NATIONAL SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY ACT OF 2004 (S. 2154) Why this bill is important: This bipartisan bill seeks to fill a gaping hole...
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Proposal before Senate would allow execution in child assault cases March 23, 2006 By Tim Smith CAPITAL BUREAU COLUMBIA — State senators are considering a proposal that would allow South Carolina to execute those convicted two or more times of sexually assaulting children. The amendment came as the Senate took up sexual offender...
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By THOMAS HARGROVE Scripps Howard News Service March 09, 2006 WASHINGTON – The FBI, for the first time, has complied with a 1990 act of Congress by issuing a public accounting of 662,196 lost, runaway and kidnapped children reported by police to state and federal authorities last year. Fifty-eight percent of the missing...
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By Todd Dorman of the Muscatine Journal Capital Bureau DES MOINES — First-time sex offenders who strike children would serve a mandatory 25-years-to-life prison sentence under legislation endorsed Thursday by Republican and Democratic leaders in the evenly divided Iowa Senate. The bill, co-sponsored by 45 members of the 50-member Senate, targets adults convicted...
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The Desert Sun February 2, 2006 The old saying “Something is better than nothing” certainly applies to Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia’s bill creating special enforcement teams that would visit sex offenders at their homes. While state Democrats and Republicans can’t seem to agree on a plan to track more than 17,500 missing sex offenders,...
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BY FREDERICK MELO Pioneer Press Jan. 19, 2006 A proposed law would require all registered sex offenders to be assigned a risk level – even if they never went to prison. The legislation would close a “king-sized” loophole in the state’s sex-offender notification law, said the bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Joseph Atkins, DFL-Inver...
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By Kevin Yamamura — Bee Capitol Bureau The Sacramento Bee January 11, 2006 A state Senate committee on Tuesday killed a “Jessica’s Law” proposal to punish sex offenders that was one of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s top priorities this year. Senate Bill 588 by Sen. George Runner, R-Lancaster, would have increased penalties for various...
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