Category Archive for : ‘ABOUT SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS’

newsday.com/Don Thompson (AP)

Sacramento-based California Parole Apprehension Team, in which five teams were created this year in different parts of California and five more will start in January.  The teams are designed to apprehend parolees who have become fugitives or are otherwise violating terms of their release.  Michael Harden who was arrested for letting the battery in his GPS ankle bracelet run low, making it difficult to track the movements of the paroled child molester was one of more than 397 paroled sex offenders swept up throughout California this week by

Newsday/Rick Brand

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Suffolk probation director John Desmond was hit with a 10-day suspension, without pay,recently from County Executive Steve Levy for improperly urging the early release of sexualoffenders last spring, according to Levy aides.  But Laura Ahearn, a victim right’s advocatewho first publicly complained about the issue, said Levy’s response is not strong enough andDesmond should be removed as head of the $42.7-million-a-year agency and placed in a less sensitivepost.  Desmond, a 38-year department veteran who has headed probation since 2004, wassuspended Oct. 11-22, which will cost him $5,070.

Pasadena Star-News

Jaime Elvis Elizondo, a 35 year old convicted sex offender from San
Gabriel, was sentenced this week to 30 years to life in prison for
molesting a 5 year old girl at a Borders bookstore in Arcadia in 2008.
He was convicted June 8 of committing a lewd act on a child.  Elizondo,
a registered sex offender, was tracked with the help of a witness, who
confronted him in the bookstore, then found his picture on the Megan’s
Law website and turned the information over to police.
(California)

Journal News-Westchester/Shawn Cohen

Current laws prevent sex offenders from teaching in schools but do not prohibit them fromworking with children in jobs not funded by the government, such as sports coaches, dance and musicteachers, and carnival-ride operators. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., called it a glaring loophole, as he visited a Dobbs Ferrypark Monday to announce a bill that he said would restrict sex offenders from any job or volunteeractivity that requires substantial interaction with kids. The fact that these sex offenders are able to coach our children’s teams, operate

OnlineAthens.com/Joe Johnson

New York-based Parents for Megan’s Law recently expanded its Sex OffenderRegistration Tips program to the state of Georgia, helping people to report if a sex offender isworking with children or violating the law in some other way.  The non-profit group usesretired New York Police Department investigators who vet tips to determine if they seem viable,then contact local probation and parole officers to let them know an offender might be engaged inprohibited activities, said Laura Ahearn, the group;s executive director.  It’s a way forpeople to report offenders who are believed

Newsday.com/Ben Wieder

Convicted sex offenders can legally work as tutors, coaches and in other positions wherethey are close to children, according to Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Sunday he said he wouldpropose legislation to change that. Schumer’s legislation would make it illegal for registered sex offenders to work orvolunteer in positions that put them in direct and substantial contact with children. It would also require business owners to confirm that employees or volunteers in these typesof positions are not registered sex offenders. Businesses not in compliance would be fined, Schumersaid,