... sexual predators. The purge was the first sweep of registered sex offenders under the Electronic Security and Targeting of Online Predators ... felt pressure to remove convicted sex offenders from their sites, and appear to be yielding to those concerns. Back in February, ... revealed that over 90,000 registered sex offenders have been kicked off its site in the past two years. Many of those expelled ...

... removed the accounts of more than 3,500 registered sex offenders in New York this week, according to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Getty ... , also called e-STOP, which requires convicted sex offenders to divulge all of their email addresses and other online identifiers, and ... year, also bans online social networking among sex offenders whose victims were minors. “Parental controls alone are ...

... Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday. Cuomo said many of the offenders were violating their parole by being on social-networking sites and ... Predators Act passed last year, registered sex offenders are required to register their emails and other online identifiers with ... Internet was used to commit the offense or they are among the highest-level offenders. Cuomo's office is sending letters ...

Bloomington, Indiana Herald-Times Treats Law-Abiding Gun Owners like Registered Sex Offenders! Tuesday, December 01, 2009 On November 30, 2009, the Bloomington Herald-Times made the following announcement: “This week, HeraldTimesOnline.com will launch its new gun permit database. You’ll be able to search gun permit records by county, city or town and street." The Herald-Times has begun ...

... case and several others that also challenge the new law. Before 2007, sex offenders in Ohio were classified into three categories: sexually oriented ... days for life. Officials said determining the category in which offenders belonged was not a perfect science, but was based on the likelihood ... worked retroactively, meaning about 26,000 sex offenders in Ohio were reclassified as Tier III ...

... a young girl on his PlayStation Portable -- while walking to his probation appointment. Sometimes, offenders cannot be monitored even while in custody. David L. Franklin, a church deacon, ... devices, polygraph tests, home visits and treatment to track sex offenders, but those tools can be used only during periods of supervision, which often end after three to five years. Parole is post-prison, ...

... aggressive in seeking and banning registered sex offenders from their website. FaceBook has also been diligent in launching identified ... Twitter, FriendFeed, Friendster, Ning, and so on. Sex offenders are not rehabilitated when banned from Facebook or MySpace, they merely migrate ... making an effort to ban identified sex offenders is a noble cause, but this attempt is a drop in the bucket. The current ...

... an Indian River County school. And along the Treasure Coast, almost 670 sex offenders and predators legally live within a mile of local schools as of ... County school - TCPalm MARTIN COUNTY — There are about 135 sex offenders living within a mile of a Martin County public school. And along the Treasure Coast, almost 670 sex offenders and predators legally live within a mile of local schools as of ...

... increasingly long list of residential bans for many sex offenders. They are already barred in some communities from living near schools, day-care ... the law, which for five years has required the most dangerous sex offenders to post their names, addresses, and photos on a public ... verify offender addresses. Pushing homeless offenders out into the streets does nothing to prevent future sexual violence.

... . The remaining 22,000 or so registered sex offenders who did not supply online identity information are either in prison or ... of the e-STOP sweep. The next step is to check whether any of the offenders violated the terms of their early release from prison by setting up a profile on the sites. Incidentally, sex offenders — like many others — appear to favor Facebook over MySpace. Out ...