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VA - ACLU: New sex offender bill 'invitation to throw stones'
01/20/2015
By Chris Thomas
RICHMOND - A house subcommittee unanimously passed a bill which would require registered sex offenders to have public hearings before gaining access to Virginia schools.
The delegate behind the bill says its a step to protect children, but civil rights organizations say the bill goes too far.
"I certainly would like to know who is being granted access to these public school systems," said Delegate Jeff Campbell (R-6th) who is introducing the bill and is the parent of school-aged children. "I understand the concern about this, but it's really not an attack on the sex offender themselves."
HB1366 would require registered sex offenders to advertise their public hearing in the newspaper for two weeks. Anyone attending the hearing could testify against the request to gain access to the school. Some civil rights groups are already coming out against the bill saying it could lead to angry mobs.
"It's essentially an invitation to throw stones," said Claire Gastañaga with the ACLU of Virginia. "Having a public hearing before you can go to visit your child's teacher? Tell me, what's that supposed to accomplish? I don't see what it accomplishes, other than inviting an angry mob into the school."
Del. Campbell disagrees with that assessment.
"It is certainly not going to prohibit the offender from being able to petition the court and gain access," he said.
WI - Cop (Jeffrey C. Hilgers) Caught With Hard Drives Full of Child Porn, Won’t Be Charged Because of a Typo
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| Jeffrey C. Hilgers |
01/17/2015
By Matt Agorist
Dane County - A Dane County sheriff’s deputy miraculously escaped charges of child pornography, despite being caught with child pornography, because of a cut and paste error on a warrant.
In a tragic example of the broken “justice” system, former Dane County sheriff’s deputy Jeffrey C. Hilgers, 43, had seven counts of possession of child pornography dismissed Wednesday. The judge ruled that there was a fatal cut-and-paste error on a search warrant, thereby making the discovery of the illegal images on the deputy’s computers, inadmissible.
According to the report, investigators inadvertently used a paragraph, which stated they were searching for child pornography, instead of one specifying the search was for evidence in an illicit relationship between Hilgers and a woman serving a jail sentence at home on electronic monitoring.
The error was insurmountable, Dane County Circuit Judge John Markson said, so he had to suppress the search warrant along with a subsequent search warrant that was issued after child pornography was initially discovered, which led to the discovery of even more child pornography.
CO - Should we stop labeling people 'sex offenders?'
01/17/2015
By Melissa Blasius
KUSA - A state regulatory board debated Friday whether the label "sex offender" was too stigmatizing to people who committed sex crimes.
Colorado's Sex Offender Management Board regulates treatment, rehabilitation, and monitoring of sex offenders. Friday's board meeting included a vote whether to eliminate the word "sex offender" from the board's official policies. Suggestions for replacement words included "clients," "defendants" and "individuals."
Ultimately, the board chose to continuing using the term "sex offender," but member also agreed to use other terms interchangeably as they revised written regulations. The decision came after more than an hour of debate, including comments from relatives of sex offenders, victim advocates and a local prosecutor.
"People who have committed a sexual offense will have a much better chance of revising their lives and moving in a different direction if they don't have the stigma of sex offender hanging over their heads," said Susan Walker. She is the director of an advocacy group called Coalition for Sex Offense Restoration.
FL - Florida police lured innocent men into online sex stings and seized their property, records show
01/05/2015
By Travis Gettys
Police posed as underage teens online to lure men into breaking the law as part of an apparent revenue scheme by Florida law enforcement agencies, according to an investigation of newly released public records.
Emails and other online communications analyzed by WTSP-TV revealed that many of the men who were eventually arrested were not interested in meeting children but were instead seeking adult sex partners – until they encountered undercover officers.
Law enforcement agencies fought open-records requests by the TV station, which eventually gained access to investigation reports from cases that resulted in arrest – but not from those that did not.
Police fought the requests by claiming the investigations remained open, but one agency claimed it had already destroyed records from one sting just one month after it was conducted.
Clearwater police seized 19 cars in January 2014, the station reported, when a joint sting with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office arrested 35 men in one weekend.
The two departments arrested at least 20 other men three months later and 11 more in September in similar stings that netted 12 more seized vehicles, the station reported.
One of the men arrested in the first sting paid $10,000 to get his 2014 Lexus returned, and the 24-year-old won’t get any of that money back even though all felony charges were eventually dropped in his case.
The station found that many of the men arrested in the stings had posted or responded to personal ads seeking adults, but police often steered the conversation to underage children or posed as adults with younger siblings who were interested in meeting.
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NE - Obama cybersecurity chief (Timothy DeFoggi) gets serious prison time for child porn
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| Timothy DeFoggi |
01/05/2015
By Jim Kouri
One of the key players in the creation and implementation of cybersecurity protocols for President Barack Obama's "signature legislation," the Affordable Care Act of 2010, will be spending the next two-and-a-half decades in a federal prison cell after a conviction for trafficking in Internet child pornography. Timothy DeFoggi, who served as the acting director of cybersecurity at Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the disgraced Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, was told by a judge on Monday that he'll serve the next 25 years in federal prison for kiddie pornography dissemination. DeFoggi was convicted by a federal jury on Aug. 26, 2014, after only a four-day trial in Omaha, Nebraska.
According to Justice Department officials, the 56-year-old computer security expert communicated online with other offenders in an underground Internet forum. At trial, it was shown that he articulated his strong desire to rape and murder children. Being a cyberscience expert, DeFoggi knew how to use the Tor browser, an online service that is capable of eluding law enforcement from tracking his Internet activities while he worked at HHS as its head of cybersecurity in 2013. What surprise many was the fact, he remained listed on the HHS staff roster with top security clearance even after he was arrested.
DeFoggi exchanged graphic sexual images of children on the website, which was impervious to traditional search engines or Web browsers, according to the Department of Justice. The FBI special agents assigned to the case subsequently were successful in closing down the kiddie porn site in December 2012.
“Using the same technological expertise he employed as Acting Director of Cyber Security at HHS, DeFoggi attempted to sexually exploit children and traffic in child pornography through an anonymous computer network of child predators,” said Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell. “But dangerous criminals cannot be allowed to operate online with impunity. Today’s sentence shows that the Department of Justice will bring criminals and child predators to justice, even when they employ anonymous networks like Tor.”
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Life of an S.O.
By C:
I have struggled with disabilities since birth which have caused me to be a little slower than most people and not using good judgment. That, and growing up in a small town. I was prior to and after my conviction very well known. To this day I still am, despite my status. Now at the time of my arrest almost 10 years ago, my parents said I was 26 but had the mentality of a teenager due to my disabilities. You see, when I was 24 way back in 2003, I dated a girl who was younger than I was. Of course 2 years later I was arrested and charged with 3 counts of rape of a child 3rd degree despite the fact it was consensual and never was forced. Unfortunately I was never given a plea agreement by the prosecutor and over the course of 9 months, my case dragged out eventually going to trial where I was convicted. Two months later I was given a 53 month sentence where upon instead of being sent to prison, I was given a sentencing alternative and started probation. The next 4 year's of probation of course was hell. Flash forward to 2010, I'm 2 months away from finishing probation and my p.o. decides to violate me because I was in a relationship with a woman who was 8 years older than I was, along with a couple technical violations. My probation was revoked and I spent the next 28 months in prison, releasing right before Christmas 2012. Upon release, I luckily did not have supervision again, thank God...and started to put my life back together, or at least try to. I met the most wonderful woman in 2013 and now because of my status has had to move out of state due to a custody battle with her ex husband. In 2014, someone called CPS on my girlfriend because I had been helping her babysit her daughter who is absolutely adorable. I loved her and treated her as if she was my own daughter. However, because of my status, my girlfriend now has to fight for custody of her daughter. Being an S.O. has been rough. I've lost friends and girlfriends because of my status. A lot of people who see me as an S.O. stereotype me with all the rest. And I think that was the case with CPS. They stereotyped me as well, never even interviewing me before making their finding. I think that if a person is going to judge a s.o. they really need to look at the whole picture instead of automatically jumping to conclusions. Thanks!
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