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Laptops latest weapon to track sex offenders (Cape Cod Times)
BOURNE - County law enforcement officials handed out 20 tablet-style laptops yesterday to help local police departments better track area sex offenders.

Protesters seek tougher sentences for sex offenders (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch)
HUNTINGTON -- Friends and family of a girl sexually abused by a Cabell County man rallied outside the Cabell County Courthouse on Friday in hopes the sex offender and other sex offenders will receive harsher penalties.

Review of child-sex offenders (Sydney Morning Herald)
Police have conducted a statewide review of the whereabouts of all known child-sex offenders after a spate of abduction attempts. Police Commissioner Ken Moroney said at least 16 attempts in 10 weeks was a disturbing and unusual trend.

sex offenders who fled Katrina are tough to track (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
As many as 4,500 sex offenders are among tens of thousands of people evacuated by Hurricane Katrina, prison officials say, worsening what critics call an already patchy national database on sexual crimes.

sex offenders On The Move (WOWT-TV Omaha)
The eastern Iowa town of Ely is considering restricting where sex offenders can live.

sex offenders cut from sites (Portsmouth Herald)
YORK, Maine - As of last week, all public information on sex offenders who live in Maine will be funneled through the state s online registry, effectively putting an end to local police department Web site access, a move that makes local police chiefs uneasy.

sex offenders Bill change announced (ic Dunbartonshire)
New measures to tighten up the monitoring of convicted sex offenders have been announced by the Scottish Executive. Ministers are putting forward amendments to the Management of Offenders Bill, which is currently going through Holyrood.

Executive to toughen up monitoring of sex offenders (The Scotsman Politics)
NEW measures to tighten up the monitoring of convicted sex offenders were announced yesterday by the Scottish Executive.

Some sex offenders deserve life parole (Idaho Press-Tribune)
Should Idaho keep violent sex offenders on parole for the rest of their lives? In light of the recent horrific cases in Idaho where young children were terrorized or murdered by violent sex offenders, the question has merit.

Sheriff's office still knocking on sex offenders' doors (ABC Action News)
CITRUS PARK - The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is once again checking up on sex offenders. Friday, for the fifth time, deputies went knocking on the doors of registered sexual predators and offenders.

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