sex offenders

Tennessee doesn’t require sex offenders to register with the state’s sex crime registry if their conviction came while they were minors. On its face it makes sense. The justice system has a bias toward protecting children’s identities.

There's no doubt, if you've got a sex offense or an arson charge in your background somewhere, finding housing is going to be....challenging, to say the least.

Now granted, I know nothing about the residents of the neighborhood who oppose this project, but I'd be willing to wager a month's salary that the shrillest of the dissenters of the Pine Street project consider themselves members of the "compassionate conservative" club...

Not "could," but instead will.

I'm dealing with a sex offender at the moment who is now married and trying desperately to find housing but can't because his convictions immediately bar him from most available units.

According to WMC-TV in Memphis the state of Tennessee will require convicted sex offenders to carry a special driver’s license starting September 1, 2008.

Would-be neighbors fear for kids' safety
By NATALIA MIELCZAREK • Staff Writer (Tennessean) • March 30, 2008

A proposal to build a 30-house campus near Long Hunter State Park for recently released convicts drew so much opposition Saturday that its authors delivered two information sessions instead of one.

The Weekend Edition of the Wall Street Journal has an interesting article by Laurie Cohen on polygraph tests and their use as part of the probation process. Pretty interesting.

I’d like to thank The Tennessean, The Roanoke Times and others for the fact that South Carolina is likely making it’s handgun carry permit records off limits.

A victory for the rig

U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon is supporting legislation to close a loophole in a federal law requiring convicted child predators to register as sex offenders. "As a parent, I take the job of protecting...