Study Confirms High Sex Offender Concentrations, Mpls. Council Demands Solutions

This story is only interesting for one of the last sentences, which is extremely important   _______ Frustrations are mounting on an issue Minneapolis city leaders say is burdening nearly a dozen neighborhoods. A draft report, more than two years in the making, has found that certain areas of North and South Minneapolis have 790 predatory sex offenders clustered together

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FAC to take on "Internet Identifiers" with lawsuit

Last week a Judge in Illinois declared their requirement that registered citizens register all internet sites a registrant uses to be unconstitutional. The judge, in his opinion, quoted an earlier Nebraska federal court decision on the same issue, which held that ordering a sex offender to report all access to Internet sites “clearly chills offenders from engaging in expressive activity

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NBC2 Investigation: The sex offender 1,000-foot rule [WITH FAC COMMENTS]

1,000 feet is 1,000 feet, right?  Apparently not when measuring how far away sex offenders can live from parks and schools.  An NBC2 investigation uncovers differences in the way the state and local law enforcement agencies measure that distance. [FAC COMMENT: THANKS FOR MAKING A VERY VALID POINT FOR US. THESE ORDINANCES ARE VAGUE AND ARBITRARILY APPLIED, WHICH MAKE THEM

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Leaked emails show Florida police agency sought spyware

HMMMMM…. I WONDER WHAT THESE POLICE AGENCIES WERE GOING TO DO WITH A SOFTWARE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO SPY ON PEOPLE WITHOUT A WARRANTY?   MIAMI (AP) — An Italian company that sells surveillance software to governments and law enforcement agencies worldwide is negotiating to provide a Florida police agency with spyware technology that infiltrates phones and computers, according to

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