Category Archive for : ‘MEGAN S LAW’

By Ed Lewis

WILKES-BARRE — A Clarks Summit man’s cooperation with Luzerne County detectives combined with intellectual and physical disabilities earned him a reduced sentence for possessing and sharing child sexual abuse materials.

Daniel Kopetchny, 41, was arrested in November 2020 by county detectives and Pittston police, members of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and state police Northeast Computer Crime Unit, after investigating a cyber tip he uploaded a video via Facebook Messenger. At the time, Kopetchny was residing on South Main Street, Pittston.

The video – four minutes and 10

According to a national survey that tracks how states apply Megan’s Law, dozens of states don’t provide as much information as they can about sex offenders who are released from prisons, creating a false sense of security and placing communities in peril.  The 22 states receiving an F include New York, California, Oregon, Washington, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.  They scored below 60 points in the rating system devised using the Parents for Megan’s Law survey.  New Jersey, which has 10,028 offenders and was the site of the July 1994 rape and

Megan’s Law, named for 7 year old Megan Kanka of New Jersey, mandates the release of information necessary to protect the public from high risk sex offenders.  All 50 states are required to meet those federal standards or risk losing federal crime fighting funding.  Federal legislation was passed in 1996 mandating all states to have sex offenders register and mandating all states to release information regarding sex offenders to the public.  Megan disappeared on July 29, 1994 when Jesse Timmendequas, 35, lured her into his house to see a puppy