Dozens of Wisconsin municipalities have expanded the areas where convicted sex offenders are allowed to live after being released from prison.

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A Cottage Grove man will be on probation for five years for setting fire last year to the future home of a convicted sex offender.

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Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney said Monday the Wisconsin Department of Health Services is no longer seeking to place a convicted sex offender from Milwaukee in the town of Eldorado.

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A Milwaukee County judge is expected to decide next week whether a violent sex offender granted supervised release should live in a small community in Fond du Lac County where residents are angry over the possible placement.

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Opposition is growing in Eau Claire to the release of a convicted sex offender from Wisconsin's treatment program.

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A convicted child sex offender is accused of violating the rules of his probation by volunteering at a charity haunted house geared toward children in southeast Wisconsin.

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A three-judge panel has ruled a state law prohibiting sex offenders from taking photographs of children under 17 is unconstitutional.

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A Wisconsin lawmaker has proposed a change in state law that would end the ability of the state's municipalities to set their own local rules on sex offender residency.

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A state appeals court threw out charges Thursday against a sex offender who clipped photos of children out of magazines and newspapers, ruling he can possess the images because he didn't create them himself.

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A 33-year-old man has been found guilty in Dodge County of making bomb threats and being a child sex offender working with children.

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A Kenosha woman has been ordered to register as a sex offender after being convicted of sexual assault of an inmate at the prison where she worked.

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A state appeals court has ruled a 13-year-old Shawano County boy must register as a sex offender following his conviction for assaulting a girl he was babysitting.

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The Wisconsin Legislature has passed a bill requiring registered sex offenders to notify school officials before going onto school grounds.

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Some Green Bay residents are fighting the placement of a sex offender in their community.

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The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court considered this week whether a sex offender convicted before the enactment of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act has standing to challenge the constitutionality of the law and of an interim rule that retroactively applied the law to him.

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Sex Offender Registration Failure to provide address A sex offender cannot be convicted of failing to provide his post-release address, where he was unable to locate post-release housing. “Dinkins’ primary contention, as we construe it, is that he could not ...

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