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

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

Madigan targets sex offenders

Herald News, The (Joliet, IL);  March 6, 2003 ;     491 words ......wants to tighten the vise around felony sex offenders by requiring them to be monitored as...with rapists, pedophiles and other sex offenders until they are determined to no longer...are unsure of the whereabouts of some sex offenders required to register under state and...

Sex offenders slip away: For lack of housing, some spend parole in prison,...

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  March 31, 2006 ;     700+ words ......In a sweep of 81 addresses given by sex offenders in Chicago, investigators found that...raise serious questions about how many sex offenders are going underground to avoid monitoring...s office zeroed in on one group of sex offenders: those who had served their parole...

Halloween warning goes red Elgin police to flag sex offenders.(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  October 27, 2005 ;     694 words ......enforcing a new state law banning convicted sex offenders from handing out candy on Halloween...hoping to ring doorbells at convicted sex offenders homes before trick-or-treaters do...police have checked on the city's 120 sex offenders twice a year to ensure proper registration...

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

Rocky Mountain News (2007-Current);  July 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Lakewood Police Department to register as sex offenders. Each gave the same address, which...laws over the past few years to keep sex offenders from living in group homes in their...Instead, the restrictions encourage sex offenders to "disappear," blending into communities...

Cities enacting limits; Waukesha County communities busy regulating sex...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 3, 2007 ;     629 words ......discussed limits on where registered sex offenders may live Tuesday, with one approving...scrambling to enact laws that regulate sex offenders, especially those fresh from prison...Town of Brookfield set limits on where sex offenders can reside, while Waukesha and Butler...

Court allows residency restrictions for sex offenders

University Wire;  May 2, 2005 ;     570 words ......upheld a state law Friday that prevents sex offenders from living near schools or state...the added inconvenience to convicted sex offenders. The ICLU objected to the law that prevents sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a...

Sex offenders at large? Police struggle to keep track them.(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  September 17, 2007 ;     700+ words ......whereabouts of more than 8 percent of the sex offenders in Illinois - and a good portion of...offender database showed 1,667 registered sex offenders living in 99 suburbs in the newspaper...they are and where they are. All adult sex offenders in Illinois are listed on the Internet...

TAGS PROPOSED FOR OHIO SEX OFFENDERS \ PRECEDENT SET BY DUI PLATES.(News)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  December 12, 2005 ;     557 words ......state lawmakers want violent and repeat sex offenders to have to use specially colored license...drunk. The tag should keep convicted sex offenders from idling near playgrounds and parks...toughened its regulations on registered sex offenders in recent years, banning them from...

Number of Lothian sex offenders reaches 600

Evening News - Scotland;  September 4, 2006 ;     700+ words ......being forced to track nearly 600 sex offenders in the Lothians, according to...revealed today. A total of 592 sex offenders were registered in Lothian and...growing number of registered sex offenders living in the community. And...

Many sex offenders end up at shelters - Some say state should help house...

The Boston Globe;  June 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ......addresses, and photos of the most dangerous sex offenders on a public website, sex offenders released from prison now often end up in...nearby. In a recent review of 77 Level 3 sex offenders - the category the state uses to define...

CLAMPS ON SEX OFFENDERS STIR WORRY THERE'S CONCERN THAT RULES WILL MAKE...

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  June 21, 2005 ;     626 words ......clamps are coming down on released sex offenders like never before. Laws restrict where...of children, allegedly by released sex offenders. The crackdown is aimed at protecting youngsters. But some experts wonder if sex offenders are being pushed so far to the fringes...

Supreme Court Shows Little Mercy for Repeat Criminals, Sex Offenders.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ......repeat criminals and sex offenders, the Supreme Court...information about released sex offenders. In the Alaska case...3 vote that two sex offenders were not being punished...to grant released sex offenders hearings to determine...it's not a problem. Justice ...

1,143 sex offenders, but police can only monitor 10 of them; Free: Rapist...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  August 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Graham Grant FEWER than one in 100 sex offenders living in the community are intensively...more than ?10million a year to monitor sex offenders and serious criminals in the community...millions being ploughed into monitoring sex offenders, many slip from the police and social...

Hundreds get parole, work release Treatment for sex offenders at odds with...

The Boston Globe;  May 2, 1996 ;     700+ words ......prison early, but in fact more than 700 sex offenders have been freed on work release or...is the most effective treatment for sex offenders, his administration has quietly developed...treatment with the early release of sex offenders. "I'm a little skeptical about treatment...