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Sex Offenders - Town Council restricts where sex offenders can live and go
Town Council restricts where sex offenders can live and go (The Little Elm Journal)
Sex offenders in Little Elm must have good cause to be near schools and parks, because they could be guilty of a misdemeanor if they don t.
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Sex Offenders - Muskegon YMCA kicks out sex offenders (WOOD TV 8 Grand
Muskegon YMCA kicks out sex offenders (WOOD TV 8 Grand Rapids)
The Muskegon YMCA checked out all 7,000 members. "We did in fact have 20 (sex offenders)," said Muskegon Family YMCA CEO Dwayne Seward.
Muskegon YMCA revokes memberships of registered sex offenders (Lansing State Journal)
MUSKEGON - The Muskegon Family YMCA has revoked the memberships of 20 people because they were listed as sex offenders in Michigan.
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Sex Offenders - Westville OKs limits for sex offenders (Gloucester County Times) WESTVILLE
Westville OKs limits for sex offenders (Gloucester County Times)
WESTVILLE The borough council voted unanimously Wednesday evening to approve a law that will severely restrict where sex offenders can live in this one-square-mile town.
Sex Offenders - City further restricts where sex offenders may live (Warrenton Journal)
City further restricts where sex offenders may live (Warrenton Journal)
Warrenton aldermen took what they perceive as a step in protecting children when they passed an ordinance Nov. 20 prohibiting sex offenders from living within 1,500 feet of a public school, childcare center or park.
Sex Offenders - Home for sex offenders topic of two meetings (The Buffalo
Home for sex offenders topic of two meetings (The Buffalo News)
Plans to convert a Black Rock warehouse into one of the area s largest group homes for high-risk sex offenders will be discussed this week at two meetings.
Sex Offenders Banned from the Woodlands (KFDA-TV Amarillo)
Sex offenders are being banned from moving into a new development being built in northwest Amarillo. But as NewsChannel 10's Marissa Bagg explains they may already live across the street.
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Sex Offenders - Ga. court overturns ban on sex offenders living near children
Ga. court overturns ban on sex offenders living near children (WMGT Macon)
Georgia's top court overturned a state law today that banned registered sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools, churches and other areas where children congregate. In the unanimous opinion written by presiding Justice Carol Huntstein, the court said, "It is apparent that there is no place in Georgia where a registered sex offender can live without being continually at risk ...
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Sex Offenders - Ga. court overturns ban on sex offenders living near children
Ga. court overturns ban on sex offenders living near children (WMGT Macon)
Georgia's top court overturned a state law today that banned registered sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools, churches and other areas where children congregate. In the unanimous opinion written by presiding Justice Carol Huntstein, the court said, "It is apparent that there is no place in Georgia where a registered sex offender can live without being continually at risk ...
Sex Offenders Banned (WITN 7 North Carolina)
Convicted sex offenders banned from living in one community.
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Sex Offenders - Subdivision in Amarillo, Texas, bans convicted sex offenders from owning,
Subdivision in Amarillo, Texas, bans convicted sex offenders from owning, living in new homes (19 Action News Cleveland)
Associated Press - November 23, 2007 3:33 PM ET AMARILLO, Texas (AP) - An Amarillo, Texas, subdivision has barred convicted sex offenders from owning or living in any new home in the...
Subdivision in Amarillo, Texas, bans convicted sex offenders from owning, living in new homes (KFDA-TV Amarillo)
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) - An Amarillo, Texas, subdivision has barred convicted sex offenders from owning or living in any new home in the community.
Sex Offenders - Amarillo Subdivision Looks To Ban Sex Offenders (KWTX-TV Waco) Using
Amarillo Subdivision Looks To Ban Sex Offenders (KWTX-TV Waco)
Using deed restrictions a subdivision in Amarillo looks to ban convicted sex offenders from owning or living in any new homes.
Texas subdivision bans convicted sex offenders from owning, living in new homes (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
AMARILLO, Texas - A subdivision in Amarillo, Tex., has barred convicted sex offenders from owning or living in any new homes.
Sex Offenders - Georgia Justices Overturn a Curb on Sex Offenders (New York
Georgia Justices Overturn a Curb on Sex Offenders (New York Times)
The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously struck down a state law Wednesday that limited where registered sex offenders could live.
Ga. sex offenders freed from restrictions (Moldova.org)
The Georgia Supreme Court has overturned restrictions that forbid convicted sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of locales frequented by children. The ruling by state's top court Wednesday deemed a provision of a 2006 state law unconstitutional due to the fact its restrictions could force a convicted sex offender to abandon their homes and uproot their lives, The Atlanta ...
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Sex Offenders - Ga. court overturns ban on sex offenders living near children
Ga. court overturns ban on sex offenders living near children (The Valdosta Daily Times)
Wednesday, the Georgia Supreme Court overturned state restrictions on where sex offenders who own property live under the grounds that it is unconstitutional to make an offender move if a child care facility, school or church later opens within 1,000 feet of the offender.
Ordinance would prevent sex offenders from moving to Lexington (WIS News 10 Columbia)
School bus stops, churches, playgrounds are all off-limits for sex offenders nationwide, but in Lexington they're taking the restrictions one step further. The new ordinance would keep sexual predators from being within 2,500 feet of places where children congregate, placing the strictest zoning restrictions on sexual predators in the state.
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Sex Offenders - Mom Finds 43 Sex Offenders, Predators Living Around Elem. School
Mom Finds 43 Sex Offenders, Predators Living Around Elem. School (WKMG Local6.com via Yahoo! News)
A Central Florida woman using a new Florida Department of Law Enforcement mapping source found 43 sex offenders and predators living within a 2-mile radius of her children's elementary school.
Town Council restricts where sex offenders can live and go (The Little Elm Journal)
Sex offenders in Little Elm must have good cause to be near schools and parks, because they could be guilty of a misdemeanor if they don t.
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Sex Offenders - Mom Finds 43 Sex Offenders, Predators Living Around Elem. School
Mom Finds 43 Sex Offenders, Predators Living Around Elem. School (WKMG Local6.com via Yahoo! News)
A Central Florida woman using a new Florida Department of Law Enforcement mapping source found 43 sex offenders and predators living within a 2-mile radius of her children's elementary school.
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Sex Offenders - Cypress homeowners group wants to ban sex offenders (Houston Chronicle)
Cypress homeowners group wants to ban sex offenders (Houston Chronicle)
A Cypress homeowners association wants to ban registered sex offenders.
Sex Offenders - 29 local sex offenders are arrested in police sweep (Lansing
29 local sex offenders are arrested in police sweep (Lansing State Journal)
Twenty-nine sex offenders living in the Lansing area were arrested on felony charges as part of a statewide sweep, Michigan State Police said Friday.
Town Council restricts where sex offenders can live and go (The Little Elm Journal)
Sex offenders in Little Elm must have good cause to be near schools and parks, because they could be guilty of a misdemeanor if they don t.
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Sex Offenders - Cypress homeowners group wants to ban sex offenders (Houston Chronicle)
Cypress homeowners group wants to ban sex offenders (Houston Chronicle)
A Cypress homeowners association wants to ban registered sex offenders.
Online appeal tracks down nine sex offenders (Guardian Unlimited)
A website set up to find the UK's most wanted paedophiles has helped locate nine child sex offenders in its first year
Sex Offenders - Sex offenders' mug shots 'aged' (BBC News) A 'most wanted'
Sex offenders' mug shots 'aged' (BBC News)
A 'most wanted' website carrying pictures of sex offenders publishes age-progressed images.
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Sex Offenders - Town Council restricts where sex offenders can live and go
Town Council restricts where sex offenders can live and go (The Little Elm Journal)
Sex offenders in Little Elm must have good cause to be near schools and parks, because they could be guilty of a misdemeanor if they don t.
Missouri Sex Offenders on MySpace.com (Kansas City InfoZine)
Nixon provides Missouri State Highway Patrol with names of 249 additional sex offenders who had pages on MySpace.com
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Sex Offenders - Massachusetts Sex Offenders Face Statewide Residency Limits (WCSH 6 Portland)
Massachusetts Sex Offenders Face Statewide Residency Limits (WCSH 6 Portland)
BOSTON (AP) -- A handful of Massachusetts communities ban sex offenders from living near schools and other places where children congregate.
Quarterly sweep nabs three sex offenders (Alpena News)
Area law enforcement officials arrested three registered sex offenders on felony charges in conjunction with October s Michigan Sex Offender Registry sweep.
Sex Offenders - Aldermen double limit for sex offenders (Wentzville Journal) Convicted sex
Aldermen double limit for sex offenders (Wentzville Journal)
Convicted sex offenders living in Wentzville now have new limits on where they can loiter.
St. Mary targets sex offenders (The Daily Iberian)
CENTERVILLE To keep sex offenders or any other criminals away from teaching students in St. Mary Parish, the St. Mary Parish School Board will consider approval of $30,000 to purchase equipment and professional services necessary to facilitate electronic submission of fingerprints for background checks when they meet Thursday at their monthly meeting in Centerville at 5 p.m.
Sex Offenders - Aldermen double limit for sex offenders (St. Charles Journal) Convicted
Aldermen double limit for sex offenders (St. Charles Journal)
Convicted sex offenders living in Wentzville now have new limits on where they can loiter.
Sex Offenders - A property owner who rents to sex offenders speaks his
A property owner who rents to sex offenders speaks his mind (Greater Milwaukee Today)
Ron Becker has spent 40 years renting rooms and apartments to all sorts of people. There are good tenants, bad ones and then there are the most controversial ones of all: sex offenders.
Sex offenders nearly cut off from Butler (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Butler - Nearly all of the village is off limits as a place where registered sex offenders can live, under an ordinance...
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Sex Offenders - Town Council restricts where sex offenders can live and go
Town Council restricts where sex offenders can live and go (McKinney Messenger)
Sex offenders in Little Elm must have good cause to be near schools and parks, because they could be guilty of a misdemeanor if they don t.
Sex offenders nearly cut off from Butler (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Butler - Nearly all of the village is off limits as a place where registered sex offenders can live, under an ordinance...
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Sex Offenders - EL Paso Dumping Ground For Sex Offenders (KTSM) El Paso
EL Paso Dumping Ground For Sex Offenders (KTSM)
El Paso is a dumping ground for sex offenders; that s how Chief Richard Wiles described it Friday afternoon.
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Sex Offenders - Sketch of sex offenders produces suspects (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News)
Sketch of sex offenders produces suspects (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News)
Police investigating a daylight sex attack in Christchurch say they have a list of possible suspects after releasing computer sketches of the offenders.
Sex Offenders - Little Elm bans sex offenders from most of town (Dallas
Little Elm bans sex offenders from most of town (Dallas Morning News)
Little Elm's new ordinances that prohibit where sex offenders can live and hang out won't protect some of the neighborhoods in the lakeside community.
Santa Fe Co. to require scan of sex offenders eyes (KOB-TV Albuquerque)
SANTA FE (AP) - Sex offenders in Santa Fe County must register their names, addresses and fingerprints with the sheriff s office. Soon, they ll also need to submit to a new form of identification: a scan of their irises.
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Sex Offenders - Little Elm Considers Stricter Rules For Sex Offenders (NBC 5
Little Elm Considers Stricter Rules For Sex Offenders (NBC 5 Dallas Fort Worth)
Little Elm officials are discussing what could be one of the strictest crackdowns on sex offenders in the country, NBC 5 reports.
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Sex Offenders - Pittsburgh-Area Sex Offenders On MySpace (WPXI Pittsburgh) A popular Internet
Pittsburgh-Area Sex Offenders On MySpace (WPXI Pittsburgh)
A popular Internet site agreed to bar 29,000 sex offenders. But are there more out there with MySpace.com pages? Tuesday at 5 on Channel 11, how many local sex offenders are on the Web.
Sex offenders declare themselves homeless in Calif., frustrating attempts to track them (The World)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Hundreds of California sex offenders who face tough new restrictions on where they can live are declaring themselves homeless truthfully or not and that s making it difficult for the state to track them.
Sex Offenders - Laws targeting sex offenders take effect (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise) OKLAHOMA CITY
Laws targeting sex offenders take effect (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Several new laws cracking down on sex offenders took effect Thursday, including a new three-tiered classification system that some experts say misses the mark.
Sex offenders declare themselves homeless in Calif., frustrating attempts to track them (The World)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Hundreds of California sex offenders who face tough new restrictions on where they can live are declaring themselves homeless truthfully or not and that s making it difficult for the state to track them.
Sex Offenders - Lawmaker fears money for tracking sex offenders could be in
Lawmaker fears money for tracking sex offenders could be in peril (FOX 10 Phoenix)
PHOENIX -- A state legislator who supports use of satellite monitoring of sex offenders says he's afraid that the state's plans to use the technology could be set back by budget woes.
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Sex Offenders - Sex offenders declare themselves homeless in Calif., frustrating attempts to
Sex offenders declare themselves homeless in Calif., frustrating attempts to track them (The World)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Hundreds of California sex offenders who face tough new restrictions on where they can live are declaring themselves homeless truthfully or not and that s making it difficult for the state to track them.
Sex Offenders - Laws targeting sex offenders take effect (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise) OKLAHOMA CITY
Laws targeting sex offenders take effect (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Several new laws cracking down on sex offenders took effect Thursday, including a new three-tiered classification system that some experts say misses the mark.
Sex Offenders - Parole agents comb streets for sex offenders (KGET 17 Bakersfield)
Parole agents comb streets for sex offenders (KGET 17 Bakersfield)
Local parole agents combed the streets of Bakersfield for sex offenders Wednesday night to make sure children had a happy and safe Halloween.
Sex offenders locked down, in the dark for Halloween (CNN.com)
Scores of sex offenders in Anderson, South Carolina, will be corralled for Halloween tonight in a move authorities say is needed to keep kids safe as they trick or treat.
Sex Offenders - Sex offenders to face curfews, other restrictions on Halloween (WIS
Sex offenders to face curfews, other restrictions on Halloween (WIS News 10 Columbia)
In 2005, a Halloween curfew was passed for sex offenders. This Halloween, the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services will once again be making sure some sex offenders are inside.
Sex offenders restricted on Halloween; more 'homeless' in Calif. (USA Today)
In a bid to protect young trick-or-treaters, police agencies nationwide have significantly restricted the Halloween movements and actions of sex offenders, CNN reports. Some jurisdictions prohibited sex-crime parolees from dressing in costumes, handing out candy, decorating their homes or...