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Sex Offender, Predator, and Pedophile News
Nearly 800 convicted sex offenders got Medicaid-funded prescriptions for various impotence drugs, according to a survey by The Associated Press.
Publ.Date : Mon, 30 May 2005 15:54:39 GMT
Number of unregistered sex offenders reduced by more than half (The MetroWest Daily News)
B OSTON -- The state has eliminated a backlog at the sex offender registryBoard and reduced the number of unregistered sex offenders by more than half in less than two years, officials said.
Publ.Date : Mon, 30 May 2005 05:07:18 GMT
No gun permits for sex offenders (Charleston Daily Mail)
Promising a new crackdown, the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department will no longer issue pistol permits to known sex offenders and will also make an extra effort to match names on the sex offenders list with names in its outstanding warrant files.
Publ.Date : Tue, 31 May 2005 14:22:23 GMT
State proposes stricter rules for sex offenders (Freeport Journal)
long-term care facilities in this area, some local nursing home officials say they are in favor of new proposed legislation that would put additional safeguards in place regarding parolees and sex offenders who reside in state nursing homes.
Publ.Date : Sun, 29 May 2005 20:12:34 GMT
Medicaid-Funded Viagra Lands In Hands Of Local Sex Offenders (KSAT ClickOnSA.com via Yahoo! News)
Two Bexar County men, both convicted sexual offenders, committed more sex crimes after getting prescriptions for sexual performance enhancement drugs like Viagra.
Publ.Date : Sun, 29 May 2005 17:05:09 GMT
Agency: States Don't Have To Buy Sex Offenders' Viagra (The Omaha Channel)
ALBANY, N.Y. -- A federal agency has started notifying states that they do not have to pay for Viagra for convicted rapists and other high-risk sex offenders.
Publ.Date : Tue, 31 May 2005 04:49:42 GMT
Sex Offenders Get Medicaid-Paid Viagra (AP via Yahoo! News)
Nearly 800 convicted sex offenders in 14 states got Medicaid-funded prescriptions for Viagra and other impotence drugs, according to a survey by The Associated Press.
Publ.Date : Sun, 29 May 2005 06:56:07 GMT
2 sex offenders to be released in area (Northwestern)
MANITOWOC The Manitowoc Police Department announced two registered sex offenders will move into Manitowoc in early June. William F. Perry, 49, will be released from prison on Thursday, June 3 and James J. Kennedy, 69, will be released on Wednesday, June 8.
Publ.Date : Tue, 31 May 2005 08:46:43 GMT
Erectile-dysfunction drugs went to sex offenders in 14 states (Billings Gazette)
WASHINGTON - Nearly 800 convicted sex offenders in 14 states, including Montana, got Medicaid-funded prescriptions for Viagra and other impotence drugs, according to a survey by The Associated Press.
Publ.Date : Sun, 29 May 2005 19:44:36 GMT
State leads in buying pills for impotent sex offenders (Sun-Sentinel)
Florida topped the list of 14 states that allowed almost 800 convicted sex offenders to receive Medicaid-funded prescriptions for Viagra and other impotence drugs.
Publ.Date : Mon, 30 May 2005 15:28:05 GMT
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Hawaii Sex Offenders
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US to launch sex offender registry Web site
Mon May 23, 2005 04:20 AM ET
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department will launch a national sex offender registryWeb site that will allow people to check state databases with a single search, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said on Friday.
"With this new technology, every citizen and every law enforcement officer will be able to search the latest information for the identity and location of known sex offenders," he said in announcing the registry.
Gonzales and other Justice Department officials said that within 60 days they expect to have the site available for public use and searches, with at least 20 states participating in the registry.
They said they want by autumn to have online information from the 48 states that have public sex offender registries. It will be up to each state to decide whether to link into the new system.
"We will work with the two remaining states to be sure that everyone gets on board with this important public notification system," Gonzales said at the National Press Club.
One critic said, however, that the sex offender databases can contain errors and can encourage violence.
"We've seen at the local level instances of vigilantism," said Jack King, a spokesman for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. "It's led to some extreme behaviors in some communities."
King said the money allocated for sex offender registries would be better spent on efforts to discourage recidivism.
Sen. Byron Dorgan, a Democrat from North Dakota, applauded the Justice Department for carrying out the proposal he began pushing last year. "It is absolutely critical that we do better in tracking convicted sex offenders," he said in a statement.
Under the Justice Department's registry, an individual can enter a name, zip code, county or other query to search for registered sex offenders. Department officials said a limited number of public and for-profit Web sites now attempt to offer the data from the various states.
They said the new registry would promote public safety by using already existing sex offender data, would minimize the time and cost required to create a new repository and would allow state and local agencies to keep control over the data.
The officials said policy concerns over privacy issues and misuse of the data would be avoided because the states keep control of the data, rather than creating a federal database.
They said the registry cannot be used by employers to screen applicants for jobs. That would violate FBI policy and would be inconsistent with the noncriminal justice background checks in the Interstate Crime Control and Privacy Compact.
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Idaho Sex Offenders
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New York Sex Offenders
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Ohio Sex Offenders
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Florida Sex Offenders
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The Jessica Lunsford Act
The Associated Press
May 02. 2005 1:14PM
Spurred by the kidnapping and murder of a Citrus County girl, Gov. Jeb Bush signed legislation Monday to get much tougher on sex offenders.
The Jessica Lunsford Act requires those who prey on the youngest children to be sentenced to at least 25 years in prison and if they get out to be tracked for life.
The bill was quickly drafted after the 9-year-old Homosassa girl's death was discovered in March, and sped through the legislative process, pushed by outraged lawmakers -
many of whom said it was hard to temper their anger and not go for something even harsher.
Bush hugged Jessica's father, Mark Lunsford, after signing the bill, and told Lunsford he was proud of his leadership in pushing for the measure so soon after his daughter's death.
Lunsford, wearing a tie with pictures of his daughter in her now-familiar pink hat that was splashed across national television, said he has been working so furiously to channel his anger into the legislation he hasn't yet really grieved.
"I'm still lost, I haven't really dealt with it yet," Lunsford said after Bush signed the bill. He called the tie his "hug" from Jessica. "I'm still minus my kiss, but that's my hug."
Lunsford has been at the Capitol often in the last month urging legislators to crack down on predators.
It passed both the Senate and House unanimously and was sent to Bush on April 22, just over a month after the girl's body was found March 19.
John E. Couey, a convicted sex offender who was living near Jessica, is charged with her kidnapping her from her bedroom and murdering her. Detectives say he confessed.
Already moving quickly, the bill's momentum increased in April when 13-year-old Sarah Lunde of Ruskin was found dead and a registered sex offender, David Lee Onstott, was charged with her murder.
Lunde's mother and sister were also at the governor's side as he signed the bill into law.
"I'm just glad something's being done," said Sarah's sister, Rebekah Lunde. "Maybe no one else will have to go through this."
Sarah's mother, Kelly May, said the measure would make sure that neither Jessica nor her daughter died in vain.
"Something good has to come of it," May said.
Bush said Florida's sex offender laws are already tough.
"This bill will make our laws even tougher," the governor said. "It think it is right and just."
The bill would require 25-year minimum prison terms for people convicted of certain sex crimes against children and lifetime tracking by global positioning satellite once they're outside of prison.
The bill also requires more monitoring of people convicted of molesting older children. Anyone convicted of a molesting a child aged 12 to 15 who is released from prison on probation, would have to be monitored electronically while they're on probation.
The new requirement only affects people convicted in the future, but it also has a provision that aims to provide for additional tracking of some sex offenders currently on the street.
To do that, it says sex offenders who violate their probation would be ordered back to jail or be placed under GPS monitoring under the bill.
Advocates for the satellite monitoring say that in addition to warning authorities when a sex offender is someplace he shouldn't be -
such as near a school -
it also will allow for quick pinpointing of suspects if a child is abducted. The system allows officials to overlay the whereabouts of tracked sex offenders with electronic maps showing where crimes are committed.
The new law will also tighten the process for how and when sex offenders report to authorities, saying they have to show up in person twice a year to be accounted for.
It also could open the door to the death penalty for more murderers, saying that in cases where someone is convicted of a capital felony, the fact that they are a sexual predator can be considered as an aggravating factor that the judge or jury can consider when deciding whether to sentence them to execution.
The new law requires the Legislature to budget $3.1 million this year for new prison beds and just under $4 million to buy 1,200 new GPS monitoring units. The bill also requires money for additional staff.
The bill was sponsored by Sen. Nancy Argenziano, R-Crystal River, in whose district Jessica lived, and two state representatives who are former sheriffs, former Citrus Sheriff Charlie Dean, R-Inverness and former Pinellas Sheriff Everett Rice, R-Treasure Island.
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