The Associate Press is reporting that a Kansas judge has ordered a convicted sex offender to post "signs around his house and a decal on his car proclaiming that he is a sex offender." The signs in front of his house read "A Sex Offender Lives Here," while his vehicle has a large decal with bold yellow lettering reading "Sex Offender In This Car." The man lives in a central Kansas town of only about 150 people. The man is appealing the requirement.
The LA Times has an article about the Texas sex offender who is no longer running for mayor of Wilmer, Texas. The man was arrested four years ago after showing up to have sex with what he thought was a 15-year-old girl. He says that wide media coverage generated by his candidacy sparked death threats and increasingly hostile pressure on his friends and loved ones, forcing him to reconsider.
The South Carolina House of Representatives has approved a bill that would prohibit sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools, day care centers, parks and public playgrounds.
St. Louis has passed a law recently that prohibits convicted sex offenders from opening a business that caters to children. The law was sparked by complaints from residents about a convicted child molester moving his ceramic studio into their area.
Sentencing Law and Policy has a story about a 29-year old, married mother of three who was convicted of a misdemeanor sex offense seven years ago. The article details her difficulties in complying with Iowa's sex-offender residency law which bans sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or day care. The woman argues that she can't find a home that complies.
The Associated Press reports that the global patent director of Pfizer Inc. has been arrested and charged with child pornography. The man stands accused of posing as a 28-year-old woman and, while chatting online, trading hundreds of images of children engaged in sex acts. The man is a British citizen who is a permanent U.S. resident working in Pfizer’s legal division in Connecticut.
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