III offender, with a high risk of re-offense, according to the appellate decision.
That monitoring came with other conditions, including a requirement that he allow a parole officer access to his home if the device stopped emitting a signal, and a rule that he provide a parole officer with advance notice of out-of-state travel, the court papers said.
The state argued that it was not [name withheld]’s 1986 conviction, but his 2009 classification as a high-risk offender that triggered the GPS monitoring requirement. But with Thursday’s decision, the appeals court rejected that argument.
The GPS monitoring program was set up after the Sex Offender Monitoring Act was signed into law in 2007. That law directed the chairman of the parole board, in consultation with the state attorney general, to “establish a program for the continuous, satellite-based monitoring of sex offenders in this state.”
CO - Motels housing dozens of sex offenders, not telling guests
Leave it up to the fear-mongering media to whip people into a frenzy for a story! Must be a slow week or something!
09/21/2011
By Will Ripley
DENVER - It's not exactly a room at the Ritz, but for some people, motels on Colfax Avenue are all they can afford. A three-month 9Wants to Know investigation found, if you stay at one of those motels, there's a good chance you're living next to sex offenders and may not even know it.
Motels are not legally obligated to tell you who is staying in the room next door, even if that person is a registered sex offender. There are no laws in Colorado restricting where sex offenders can live, although guidelines may be established by the court in individual cases.
9Wants to Know found some motels are housing 10 or even 20 offenders, and not disclosing that information to other guests. We also interviewed a sex offender staying at one of those motels, who told us he would not feel safe having his own children stay there.
- Like you said above, they don't have to tell people, and the vigilante media is out in full force to get that next story. The very laws being passed, are what is causing this. Get rid of the residency restrictions, and this problem with most likely vanish.
"My name is George," he said. "I'm 43. I grew up in Minnesota and since I've moved to Colorado I've been in trouble. I can't seem to get out of the cycle."
On the road of life, George has taken plenty of wrong turns. Now he feels he has hit a dead end. When he spoke to 9Wants to Know in June, he had recently been released from prison on parole and was required to register as a sex offender. He asked 9NEWS not to use his last name.
"I have [a charge of] attempted sexual assault on a minor which resulted from an Internet sting," George said.
George was chatting with an undercover police officer who claimed to be a 14-year-old girl. He served two years and three months before his early release. The Colorado Department of Corrections provided him with vouchers to cover his housing costs for two months, giving him time to look for a job.
"They put me in a motel," George said. "They put us in a high-crime area."
At the time of our interview in June, George was living in The Carriage Motor Inn on East Colfax Avenue and Yosemite Street.
"There are crack dealers up and down the street and there's all kinds of craziness going on," Mary Elise Filipy said.
Filipy used to work at another Colfax hotel, the Newhouse, on East Colfax and Grant Street, directly across from the State Capitol.
Filipy says the Newhouse is filled with felons on parole, including sex offenders.
"They had been in jail for child molestation, for rape," Filipy said.
- And what about the other felons you seem to be skipping over?
9Wants to Know first reported about the Newhouse in June, when a guest complained that they had not been told about all the sex offenders staying there.
- So what is the registry for again? It's for the public, and also so shame ex-offenders, but clearly the public doesn't use it. It's your job, not the government or the hotel/motel to tell you who lives around you.
A recent search of the Colorado Sex Offender Database found 11 sex offenders who registered the Newhouse as their home address.
- Okay, so? What's the point of this story? Ex-offenders have to live somewhere!
We also found 10 registered sex offenders at the Sand and Sage motel at East Colfax and Wabash Street, 14 at the Shepherd's motel at East Colfax and Valentia Street, and 21 at the Carriage Motor Inn.
- Have you ever bothered to ask why they might be living there, or why they might be homeless? Maybe it's the very laws being passed that is the problem, you ever think of that, or does the label "sex offender," all of a sudden make your brain die so you cannot see past the label?
A State of Colorado voucher shows the state paid $180 per week for George's motel room, which amounted to $1,440 for two months.
- Okay, the state put them there using tax payer money, so why are you harassing ex-offenders and the hotel/motel owners?
"They picked the motel," George said. "They told me where I was going before I even got out."
Chris Lobanov-Rostovsky, program manager for the Colorado Sex Offender management board, says the state is doing the best it can to provide housing and support for Colorado's 14,600 registered sex offenders.
- Except going back to the self-serving legislature passing the draconian laws, that would be a major step in finding housing for these people. Get rid of the residency laws that don't work as intended in the first place, they only cause homelessness and people to cluster together, because that is the only place they can legally live. Ever thought of that?
He says, ideally, all offenders would be placed in a "halfway house" environment or shared living arrangement. However, bed space is limited and many landlords won't rent to convicted felons, let alone sex offenders.
- And when a place opens that is housing ex-offenders, like mentioned here, the mob comes out and complains! Ideally, once a person has been to prison and completed their time, they'd not have to live by draconian laws and on some shaming list, that is what is ideal!
"It's a tough balancing act," Lobanov-Rostovsky said. "Parole has to make decisions in terms of who to put where."
- It's not really that tough, repeal the laws and the problems go away! You just put them where you can, hoping nobody complains, and when they do, you just move them somewhere else, just like California, whose been placing the "sex offender shuffle" for a very long time now.
Lobanov-Rostovsky estimates a small percentage of sex offenders eventually become homeless after they are released from prison because they cannot find a job or housing.
- And why can't they find a job or housing? BECAUSE OF THE DAMN LAWS YOU ARE PASSING, that is why!
"The state is doing the best it can to try and monitor these offenders and protect the community and keep citizens safe," Lobanov-Rostovsky said. "We're trying to help an offender to be successful, and to be successful we mean to not re-offend and to live a law-abiding life."
- You can NEVER protect the community from someone intent on doing them harm, never. 10 million laws won't prevent that. Even if each person had their own bodyguard, it would not prevent it. And I really don't think you are trying to help ex-offenders re-integrate back into society, if you were, you'd repeal the unconstitutional laws, but, that could make you look bad and ruin your career, right?
"Other neighborhoods don't want them, so they're kind of left with no other alternative," Filipy said. "Where are they going to go?"
- Who cares if neighbors don't want them? Hell, I don't like a couple of my neighbors, can I get rid of them as well?
Filipy thinks the hotels housing offenders have a responsibility to alert potential guests, especially those with children.
- No they don't! Is there a law saying they must do that? They are making a lot of money by helping ex-offenders.
"I personally believe that people have a right to know and to be aware of their surroundings," Filipy said.
- Not me. There is nothing that gives them that right, except them being smart people and knowing their neighbors, talking with them, purchasing a gun, legally, etc. Hell, if we have a right to know, then I'd like to know about all the other non-sex offender felons who live around me as well, like murderers, gang members, drug dealers/users, DUI offenders, thieves, etc. Do you also remember all those RIGHTS that God gave us, and the Constitution gave us? I like those rights, how about you?
When a new manager took over, Filipy says she quit her job as a front desk clerk.
"I was told that I was no longer allowed to tell people that we had sex offenders staying in the hotel," Filipy said. "And if families with children wanted to stay there that would be OK too."
9Wants to Know left several messages with Filipy's former manager. We have not yet received a call back.
- And I don't blame them, the media is always out for blood, and I don't think this is any different!
Two 9NEWS staffers went undercover with a young child to see what really happens when a family tries to check-in.
The clerk at the Newhouse told us as soon as we walked-in: The hotel is not safe for children.
- And I'm sure she will probably be fired soon as well. It's not their responsibility to tell you, it's your responsibility to find out before checking in, that is whose responsibility it is! Everyone in this world now wants someone else to blame, or to "protect" them, instead of themselves. If we ever do have a war in this country, we are all screwed!
"Just between you and me, you don't want to have a kid in this building," he said. "There's a lot of felons here and stuff."
It was a different story at the three other motels we visited undercover.
A worker at the Carriage Inn told us the motel was OK for kids, in spite of the 21 sex offenders registered there.
- Well, if you examine the facts, most known sex offenders do not go on to commit new sex crimes, but hey, the truth doesn't matter, only what people perceive to be the truth is what matters, or the lies they've been told over and over.
At the Shepherd motel, a clerk told us they did not accept vouchers from the Department of Corrections, and even mentioned how "other" motels would accept convicts.
"It's all about them getting their money," she said, never mentioning the 14 sex offenders registered at the motel.
The manager of the Sand and Sage told us it was a great place for kids, in spite of the 10 sex offenders registered there.
- So, what are the 10 sex offenders charged with? You just let everyone assume they molested kids, and that they are all dangerous pedophile predators, just like most media outfits do. The media is a joke these days, it's all about money and entertainment, anything to rake in the cash, viewers and ratings.
We returned to the hotels with a 9NEWS camera and received various explanations.
Soo Kim, who identified herself as the wife of the Carriage Inn owner, told us they normally turn families away and the clerk who helped us was just filling in.
"She's not a manager," Kim said.
Orlando Martinez Jr., son of the Shepherd motel owner, said his clerk did nothing wrong.
"That's your responsibility to keep an eye on your kids," Martinez said.
- AMEN!
Joseph Rivers, manager of the Sand and Sage, said he didn't know there were sex offenders at his motel.
He told us he would disclose information about sex offenders to guests with children.
"Because it's their right to know," Rivers said.
- I disagree, it's not their right to know, and it's not your responsibility to tell them, it's their responsibility to check before checking in, period!
George says motels full of sex offenders are no place for children.
"I see kids running around the parking lot," George said. "If it was my kids I wouldn't want them running around. Because I know who's there."
- So, my final question is, how long have they been living there? If it's a long time, then apparently it's not a problem and people are not in danger, which is my suspicion.
All who apply for government jobs, police, congress, etc, should be forced to take the Penile plethysmograph!
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| Test them all! |
Since we seem to have a lot of police officers who are committing sex crimes, as well as politicians, I think we need to pass a law requiring anyone who wants to work for the government, to take the Penile plethysmograph! What do you think?
By the way, this was mentioned in this comment. Thanks "ananymous!"
It's a known fact, as documented below, that most who take the test, would be considered sexual deviants, in today's society. Watch the entire video below. Would you support this? I would!
NY - Sex offender law adopted by Springville Village Board
09/22/2011
By Chris Proctor
The Springville Board of Trustees voted unanimously to accept Local Law 2011, Restrictions of Residency for Registered Sex Offenders, into the village penal code. The new law is designed to assist in protecting those children and adults considered most vulnerable as targets of registered sex offenders.
Although only two village residents attended the public hearing held prior to the monthly board meeting on Sept. 12, both spoke in favor of the bill and told the trustees that they would like to see the legislative wording expanded to offer the community greater protection from convicted sexual predators.
The first citizen to address the board asked the trustees to include not only an offender’s residence, but his or her places of work and recreation, as well. He also requested that the board “put some bite in lawbreaker penalties by increasing both jail time and the amount of fines.”
The other resident to speak asked the board “to be brave. Do more than is just politically correct.” She also pointed out that “children and their parents need to be protected from these individuals.”
Board members said they were reluctant to overstep their authority. Trustee James Bentley said, “We can’t just limit a person’s movements.” Village attorney Audrey Seeley agreed, “We could run into problems by detaining people.” Board Member Terry Skelton said, “This could be very difficult to enforce.”
Mayor William Krebs and Police Chief John Fox participated in further discussion on the law and ascertained that the existing New York state statutes were “vague and lacking in uniformity,” the reason the board had proposed Local Law B 2011 in the first place.
Fox said, “Having the law in effect may tell [sex offenders] not to come and live here in the first place.” Krebs asked the trustees, “Do we need to rework the law?” Skelton responded, “This residency law is a good first step.”
The board’s 5-0 vote to approve the bill as originally presented was followed by a 5-0 vote to have Seeley investigate the possibility of expanding the new ruling. Trustee Gerald Lohrey warned, “This law should not give people a false sense of security.” Nor, according to Building Inspector Mike Kaleta, “should we assume the threat is only to children.”
Krebs summed up the passage of the new village law by saying, “There are no guarantees [regarding public safety]. People need to remain vigilant.”
FL - Woman sues Bunnell, former police officer (Nick Massaro) over Internet sex ad
09/22/2011
By FRANK FERNANDEZ
BUNNELL -- A woman who awoke to obscene phone calls and text messages because of a sexually explicit Internet ad falsely placed in her name is now suing the former Bunnell police officer responsible and the city's Police Department.
The lawsuit charges the Bunnell Police Department failed to properly supervise former Cpl. Nick Massaro, who fabricated the sexually explicit Craigslist ad using the woman's real name, phone number and picture.
The woman said she started receiving obscene and degrading phone calls and text messages just before 8 a.m. Nov. 30, 2009, from strangers seeking sex and asking for pictures after they read the ad on Craigslist. The News-Journal is not publishing the woman's name because of the nature of the complaint.
"This case is about the folks that are supposed to be protecting the public violating that trust," the woman's attorney, Daniel Mowrey, said in a phone interview Wednesday. The suit was filed Monday in circuit court in Flagler County.
Bunnell City Attorney Sid Nowell said Wednesday the city reacted promptly to the problem and is not responsible for Massaro's transgressions.
"He was trained in what was appropriate and not appropriate," Nowell said in a phone interview. "We can't put somebody next to him during the entire shift to ensure that he doesn't use the computers in an unauthorized fashion."
This is the latest controversy to hit the Bunnell Police Department. Two former Bunnell Police Officers, Lt. John Murray and his wife, Cpl. Lisa Murray, still face unrelated criminal charges in separate matters. John Murray was charged with official misconduct, possession of cocaine and tampering with physical evidence. The official misconduct charge stemmed from allegations he improperly sent vehicle towing jobs to former Bunnell City Commissioner Jimmy Flynt. The drug charge stems from allegations cocaine was found in his patrol car after he turned it into the city. The tampering with physical evidence is related to some marijuana plants found in a field.
The official misconduct charge against Lisa Murray is related to allegations she threatened to arrest a used car salesman if he didn't pay Flynt money owed for a tow.
The Police Department also has been sued by two former sergeants who individually claim they were unjustly fired. One claims he was dismissed for helping the State Attorneys Office in its investigation of the Murrays, a claim the department denies.
The woman suing Massaro and Bunnell was a friend of Massaro's ex-wife.
The woman now lives in Jacksonville but remains "extremely embarrassed" and is fearful of being in her hometown in Flagler County for fear strangers will recognize her from the Craigslist ad, the lawsuit states. The woman is receiving psychotherapy and suffers from anxiety and nightmares caused by the "horrendous and sexually explicit advertisement," according to the lawsuit.
Massaro also abused a law enforcement database by using it to search for records on the woman, her family and friends, the complaint states. Massaro also used a police computer to look at pornography, according to the lawsuit. And the Bunnell Police Department failed to "monitor, audit and control" Massaro's access to that personal information, the suit states.
Massaro initially denied posting the false Craigslist ad but later said he and a couple did it as a joke, according to a report from an internal police investigation cited in a News-Journal story in January 2010. Massaro said the pornographic websites were from spam emails he received while checking his personal email.
Massaro is not currently employed as a police officer but still has a law enforcement certificate, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
He could not be reached for comment.
Massaro was last working as a bouncer in Jacksonville, said Mowrey.
Nowell said as soon as the city was aware of the problem it took action and was set to discipline Massaro, including possibly firing him, when he resigned on Jan. 26, 2010. Massaro had worked four years at the Bunnell Police Department, which named him its officer of the year in 2007. Besides commendations he also had disciplinary actions for neglect of duty and court absences.
"I don't see how the city can be held responsible," Nowell said.
The matter will be referred to the city's insurance carrier, Nowell said.
"I believe the city's position is that officer Massaro engaged in some unauthorized and possibly illegal activity and none of it was condoned by the city," Nowell added.
HI - Former officer’s (Kristopher Galon) crimes ‘incredibly serious’
09/22/2011
The Associated Press - A federal judge last week sentenced a decorated former Maui police officer to a year-and-a-half in prison for extorting sex from a woman shortly after she was released from jail and stealing about $1,500 from a driver during a traffic stop.
U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Richard Puglisi gave Kristopher Galon, 38, of Lahaina one year for sexual assault and six months for theft. Galon must also pay restitution to his victims.
“A police officer is supposed to be out there to defend and protect, and put forward the best foot in the community,” Puglisi told Galon at the sentencing. “I view these crimes as incredibly serious. It is the public trust that will take some time to recover.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Susan Cushman had asked Puglisi to sentence Galon to one year in prison. He had pleaded guilty to the charges in May.
IL - Metro East cops (Sean M. Harris, and others) charged with misconduct, forced sexual encounter, theft, and other crimes
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| Sean M. Harris |
So, out of all the officers charged, why do they only show the image of one officer?
09/21/2011
By PATRICK M. O'CONNELL
BELLEVILLE - Six police officers from departments in St. Clair County and one former police dispatcher were charged Wednesday with official misconduct, accused of an array of crimes including a forced sexual encounter with a woman, theft and state benefit fraud.
Three of the police officers work for Alorton. The other officers work for Washington Park, Fairview Heights and Belleville. The former dispatcher used to work for East St. Louis.
All of the official misconduct charges, filed in St. Clair County Circuit Court, are felonies.
The St. Clair County state's attorney's office will hold a joint news conference with the U.S. attorney's office at 10 a.m. Thursday in Belleville to further explain the charges.
State's attorney Brendan Kelly said in a statement Wednesday evening the arrests were part of an ongoing "public integrity operation." It was unclear if the incidents were in any way connected or whether they were simply a part of investigations focused on public corruption.
It was also unclear if any federal charges will be filed in connection with the arrests.
Those arrested are:
- Alorton officer Harry Halter, 51, of Cahokia, charged with one count of official misconduct. Halter is accused of pulling a woman over while he was off duty. He allegedly convinced the woman to perform oral sex on him to avoid being charged with driving with a suspended license. Court records state Halter also had been drinking at the time of the incident.
- Belleville officer Sean M. Harris, 31, of the 2100 block of Southern Oaks Circle in Belleville and a five-year veteran of the department. Harris is charged with battery and official misconduct stemming from an encounter with a man in June. The battery charge is a misdemeanor.
- Former dispatcher Shantez Lockett, 35, of East St. Louis. She is charged with two counts of official misconduct and one count each of aiding a fugitive, obstructing justice and obstructing a peace officer.
- Washington Park police officer Jeffrey L. Waters, 60, of Jerseyville, charged with one count of official misconduct and one count of theft. According to court documents, Waters is accused of theft for taking nine ballistics vests, valued at less than $500 total.
- Alorton officer Larry D. Greenlee, 39, of Belleville, charged with one count each of official misconduct and state benefit fraud greater than $300.
- Alorton officer and former East St. Louis officer Beverly Miles, 39, of Fairview Heights, charged with one count each of official misconduct and state benefit fraud.
- Fairview Heights officer Tina Presson, 43, of O'Fallon, Ill., charged with one count each of official misconduct and theft.
Six of seven were booked into the St. Clair County Jail on Wednesday and released on bond, according to jail officials. Waters was being transferred from the Jersey County jail to St. Clair County late Wednesday night.
In the Harris case, Capt. Don Sax said a Belleville man, Mark Bush, 55, filed a complaint against the officer on June 14 and that Harris has been on "in station" duty since then.
According to a probable cause statement filed with the St. Clair County Circuit Court, Harris dealt with Bush in an "insulting and provoking nature" and then "approached and shoved" him.
Bush and his wife Lee Ann Bush, 56, said they called police June 14 to report harassing phone calls. They claimed Harris refused to take their report, used vulgar language with them and started to leave.
The Bushes said that when they followed him outside their home to request a police supervisor to take the report and ask for Harris' name, Harris grabbed Mark Bush by the neck and threw him to the sidewalk.
They said they did not provoke or touch Harris.
Mark Bush said the attack triggered seizures from a prior medical condition and left cuts and bruises. His medical bills are approaching $30,000, Lee Ann Bush said.
They said they have a digital audio recording of the incident that they gave to police.
"If I did what he did, (police) would have put me in jail and charged me with a felony," Mark Bush said. "This guy shouldn't be on the police force. I know some of the guys on the police force and they're good guys. This isn't one of them."
Mark Bush said he was relieved charges were filed Wednesday but he thought it should not have taken three months.
Harris posted 10 percent of a $20,000 bail and remains on duty inside the Belleville police station only, police said.
AZ - Glendale police launch new program to monitor sex offenders
Comments from eAdvocate
Those who use this Offender Watch program, which comes with a generic presentation that has the "50% of sex offenders will re-offend" lie, and never change it, except Washington state. Why? Fear maybe? See here for more info. Since almost 99% of the police departments who use this, do not change it, why doesn't Offender Watch change it? We've emailed them, but as expected, no response!
09/21/2011
By Raquel Velasco
The Glendale Police Department has launched a new Web-based program that allows residents to monitor the whereabouts of registered sex offenders.
- Not exactly true. It tells you where they said they sleep at night, not where they go during the day, or night.
Police hope the free program, OffenderWatch, will help reduce the amount of time it takes to notify residents when a sex offender moves into the city.
The program is updated throughout the day as sex offender addresses and other offender information is posted.
Along with notifications sent to the community, residents have easy access to offender's information.
Residents can search addresses to see how many sex offenders live within a 2-mile radius and sign up for e-mail alerts when an offender moves in nearby. Residents can register as many addresses in the county as they wish.
The personal information of those who choose to use OffenderWatch is confidential.
OffenderWatch is utilized by hundreds of agencies and aims to make it easier for police to maintain accurate information on sex offenders, who tend to move often.
OH - Sheriff (Dean Kimpel) indicted on sexual battery charge
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| Dean Kimpel |
09/21/2011
By Pam Elliot and David Robinson
CELINA (WDTN) - The Shelby County, Ohio Sheriff was arrested after being indicted Sept. 20 by an Auglaize County grand jury.
Dean Kimpel, 57, was arrested Wednesday morning on a charge of sexual battery.
The indictment follows allegations by a former Shelby County Sheriff's Deputy Jodi Van Fossen. Van Fossen claimed that on July 24, 2010 Kimpel sexually assaulted her at her home in Auglaize County.
Kimpel was jailed at the Auglaize County Correctional Center on $100,000 bond.
WI - Notification Meeting Set For Sex Offender In Town Of Roxbury (Can you attend?)
I would recommend anyone who can, attend this meeting to spread the truth and SOSEN and Sex Offender Issues (And here) material. I know it's not about you, but, it's a perfect place to start educating people, and to also show the public, we are not going to just site there and take it, IMO. We need to support one another! And if the offender is there, introduce him/her to SOSEN and Sex Offender Issues!
09/21/2011
Sex Offender To Be Released
MADISON - The Dane County Sheriff's Office is encouraging residents in the town of Roxbury to go to a community notification Wednesday night regarding the release of a registered sex offender.
Authorities said [name withheld], 23, will soon live in the community.
[name withheld] was convicted in 2005 for burglary, attempted second-degree sexual assault, attempted first-degree intentional homicide and substantial and aggravated battery.
He was granted a conditional release by the court in August to live in the town of Roxbury. [name withheld] is a lifetime registrant of the Wisconsin Sex Offender Registration Program.
The community notification meeting will be Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Roxbury Town Hall on Kippley Road in Sauk City (MAP).
During the meeting authorities will offer more information about the community notification law. Authorities will also provide citizens with information about protective behaviors and personal safety.
Our Comment Left On The Video:
Nobody wants them? Not all sex offenders are like this man, or child molesting, pedophile predators either. So STOP lumping all offenders into the worst of the worse, that is the problem. If the registry was for only those who are truly a danger, there wouldn't be but maybe 50,000 or less in the entire country, instead of the over 750,000 offenders, not including the families and children who also suffer and are registered along with the ex-offender.
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