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National Issues
May-14-06 Megans' laws placing innocent men at risk. Could vigilantism have ended their lives?
May-09-06 Megan's Law Report Card: A De Facto Standard?
Mar-05-06 The Policy of Youthful Behaviors:
Ninth to Twelfth grade behaviors that may label juveniles a sex offender under today's laws!

Nov-27-05: The Fleecing of America: Are States Using Sex Offender Registries for Profiteering?
Sep-29-05: Why are lawyers not raising "Conflict of Law" arguments against "Residency Laws" (laws of exclusion and relegation)? Restrictive local Residency Laws should cause a loss of federal funding!
Sep-28-05: Developing Story: Washington Sex Offenders Murdered, Registry Used to Target Them
Jun-11-05: Statistics could be wrong: The reason will amaze you, or not??
Jun-7-05: Second and Third Party Flyers and Notifications of Registered Sex Offenders: Why permit any?
May-24-05: Deny Sex Offenders Viagra? Deny Drug Offenders Hallucinogenic Drugs? Where is the line?
May-8-05: Residency laws cause clustering of offenders!
Mar-31-05: Part-I Why the Child Predator Act of 2005 is BAD LEGISLATION!
Apr-9-05: Part-II Why the Child Predator Act of 2005 is BAD LEGISLATION!
           What Congress and Legislatures have failed to consider.

May-6-05: Are Megans' Laws Self-Defeating?
May-3-05: Florida and New York: Have Cities Out of Control: Can cities go beyond what state law prescribes?
May-1-05: Does Michigan violate federal law by posting photos of former offenders?
Apr-22-05: Are the consequences of bills, named after a victim, given appropriate scrutiny or just rubber stamped?
What will the "Lunsford Act" do to -juvenile offenders-?

Apr-10-05: GPS Monitoring Devices: Effective Solution or Another Illusion?
Feb-21-05: Is it a public safety issue, when the public does not know where former sex offenders live? -AND- Not a public safety issue, to deny sex offenders the treatment which everyone says they need? To deny them in every way possible, funding, zoning, treatment centers, transitional housing, etc.
Feb-5-05: Why Legislatures Focus on Registered Sex Offenders (RSOs) and Not on The Causes of Sex Offenses!
Feb-5-05: Must there be consequences for one's actions when they are based upon something false?
Feb-1-05: The Exiling of Former Sex Offenders (FSOs)
Nov-19-04: by Human Rights Watch: "No Second Chance" Report Released With Recomendations to the U.S. Congress

State Issues
Alaska Feb-21-05: by Warren Williamson: Sex offenders will receive new approach: Dept. of Corrections hasn't provided sex-offender treatment since July 2003
California Jan-30-05: Registered sex offenders are not members of the public, and their families are not entitled to the same protections as the rest of the public!
Florida Jun-3-05: Florida's failure to provide sex offender therapy for those in prison is again a significant factor behind another murder!
Florida Jun-3-05: Is Florida serving "Wacky Water" to its public servants?
Florida May-20-05: Florida's Registry Tracking System Was Incorrect -OR- Offenders Moved Without Telling Police?
Florida May-5-05: A Question of Taking Responsibility: Who should take responsibility, only REGISTERED sex offenders?
Florida May-1-05: A case of "Gender" discrimination?
Florida Feb-3-05: What did the news article "Florida High Court Upholds Sexual Predator List" fail to tell its readers?
Idaho Jan-22-05: "Failure to Register" is considered Child Sexual Abuse (with no victim)!
Illinois Feb-25-05: What the Illinois legislator and the article fails to inform the public of, is that the "Santa" bill affects only those on parole, probation, or supervised release!
Illinois Feb-18-05: Should "Recidivism Rates" be used as the basis for Illinois' Lifetime Parole Legislation?
Iowa Feb-24-06: The Iowa Sex Offender Registry, necessary based upon false public beliefs!
Iowa Jan-27-05: Iowa proposes change to definition of "Predatory"
Iowa Jan-16-05: Iowa's Sex Offender Residency laws are creating "defacto ghettos of sex criminals?" according to the news article:
Maine Feb-9-05: The Maine Quandary: Children, Residences of Sex Offenders and Former Sex Offenders, and the Current Shortage of Any Police Force in 75% of the Communities in the State!
Masschusetts Sep-24-05: Massachusetts Police Chose Which Rights To Defend, Ignoring Constitutional Rights!
Michigan Jul-9-05: A significant percentage of Michigan's Sex Offender Registry may be erroneously subjected to arrest nationwide when the Michigan Sex Offender registry is phased into the Department of Justice's National Sex Offender Registry this August.
Michigan Jul-1-05: Michigan's "Student Safety Zones" confusion reigns now with those sentenced to probation.
Michigan Jun-30-05: "Student Safety Zones" -OR- "Predator Free Zones" and their effect on "student safety" both short and long term.
Michigan Jun-20-05: Michigan Governor's new campaign to bar anyone with a felony record from working in schools or day cares: However, ONLY registered sex offenders will be barred from living or working within 1,000 ft of schools.
Michigan Jun-20-05: Michigan Governor expands the net, by removing current exemptions in Michigan law, to bar now other felons and even some with misdemeanor offenses in her attempt to protect children in schools and day cares.
Michigan Jun-17-05: Michigan Registered Sex Offenders: Out of Compliance, AWOL, Unaccounted For, Absconded, what does that mean?
Michigan Jun-10-05: Michigan's registry e-mail notification bill: Serves public safety or serves special interest groups, at public expense?
Michigan May-29-05: Sex Offender Rule for Schools May Not Work: Proposed 1,000-foot 'predator-free zone' for schools deserves hard questions
Michigan May-26-05: Michigan succumbs to the same lack of vision as other states regarding sex offender "residency laws."
Michigan May-9-05: Michigan: Having trouble reporting consistent statistics: What is the truth?
New York Jun-9-05: A Gestapo Police state is established for sex offenders if this bill passes!
New York May-25-05: A test of governmental power -OR- an incredible display of stupidity?
New Hampshire Feb-7-05: Real Estate, Former Sex Offenders, and Lawsuits Over Their Presence
North Dakota Jan-25-05: Opening civil commitment proceedings, and the medical / psychological evidence, to the general public is a slippery slope to making all health information available to the general public, including through Megans' laws online..
Pennsylvania Feb-1-05: Pennsylvania's Internet Sex Offender Registry Also Shows Those Incarcerated in Jails & Prisons?
Texas Dec-7-05: Texas inflates "recidivism rates" misleading the media and the public!
Washington State Sep-28-05: Will state get even tougher on sex offenders?
Washington State Sep-27-05: "People don't necessarily want statistical analysis. They want security for their children - real or imagined," he [State Rep. Jim Clements, R-Selah] said!

Special Topics
Feb-25-05: by Brenda Cannon Stancil, Branded for Life: SEX OFFENDER!
Dec-30-04: Curbs put on parolees' cheer: Some must sign New Year's Eve no-driving pledge!
Nov-25-04: Thanksgiving Holiday Confinement of Offenders in Harris County Texas!
Oct-30-04: Halloween Confinement of Sex Offenders Around the Nation!
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