Criminal Justice May Get New Legislation Against Convicted Sex Offenders
Personal lawyers for sexual predators, be aware, protection from sexual assault and abuse are the focus of Anchorage Representative Pete Petersen as he introduced his Child Protection Legislation. It is House Bill 278, “An Act allowing as a condition of probation for a defendant convicted of certain sex offenses a prohibition against the defendant’s residing at a residence where outdoor recreational equipment suitable for use by children under 16 years of age is located on the property.” Tuesday, January 17, 2012, it was read and then was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
"...if the judge has reason to believe a potential repeat-offender might use these toys to lure children into harm, then we need to give our justice system the power to stop them.” File photo
This legislation will mainly focus on prohibiting sex offenders, especially convicted sex offenders on parole, from committing another sexual assault by disallowing them to reside “at a residence where outdoor recreational equipment suitable for use by children under 16 years of age is located on the property”.
“We need to make sure judges have the tools they need to keep Alaskan children safe,” said Rep. Petersen. “If a person has done this type of thing before, or if the judge has reason to believe a potential repeat-offender might use these toys to lure children into harm, then we need to give our justice system the power to stop them.”
Included in the Alaska Law is the power to allow judges the discretion to require convicted sex offenders out on parole to refrain from committing the following: communicating with children less than 16 years of age, possessing or using a computer as well as using or creating an internet site, and residing within 500 feet away from a school.
One valuable tool for keeping your distance from sex offenders is the State of Alaska Sex Offender/Child Kidnapper Registration Central Registry . The State of Alaska has nearly three-thousand names listed in the Alaska Central Registry for sex offenders, seventy-four of those are non-compliant with the law that says that they must keep their addresses up to date on the registry. In the last couple of months, Alaska State Troopers have arrested non-compliant offenders for just this little detail that the sex offenders have not kept up with.
Ketchikan, Nenana, Noatak, Akiak, Alakanuk, and Chuathbaluk sex offenders all got knocks at their doors in the past couple months. Anthony Dick, age 28 of Ketchikan, and Jason Paul, 45, of Nenana both got arrested and are now compliant, according to the state’s database. So did Frank O. Booth, 54, Steven A. Kvamme, 42 and Joseph PENN, 31, all of Noatak.
Norman R. Lott, 56, and Steven A. Kvamme, 42 of Akiak, ditto. Norman R. Lott, 56, and Steven A. Kvamme, 42 of Akiak, also are now compliant. Alexie Phillips, 52, of Chuathbaluk, Alaska, was also arrested and is also now compliant with the law. That just leaves seventy-four more arrests to go, if those non-compliants choose to not identify their locations with the registry.
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“So basically, PetePetersen wants to make it illegal for a convicted sex offender to reside at ahome that has a playground in the backyard. Because obviously all sex offendersare pedophiles who can’t control their urges to molest children, but ONLY ifthey come onto their property. Right?
If someone -convicted sex offender or not – can’t control urges to molest children, theyare going to find a way to do it regardless of whether or not they have accessto a playground. Children are everywhere, and all the regulations in the worldwon’t stop a predator who has simply never been caught. Similar restrictions,prohibiting convicted sex offenders from living, working, and even movingthroughout an area where children frequent, have been proven consistently to beineffective at reducing crime and may actually increase recidivism.
Piling on morepunitive legislation on top of laws that have failed massively at reducing thenumber of new sex crimes yearly is simply not the answer. We absolutely mustshift our focus from lifelong punishment to prevention if we truly value a safesociety.”
My website is endsexcrime.org