Debate on sex offender laws reignited
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Since his release from a state mental hospital, convicted rapist Ross Wollschlager has bounced from one Ventura County hotel to another. After being evicted seven times whenever a landlord learned of his identity, Wollschlager started living out of a tent in the Ventura River bottom.
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Connecticut lawmakers debated a bill  on Thursday that would require social-networking Web sites such  as MySpace to verify users' ages and force minors to obtain  parental consent before posting profiles.
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By Shawn Mansell Deseret Morning News  Rep. Carl Wimmer, R-Herriman, wants to make life a little more unpleasant for those convicted of sexually assaulting children.  Specifically, he's after repeat sex offenders with his bill, HB86.
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A 29-year-old sex offender spent four months at a US school passing for a 12-year-old, officials say.
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Volunteer doctors who treat patients at the state Capitol will face increased scrutiny after it was learned a registered sex offender was twice honored as a "doctor of the day," officials said Friday.
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By Madeline Baro Diaz, Jerome Burdi, Jennifer Gollan and Juan Ortega, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 3--The message was clear: No child molesters allowed.   The 2005 rape and murder of a 9-year-old Central Florida girl at the hands of a convicted sex offender shocked the nation.
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U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday proposed  requiring sex offenders to register their e-mail and instant  messaging addresses with law enforcement authorities in a bid  to protect children using popular social Internet sites like  MySpace.
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BOSTON - In the 1970s, rape crisis counselors celebrated when states began to pass laws designed to stop lawyers from discrediting victims with salacious details about their sex lives.    But three decades later, after all 50 states approved such rape shield laws, the Kobe Bryant case has shown that even those protections are not enough to prevent the most intimate details of an alleged victim's life from becoming public and sometimes even fair game for prosecutors...
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New York&#39;s attorney general and state legislative leaders presented a bill on Tuesday aimed at protecting people from sexual predators on the Internet, and Facebook, MySpace, and Yahoo backed the effort.
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Nearly 10 months after reports of inmate abuse first surfaced, at least one parent disputes claims of progress in reforming the agency that oversees the Texas juvenile prison system.
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DALLAS, Dec. 16 -- Nearly 10 months after reports of inmate abuse first surfaced, not everyone agrees with claims of progress in reforming the agency that oversees the Texas juvenile prison system.
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A Florida trailer park has become a haven of sorts for convicted sex offenders. Shunned by communties, they flock to the Palace, where 95 of the 200 residents are registered sex offenders. "It's our own little piece of paradise," one told CNN.
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A row over the bugging of a MP has reignited debate about how far the country has gone towards becoming a "Big Brother" surveillance state.
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By Janet Elliott and Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 3--AUSTIN -- Acting on an issue that is stirring controversy in the Legislature, Gov.
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Social networking Web sites like MySpace and Facebook would have access to a database of sex offenders for checking names and addresses against public profiles under a bill introduced Tuesday in Congress.
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Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and crisp, clear vistas, is starting to worry it has made itself too attractive in one respect: Convicted sex offenders from out of state are moving in, apparently because the laws are less restrictive.
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Despite the high-stakes legal tussle between prosecutors and defense attorneys in the Michael Jackson child molestation case, the public still doesn't know specifically what the two sides lately are arguing about.