Audit says employee at Iowa sex offender unit falsified husband’s work hours to collect more than $50,000

Iowa’s sex offender treatment facility is facing questions over falsified time card records said to have netted an employee and her husband more than $52,000 in unearned income. For more than a year, the administrative assistant manipulated records to show her husband — a part-time employee of the facility — was working at times he wasn’t, according to an investigation

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Civilian sex stings aim at ‘street justice’

“When a vigilante does something like this and exposes somebody, you can’t use what they’ve gathered,” Kirshy said. “There’s no chain of custody, there’s no guarantee that what they have created — that being the video or the audio — is accurate.” There’s no procedures or protocols being followed in civilian operations and therefore no way to establish who’s on

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N.J. bill would help people with criminal records find housing… except…

New Jersey lawmakers are attempting to keep landlords from automatically disqualifying potential tenants who have criminal histories. Instead, bills under consideration encourage landlords to assess each applicant as an individual, taking into account factors such as severity of a crime and the amount of time since it occurred. New Jersey’s Fair Chance in Housing Act would prohibit landlords from asking

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‘Predator hunter’ leader indicted after alleged sting operation to trap supposed sexual predators

An Illinois man who created a Facebook group known to track potential sexual predators was charged in connection with a sting operation that went awry in early January, prosecutors said Monday. Kyle Swanson, 30, was indicted on a charge of unlawful restraint, obstruction of justice and assault in connection with his involvement with the KTS Predators Hunter Organization, according to

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74-year-old man required to register as a sex offender was wrongly convicted in 1982

Prosecutors withheld evidence that pointed to another suspect in the sexual assaults of two children, according to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. Nearly 40 years after Mallory Vernon Nicholson’s trial, a Dallas County district court judge has agreed with prosecutors and defense lawyers that his convictions for burglary and aggravated sexual abuse of a child should be overturned. Prosecutors

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