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Sexual Predators
The Supreme Court said last week states can keep sex offenders locked up after their sentences have been served, and California's sexual offender data-base goes on-line this week. Are "Megan's laws" an effective weapon against sexual crimes or do they threaten basic civil rights, and encourage vigilantism?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readJAYNE MURPHY SHAPIRO: President of Kids Safe; she has worked hard for the passage of laws to protect children from sex crimes. ELIZABETH SCHROEDER: Associate director, ACLU Foundation of Southern California. LT. RON WILKERSON: Lieutenant, Orange County Sheriff's Department which has a Sex Offender Notification and Registration Team. FRED BERLIN, MD: Founder of the Sexual Disorders Clinic at Johns Hopkins University. SARAH SAPPINGTON: An assistant attorney general in Washington State; author of a brief to the Supreme Court on behalf of thirty-eight states supporting the Kansas civil commitment law. [WILL TALK ON CIVIL COMMITMENT ISSUES, NOT NOTIFICATION OR CD ROM.] JACK FURLONG: Former prosecutor, and now a defense lawyer who has represented many convicted sex offenders on the issue of civil commitment. VERN QUINSEY: Professor of psychology at Queens University, Ontario. LUCY BERLINER: Director of research Harbor View Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress. BOB ERLENBUSCH: Executive director, LA Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness.
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