The Kansas House moved Monday to ease penalties on some small-time drug offenders and to take employers’ addresses off the state sex offender web site.
Kansas House approves sex and drug bills
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List of bills considered by the Missouri Legislature in its 2012 session
HOW MEASURES FARED
Here are some of the measures considered by the Missouri Legislature this session:
Session nears closing amid relative calm
Many big ideas died at Capitol.
JEFFERSON CITY — On the afternoon before lawmakers adjourn for the year, it is often difficult to move through the corridors of the Capitol as throngs of lobbyists and visitors press for final action on pet bills
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/may/18/session-nears-closing-amid-relative-calm/
Debate rages over severity of child-porn sentences
NEW YORK (AP) – Their crimes are so loathsome that some hardened courtroom veterans recoil at viewing the evidence. Yet child-pornography offenders are now the focus of an intense debate within the legal community as to whether the federal sentences they face have become, in many cases, too severe.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-04-29/child-porn-sentencing/54627418/1?csp=hf
America’s expensive sex offenders
Ballooning costs are making states rethink laws that would keep these criminals in civil detention for life
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/17/americas_expensive_sex_offenders/singleton/