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 JENNIFER KAY MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) – The mayor has proposed an ordinance that would effectively ban registered sex offenders from living in Miami Beach. Mayor David Dermer wants to prevent sex offenders from living within 2,500 feet, or a half-mile, of any school, school bus stop, day care center, park or...
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DES MOINES (AP) — A homeless man who’s a registered sex offender was arrested after police said he grabbed a toddler and sexually assaulted her in the men’s room of the downtown public library. Police hailed library workers who pulled the girl away from the man as heroes. James C. Effler Jr., 32,...
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A 13-year-old Milwaukee boy who went missing last week was found Tuesday in Phoenix with a man wanted on a child sex charge, police said. Justin Terlecki apparently took a bus to Arizona last Wednesday, lured to Phoenix by a 32-year-old man with whom he had corresponded over the Internet,...
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