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2 Mesa educators could lose licenses
March 31, 2004, The Arizona Republic | Submitted by Silverthorne
Written By Justin Juozapavicius
Article Overview
Follow-up to an a story from the previous day about an athletic director and assistant principal of an Arizona high school who failed to report a sexual abuse incident involving a student.
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Sex offenders escape
March 31, 2004, Mansfield News Journal | Submitted by steve
Written By Joel Moroney
Article Overview
Two convicted sex offenders fled the Volunteers of America halfway house in Mansfield, Ohio along with a robbery convict. Both sex offenders had been convicted of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and other charges. Both were in a sex-offender treatment program and were subject to community notification, with one offender classified as a habitual sex offender and the other as a sexual predator - the most serious sex offender classification.
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19 charged as sex offenders by immigration agents
March 31, 2004, Newsday.com | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 19 immigrants in Bergen County, New Jersey for sexually abusing minors. The arrests were part of Operation Predator. About 140 arrests have been made in New Jersey alone since the program began last July.
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Sex offender is caught with 2 girls in a motel
March 30, 2004, The Arizona Republic | Submitted by Silverthorne
Written By David J. Cieslak
Article Overview
A 31 year old sex offender on probation after pleading guilty to sexual conduct with a 13-year-old girl, was caught in a North Phoenix hotel room with two girls aged 14 and 15. He is accused of luring the two girls he met on a phone chat line to a motel room and trying to bribe them to have sex with him.
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2 educators charged with not reporting sexual abuse
March 30, 2004, The Arizona Republic | Submitted by Silverthorne
Written By Patricia Biggs and Justin Juozapavicius
Article Overview
The athletic director and assistant principal at an Arizona high school are being charged with failure to report a sexual abuse case. The charges involve failure to report a case involving a junior male football player who shoved a junior girl's face into his crotch during a science class. The same boy had previously been suspended in junior high for pulling the pants off the same girl and throwing them into a tree and according to the police report he had poked her in the crotch and touched her breast on other occasions. State law requires that school personnel immediately notify police if they have reason to believe that a student is a victim of sexual abuse, but neither police nor the girl's parents were notified.
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Tide turns against foreign sex offenders in Cambodia
March 29, 2004, eTaiwanNews.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Ker Munthit
Article Overview
Cambodian police have arrested a record number of foreigners suspected of preying on children for sex in the last 15 months. Since the beginning of 2003 Cambodian police have arrested at least 16 suspected foreign pedophiles, up from 8 in 2002.
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City may post data on sex offenders
March 29, 2004, L.A. Daily News | Submitted by steve
Written By Charles F. Bostwick
Article Overview
Lancaster, California city officials are considering posting information online about registered sex offenders living in Lancaster. Councilman Jim Jeffra plans to ask fellow council members to approve the inclusion of names, photos and other details of registered sex offenders on the city hall website. Lancaster would join San Jose and Riverside County as California communities which have begun posting such information online.
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Sex offenders may be posted on local cable
March 28, 2004, Boston Globe | Submitted by steve
Written By Katheleen Conti
Article Overview
The Public Safety Committee in Everett, Massachusetts voted unanimously to approve a measure that would broadcast sex offenders' information on the city's community cable channel. City Council president Joseph F. Hickey suggested it to the committee after seeing Massachusetts cities such as Revere and Lowell take steps to broadcast the names and faces of Level 3 sex offenders. If the measure passes at the council and aldermen levels it could be in effect by the end of April.
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First case shows limits of tracking sex offenders
March 26, 2004, Pioneer Press | Submitted by steve
Written By Amy Sherman
Article Overview
Minnesota will begin using its GPS system for tracking the state's worst sex offenders next week, but the technology has its limits. The first man to use it lives in such an isolated area that state probation officers won't be able to track his movements throughout the day. Authorities won't be constantly monitoring movements, but they can check their movements regularly and will be alerted if the devices are removed.
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Court kills state law against sex offenders
March 24, 2004, Indianapolis Star | Submitted by steve
Written By Kevin Corcoran
Article Overview
An Indiana law that allowed judges to tack on up to 10 years onto prison sentences of repeat sex offenders was ruled unconstitutional by the Indiana Court of Appeals.
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Oakland youth in sex diary case found dead
March 23, 2004, Detroit Free Press | Submitted by admin
Written By Marsha Low
Article Overview
Justin Fawcett, a 20-year-old who recently learned he was going to appear on Michigan's sex offender registry, was found dead from an apparent drug overdose. In 2002 at age 18, he was charged with statutory rape for having sex with a 14-year-old girl and eventually pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of seduction, allowing him to avoid jail time and registry on the sex-offender list. Due to a series of legal events the requirement to register eventually changed.
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Weighing Internet ID of sex offenders
March 23, 2004, North County Times | Submitted by steve
Written By William Finn Bennett
Article Overview
The names and information of 19 sex offenders living in Riverside County, California and classified as high-risk have been posted to the Riverside County Sheriff's web site. Pros and cons of making the information available are discussed.
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55% of UK child abuse content traced to US
March 22, 2004, Guardian Unlimited | Submitted by steve
Written By David Batty
Article Overview
According to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), 55% of child abuse images on the Internet reported in Britain last year originated from the United States, a 3% rise over the previous year. The IWF received 15,652 reports relating to child abuse images in 2003, down from 16,183 in 2002.
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Paul Reubens to register as sex offender
March 21, 2004, KATC 3 | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Paul Reubens, known to many as Pee-wee Herman, was sentenced to three years probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor obscenity charge involving
photographs seized from his 30,000 image erotica collection seized from his home in 2001. He acknowledged possessing 170 images of minors engaged in sexual conduct. After Reubens completes probation the conviction can be expunged from his record.
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Three dead after high-speed chase
March 20, 2004, KWWL | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Officers in Iowa went to the home of a 19 year old man to question him concerning allegations that he had sexually abused a child and the man ran out his back door and stole an SUV. During the high speed chase that ensued the man hit two motorcycles, killing three people.
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State: End injunction on Web offender list
March 19, 2004, Cape Cod Online | Submitted by steve
Written By David Kibbe
Article Overview
A lawyer for the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board urged a Suffolk Superior Court judge yesetrday to lift an injunction which prevents the state from posting photos and addresses on the Internet of the most dangerous class of registered sex offenders. Suffolk Superior Court Judge Thomas Billings issued the injunction last May, saying that state law did not allow for Internet dissemination. In response, the Legislature passed a law last November allowing it, but the issue has been delayed in courts until yesterday.
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Vigilantes troll for pedophiles
March 18, 2004, Wired News | Submitted by steve
Written By Julia Scheeres
Article Overview
First part in a two-part series about the website Perverted-Justice.com.
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Whitehall police officer accused of sexually assaulting girl
March 17, 2004, Channel3000.com | Submitted by LostTime
Article Overview
A police officer is charged with six felonies in the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl eight years ago. He allegedly told the victim he could arrest her boyfriend for an alleged assault if she went with him, but he allegedly made her perform a sex act on him instead and she says that he threatened her.
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Sex-offender notification adds funding
March 17, 2004, The Arizona Republic | Submitted by steve
Written By Ginger D. Richardson
Article Overview
Phoenix, Arizona officials will give the Police Department $100,000 to increase sex offender notification efforts in neighborhoods. This is due in part to pressure put on officials after angry residents discovered that 18 registered sex offenders were living in the Tampico Apartments. Residents who live within two blocks of a sex offender will be notified of the offender's whereabouts, up from the current one block.
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Strangled inmate was registered sex offender
March 17, 2004, Cumberland Times-News | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
An inmate strangled to death in his cell in a Pennsylvania prison was designated a sexual predator under Megan's Law. Jose L. Collazo, convicted of sexually molesting a preteen girl three times between August 1996 and January 1997, was the state’s first Megan’s Law violator to be subject to community notification by police fliers. In 1997, York, Pennsylvania officials distributed fliers with Collazo’s picture to about 50 homes and businesses within 250 feet of his home.
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Legislature passes new sex offender bill
March 17, 2004, WBAY | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Under a new bill passed by the Wisconsin Legislature, sex offenders will be required to participate in treatment before being released. The legislature will also make it easier to keep sexual predators confined through civil commitment after their sentences are up.
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Bill requires more disclosure about sex offenders' records
March 17, 2004, Picayune Item | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Under a bill that cleared the Mississippi House, sex offenders who want to volunteer to work with youth sports teams or similar groups would have to notify the groups' leaders about their criminal records. The former convicts could still volunteer, but only after parents are notified.
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Sex offenders' names, photos go online
March 17, 2004, The Press-Enterprise | Submitted by steve
Written By Sharon McNary
Article Overview
Beginning today, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department will post names, photos, crimes and whereabouts of a dozen high-risk sex offenders, convicted of at least one violent sex crime and additional violent crimes and who poses a risk of committing further crimes, on the agency's Web site.
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Sex offenders find publicity is costly
March 16, 2004, Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by steve
Written By Ken Kusmer
Article Overview
The Star Press newspaper of Muncie, Indiana featured the photographs of 63 local registered sex offenders on the front page of its February 15, 2004 edition. The city of 66,000 is divided over the newspaper's actions and journalists have been debating the newspaper's actions.
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Convicted sex offender says public should not fear him
March 14, 2004, KPIX | Submitted by steve
Written By Sue McGuire
Article Overview
Convicted sexual predator Cary Verse who has faced protestors in California ever since being released from prison a few months ago, spoke out for the first time Sunday.
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Man accused of killing nine in Fresno committed polygamy, incest
March 14, 2004, KPIX | Submitted by steve
Written By Sue McGuire
Article Overview
A man suspected of murdering nine of his family members in Fresno, California may have lived a bizarre life of polygamy and incest, even possibly fathering two of his victims with his own daughters. The nine dead included six females and three males, ranging in age from 1 to 24, all of whom may have been the man's children and grandchildren.
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Judge's decision surprises police
March 13, 2004, Austin American-Statesman | Submitted by Navigatr1
Written By Claire Osborn
Article Overview
A former Travis County, Texas corrections officer accused of sexual assault of a child last year has been arrested again on a charge of indecency with a child by contact. Both charges stemmed from alleged sexual contact with girls aged 15 and 16. State District Judge Jon Wisser's decision to release him from jail on a personal recognizance bond surprised police.
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Bill would send some sex offenders to prison for life
March 11, 2004, kare11.com | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
Minnesota House Judiciary Finance and Policy Committee endorsed a bill to send its worst sex offenders to prison for life. The bill is in reaction to the disappearance of University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin last year.
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Schools could deny enrollment to sex offenders
March 10, 2004, TheIowaChannel.com | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
The Iowa House approved a bill allowing school boards to deny enrollment to registered sex offenders. A school board denying enrollment would be required to offer home schooling or the ability to pursue a GED at a community college.
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Defenders stalling sex offenders' Web posts
March 10, 2004, BostonHerald.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Maggie Mulvihill and Jonathan Wells
Article Overview
Due to efforts by the Massachusetts' own public defenders office, a decision by the Legislature and the governor to post addresses and photographs of the most serious sex offenders on the Internet is stuck in legal limbo. The Committee for Public Counsel Services, the state agency that provides lawyers to indigent defendents, including many sex offenders, is leading the fight. They claim that putting pictures and addresses of sex offenders on the Web endangers them physically.
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Pataki targets sex offenders failing to comply with Megan's Law
March 10, 2004, Newsday.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Mark Johnson
Article Overview
New York Governor George Pataki's office said that law-enforcement officers across the state will go after more than 1,800 convicted sex offenders who are no longer complying with the state's Megan's Law. A first offense for failing to notify police of a move is a misdemeanor and repeated offenses can be felonies, but if arrested offenders can avoid both verifying their address and their arrest if they prove they haven't moved - something Pataki wants to eliminate as a defense because of the burden it puts on police checking on offenders.
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Kidnap, forced-sex charges against 2 men are dismissed
March 09, 2004, The Arizona Republic | Submitted by Silverthorne
Written By Carol Sowers
Article Overview
An Arizona judge has dismissed charges against two men accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old girl at gunpoint and forcing her to have sex with them. When the men picked her up, she told them she was 18, but after having sex with her in a hotel the girl then told the men that if they didn't pay her $300 she would call police and reveal her true age.
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Web site lists warrants issued for sex offenders
March 08, 2004, The Vindicator | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
The Mahoning County Sheriff's Department website has a new feature - it lists warrants issued for sex offenders who failed to register their address.
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Our Views: Database tracks sex offenders
March 08, 2004, The Olympian | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
A new website in Washington allows residents to search for and view detailed information and maps about registered sex offenders in Washington. Funded by $250,000 from the state government and $650,000 in donations, the web site had 1.5 million hits in its first 5 hours.
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Convicted rapist, murderer not on sex offender list
March 08, 2004, The Review Appeal | Submitted by steve
Written By Melissa N. Warren
Article Overview
William Emmitt LeCroy, convicted of raping and killing a Georgia woman is not listed on the Sex Offender Registry of that state even though he had been to state prison on robbery, statutory rape and child molestation charges. That's because under Georgia law, if you committed the crime before the registration law was in place, you are not required to register.”
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Exact-address issue delays sex-offender list
March 08, 2004, The Mercury News | Submitted by steve
Written By Sean Webby
Article Overview
The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department was set to become the first major law enforcement agency in California to the exact addresses of high-risk sex offenders online, but those plans are on hold after objections from two of the area's police chiefs. The county is now debating whether to list exact addresses or only post block addresses.
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Sex offenders "clustered"
March 07, 2004, FOX11AZ.com | Submitted by steve
Written By Joseph Barrios and Patty Machelor
Article Overview
In Tucson, Arizona, more than half of the most dangerous sex offenders released from prison since 1996 live within quarter-mile stretches of each other. Some legislators hope to outlaw the clustering effect with a law, House Bill 2418.
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Group: 2 sex offenders among U.S. troops
March 06, 2004, Guardian Unlimited | Submitted by steve
Written By Robert Gehrke
Article Overview
An advocacy group, The Miles Foundation, a support group for military sexual assault victims, has told the Pentagon that there are at least two serial sex offenders among the U.S. troops in the Middle East.
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Sex offender moves across from school
March 06, 2004, Northwest Indiana News | Submitted by steve
Written By Ken Kosky
Article Overview
A convicted sex offender has moved across the street from Cooks Corners Elementary School in Valparaiso. In Indiana it is a condition of probation and parole that sex offenders can't live within 1,000 feet of a school, park or other place where children gather. But even though Aloise Joe Woytinek is required to register as a sex offender, he is not on probation so he's not subject to the 1,000 foot rule.
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Van Dam launches sex-offender initiative
March 05, 2004, NBCSandiego.com | Submitted by steve
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Brenda Van Dam, whose 7 year old daugher Danielle was kidnapped and murdered in 2002 by neighbor David Westerfield, is working to promote an iniative to get Megan's Law information about sex offenders online. She is working with the KidSafe program to enlist volunteers to collect signatures to get the initiative on the ballot.
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Delco may file in court against TV show on molesters
March 05, 2004, Philadelphia Inquirer | Submitted by Chatmag
Written By Gail Shister
Article Overview
Delaware County, Pennsylvania officials are considering legal action against WCAU-TV over a sting operation that lured men to a house with the prospect of sex with children. Police were not notified about the sting and FBI agent Jayne Challman said that "there is no point" in simply luring potential pedophiles into camera range without building evidence for arrest and conviction.
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Councillors to discuss ban on sex offender
March 04, 2004, Shropshire Star | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
A petition signed by more than 500 people calling for a convicted sex offender to be banned from their village will be discussed by district councillors in Bridgnorth. The petition calls for the former teacher convicted of a string of sexual offenses to be banned from visiting or living in the area.
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Voters would decide on restoring sex-offender registration law
March 04, 2004, KPUA | Submitted by steve
Article Overview
The Hawaii state Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a bill that proposes a state constitutional amendment. The state's Supreme Court ruled in 2001 that Hawaii's sex offender registration law was unconstitutional.
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Victims aim to keep '70s sex offender behind bars
March 04, 2004, The Huntsville Times | Submitted by steve
Written By Wendy Reeves
Article Overview
Victims of the Alabama serial sex offender known as the "Southwest Molester" plan to let the state Board of Pardons and Paroles know that even though it's been 24 years since his conviction, he should remain behind bars. John Paul Dejnozka, 60, was sentenced in 1980 to 830 consecutive years in prison on multiple rape, burglary and assault charges. The series of attacks in Huntsville neighborhoods during 1978-79 involved 18 victims. Some of sex crimes involved torture and all victims were women between the ages of 16 and 30.
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Court: Sex offender did not know it was a crime to not register
March 04, 2004, Miami Herald | Submitted by steve
Written By Jackie Hallifax
Article Overview
A convicted Florida sex offender successfully appealed a conviction for failing to register his new address when he moved. He argued he wasn't aware of the registration requirement and challenging the constitutionality of the law. The 4th District Court of Appeal agreed and overturned the conviction and the Florida State Supreme Court upheld the decision.
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Lawmakers move closer to taking some teen sex offenders off registry
March 03, 2004, Michigan Live | Submitted by steve
Written By Judy Putnam
Article Overview
A Michigan Senate panel unanimously approved bills designed to keep the names of youths convicted of having sex with underage partners off the state's public sex offender registry. The bills, which has already passed unanimously in the House, passed the Families and Human Services Committee 5-0 and now go to the full Senate.
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Sex offender castrated voluntarily
March 03, 2004, CBS News | Submitted by steve
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David Wayne Jones, a former YMCA camp counselor who admitted in 1991 to molesting more than 40 boys, underwent voluntary castration this week in Texas. Texas is the only U.S. state where the prison system allows the surgery.
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Police recruit online posse
March 03, 2004, Detroit Free Press | Submitted by steve
Written By Amber Hunt Martin
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The Macomb County Sheriff's Department in Michigan has setup a new program which relies on civilians to catch Internet predators. Background checks are currently being run on over 100 volunteers. Volunteers will go through at least 12 hours of training and will work alongside sheriff's detectives.
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State appeals sex offender ruling
March 02, 2004, TheIowaChannel.com | Submitted by steve
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The state of Iowa has appealed a February 9th federal court ruling that struck down a law barring convicted sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools and day care centers.
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NSU ex-employee charged in murder was sex offender
March 02, 2004, Virginian Pilot | Submitted by steve
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The university was unaware of the criminal record of Reginald L. Davis, 36, who was arrested Monday on charges he killed Kishma Burnes, 22. NSU does not perform criminal background checks on most job applicants, though they are considering expanding its background checks for applicants. According to the Virginia State Police sex offender registry, Davis was convicted of rape and abduction in Chesapeake in 1989.
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Sex offender challenges commitment law
March 02, 2004, Bismarck Tribune Online | Submitted by steve
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A pedophile whose case helped persuade the North Dakota Legislature to approve a law allowing for the indefinite commitment of sexual predators is challenging the commitment law.
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Dorgan proposes national sex offender registry
March 02, 2004, Bismarck Tribune Online | Submitted by steve
Written By Dave Kolpack
Article Overview
Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota plans to introduce a proposal to Congress today that would create a national sex offender registry website.
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Loophole keeps sex offender off registry
March 01, 2004, WISH TV | Submitted by steve
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A loophole in the Indiana sex offender registration law has allowed a convicted sex offender with a 7-year-old victim to avoid appearing on the registry since he was sentenced to spend weekends in jail for the next eight years and a sex offender isn't required to register until 7 days after he completes his sentence.
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State tracks sex offenders online
March 01, 2004, KOIN.com | Submitted by steve
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Washington state now has a site that allows users to search for registered sex offenders' registration information and view maps showing the residential locations of offenders. The site has been overwhelmed with traffic.
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