Sexual Predator Law

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Hospital must return papers to patient in sex predator unit
Associated Press
June 3, 2008
A district court judge has taken Larned State Hospital to task for how it has treated a patient in its sexual predator unit who has complained about conditions there. The patient, Mark Brull, contends he is being harassed by hospital staff. The state Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, which operates the hospital and its sexual predator unit, denies the allegation.
Lawmakers clash over sex offender policy
Costly program keeps inmates for treatment
By Scott Rothschild
March 23, 2008
Kansas’ controversial program that indefinitely holds sexual offenders past their prison sentence continues to produce friction among lawmakers. Last week, a move to require an audit of the program was defeated by legislators who said the request was a threat to public safety and jobs.
Offender told to register for assaulting dog
J-W Staff Reports
March 21, 2008
A 20-year-old Wichita man has been sentenced to six months in jail for having sex with a dog — and has been ordered to register as a sex offender.
Predator treatment questioned
By Scott Rothschild
March 12, 2008
Lawmakers on Tuesday expressed concern about the effectiveness and increasing cost of the state’s sex predator treatment program.
MySpace gives sex offender list to AG
By Scott Rothschild
June 9, 2007
Hundreds of registered sex offenders in Kansas are using the MySpace Web site, according to the attorney general’s office.
MySpace providing offender details
Information will be used to determine possible violations of probation and parole
By Scott Rothschild
May 27, 2007
Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison said a recent agreement with MySpace Web site to provide information on thousands of sex offenders is just one step in continuing efforts to monitor social networking on the Internet. “We’re working on a couple of things with these providers,” Morrison said recently.
Loophole closed in sex offender law
By Steve Vockrodt
May 18, 2007
A legal loophole that Kansas legislators and Attorney General Paul Morrison feared could let some repeat sex offenders off the hook with weaker sentences was closed this week.
Critics call registry for sex offenders vague, unfair
State system makes no distinction between rapists and molesters and young men in a relationship
By Eric Weslander
August 27, 2006
The other day, Brad Totman says, his wife came home nearly in tears. Some neighborhood children who play with the couple’s 3-year-old daughter had said they couldn’t play with her anymore because Totman might “touch them.”
Child molester to be released
Evaluator: Offender no longer a ‘sexually violent predator’
By Eric Weslander
July 27, 2006
A repeat child molester from Lawrence won’t be going back to his lock-up in a treatment program at Larned State Hospital.
Registered sex offender who lobbied for homeless is missing
The Associated Press
June 29, 2006
A registered sex offender who frequented public meetings here in recent years as a lobbyist for the homeless is missing.
Gov. Sebelius signs ‘Jessica’s Law’
Harsher penalties to be imposed on sex offenders who prey on children
By John Hanna - Associated Press Writer
May 25, 2006
Many first-time sex offenders who prey on children will face 25 years in prison under a politically popular “Jessica’s Law” signed Wednesday by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.
Registered sex offender faces new charges
By Eric Weslander
May 12, 2006
A man who already is listed as a sex offender on the state’s offender registry has been charged with molesting a young female acquaintance.
Senate acts on compromise on sex offender legislation
By Carl Manning - Associated Press Writer
May 3, 2006
Getting tough on child molesters and other sex offenders has been a priority for legislators since the start of the session, and now they’re in position to send a bill to the governor to do just that.
Sexual predator won’t be moving in
By Megan Price, Scott Rothschild, Eric Weslander
April 29, 2006
Sexual predator Leroy Hendricks won’t be moving to Leavenworth County. The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld a decision from Leavenworth County that prevented the state from moving Hendricks out of a special treatment program for violent sexual predators to a group home in rural Leavenworth County.
Supreme Court denies sex predators’ placement
By Scott Rothschild
April 28, 2006
The Kansas Supreme Court today ruled in favor of preventing sex predator Leroy Hendricks from living in a home in Leavenworth County In its unanimous decision, the court also said the Legislature must address the issue of where sex predators can live once they have left the state’s civil confinement treatment program.

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