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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By Courtney Brennan Davenport, Iowa – Davenport police arrested a man for child pornography. They say he has thousands of pictures of young children. Police say they found Donald Colbert Jr. pushing a five-year-old girl on a swing at Vanderveer Park and telling her about all the children’s’ movies at his house. Police...
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After a massive one month search for the killer of ten-year-old Holly Jones in a Co-op neighborhood in Canada, Michael Briere was charged with first-degree murder. Briere was described as a 35-year-old software developer. Holly was walking home from a friend’s house, when she was abducted. Two days later she was found dead...
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Several self-avowed pedophiles founded a political party in the Netherlands and plan to endorse broadcasting pornographic material on daytime television and allowing children as young as 12 to be featured in porn films. The Charity, Freedom and Diversity party said Wednesday its central campaign platform will be lowering the age of consent in...
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KXAN-TV – AUSTIN, TEXAS Among the 250,000 evacuees of Hurricane Katrina, some are on parole for violent crimes like rape. They are staying at shelters across the state and here in Austin. City officials have said several sex offenders from Louisiana were staying at the Austin Convention Center but have since been kicked...
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ex offender registry: The measure has already passed in the House By Robert Gehrke The Salt Lake Tribune WASHINGTON – Elizabeth Smart, whose kidnapping in 2002 drew national attention, encouraged senators to approve a national sex offender registry bill that was passed by the House on Wednesday. “I don’t want to see others...
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By DALE WETZEL, Associated Press Writer North Dakota law requires sex offenders to inform police if they get another job, even if they haven’t changed homes, the state Supreme Court ruled. The court’s decision revived a felony case against Michael Darnell Jackson, who did not tell Fargo police he had worked at a...
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KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS MIAMI – A new state law designed to protect students from sexual predators includes a little-noticed section requiring fingerprint checks for all vendors and contractors who work at public schools while students are present – a measure that could affect thousands of construction workers, sports referees and maybe even delivery...
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