Crime and Consequences has a post about a new ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court which mandated sex offender treatment.
A helpful reader sent this article about the trial of a Texas man who is accused of sexually assaulting five young men.
The Boston Herald has an article about Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley hailing the efforts of MySpace to crack down on "internet predators who use its electronic pages to prey on young victims." The agreement, signed by 49 state attorney generals (with Texas being the only holdout) essentially requires MySpace to develop age/identity verification tools.
Florida's top law enforcement official was prevented from accessing former Rep. Mark Foley's (R-FL) computer in an investigation related to a congressional page scandal. Speaker Pelosi told the Florida Department of Law Enforcement that "constitutional issues prevented it from allowing access to the computers."
New York State Comptroller released an audit of the state's sex offender registry finding "significant" flaws with its administration. According to the audit, one-fourth of the records investigators surveyed had mismatched driver's license information and, in some cases, license details for the wrong people were given out as those of offenders. Meanwhile, "dangerous" sex offenders in New York City would be barred from living within 1,000 feet of a school or park, under a new proposal from City Council members. This plan would make housing particularly difficult in a place like New York City, the most densely populated city in the United States.
The proposed New York City residency law will go nowhere.
Posted by: David H | January 16, 2008 at 10:46 PM
The proposed NY City residency law was introduced by the only 3 Republicans on the 51 member NY City Council. At least they got their names in the paper. Nothing else will come of this legislation.
Posted by: David H | January 16, 2008 at 11:34 PM
David H,
That was my guess. Then again, sometimes NYC politics is full of surprises. It would certainly be the most interesting city to implement residency restrictions because I'm pretty sure it would amount to complete banishment.
Posted by: Corey Rayburn Yung | January 16, 2008 at 11:57 PM
Councilman Dennis Gallagher was one of the 3 councilman who sponsored the proposed sex offender residency law for New York City.
Note this news story:
GOP endorses Como for Gallagher's seat
By Nathan Duke
04/03/2008
The Queens County Republican Party officially endorsed Anthony Como last Thursday as its candidate of choice to replace City Councilman Dennis Gallagher (R-Middle Village), who will step down from office in April as part of a plea deal that will keep him out of prison....
Gallagher, who would have been term limited out of office in 2009, pleaded guilty last month to sex abuse and forcible touching, both misdemeanors, and agreed to relinquish his seat. The plea was part of a deal that would keep him out of jail and off the sex offenders registry following his arrest last year for sexually assaulting a 52-year-old woman at his Middle Village district office. The councilman announced in March that he would leave office on April 18....
http://www.timesledger.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19450744&BRD=2676&PAG=461&dept_id=542415&rfi=6
Posted by: David Hess | April 04, 2008 at 03:28 PM