Month: February 2010

In support of the Adam Walsh Act and Sex Offender Management

We do not think we have seen anything quite like this before.  Legislators have been successful in taking a minute problem and turning it into a monumental one.  All they needed was media assistance and a very gullible public to accomplish their goals.

We could do a lot of good with $7.3 million, but it seems that nothing is more important than funding laws that do not work and were not need in the first place.

But is $7.3 million enough to fully fund the AWA or is it a carrot for lawmakers who cannot do the math?

This breaks down to (.0146).146 million per state?  If you do straight math, which the government never does, $7,300,000 / 50= $146,000.  This is not including, D.C. and all of the territories, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Marianas Islands, Guam, Samoa.

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Department of
Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today announced more than $7.3 million in Fiscal Year 2009 grant assistance for state, local, and tribal governments for use in implementing, training, and maintaining and enhancing sex offender programs throughout the United States.

These grants, administered by OJP’s Office of Sex Offender Sentencing,
Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking (SMART), break down into three areas of funding: Adam Walsh Act (Title I) implementation, Comprehensive Approaches to Sex Offender Management (CASOM) support, and Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public

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SEXUAL OFFENDERS Proximity to schools is not a factor

SOSEN – JTC “Bridge Of Tyranny”

Re Fred Grimm’s March 5 column, Lobbyist pushed laws that push outcasts into homelessness: As an associate professor at Lynn University in Boca Raton, my primary area of research is sex-crime-policy analysis. Recent research in Florida confirmed that a sex offender’s proximity to schools and day care centers was unrelated to sexual recidivism.

Sex offenders who lived in close proximity to such facilities were not more likely to reoffend than those who lived farther away. Researchers from Minnesota also have reported that not one of 224 recidivistic sex offenses would have been prevented by a residential-restriction law.  Sex offenders do not molest children because they live near schools. They abuse when they are able to establish relationships with children and their families and misuse positions of familiarity, trust and authority. According to the Justice Department, 93 percent of sexually abused children are molested by family members, close friends or acquaintances. Children are most likely to be assaulted by people they know, not strangers lurking in schoolyards. Thus, residence restrictions do little to prevent the most common situations in which children are likely to be harmed.

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