What to do about sex offenders While many communities have passed laws...

Rocky Mountain News (2007-Current);  July 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ......around other sex offenders," said Greig...500 registered sex offenders. More than 3...337 registered sex offenders. Sex offenders generally have...is that known sex offenders are more likely...happening is having sex offenders living in ...

Behind the Picket Fence - Pushing sex offenders to the edges of society...

The Boston Globe;  May 6, 2007 ;     700+ words ......because the sex offenders go underground...evidence that residency restrictions work, and...have passed residency restrictions for sex offenders - as have...girls by sex offenders - one in...that state's residency restrictions after a class...

EDITORIAL: Where sex offenders live not the problem

University Wire;  February 21, 2007 ;     483 words ......The punishing of sex offenders has reached such...being "soft on sex offenders." It doesn't matter...problem with Iowa's residency restrictions, which prohibit convicted sex offenders whose victims were...stance against the residency restrictions, but the ...

EDITORIAL: Failure to address residency restrictions a black mark on...

University Wire;  May 1, 2007 ;     469 words ......address state laws involving sex offenders' living arrangements. Current residency restrictions prohibit convicted sex offenders whose victims were under...cluster communities of sex offenders. This is not only unsafe...resulting in few options for sex ...

EDITORIAL: Will they work?: Restrictions on sex offenders appealing, but...

Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH);  January 23, 2007 ;     517 words ...Jan. 23--Because of residency restrictions, sex offenders can live very few places...already has a law banning sex offenders from living within 1,000...avoid becoming a refuge for sex offenders. But the best known method...

Law's burden falls on sex offenders: State tightening residency,...

Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, KY);  July 10, 2006 ;     700+ words ......line. These residency restrictions will also...registered sex offenders, not just...with the residency restrictions. Each of...registered sex offenders was mailed...Enforcement of the residency restrictions of those registered sex offenders ...

Limits on sex offenders examined: Richland Township looks at legal...

Morning Call (Allentown, PA);  July 19, 2006 ;     652 words ......off-limits to sex offenders if the law...offender residency restrictions, said there...declared residency restrictions on sex offenders unconstitutional...registered sex offenders. Treadwell...filed against residency restrictions. He ...

Mitzelfelt looks to expand sex offender tracking: Residency restrictions...

Daily Press (Victorville, CA);  September 12, 2007 ;     334 words ......Department's resources to track sex offenders. The California Department...and requires that paroled sex offenders cannot live within 2,000...handle on any additional sex offenders moving into the county as...of the state implementing residency restrictions, said ...

PARENT PUSHES NEW LIMITS ON SEX OFFENDERS

The Boston Globe;  August 17, 2006 ;     678 words ......3 registered sex offenders who live or work...high-risk child sex offenders from living or...accounts about how sex offenders are living in...on convicted sex offenders who are considered...Stoughton plan, sex offenders would be banned...a message to ...

Sex offenders might face more restrictions; Lawmakers consider several...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  October 27, 2005 ;     380 words ......offenders convicted of sex crimes against children...real-time monitoring of sex offenders after they're released...classification of sex offenders to put more focus...currently prohibits sex offenders whose victims were...proposes banning sex offenders "from ...

Expert: 2,000-foot law extreme; Psychologist says restriction for sex...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  December 17, 2003 ;     573 words ......restrict where sex offenders can live. Alabama...Iowa's, prohibiting sex offenders from living or working...Although he agrees that residency restrictions are appropriate...reoffense varies among sex offenders. A 1996 study covering 28,000 sex offenders in ...

Task force eyes sex offenders: NY legislative group meets in Merrick to...

Newsday (Melville, NY);  June 27, 2007 ;     466 words ......Long Island grapple with residency restrictions for sex offenders, a statewide Assembly...sentences for convicted sex offenders and better supervision...has become evident that sex offenders living among us present...

Cafero's bill calls for stricter residency rules on state's sex offenders.

Stamford Advocate (Stamford, CT);  January 21, 2007 ;     700+ words ......a bill that would ban sex offenders from living within 1,000...experimenting with statewide residency restrictions on sex offenders. Hundreds of towns and...make it too difficult for sex offenders to find places to live and in some cases banish sex ...

Some Curbs on Sex Offenders Called Ineffective, Inhumane

The Washington Post;  November 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...As convicted sex offenders go, they seem...of registered sex offenders, even the old...of convicted sex offenders, Georgia's law...roughly 10,000 sex offenders living in Georgia...Advocates for the sex offenders say the law...with convicted sex ...

Towns seek to limit where sex offenders can live ; The proposed ordinances...

Portland Press Herald (Maine);  October 29, 2006 ;     700+ words ......require that sex offenders reside at...other states, residency restrictions for sex offenders...effectiveness of residency restrictions for sex offenders. More than...alternative to residency restrictions involves barring sex ...