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Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
California’s Sex-Offender Internet Site Gets 14 Million Hits In First Four Days by California’s new public internet data-base listing 63,000 of 85,000 convicted sex-offenders was put on line December 15, 2004. By that evening, it was too crowded to navigate, receiving 14 million hits in the first four days. This …
Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005
$78,435 in Attorney Fees for Successful Challenge to Pennsylvania's Megan's Law by by Matthew T. Clarke A federal court in Pennsylvania has awarded the plaintiff's attorneys $78,435 in attorney fees and costs in an action that challenged the application of the community notification provision-of Pennsylvania's Registration of Sex Offenders Act …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
California Sex Offender Satisfies Registration Obligation If He Mails Notice by California Sex Offender Satisfies Registration Obligation If He Mails Notice The California State Supreme Court held that a sex offender satisfies his legal requirement to register with the police and tell them where he is living if he timely …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
Ohio Supreme Court Holds Some Sex Predators Not Required to Register by Ohio Supreme Court Holds Some Sex Predators Not Required to Register In a unanimous decision, the Ohio Su-preme Court ruled that some persons labeled as sexual predators cannot be required to register with law enforcement authorities. Lawrence J. …
Oklahoma Man Misidentified as Pedophile Awarded $3.7 Million by Michael Rigby Oklahoma Man Misidentified As Pedophile Awarded $3.7 Million by Michael Rigby A jury has awarded $3.7 million in damages to an Oklahoma man who was falsely labeled a sexual predator after NewsOK.com, a Web site operated jointly by The …
Ex Con "Helps Police" by Trying to Murder Sex Offenders by Gary Hunter Between April 12 and April 25, 2003, Lawrence Trant, Jr., 56, tried to kill 8 registered sex offenders in Concord, New Hampshire. Trant set fire to a boarding house, to an apartment building and ultimately stabbed one …
California Has Difficulty Placing First Released Sexually Violent Predator by The California Department of Correc-tions (CDC) released its first civilly committed sexually violent predator (SVP) in August, 2003, after he had "graduated" from seven years of rehabilitation at Atascadero State Hospital (ASH), CDC's lockup unit for SVPs. A large public …
New Iowa Law Creates Sex Offender Residency Zones by A new Iowa law, passed in 2002, prohibits any sex offender who has victimized a child from living within 2,000 feet of a school or child-care center. The law has effectively exiled these ex-cons to enclaves on the outskirts of town, …
Non-Sex-Offender Parolee Entitled to Due Process Before Being Treated As Sex Offender by by Matthew T. Clarke The Fifth Circuit court of appeals held that a parolee who has never been convicted of a sex offense is entitled to a due process hearing prior to being required to register as …
Article • November 15, 2003 • from PLN November, 2003
Sex Offender Registries Asked: Where Are All the Sex Offenders? by Sex Offender Registries Asked: Where Are All the Sex Offenders? An informal poll by the organiza-tion Parents for Megan's Law has revealed holes in states' abilities to track the location of convicted sex offenders who are required to register …
Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Sex Offender Registration Laws by In two decisions handed down on March 5, 2003, the United States Supreme Court reversed the Ninth and Second U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, both of which had struck down state sex offender registration laws, popularly known as "Megan's Law(s)." In …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
BJS Summarizes State Sex Offender Registries by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, released a state-by-state summary of the Sex Offender Registries (SOR's) throughout the United States. The report, released in March 2002, compared the states' SOR's in February 2001 to BJS's …
Article • February 15, 2003 • from PLN February, 2003
Hawaii SO Notification Law Violates Due Process by The Hawaii Supreme Court held that the state's sex offender notification law violates the due process clause of the Hawaii Constitution by providing public notification without any procedural safeguards. Eto Bani pled no contest to Sexual Assault in the Fourth Degree. The …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
New Jersey Goes Online with Sex Offender Website by A federal district court in New Jersey has denied sex offender plaintiffs Motion for Preliminary Injunction Relief seeking to prevent implementation of New Jersey's (NJ) Internet sex offender registry, but barred the listing of the offenders' home addresses. On November 7, …
No Due Process for Washington Sex Offender Registration by No Due Process For Washington Sex Offender Registration The Washington Supreme Court held that sex offenders are not entitled to notice or a hearing prior to being assigned a registration level. In 1990, the Washington State Legislature enacted the Community Protection …
Sex Offender Label May Require Due Process by The Eleventh Circuit ruled that absent a conviction for a sex related crime, classification of a state prisoner as a sex offender (and requiring him to register as a sex offender) implicates a liberty interest under the Due Process Clause. Jeffery Kirby …
Megan's Law Fallout by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely The 1996 Megan's Law, an amendment to the 1994 Wetterling Act, requires public notice when convicted sex offenders move into a community. Some 14 states provide that public notice by posting photographs, addresses, and conviction records of sex offenders on Web …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
No Privacy Rights for Sex Offender Registrants by The Third Circuit ruled that sex offenders required to register under "Megan's Law" have no protected right to privacy that would render unconstitutional the public dissemination of such information. This is not the first time the 3rd Circuit has upheld Megan's Law. …
Article • April 15, 1999 • from PLN April, 1999
Released Sex Offender Not "In Custody" for Habeas by Released Sex Offender Not "In Custody" for Habeas In a case of first impression, the Ninth Circuit ruled that a sex offender who has completed his sentence, but who must register under a so-called "Megan's Law," is not "in custody" for …
Temporary Injunction Issued to Prevent Sex Offender Notification to Employer by A federal court in New Jersey has issued a temporary injunction to prevent state parole officials from notifying a paroled sex offender's employer of his parole status and criminal history. John Doe is a paroled New Jersey state sex …
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