News: New Hampshire
- Costs mount to support sex-offender laws
- By Lauren FitzPatrick, Gatehouse News Service, 2007-08-20.
- A detailed analysis of all the costs associated with sex-offender registries.
- Manchester considers sex-offender restrictions like those adopted in other towns
- By Scott Brooks, The Union Leader, 2007-08-14.
- The city of Manchester attempts to pass a law already shown by experience in other cities to be ineffective and counterproductive.
- Nashua considering sex-offender residency restrictions
- By The Associated Press, The Union Leader, 2007-08-14.
- Another New Hampshire City intent on wasting taxpayers’ money. Alderman James Tollner’s response to residency restrictions forcing sex offenders into homelessness where they have no address to register: “They have to register. If they don’t register, they’re breaking the law.”
- Statistics: most sex offenders know victims
- By The Associated Press, The Orlando Sentinel, 2007-07-22.
- More evidence that residency restrictions designed to keep strangers away from places where children congregate are pointless.
- Sanbornton may restrict where sex offenders live
- By Walter Alarkon, Concord Monitor, 2007-07-10.
- Sanbornton wants to join the small list of New Hampshire communities—Dover, Tilton, Northfield, and Franklin—intent on wasting taxpayers’ money on ineffective, feel-good policies.
- Laurie Peterson and HB 504
- By Lauren R. Dorgan, Concord Monitor, 2007-05-24.
- Laurie Peterson’s work on HB 504, a bill would have allowed some sex offenders who were younger than 21 at the time of their crimes to go before a judge and ask to be erased from the state’s sex-offender registry.