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MSLGW (anonymous) says...
Federal Judge Stops New State Sex Offender Law
A federal judge Wednesday put a stop to a new state sex offender law. The law would have reclassified sex offenders putting them in categories based on the crimes they committed.
Opponents say the new system is unfairly targeting non-dangerous offenders.
Read more:
www.cfcoklahoma.org
On Do residency restrictions for sex offenders work?
September 10, 2008 at 11:23 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
MSLGW (anonymous) says...
Who commits most sex crimes? Well, 95% of all new sex crimes are committed by those NOT on the registry. Family members and those known to the family commit 98% of all sex crimes. So much for stranger danger.
2nd question. Who is more likely to commit a sex crime upon release from prison? Sex Offenders or NON-sex offenders?
For the answer, go here. www.cfcoklahoma.org and see the article, "Revisiting Department of Justice Recidivism Statistics and More Shocking Truths."
On Is online sex offender list enough? Some parents say no
September 9, 2008 at 11:06 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
MSLGW (anonymous) says...
Who commits most sex crimes? Well, 95% of all new sex crimes are committed by those NOT on the registry. Family members and those known to the family commit 98% of all sex crimes. So much for stranger danger.
2nd question. Who is more likely to committ a sex crime upon release from prison? Sex Offenders or NON-sex offenders?
For the answer, go here. www.cfcoklahoma.org and see the article, "Revisiting Department of Justice Recidivism Statistics and More Shocking Truths."
On Do residency restrictions for sex offenders work?
September 8, 2008 at 1:11 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
MSLGW (anonymous) says...
If this news media at large REALLY wanted good ratings they need to do honest journalism and politicians to tell the truth.
Most people are very unaware that more than 90% of all sex crimes against children are committed in the home and incest related. 80% of incest crimes go unreported. Bill OReilly will not tell you that.
The entertainment news media promotes bogus pictures concerning "stranger danger," "pedophilia" and "predator". They sensationalize for "ratings"! as well as self aggrandizement.
5% or less of all sex crimes are of the "predator/stranger danger". And Law enforcement does a great job of catching those individuals.
Politicians in this environment are quick to jump on this bandwagon for votes. They totally ignore all the facts and pass laws that actually endanger children.
Incest is NOT pedophilia. These is a vast difference. You won't hear that on the news or from politicians either.
Recidivist rates for incest related offenses are between 1 & 2 percent and that is without treatment. Once caught the abusers wake up. Treatment reduces the recidivist rate for that 1 to 2 percent by 50%. Treatment works.
The stranger/pedophile recidivist rate (70%), is what the news media and politicians apply to everyone. Including teens and children as young as 10 years old are put on the public registries and labeled with the same broad brush.
There are 60 million individuals in this country who have been molested in an incest related abuse. 30 million, 50% will go on to abuse a family member. With this type being 80% NOT reported. That leaves 1-1/2 million victims, which really leaves 75 million to go on to abuse a family member. staggering!!!
We all need to understand the facts if we are going to have an impact on Child sexual abuse.
This is a community problem. The fear factor with the treatment centers is bogus. Residency restrictions and public registration protects no one and in fact endangers children.
If you go to my site, please look at the top article "Incest - A Family Tragedy" click on "Read More" and the link to Shazzam films and PLEASE listen to the blogtalkradio.
www.cfcoklahoma.com
On Do residency restrictions for sex offenders work?
June 13, 2008 at 10:38 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
MSLGW (anonymous) says...
''Most people who know anything about this are frustrated. It is just not helpful -- the laws as they are now,'' said Randy Lopp, treatment subcommittee chairman of the Oklahoma Sex Offender Management Team.
I think if the general public understood the research, they would be willing to back the legislators to change the laws to make more sense and to protect children, because the laws as they are written are not protecting children," he said. "They are doing more harm than good.''
Visit cfcoklahoma.com for more in depth information
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June 10, 2008 at 4:04 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
MSLGW (anonymous) says...
ex Offender Housing Restrictions
Twenty Findings of Research on Residential Restrictions for Sex Offenders and the Iowa Experience with Similar Policies
http://www.dc.state.ks.us/publications/s...
1. Housing restrictions appear to be based largely on three myths that are repeatedly propagated by the media: 1) all sex offenders reoffend; 2) treatment does not work; and 3) the concept of “stranger danger.” Research does not support these myths, but there is research to suggest that such policies may ultimately be counterproductive. Sex offender residence restrictions. A Report to the Florida Legislature, October 2005, Jill S. Levinson, Ph.D.
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May 31, 2008 at 6:41 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
MSLGW (anonymous) says...
Fallon Campaign: Sex offender law makes children less safe - Fallon was right!
5/28/2008
Contact: Stacy Brenton
(515) 822-3029
stacy@fallonforcongress.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
for immediate release
May 28, 2008, (1:30 PM CDT) - Yesterday, The Des Moines Register praised Ed Fallon for his 2002 vote against a bill that prohibited sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools or day care centers. The Register said, "… he was frequently on the right side of issues…. He was the only House member to vote against the 2,000-foot residency restriction for certain sex offenders, a law that virtually banished them from many communities, making them harder to track, while driving up costs for law enforcement." http://www.iowapolitics.com/index.iml?Ar...
Coincidentally, voters in the Third District received a mailing yesterday asking them "Why does Ed Fallon think it's ok for sex offenders to live near schools?" As a backdrop, it included a photo of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit looking though a fence at children in a playground. The mailer was sent by Boswell supporter Richard (Red) Brannan of Ankeny and had no return address.
Fallon said, "This is an example of cynical, negative politics. This mailer was sent out only a week before the election to make it look as if I support sex offenders. I call on Congressman Boswell to reject and renounce this misinformation and ask his supporters to cease their efforts to disparage my character and reputation."
Fallon says he voted against the bill because, "I knew that it would only make matters worse." He has been proven right.
Today, prosecutors, sheriffs, police and those who work with victims of sexual abuse agree that the bill was a mistake. The Iowa County Attorneys Association opposes the bill and acknowledges, "The research shows that there is no correlation between residency restrictions and reducing sex offenses against children or improving the safety of children." Scott County prosecutor Bill Davis put it clearly when he said of the law, "It's the wrong path. It doesn't make anyone safe…." Common sense tells you why. The law doesn't keep sex offenders from visiting schools, as the mailer depicts; it doesn't restrict their movements at all.
In fact, most agree it has actually made children less safe. According to the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault, since the law went into effect, the number of sex offenders that the system has lost track of has more than doubled.
State representative and retired state trooper, Clel Baulder said, "The residency restriction was passed on emotion and emotion has no intelligence."
"I opposed a bill that is now generally agreed to be a mistake - by prosecutors, sheriffs, police, lawmakers who supported it at the time, and those who work with the victims of sexual assault," concluded Fallon.
On Is online sex offender list enough? Some parents say no
May 28, 2008 at 5:49 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
MSLGW (anonymous) says...
Fallon Campaign: Sex offender law makes children less safe - Fallon was right!
5/28/2008
Contact: Stacy Brenton
(515) 822-3029
stacy@fallonforcongress.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
for immediate release
May 28, 2008, (1:30 PM CDT) - Yesterday, The Des Moines Register praised Ed Fallon for his 2002 vote against a bill that prohibited sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools or day care centers. The Register said, "… he was frequently on the right side of issues…. He was the only House member to vote against the 2,000-foot residency restriction for certain sex offenders, a law that virtually banished them from many communities, making them harder to track, while driving up costs for law enforcement." http://www.iowapolitics.com/index.iml?Ar...
Coincidentally, voters in the Third District received a mailing yesterday asking them "Why does Ed Fallon think it's ok for sex offenders to live near schools?" As a backdrop, it included a photo of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit looking though a fence at children in a playground. The mailer was sent by Boswell supporter Richard (Red) Brannan of Ankeny and had no return address.
Fallon said, "This is an example of cynical, negative politics. This mailer was sent out only a week before the election to make it look as if I support sex offenders. I call on Congressman Boswell to reject and renounce this misinformation and ask his supporters to cease their efforts to disparage my character and reputation."
Fallon says he voted against the bill because, "I knew that it would only make matters worse." He has been proven right.
Today, prosecutors, sheriffs, police and those who work with victims of sexual abuse agree that the bill was a mistake. The Iowa County Attorneys Association opposes the bill and acknowledges, "The research shows that there is no correlation between residency restrictions and reducing sex offenses against children or improving the safety of children." Scott County prosecutor Bill Davis put it clearly when he said of the law, "It's the wrong path. It doesn't make anyone safe…." Common sense tells you why. The law doesn't keep sex offenders from visiting schools, as the mailer depicts; it doesn't restrict their movements at all.
In fact, most agree it has actually made children less safe. According to the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault, since the law went into effect, the number of sex offenders that the system has lost track of has more than doubled.
State representative and retired state trooper, Clel Baulder said, "The residency restriction was passed on emotion and emotion has no intelligence."
"I opposed a bill that is now generally agreed to be a mistake - by prosecutors, sheriffs, police, lawmakers who supported it at the time, and those who work with the victims of sexual assault," concluded Fallon.
On Do residency restrictions for sex offenders work?
May 28, 2008 at 5:43 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
MSLGW (anonymous) says...
I would very much like to see ktka do a special on the Adam Walsh Act (AWA), That is in my opinion another feel good law that destroys families, ruins children's lives and does more harm than good. SEE: Ricy's Story
here: cfcoklahona.com and here: cfcamerica.org
On Do residency restrictions for sex offenders work?
May 20, 2008 at 6:25 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
MSLGW (anonymous) says...
An excellent question. The short answer is NO. Residency restrictions do NOT work. There is an excellent article entitled, "sex offenders and residency restrictions: an in depth analysis," at cfcoklahoma.com. I highly recommend reading it.
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May 20, 2008 at 7:36 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )