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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Some sex offenders could be dropped from registry By John Zick 1/9/2006 CORNING | One of the state’s most effective tools in fighting sexual predators has reached its 11th hour. On Jan. 21, a provision in Megan’s Law, legislation that helps law-enforcement officials keep track of sex offenders, will allow all Level 1...
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Dec 21, 2005 By SVEN GUSTAFSON Of The Oakland Press PONTIAC – Convicted sex predators who target children could be forced to undergo realtime satellite monitoring under legislation announced by state Rep. David Law on Tuesday. The proposal would set up Michigan’s own version of the so-called Jessica’s Law. Patterning the proposal after...
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By SONJI JACOBS The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 12/18/05 Georgia’s Republican leaders say that passing a law to toughen sentences for sex offenders who assault children is one of their top goals for the 2006 legislative session. The measure, sponsored by House Majority Leader Jerry Keen (R-St. Simons Island), would impose a minimum sentence of...
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By Grant Boxleitner December 01, 2005 Florida’s law enforcement blueprint for rescuing abducted children ‹ with one success story already ‹ will be expanded to the rest of the nation. Officials from the U.S. Department of Justice and Florida Department of Law Enforcement made the announcement Wednesday at FDLE headquarters at Page Field...
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November 29, 2005 WASHINGTON — The Justice Department says Washington has been added to the National Sex Offender Public Registry. That makes 38 states on the site where people can check on sex offenders living in their neighborhood. There are more than 500,000 registered sex offenders nation wide. The Website is www.nsopr.gov (Link:...
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November 29, 2005 By KOMO Staff & News Services OLYMPIA – A triple murder and child abduction in Idaho likely will prompt Washington legislators to push for changes in how convicted sex offenders are treated here. Joseph E. Duncan III, convicted of child rape in Washington in 1980, is in an Idaho jail,...
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By Paul E. Kandarian, Globe Correspondent | November 27, 2005 He saw the news in June 2000, when 16-year-old Molly Bish was abducted from Comins Pond in Warren, where she worked as a lifeguard. Her remains were found three years later, 5 miles from her home. Then, in 2002, Elizabeth Smart, a Salt...
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By Melanie Hunter CNSNews.com Senior Editor November 22, 2005 (CNSNews.com) – The host of “America’s Most Wanted,” a national television show credited with the apprehension and recovery of hundreds of fugitives and 41 missing kids, is calling on Congress to pass sex offender legislation before the end of the year. H.R. 3132 and...
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