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This is what comes up when you go to the State of Vermont's sex offender website. Although it appears that it probably meets the letter of the law, it comes nowhere near what the spirit of the law instructed the various states to do. Is it any wonder that a state so hostile to parents trying to protect their children from the worst of society could produce a Judge Edward Cashman? This is exactly the type of hostility the framers of the Wetterling and Megan Laws were trying to stop. Notice how smug and Democrat sounding the preamble is. "Access...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- A national registry on Friday began accepting names of Americans who take the anti-acne drug Accutane, part of a federal effort to limit use of the birth-defect-causing drug by pregnant women. Doctors, wholesalers and pharmacies had until Friday to register with the computerized "iPledge" registry in order to continue prescribing or selling Accutane and any of the three generic versions of the drug, known as isotretinoin. Generic versions are sold as Amnesteem, Claravis or Sotret. The Food and Drug Administration has tried for more than 20 years to limit the exposure of fetuses to the drug,...

A 40-year-old man with a history of disputes with police has been arraigned on a charge of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Const. Valérie Gignac in Laval, north of Montreal. François Pepin had been charged repeatedly with issuing death threats and harassing police officers and court workers. He was under a ten-year court order barring him from possessing firearms, the CBC's Amanda Pfeffer reports from Laval. François Pepin Despite the ban, which dated from 1999, he had asked for, and was granted, permission to use a gun for hunting during the fall season. He had been charged in...

TAMPA - The last contact Qiana Landry had with her mother was just after floodwaters began inundating her New Orleans neighborhood last week. ``I called her on the cell phone at 8:50 that night, and she said there was only a few inches of water,'' Landry said Monday sitting in a Tampa Red Cross center. ``I wanted to see if Davin got there yet.'' Davin Landry, Qiana's husband, waded through waist- high water for 10 blocks before he had to turn back halfway to his mother-in-law's house. The water was rising quickly; a nearby levee had broken. He knew he...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Information on sex offenders will be available on a new Internet site run by the federal government. Participation by states is voluntary. The Justice Department said it hoped to have the site up and running within two months. The announcement Friday by Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales coincided with National Missing Children's Day. The site will not provide any information not already made available on the Internet by 49 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. But it will be designed to allow someone to do a national search online to determine whether a person who has...

On March 3, four young RCMP officers, the eldest being only 32 years of age, were ambushed, shot and killed by James Roszko on his property in Mayerthorpe Alberta, a small town 130 kilometers northwest of Edmonton. After being shot and wounded by return fire, Roszko killed himself. The police went to Roszko’s after receiving information there was a marijuana grow op on his property as well as automobile parts that were believed to have been stolen. Around the same time and half a country away, the Liberal Party of Canada was beginning its four-day convention in the nation’s capital....

Michigan will post photos of sex offenders online 1/30/2005, 4:48 p.m. ET The Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan plans to start posting the photos of convicted sex offenders on the Internet in May, a move some say will keep the public safer but others say is unfair to offenders who are on the list but aren't considered dangerous. Thirty-nine other states already post the photos of convicted sex offenders online. Michigan has been posting the addresses of offenders since 1999, but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that the photos of convicted offenders also could be publicly...

SAN FRANCISCO — Already under fire for his alleged mishandling of federal election funds, California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley now is reconsidering his controversial plan to spend at least $40 million on a new statewide voter registry. Federal election reforms require all states to keep computerized lists of voters to help prevent fraud and to weed out ineligible voters from the rolls. For many months, Shelley has advocated creating an entirely new system with federal funds. But Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters Conny B. McCormack recently criticized the plan as a waste of money. She said the state...

A grand jury indicted a man who authorities said submitted phony voter-registration cards in the names of Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and star athletes. Chad Staton was charged with 10 counts of false registration. He was being held yesterday in the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio pending a bond hearing and arraignment Wednesday in Defiance County Common Pleas Court. Staton was arrested last week after being indicted by a Defiance County grand jury investigating allegations that a woman paid him with cocaine in exchange for registration efforts. Authorities have said Staton filled out phony voter forms himself rather than getting...

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The cash-strapped federal gun registry will miss out on more than $46-million in fees from gun owners this year by giving away 770,000 free licence renewals so that bureaucrats can catch up on their paperwork. Those firearms owners who were randomly chosen by the Canada Firearms Centre for the free extensions of up to four years should receive their notices in the mail next week. The unusual move is to head off an expected deluge of applications to renew licences -- which are normally valid for five years -- as the fifth anniversary of the original Jan. 1, 2001, firearms...

The omnibus appropriations bill passed by the Senate on Thursday contains several important reforms in federal gun laws, to protect the privacy of people who lawfully exercise their constitutional rights. Most of the reforms undo abuses of federal power introduced in the Clinton era. First, the bill — which passed the House in 2003 — requires that federal records on lawful gun purchasers who are approved by the National Instant Check System be destroyed within 24 hours. As I detailed in an NRO article, when Congress created the NICS in 1993, it added an amendment to require destruction of records...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate has voted to outlaw deceptive "spam" e-mail, and set up a "do-not-spam" registry for those who do not want to receive unsolicited commercial e-mail. Internet "spammers" who flood e-mail inboxes with pornography and get-rich-quick schemes could face jail time and million-dollar fines under the bill, which passed by a vote of 97 to 0. The vote marks the first time the Senate has taken action against an online scourge that now accounts for 50 percent of all e-mail traffic, frustrating consumers and costing businesses billions of dollars in wasted bandwidth and lost productivity. Similar...

Oswego County will run a gun amnesty program this month that allows residents to register unregistered pistols without penalty. The County Clerk's Office, sheriff's department, and office of County Judge James McCarthy started the program to reach out to people who don't know how to register their weapons. McCarthy, who serves as the permit licensing officer, said the group was concerned about families who inherit wartime souvenirs brought home by veterans that were never registered. "If you've got guns out there that aren't registered, it's better to have them on a permit than unregistered," McCarthy said. The county developed the...

Registered Sex Offender Indicted In Girl's Murder Teen Strangled While Attending Concert POSTED: 1:17 p.m. MDT July 30, 2003 UPDATED: 1:20 p.m. MDT July 30, 2003 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A registered sex offender accused of fatally choking a teenage girl in a downtown Albuquerque theater was indicted Tuesday on several counts by a Bernalillo County grand jury. Dominic Akers, 22, was indicted on charges including murder, criminal sexual penetration and kidnapping. Authorities said Marissa Mathy-Zvaifler, 16, of Santa Fe, was strangled July 16 at the Sunshine Theater, where she was attending a concert. Akers worked at the theater as...

Database to Monitor International Students Students Must Register Personal Data by Friday Photo/Garrett Hubing International students must turn in registration paperwork at the SISS office, located in the International House. Send us a letter to comment on this article. By REGINA CHEN Contributing Writer Tuesday, July 29, 2003 UC Berkeley international students must register personal information into a new government database spawned by the USA PATRIOT Act by this Friday or leave the country within 15 days. Called the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), the database expands monitoring of foreign students, providing instantly accessible electronic data to...

<p>Andre Aniba acknowledges he hasn't always played by the rules. In 1998, the former pastry chef came to the United States from Tunisia on a three-month tourist visa. He has lived here ever since. But when Congress passed legislation two years later that allowed illegal immigrants to apply for permanent residency, Aniba quickly sent in the proper forms. Early this year, when the government called on visitors from 25 nations that are considered havens for terrorists to register with immigration authorities, he dutifully appeared.</p>

Islamabad, July 29, IRNA -- Most of the people deported from the US since Sept 11, 2001 are from Pakistan, a close US ally in the war against terror, a news report said on Tuesday. In addition, a large number of the 13,000 men set aside in what will be the largest deportation in US history are also from Pakistan, according to the local Dawn newspaper. Statistics released this week by the Department of Homeland Security shows that nearly 35 percent of the people deported from the United States in the last two years were Pakistanis. Pakistan is also one...

The sea to sea rally of Canada's Unregistered Firearms Owners Association (CUFOA) has been underway for about a month. It started on June 27 in Saskatoon, and has by now pretty much crossed the country from Victoria to St. John's. On July 29, the rally plans to convene on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, at which time some organizers will present affidavits that may result in their arrest. In essence, the affidavits (some have been made available on the Internet) will state that the affiants possess unlicensed firearms they have no intention of registering as required by law. "I will not...

Two men accused of having sex with runaway they met at library Authorities today accused two men of having sex with a 13-year-old male runaway they met in a public library.Jackson County prosecutors charged Thomas Luce, 46, of Independence with one count of statutory sodomy. Juan Chester, 39, of Kansas City faces two counts.Based on statements made to police, authorities are testing the men for HIV. Police also are investigating whether there might be more victims.Independence police said that about 12:30 a.m. Saturday, they found the 13-year-old boy inside Luce's apartment, 1109 S. Brookside Avenue. The boy's mother had reported...