Her grown daughter is a recovering addict, and her grown son lives in New York in police custody after being savagely assaulted by a sex criminal.
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Also Thursday-when legislators started their last meeting of the 2000 regular session-Pataki and the Legislature agreed to adopt tougher penalties for sex criminals.
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All states have laws requiring some kind of list of sex criminals, but some provide the public with the names of only those offenders deemed dangerous.
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That's one of the problems with policies like Megan's Law, which require that neighborhoods be warned when a convicted sex criminal moves in.
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The ruling was a defeat for states that use commitments to extend violent sex criminals'time locked away from the public because of concerns about repeat offenders.
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Every state has some form of Megan's law, named for a New Jersey child killed by a sex criminal who moved in across the street.
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A similar debate is ongoing in the United States, after Governor Pete Wilson of California last month made chemical castration a condition of parole for certain sex criminals.
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Every state has a sex predator law named for Megan Kanka, a New Jersey girl raped and killed by a convicted sex criminal who lived in her neighborhood.
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In Corpus Christi, Texas, Judge J . Manuel Banales recently ordered registered sex criminals to post notices on their homes and automobiles warning the public of their crimes.
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A high court ruling against Connecticut could force states to hold separate hearings for sex criminals to assess whether their names, addresses or other information will be made public.
