In Texas a youth correctional officer was fired when it was found that he was a sex offender. The state isn't clear how the officer was hired in the first place. HT: Grits
Also, out of Texas, the state's attorney general has determined that cities can legally adopt their own residency restrictions in the state.
Another county in Iowa has spoken out against the state's residency restrictions and called for the law to be changed.
From KipEsquire (in the comments) of A Stitch in Haste, we find an article today about a country in New York which is on the verge of passing a bill that, "would bar offenders from living, working or spending time within 2,500 feet of places where children congregate, including schools, bus stops, child-care facilities, nature preserves, parks, playgrounds and recreational facilities."
And I have several links from helpful readers. First, here is an editorial about a New Jersey effort to restrict sex offender access to the internet.
Second, Bill O'Reilly continues his campaign for a crackdown on sex offenders in a newspaper editorial. Among the highlights, he writes:
I have no doubt the despicable Couey will be convicted in the Miami courtroom. But you won’t hear much about it from the New York Times [NYT] or the Washington Post or the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. That’s because these papers continue to look away from the horror of child sexual abuse. It doesn’t fit into their "restorative justice" philosophy, where the criminal as well as the victim must be "healed."
Third, Connecticut and up to 20 other states are considering forcing myspace and similar online services to run an age-check to cut down on targets for "sex predators" using the websites.
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