Thursday, October 12, 2017
Washington DC not tracking teachers with criminal records
Scott McFarland of NBC Washington reports on Washington DC’s
lack of a system to keep known sex offenders from resuming teaching in
Washington DC. Apparently the City is
unreliable in using the MASDTEC database, and other states might not find out
why a teacher was dismissed. e story aired on Wednesday Oct. 11, here.
There seem to be many problems with teacher background
checks. Stories about teachers started
to increase around 2006, after NBC aired its series “To Catch a Predator” with
Chris Hansen. Most offenders were
heterosexual.
Sunday, October 08, 2017
Sex trafficking laws can catch unknowing bystanders
While Backpage and Section 230 continue to provide legal
controversy, zealous prosecution of those who incidentally, and perhaps
inadvertently, assist sex trafficking of minors becomes a problem.
Truthout, in a long piece by Lauren Walker, describes a
federal conviction of a young woman who allowed an underage minor sex worker in
her mother’s apartment to change clothes and apparently have a sex act, as
guilty of trafficking and is on a sex offender registry for life (link). The young woman says she was told that the other girl was an adult. All of this is fallout from the Trafficking
Victims Protection Act.
One wonders if allow one's Internet connection to be used without one's knowledge for trafficking could qualify as an offense.
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