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State sex-offender registration and notification programs are designed, in general, to include information about offenders who have been convicted of a "criminal offense against a victim who is a minor" or a "sexually violent offense," as specified in the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act ("the Wetterling Act") [1] – more specifically ...
In 1947, California became the first state in the United States to have a sex offender registration program. [11] C. Don Field was prompted by the Black Dahlia murder case to introduce a bill calling for the formation of a sex offender registry; California became the first U.S. state to make this mandatory. [12]
Was first convicted and put on the sex offense registry for child molestation as a Boy Scout starting at age 14. After being released from prison, Vahey traveled abroad and sexually abused more boys who were students at the schools, feeding them Oreo cookies with sleeping medicine in them and making child pornography while molesting the boys.
A local Florida police officer apprehended a man on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list during a routine traffic stop over the weekend, earning praise from the federal agency.. Sgt ...
The department will actively participate in locating and arresting sexual predators and sex offenders who are not residing at the street address they have provided. When FDLE is notified that an offender is not at the location, FDLE will add to the remarks field in the sexual predator/sex offender status record that the reported address does not appear to be correct and, when appropriate, will ...
After the child sex abuse scandal involving Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, Florida legislators in 2012 passed a law that placed a greater responsibility on ordinary people to report ...
A Florida man indicted on charges of sexually abusing a child faces the death penalty, in what could be the first case of its kind under a new law that expanded capital punishment.
The Australian National Child Offender Register (ANCOR) is a web-based system that is used in all states and territories. Authorized police use ANCOR to monitor persons convicted of child sex offences and other specified offences once they have been released from custody, or after sentencing in the event a non-custodial sentence is imposed.