Click the title to go to the national sex offenders registry to search your neighborhood.
If you live in texas, you may click this
What would you do if this happened to you?
Its a story of a woman who discovers that a registered sex offender "family man" moves in on her block.... sending his child out with invitations for the neighborhood kids "get to know you party" if they were bringing parents, they needed to RSVP.
How come we arent notified?
there are flaws in the system, small infractions can put one on the list just as a predator of small children ( ie a 19 year old who has sex with his 16 yr old girlfriend, {statutory rape} is the same as one who repeatedly rapes 12 year old girl) Where is the line drawn?
How to Cope When a Registered Sex Offender Moves In
this article from same series has some thought provoking questions... and I dont know what the answers are. It seems unfair one has to move away from a home to avoid a scumbag like this. I would not be happy if one moved in near me.
In fact, I know of two that are near me in a place I frequent... I dont care to have them in my church, little league or cub scout area. I dont want them in my meetings, my grocery store parking lot. To do that to a child and rob them of their innocence is the most vile disgusting thing I can ever think of. In Texas, we have a free access data base with pictures and info on the person, complete with mug shots. To see the bastard laughing in public, smirking in update mug shots ( they have to register when they relocate)
And one of the cretins is married, his wife knows what he did to his stepdaughter who was not even a teen. How do you stay with a man like that? Now this man is to be a grandfather. Does the new daughter in law know about this mans past? Should I tell her? I would never want to risk my own childrens safety.
So what are our responsibilities towards others and towards these creeps? Do you turn a blind eye? Confront? One neighborhood actually paid off the guy to move away, with 100,000.00 over market value for his home. Is that extortion? It definitely profitting from the tears of a child.
The world is a mad place.
Legally Dealing with a Registered Sex Offender in Your Neighborhood
Good info before you go charging off with a lynch mob...
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Friday, October 2, 2009
California Cuts funding, Shuts 6 Womens DV Shelters
Excerpt from the NYTimes article... click title to read full article
Shelters have also dropped 24-hour services, cut overnight staff at emergency centers and eliminated more comprehensive services like safe visitation centers, where staff members are posted when children are dropped off or picked up as part of custody agreements.
“Our members are struggling to keep their doors open,” said Tara Shabazz, the executive director of the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, which represents the state’s nonprofit shelters.
In July, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger eliminated the remaining financing for the state’s Domestic Violence Program — some $16 million — in the face of a lingering budget gap of nearly $500 million. Legislators had closed most, but not all, of a $24 billion deficit.
Mr. Schwarzenegger has said he regretted the decision but had no choice. “The governor understands how difficult these cuts are,” said Aaron McLear, a spokesman. “But he can’t promise money we don’t have.”
Other states, including New Jersey and Illinois, have struggled to find ways to keep domestic violence centers open, but national advocacy groups say no state has gone as far as California in “zeroing out” domestic violence money.
“California is by far the most extreme and shocking example,” said Sue Else, the president of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, a group in Washington. “We’re appalled that this is the way that the governor would seek to balance the budget.”
The cuts to the program, which is part of the State Department of Public Health, means that the 94 nonprofit agencies charged with running the state’s domestic violence shelters have lost about $200,000 each. For most, that amounts to more than 40 percent of their anticipated annual financing, although agencies have received money for other shelter services from the federal stimulus package and the state’s emergency management agency.
Erik Sternad, the executive director of Interface Children Family Services in Ventura County, near Los Angeles, said his organization had initially believed that it would lose all five of its transitional shelters — usually multibedroom homes in suburban areas — where about three dozen women and children could live for up to 18 months. In the end, one was sold, one was transformed into youth services, and the final three were eventually saved by private donations. But of those, two have money assured only through June 30, the end of the fiscal year.
“We know that this money is going to run out about nine months from now,” Mr. Sternad said.
The pain has been most acute in remote areas. The Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalition in Grass Valley, northeast of Sacramento, is the only such facility in that area. The coalition closed its 12-bed shelter, leaving five families in the lurch.
Niko Johnson, the coalition’s executive director, said her staff managed to find places for those families to stay, but has since had to turn away 14 women with 8 children.
“We had to give a voucher for a motel,” she said. “When women get to that point and are ready to make a change, it’s hard to say we can give you three nights in a motel. They ask, ‘What next?’ ”
At the same time, Ms. Else, of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, said the impact of a sour economy, including job losses and foreclosures, added to the need for services.
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Pitiful... Words fail me at times like this when we have such stupid ass spending that is so out of control, bailing out Insurance and banking concerns and throwing women and children on the streets or sending them back to the abuse they left.
Shelters have also dropped 24-hour services, cut overnight staff at emergency centers and eliminated more comprehensive services like safe visitation centers, where staff members are posted when children are dropped off or picked up as part of custody agreements.
“Our members are struggling to keep their doors open,” said Tara Shabazz, the executive director of the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, which represents the state’s nonprofit shelters.
In July, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger eliminated the remaining financing for the state’s Domestic Violence Program — some $16 million — in the face of a lingering budget gap of nearly $500 million. Legislators had closed most, but not all, of a $24 billion deficit.
Mr. Schwarzenegger has said he regretted the decision but had no choice. “The governor understands how difficult these cuts are,” said Aaron McLear, a spokesman. “But he can’t promise money we don’t have.”
Other states, including New Jersey and Illinois, have struggled to find ways to keep domestic violence centers open, but national advocacy groups say no state has gone as far as California in “zeroing out” domestic violence money.
“California is by far the most extreme and shocking example,” said Sue Else, the president of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, a group in Washington. “We’re appalled that this is the way that the governor would seek to balance the budget.”
The cuts to the program, which is part of the State Department of Public Health, means that the 94 nonprofit agencies charged with running the state’s domestic violence shelters have lost about $200,000 each. For most, that amounts to more than 40 percent of their anticipated annual financing, although agencies have received money for other shelter services from the federal stimulus package and the state’s emergency management agency.
Erik Sternad, the executive director of Interface Children Family Services in Ventura County, near Los Angeles, said his organization had initially believed that it would lose all five of its transitional shelters — usually multibedroom homes in suburban areas — where about three dozen women and children could live for up to 18 months. In the end, one was sold, one was transformed into youth services, and the final three were eventually saved by private donations. But of those, two have money assured only through June 30, the end of the fiscal year.
“We know that this money is going to run out about nine months from now,” Mr. Sternad said.
The pain has been most acute in remote areas. The Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalition in Grass Valley, northeast of Sacramento, is the only such facility in that area. The coalition closed its 12-bed shelter, leaving five families in the lurch.
Niko Johnson, the coalition’s executive director, said her staff managed to find places for those families to stay, but has since had to turn away 14 women with 8 children.
“We had to give a voucher for a motel,” she said. “When women get to that point and are ready to make a change, it’s hard to say we can give you three nights in a motel. They ask, ‘What next?’ ”
At the same time, Ms. Else, of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, said the impact of a sour economy, including job losses and foreclosures, added to the need for services.
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Pitiful... Words fail me at times like this when we have such stupid ass spending that is so out of control, bailing out Insurance and banking concerns and throwing women and children on the streets or sending them back to the abuse they left.
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