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The Accidental Sex Offender
"The Accidental Sex Offender" sheds crucial light on how America's sex-offender laws can ensnare underage high-school sweethearts, labeling young lovers as felons for life- and placing them on public sex offender registries, alongside violent predators and pedophiles.
Tags: Sex offenders; laws; felons; pedophiles; predators;
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Pay Day Lenders Skirt Law
The story revealed how a high end race car driver who is also a convicted felon is partnering with an Indian tribe to run a multi-million dollar payday loan business. By partnering with the tribe the lenders do not have to follow any state laws. The lender is currently under multiple investigations by attorneys general.
Tags: payday loan; Better Business Bureau; property tax records
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Violent Felon Went Unnoticed
In this breaking news report, LaForgia, Roldan and Playford deployed great investigative skills to report on the murder of two young children who died at the hands of a felon that went unnoticed by the Department of Children and Family.
Tags: breaking news; felon; social services
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Sex offender, other felons ran camps for homeless kids
This investigation "found that Palm Beach County officials paid a convicted child molester, drug dealers, thieves and other people with criminal records nearly half a million dollars in public money to run summer camps for homeless, foster and impoverished children during the past three years."
Tags: child safety; sex offender; criminal records; child care; criminal background; camp; child welfare
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Trouble in Jayhawk Nation
A look into the University of Kansas' athletic program reveals a corrupt system. The Star reveals that the university's athletic director was paid an exorbitant salary and also uncovers connections between university officials and the felon who illegally resold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of basketball tickets.
Tags: University of Kansas; athletic department; ticket resale; basketball; travel expenses; salary
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Wiped Clean
The investigation examines the loopholes in the federal system that allow revoked gun dealers to continue operations. The authors found at least 52 revoked dealers in the country still connected to gun-dealing operations. Because background checks are not required, felons were found practicing shooting at gun shop shooting ranges.
Tags: guns; gun dealers; loophole; background checks; gun rights
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Lee Sheriff's Link With Felon Raises Influence Fears
Lee County’s Sheriff has been close friends with a convicted money launderer and kidnapper. During the campaigns for sheriff, he obtained money and advice from the convicted felon. Though, being associated with a felon is not a crime, it is prohibited by the sheriff’s office policy. Once the sheriff learned of his past, he talked less and less to him but they still remain friends today.
Tags: Mike Scott; Richard Spence; law enforcement; police officers; deputies; drug cartel; corruption; connections
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"Deporting Justice"
In an ongoing television series, WFAA-TV reveals that thousands of felons accused of murder, rape and assault are often deported instead of standing trial. In Dallas, many of the accused felons are Mexican citizens who, instead of facing criminal trial in the states, are put on a bus and shuttled back to Mexico where they are set free. Deporting the accused felons also decreases the chance of "jail overcrowding."
Tags: deportation; Dallas County; immigration; ICE; Immigration and Customs Enforcement;
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Felons Working in Higher Education
After Weber State University implemented a background check policy for current and incoming faculty and staff, The Signpost uncovered at least eight employees who were convicted of a felony or had "serious misdemeanors" on their records. Since the investigation started, three WSU employees are no longer employed at the university.
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Compromised Care
Illinois is an outlier among states in its reliance on nursing homes to house younger adults with mental illness, including thousands of felons whose disabilities qualify them for Medicaid-funded nursing care. The reporters documented numerous recent cases in which elderly and disabled residents were assaulted, raped and even murdered in the facilities.
Tags: nursing home; mental illness; Medicaid; criminals; Illinois; police records; health department inspection data; complaint investigations; criminal records;