Sex Offender Law In Oregon Is Different
- May
- 19
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Without giving too much away, I live near a park in West Medford and I just found on www.familywatchdog.com, a Web site that tracks where sex offenders live, that a sex offender lists an address near this park. A friend told me that sex offender cannot live within a 1,000 feet of a park of [...]
Towns Push To Restrict Sex Offenders
- May
- 15
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A pane of glass, a chain-link fence and a few yards of grass were all that stood between the Level 3 sex offender and the playground.
Now Rockland parents are breathing a sigh of relief after learning that a convicted child rapist will no longer be living next to a pair of nursery schools and across [...]
Law Loophole Allows Sex Offenders To Live Near Schools
- May
- 15
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One thousand feet, about three city blocks, that’s the distance Missouri sex offenders have to put between their home and schools or daycares.
But of the 8,200 sex offenders in Missouri’s registry, we found many are not following that law.
Some are so close they can look out their windows and see kids in class.
And there’s nothing [...]
OPINIONMicrosoft’s End to End Trust Request: Is the Messenger Killing the Message?
- April
- 18
Anonymity Is a Joke
I spend a lot of my time reviewing data theft problems both personally and as they appear in the media. Through no fault of my own, a number of my ex-employers have sent me notices that they have somehow managed to lose information that could result in my identity being stolen, and [...]
Life Sentences Given in 5 Mo. Deaths
- April
- 8
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - A serial killer pleaded guilty Friday to killing five women nearly 30 years ago in southeast Missouri, but he avoided the death penalty after making a deal with prosecutors.Timothy Krajcir, 63, received five consecutive life sentences for the murder counts, with additional sentences for several lesser charges. Krajcir, who confessed to [...]
Paedophiles to hand over email addresses
- April
- 6
Police will pass the addresses on to the sites which will then be expected to monitor usage or stop offenders logging on.
Sex offenders will face up to five years in prison if they fail to hand over the details or provide a false email.
The proposal is one of a series of measures announced by Home [...]
Buffalo Township limits where sex offenders can live
- March
- 29
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If a registered sex offender wants to find a new home in the township, he — or she — will have to choose it carefully.
Supervisors unanimously passed an ordinance at their meeting Wednesday night that limits where sex offenders can live in relation to schools, day-care centers, public parks, recreation areas and community centers.
The ordinance [...]
Young activists pursue local global change
- March
- 6
From the halls of the Nassau County Legislature to church soup kitchens on the North Fork, a new generation of activists is rising.
They push for affordable housing and livable downtowns. They confront leaders of street gangs. They organize immigrant workers and fight open-air dumps.
Although activists of their grandparents’ generation integrated schools and lunch counters, these [...]
LI’s young civil rights activists push for local and global change
- March
- 6
From the halls of the Nassau County Legislature to church
soup kitchens on the North Fork, a new generation of activists is rising. They push for affordable housing and livable downtowns. They confront leaders of street gangs. They organize immigrant workers and fight open-air dumps. Although activists of their grandparents’ [...]
Sex offenders live under bridge
- February
- 15
But state officials are telling them to leave.
“We’re urging them to find a residence. We want them to be able to reintegrate into society,” said Gretl Plessinger, a spokeswoman for the Florida Corrections Department. “We are hopeful that if we push them, they will be able to find a residence that’s better.”
The [...]
