Thursday, August 30, 2012

Megan's Law 10 Year Case Study



Megan's Law 10 Year Case Study

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The research that follows concerns the various impacts of community notification and registration laws (Megan’s Law) in New Jersey. Although this report includes a variety of interesting findings and many ideas that will be explored upon post grant period, this research was embarked upon, in general, to investigate: 1) the effect of Megan’s Law on the overall rate of sexual offending over time; 2) its specific deterrence effect on re-offending, including the level of general and sexual offense recidivism, the nature of sexual re-offenses, and time to first re-arrest for sexual and non-sexual re-offenses (i.e., community tenure); and 3) the costs of implementation and annual expenditures of Megan’s Law. These three primary foci were investigated using three different methodologies and samples.

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Megan's Law as a case study in Political Stasis

INTRODUCTION

Sex offender registration and community notification laws constitute a remarkable political success story.  While only a handful of state had registration law of any kind as of the late 1980's both registration and notification laws, focusing almost exclusively on convicted sex offenders, were in effect nationwide.  To students of the field, the laws--often enacted unanimously and without meaningful debate--serve as object lessons in legislative panic.  Unlike earlier panics, however, including those relative to sex offenders, the panic has not dissipated. Indeed, registration and community notification laws have endured and been significantly expanded upon during the past decade, despite research findings casting considerable doubt on their utility and public safety efficacy.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Watertown Daily Times | Sex offender sent to prison for not registering Facebook page

Watertown Daily Times | Sex offender sent to prison for not registering Facebook page

LOWVILLE — A certified sex offender was sentenced Friday in Lewis County Court to state prison time for not registering a Facebook page.
Anthony D. Pignone, 32, of 7171 Murphy Road, Port Leyden, is to serve 1½ to 3 years in prison on a charge of failure to register or verify as a sex offender, to which he pleaded guilty June 22. Pignone, a second felony offender, also was ordered to pay $325 in court fees.
He was accused in January of failing to register a Facebook page opened under the name of Anthony Campany.
This is New York, but it happens in Wisconsin too.  People going to prison for things where tax dollars are spent to house them.  People that had businesses and jobs, that WERE paying taxes and now are forced to start all over again.  This is not a "justice system" this is nothing short of a debacle of our "legal system".

Prison? for not registering a business website?  Disappointing and absurd.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Failure to Inform Defendant of Mandatory Sentence Could Be Prejudicial | State Bar of Wisconsin

Failure to Inform Defendant of Mandatory Sentence Could Be Prejudicial | State Bar of Wisconsin

LA - FCI Oakdale staff (Gonzales & Childers) harassing inmates? | Sex Offender Issues - News, studies, videos and articles about sex offender laws

LA - FCI Oakdale staff (Gonzales & Childers) harassing inmates? | Sex Offender Issues - News, studies, videos and articles about sex offender laws

By Anonymous:
I am so furious right now I am shaking all over. My son just called me from Oakdale, FCI. He had some articles clipped to send to me and was called into the office over them. The officers said the articles he had was perfectly legal but they were curious why he had them saved. The "officers" (Gonzales and Childers) questioned him. He told them that I had a group in [withheld] and I worked with many national groups and he often sends me things and I send him stories as well. The agent shoved him and told him he was a piece of s*** and that no such groups exist. He continued to call him a liar and that there is no activist or groups for RSO's and he is making it up. He has to go back after lunch in this man's office. I am so upset and terrified right now.

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The Kick Them All Out Project - The Citizen's Jury Handbook

The Kick Them All Out Project - The Citizen's Jury Handbook

You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe." - John Adams, Second President of the United States


Section I A Handbook For Jurors

Jury Duty
You Are Above The Law
Jury Rights
Law Of The Land
Communist Manifesto
Give Up Rights?
Jury Tampering

Section II Give Me Liberty

Patrick Henry Shocked
Jury of Peers
Freedom For William Penn
Jefferson's Warnings

Section III
Original Documents

Links To Summaries of Documents
Summary of the Declaration of IndependenceSummary of the Constitution of the United StatesSummary of the Amendments to Constitution of the United States
Links To Full Documents
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution
The Bill of Rights

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Legislature postpones measure extending statute of limitations for child sex abuse claims - Metro - The Boston Globe

Legislature postpones measure extending statute of limitations for child sex abuse claims - Metro - The Boston Globe

Call/write your State Senators, this is not a good bill, to lift the statute of limitations could open up families to be punished over and over again.  Let your representatives know you are against this bill!