tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58714099906287548832024-02-07T16:25:10.122-05:00NATIONAL SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY, BLOGThe Blog Of The NationalSexOffenderRegistry.com Website.Howard Goldman http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835068305524570405noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871409990628754883.post-8102672419494392552013-06-26T09:41:00.000-04:002013-06-26T09:41:18.892-04:00Unprecedented Sex Offender Sweep In Marion County<div role="article" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #2c2d2e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AUSTIN (AP)</strong> — Four convicted sex offenders huddled in a busy hallway at the Texas Capitol, congratulating each other for going public and testifying against a bill that would plaster their criminal past on their Facebook profiles.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #2c2d2e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As expected, not everyone was moved by their objections.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #2c2d2e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I don’t feel bad for the guys that came in here whining,” Republican state Rep. Steve Toth said after the men had left the room at a recent House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee meeting. A Democrat switched on her microphone to voice on the record that she, too, had no sympathy.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #2c2d2e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the Texas Legislature and statehouses nationwide, bills aimed at curbing how and where sex offenders can live and work are routine. But for the 72,000 registered sex offenders in Texas this year, there is optimism. A legislative victory is in sight, and it’s not for sinking a fresh round of get-tougher proposals — but scaling back one already in place.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #2c2d2e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pushing forward what advocates say would mark a minor but extraordinary softening of the state’s sex offender laws, the GOP-controlled Senate has passed a bill to remove employer information from Texas’ online sex offender registry.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #2c2d2e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I’ve been on that registry for 15 years and going on for a lifetime,” said Hwi-Kee Wong, 34, who works in information technology and said he was arrested at 18 for copying illegal images. “I’ve never re-offended. I have no intention to re-offend.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #2c2d2e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s not a change of heart swaying lawmakers but the wringing hands of frustrated business leaders — they complain their bottom line suffers when the public discovers who’s on the payroll.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #2c2d2e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The odd result: Sex offenders and Gov. Rick Perry’s favorite conservative think tank is among those left seeing eye-to-eye. The Texas Public Policy Foundation, which backs business-friendly bills, argues the current registry comes between the private relationship between employer and employee.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #2c2d2e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We’ve seen if it bleeds, it leads in news coverage for years,” said Marc Levin, director of the foundation’s Center for Effective Justice. “Obviously, people may be able to make money by doing a news report, ‘We went to a McDonald’s and there was a sex offender serving as a cashier’ or something. It may be salacious, but what’s the public interest?”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #2c2d2e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mary Sue Molnar, executive director of Texas Voices for Reason and Justice and the mother of a registered sex offender, said the bill is only the second her group has endorsed since forming in 2007.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #2c2d2e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hers and a small band of similar organizations typically play defense in statehouses, arguing that decades of stacking one restriction atop another has pushed sex offenders to society’s fringes. They say the result is growing ranks of unemployable and homeless outcasts, who then become more likely to commit new crimes.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #2c2d2e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“(Texas) would have every right to crow, jump up and down, dance jigs — whatever,” said Brenda Jones, executive director of the Massachusetts-based Reform Sex Offender Laws Inc. “It would be a huge win. It’s very difficult to do.”</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pressure on lawmakers to step up restrictions began intensified in 2005 when 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford of Florida was sexually assaulted and killed by a sex offender, according to a 2006 report by Texas House researchers. States began enacting sweeping “Jessica’s Laws” that generally included mandatory minimum sentences and prohibiting sex offenders from living with 2,000 feet of schools and playgrounds.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rules were being put in place prior to that. In 2001, for example, a Texas judge ordered sex offenders to place conspicuous signs in their front yards announcing their convictions to neighbors. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld that sex offender registries are not punitive, though an Indiana federal appeals court this month did uphold the rights of sex offenders to have social media accounts.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And states — Texas included— continue to roll out new legislation to more closely track sex offenders and restrict what they can and cannot do. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder this month signed a new law expanding the state’s public sex offender registry to include a wider range of crimes involving minors. In Arkansas, a proposal would keep sex offenders whose victim was under 18 on the registry for life, whereas now they can petition for removal after 15 years.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">About a dozen bills in the Texas Legislature this session would create new restrictions, including one reinforcing the authority of cities to keep sex offenders away from playgrounds and swimming pools.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In all, it’s a reality check that keeps groups stopping short of predicting that wiping employer information off the registry will lead to a wave of other rollbacks.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tough-on-crime conservatives aren’t the only ones piling on the restrictions, either: The Texas proposal that would require sex offenders to list their convictions on social media profiles was filed by Democrats’ go-to political attack dog, state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The state made a public policy decision in 1991 to get into this business. Every year we’ve expanded it,” Martinez Fischer said. “It’s all been done under the rubric that we need to protect the public. And most important, we need to protect those who probably can’t protect themselves.”</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Phil Taylor, a licensed sex offender treatment provider in Dallas, told lawmakers the social media bill would only further stigmatize sex offenders and hamper their efforts to rejoin society. He said 80 percent of sex offenders don’t relapse after prison, and pointed out that the group has lower recidivism rates than burglars and other criminals.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sex offenders, meanwhile, sought to make a pragmatic case to lawmakers: money and resources. State law requires released sex offenders to register within seven days of leaving prison. Jonathan Cooney, 43, said he fell out of compliance that first week of freedom because the state was so backlogged. Three months passed before Cooney said he was finally registered.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I think if more people knew the person behind the mug shot, they would be more in favor of turning away from sex offender registry,” Cooney said.</div><br />
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The Allentown, Pa. family say their house is ‘virtually unmarketable’ after neighbor Oliver Beck sexually molested their young daughter. They want Beck to buy their house for $350,000.</h2>
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The parents of a young Pennsylvania girl who was sexually molested by their neighbor have sued the man in a bid to force him to buy their house.</div>
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The child's parents said they don't want to live next to Oliver Beck and "are under duress to move." Their lawsuit, filed in Lehigh County Court in Allentown, said his presence is "ultra-hazardous given the close proximity" of Beck to the victim and their two other daughters.</div>
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Beck, 65, pleaded guilty in September 2011 to indecent assault of a child under 13 and was sentenced to three to 23 months in prison. After his release, he moved back to his home near Emmaus, about 55 miles north of Philadelphia.</div>
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The suit contends the plaintiff's house is now "virtually unmarketable" because their neighbor is a registered sex offender. They want Beck to buy their house for $350,000, which they say is the fair-market value plus fees and expenses related to moving to a new home.</div>
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Beck's lawyer has asked a judge to dismiss that portion of the suit, saying the law does not entitle the plaintiffs to force Beck to buy their home.</div>
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The parents say they don’t want to live next to Beck, but can’t sell their house.</h4>
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The family, identified by their initials, bought the house in 2005. The lawsuit said Beck befriended the couple and groomed the girl with gifts and rides on a 4-wheeler, then molested her in his basement, videotaping the Feb. 2, 2011 assault. The girl, who was born in 2003, told her mother and the attack was reported to authorities.</div>
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In response to the family's demand for compensation for their home, attorney Robert Magee cited a 1998 state appeals court ruling that said a plaintiff who lived next to a toxic-waste site couldn't collect damages from an inability to sell the home.</div>
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Legal precedent has established that "this is just a type of injury that allows for no recourse, an injury without a remedy," Magee wrote in court papers filed last week.</div>
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Magee declined comment Thursday to The Associated Press. Attorneys for the plaintiffs did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</div>
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The parents and child are also suing Beck for monetary damages related to the assault. Beck's wife and mother, who owns an adjoining property, are named as co-defendants.</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">This S95-styled point and shoot, the Midnight Shot NV-1, is the perfect camera for perverts. Why? Beause it has an infrared-night shot mode which can let them see through thin fabric and other materials.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">It has a regular mode too. But the night-shot mode is where the nudie cam comes in. It gets the blocking filter out of the way, letting all infrared light through while a super bright IR LED "invisibly" illuminates everything in the picture. That infrared light can actually penetrate thin clothing, and since the camera can capture the infrared light, the clothing in the picture turn see through.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Other cameras have had some sort of feature like this before, but never so blatantly. One note: the nudie cam effect works best in the daytime. </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.ihollaback.org/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #d84b0e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hollaback</a>, the anti-street-harassment organization, has been awarded a $40,000 grant by the <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/201342783/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #d84b0e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">John S. and James L. Knight Foundation</a> to develop a mobile app that will allow people to report street harassment directly to authorities. The app will be the first of its kind, according to Emily May, Hollaback’s co-founder and executive director, who said the organization already has an arrangement with the New York City Council.</div>
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The grant made under the auspices of the Knight Prototype Fund, which aims to foster innovation in journalism. May said the funds will go toward developing the app’s New York City integration, with the aim of replicating the model in cities around the world. </div>
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Hollaback’s mobile app is already integrated with a<a href="http://nyc.ihollaback.org/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #d84b0e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Google Map</a>, through which victims can post details of when and where incidents of street harassment occur. The map’s geo tags are linked to blog posts on the Hollaback website, which are categorized by harassment type -- verbal, groping, etc. -- and are accompanied by often-heartbreaking stories of women and girls who are harassed, intimidated, and victimized on public streets.</div>
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“I was walking home at 10 p.m. when a guy asked for my number ‘slyly’ and upon my refusal, he became <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">very</em> verbally abusive,” reads <a href="http://desmoines.ihollaback.org/2013/03/08/im-tired-of-the-turds-tess-story/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #d84b0e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">one recent post</a>. “If I hadn’t escaped into my locked building, I think he would have been physical too.” </div>
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Since it was founded in 2005, Hollaback has served as an online hub where victims of street harassment can tell their stories and upload pictures of alleged perpetrators. May and her six co-founders were inspired to create the site after hearing about a well-publicized case in which a man masturbated in front of a young girl on the New York subway. Rather than sit back and do nothing, the girl took a photograph of her harasser and went to the police. When they were no help, she uploaded the photo to Flickr.</div>
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That simple concept -- turning the table on perverts, as it were -- allowed Hollaback to mushroom into a worldwide network of websites dedicated to empowering street-harassment victims with mobile technology. The organization became an official nonprofit organization in 2010. May said street harassment is an issue that had long been swept under the rug, as many victims are either afraid to speak out or not taken seriously when they do. But she said the sheer number of stories and photos collected via the Hollaback network prove that street harassment is common in cities around the world.</div>
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“We want people to know that this is not just a case of there being a few bad seeds out there,” May said. “This is [a] pervasive problem in our society. People are afraid to go to work. Kids don’t [want] to walk to school.”</div>
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And it’s not just an urban problem. The stereotypes of burly construction workers shouting catcalls and sweaty subway gropers may perpetuate the notion that New York girls bear the brunt of street harassment, but May noted that urban density only creates the illusion that street harassment is more pervasive in those areas. The problem is common in rural communities as well, she said.</div>
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“My little sister lives [in] a tiny town, and she gets harassed when she’s walking through a Wal-Mart parking lot,” May said.</div>
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May said she and Hollaback are hoping to raise awareness about street harassment -- in much the same way that recent years have seen an increased awareness of workplace harassment and school bullying. Asked whether there’s a line that separates harmless compliments from street harassment, May replied that you know harassment when you see it.</div>
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“When someone is doing it to intimidate, that’s harassment,” she said. “People should be able to feel comfortable when they walk down the street.”</div>
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The police hopes the public can help them find a man suspected of public lewdness on a subway in Manhattan last month.</div>
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According to the NYPD, on Wednesday, February 27, at around 11:20 p.m., a man riding a Queens-bound R train near the Times Square station exposed himself to a 26-year-old woman. The woman took photos of the suspect with her cell phone.</div>
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The police describe the suspect as a black male in his 40s who was wearing all black and a black skit hat and "carrying a Fed-Ex envelope that he was using to conceal himself."</div>
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<a href="http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/02/26/missouri-bill-would-loosen-sex-offender-registry-requirements/" target="_blank">More than one thousand registered sex offenders could be taken off the Missouri registry under the legislation.</a><br />
<a href="http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/02/26/missouri-bill-would-loosen-sex-offender-registry-requirements/" target="_blank">The bill would separate offenders into three tiers, from the first tier being the least severe by allowing offenders to petition off the registry after ten years, to the third tier keeping the most severe offenders on the list for life</a>.<br />
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BOSTON — With anecdotal evidence suggesting computer crimes on the rise and children facing increased risks on the Internet, a bill introduced in the Senate this session would expand the state’s asset forfeiture laws to allow prosecutors to go after the computers, cell phones, cars and homes of child predators convicted on child pornography and enticement charges.</div>
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The effort to update the law in the mold of 22 other states follows what prosecutors described as “among the worst cases of child abuse ever prosecuted” when referring to the case of John Burbine, a Wakefield resident and Level One sex offender accused of raping 13 children who he and his wife babysat in their home.</div>
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The Burbine case has also spawned calls from lawmakers for reforms of the Sex Offender Registry Board.</div>
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Sen. Barry Finegold, D-Andover, and Middlesex County Sheriff Peter Koutoujian are teaming up to push an expansion of the state’s asset forfeiture laws to include criminal convictions on child pornography and enticement cases, hoping to divert any revenue collected to computer crime investigation and prosecution.</div>
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“As a parent you want to do everything you can to protect your children. Like most kids, my kids are on their iPad, their iTouches and it’s scary out there. I think we need to give the law enforcement people, the district attorney and attorney general the tools they need to prevent these heinous crimes,” Finegold said yesterday, sitting down in his office with Koutoujian to discuss the bill he has filed this session.</div>
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Under state law, prosecutors can seek judicial approval to seize the assets of defendants convicted on controlled substance or human trafficking offenses, but not child pornography. The bill would extend the current law to include those types of cases, generating a modest revenue stream to help fund what Koutoujian described as underfunded and understaffed computer crimes units.</div>
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The money collected through property seizures of cell phones, computers, cars, and in some cases homes used in the commission of the crime could also be used under the proposal for victim services and digital literacy education programs for families.</div>
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“I don’t believe this is going to be any kind of cash cow,” Koutoujian said.</div>
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According to the Massachusetts Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce, the State Police in 2012 made 16 arrests, received 134 tips, conducted 44 investigations and performed 318 forensic examinations in Middlesex County alone on child cyber-crimes. Statewide, there were 60 arrests, 1,553 investigations and 483 computer exams in 2011.</div>
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“It’s terrifying that one out of every seven children who are regular Internet users will receive a sexual solicitation on the Internet and that’s why we need to push for legislation like this,” Finegold said.</div>
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Finegold said he and his wife were researching day care options for their one-year-old son when the Burbine story broke. “It shocks the system,” Finegold said.</div>
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As many as 22 other states have similar laws on the books, including neighboring Connecticut. Koutoujian said the threat of asset forfeiture could also serve as a deterrent.</div>
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The present issue before the court is whether sex offenders who were convicted before the enactment of lifetime registration should have to remain on the registry. Individuals who were convicted before lifetime registration became mandatory for specific sex crimes originally believed that there was a limit to the length of time that the state could require registration. However, following the lifetime registration enactment, many sex offenders who were due to be removed from the registry or were no longer required to register suddenly found themselves back on the registry--and for life.</div>
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Oklahoma City criminal lawyer Mark Bailey has represented hundreds of sex offenders throughout his career in both private practice and while working as an attorney for Oklahoma county. The ruling, which is expected to be decided later this month, will affect a number of Bailey's clients whose appeals are currently pending before the Oklahoma Supreme Court.</div>
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"These citizens have paid for their crimes, and when they were convicted, they understood that state-mandated registration would be a part of life," sex crimes attorney Bailey said. "But to retroactively force people back onto the registry, or to require registration for people who never believed registration was part of their conviction, it's not just unfair--it's unconstitutional."</div>
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Proponents of the lifetime registration say that the retroactive effects of the law are not in violation of either the Oklahoma or United States Constitution, because the law is not really a 'punishment.' Those who favor the law also voice public safety concerns if some sex offenders are allowed to be removed from the registry.</div>
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"I understand the concerns that some people have, but it doesn't stop the fact that my clients, and others like them, have had the rug pulled out from underneath their feet," said Bailey. "The law should be equal for everyone."</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Updated: Monday, 11 Feb 2013, 10:28 AM EST</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;">Published : Monday, 11 Feb 2013, 10:28 AM EST</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">STEUBEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) - Police in Steuben County are searching for a registered sex offender.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Police said an arrest warrant was issued on Friday for 53-year-old Ted Benhower. The warrant charged Benhower with failure to register as a sex or violent offender, a class C felony.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The Steuben County Sheriff's Department received information through the sheriff department's <a href="http://www.sheriffalerts.com/cap_main.php?office=54877" style="margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">online Sex or Violent Offender Registry</a> that Benhower was not living at his registered address. Officers said Benhower is in violation of Indiana’s Sex or Violent Offender Registry law.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Police described Benhower as a 5’8” white man with blue eyes and brown hair. He is around 160 pounds. Police said Benhower was last known to have a facial hair.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Police are asking anyone with information on the whereabouts of Benhower to call the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office or Steuben County Crime Stoppers.</span></div>
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