Leroy Schad molested an 11 year old boy. Now District Judge Ron Svaty has sentenced him to five years of probation and house arrest, and ordered him to prominently post signs declaring his sex offender status
Schad said the loneliness and isolation imposed by the house arrest are the toughest to deal with.
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The Texas Department of Public Safety plans to update its online sex offender registry this spring to let people know where offenders work or go to school. https://records.txdps.state.tx.us/DPS_WEB/Sor/index.aspx
Anyone can go to the state’s site to look up a person by name or ZIP code. The information includes physical descriptions, photos, offenses, aliases and legal […]
The State of Oregon has placed criminally insane sex offenders in a residence at 177 N. 29th Ave., Cornelius. The program run by Luke-Dorf, a nonprofit Tigard-based mental-health provider, handles only sex offenders of the class “guilty except for insanity.”
Jerry Farstad, incarcerated for sodomy and sexual penetration with a foreign object,was quoted as saying […]
Friday the Sarasota Herald-Tribune published a searchable database from a nationwide list of 24,500 teachers who have been punished for a wide array of offenses. The SHT requested the information from the Florida Department of Education and then waited for years to gain access to the list.
The list was gathered and maintained by the National […]
Nearly two dozen North Texas cities have passed laws prohibiting sex offenders from living within 1,000 or 2,000 feet of schools, day-care centers, parks and other places frequented by children.
The attached Dallas Morning News story appears to argue that restricting the proximity of sex offenders to children doesn’t protect the little ones. To DMN […]
Aaron T. Gunn, a politically connected former teacher has avoided the sex offender registry for two years after pleading guilty to having sex with an eighth-grade student.
State Representative Chuck Espy, a Democrat from Clarksdale, was a scheduled character witness for Gunn. The judge says that during the trial, Espy patted Gunn on the back and […]
A Scottish police officer has been accused of revealing confidential details about paedophile, Albert Hay, to a resident of the town where the man was living.
Gerard McCartney, 41, of Grampian Police, denied a charge brought under the Data Protection Act at Elgin Sheriff Court earlier this week.
Last July more than 200 people in Keith […]
If you have a nose for criminal statistics, the Bureau of Justice Statistics can give you a snoot full in both PDF and spreadsheet form.
Topics covered include –
* crimes of violence (rape, gender sexual assault, robbery, assault) and theft (pocket picking, purse snatching, burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft), with […]
Giovanni Mola, 38, who claimed to have had 200 lovers, refused to wear condoms after starting a relationship with the woman in Edinburgh in 2003. His lover is now infected.
We have argued for several years that the AIDS epidemic can be brought to a rapid halt by publicizing the names of those infected with […]
A federal judge has ruled that The Child Online Protection Act is unconstitional.
Open Records Project activism against sex offenders dates nearly to the dawn of the Internet. However, trying to write a law limiting Internet publishing in any way is extremely difficult to do:
- In the United States, any such law must not violate […]