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...January 21, New York State became the 20th state in the nation to enact a law that requires convicted sex offenders to register with the authorities and mandates some form of community notification. New York's law applies to over 3,000 convicted sex offenders on parole or probation, all of whom must register with the local authorities and many of whom will be reported to institutions like women's shelters and schools as "high risk" offenders. New York's law is based on a more extreme New Jersey statute, commonly known as Megan's Law. This law was enacted...
...collection. "We have to face the situation as it is," he says. "I know the task seems impossible. But I am not afraid, because in my head my vision is very clear." Preval, says a Port-au-Prince political commentator, "will be lucky if he gets three months" to enact that vision before people revolt. Strikes, protests, barricaded roads could easily degenerate into violence and upheaval--a "crisis of ungovernability," as former President Leslie Manigat puts it--and that could trigger another boat exodus...
...about 400 homes where encoded programming will allow parents to selectively block out material rated on a scale of 0 to 5 for offensiveness. So far the V chip has sparked few objections in Canada. By mid-March the government is expected to decide whether or not to enact...
...nine people on the City Council. I think that all of them want to be mayor at some time or another and someone serving twice prevents them from [enjoying] this opportunity." Of course, Duehay and the Independents don't really mind the impasse because they are enable to enact their own executive policies as controllers of City Hall. And if the stalemate continues, Duehay will be able to delegate control of city government to committees of council members, the heads of which he will appoint. Pending no further council action, Duehay will have effective control over taxes, education, housing...
Predictably, civil libertarians are uneasy about the proposal, seeing it as yet another assault on free speech in cyberspace. Congress has already signaled its intent to enact legislation that would criminalize "indecent" speech online, rather than adopting the less onerous restriction against "obscene" speech that is the print standard...