Category Archive for : ‘CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES TO MEGAN’S LAW’

By Dave Collins

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A convicted sex offender has made a “plausible” claim that providing his email address and other internet identifying information to Connecticut officials violates his free speech rights, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in reinstating his lawsuit against the state.

The decision by a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan mirrors other court rulings around the country that determined some states’ laws violated sex offenders’ rights. James Cornelio, a former New York City lawyer, was convicted in New York

September 30, 2019
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Senator Joe Pennacchio condemned Governor Murphy’s sanctuary state policies that resulted in the release from county jail of an illegal immigrant who was arrested for sexual assault of a minor, despite a detainer request by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A directive from the Attorney General has prohibited local law enforcement agencies from working with federal immigration authorities.

When the “Immigrant Trust Directive” was announced, Attorney General Grewal was quoted as saying the directive was  and would “protect the safety of all New Jersey residents.”

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Robert Howard is accused of killing 12-year-old Naomi Jones in Pensacola. Howard, a convictedrapist, was a registered sex offender in Escambia County, Alabama, but investigators say he wasstaying at the apartment complex in Florida where Naomi lived. In this Reality Check, Local 15’sAndrea Ramey uncovers a loophole that allows sex offenders to travel freely and finds out howinvestigators keep track of them all.

It’s a hot muggy Thursday morning in June, and these volunteers are checking out this shack inIrvington to make sure the 53 year old sex offender who molested

A Post investigation found that more than a thousand sex fiends, convicted rapists, child molesters and sexual deviants likely to repeat their crimes, live in the five boroughs, but only half are listed on a state-run Web site that is supposed to keep tabs on their whereabouts.  The Web site http://criminaljustic.state.ny.us/nsor/ lists names, addresses, crimes and photos of 614 Level 3, the highest risk offenders.  According to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, the agency that runs the online registry, 1,236 Level 3 offenders actually live here as of

As many as 7,200 sex offenders in New York, for years, have eluded the scrutiny of Megan’s Law, the measure that makes the whereabouts of sex offenders public.  They have lived in relative anonymity because a court order prevented law enforcement from releasing information about them.  The injunction also barred officials from posting information about the offenders on the state Internet-based Sex Offender Registry which is designed to help the public take steps for their own safety.  But in the coming months that court restriction will be lifted as offenders

Are laws that require registration and publication of information about sexual offenders, shaming laws, like those in earlier days requiring the wearing a scarlet letter A for adultery?  The Supreme Court debated yesterday how far states can go to help the public keep tabs on paroled sex offenders living or working nearby.  The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of so-called Megan’s laws in Connecticut and Alaska.  Megan’s Law is named after 7 year old Megan Kanka from New Jersey, who was raped and strangled by a