Category Archive for : ‘PFML’

According to the Observer-Dispatch, Glenn H. Barker, 40, served nine years of an 18 year sentence for the 1982 slaying of 12 year old Katie Worsky in Charlottesville, Virginia.  He was released in 1992 and was named as a suspect but never charged in the 1996 slayings of his

girlfriend and her 7-year-old daughter in Richmond, Virginia.  Authorities are using the sex offender notification act to warn residents that he has moved into town.  Many are calling this a gross misuse of Megan’s Law.  Michael Murray of the Ocean County

According to the Associated Press, any vigilantism against registered sex offenders intended to harm or scare them could jeopardize offender registration laws.  Bob Schilling, a police detective in Seattle said, All it’s going to take is one federal judge to say it’s causing too many problems, or that it’s double punishment, and we’ve lost it, all across the United States.  Iowa press releases list the offender’s picture, name, age, address and physical description and some include a little information about their crimes.  According to critics, the public is not told

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New York’s version of Megan’s Law mandates community notification and public accessibility to asub-directory which lists the most violent of sexual predators. The Sexual Offender RegistrationAct became a law in New York on January 21, 1996, with the legislative intent of reducing the riskof children like Megan Kanka being attacked by known sexual offenders. The Suffolk County PoliceSex Crimes Unit in Yaphank houses the Sexual Offender Registry sub-directory for Suffolk County,which until recently, provided the community with detailed information about violent sexualpredators. In May, the Suffolk County Police Legal Bureau