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Monday, January 21, 2013

Where Should Sex Offenders Live When They're Released?

After they've served their time, sex offenders by statute must be released into the communities where they committed their crimes. Understandably, this doesn't sit well with potential neighbors, but they have to go somewhere, right?

The almost-release of convicted sex offender Michael Fink into the Manree Park neighborhood touched a deep nerve throughout the community. Judge Eugene Gasiorkiewicz temporarily rescinded his release order because one of Fink's victims lives just a block or two away from Fink's proposed residence at 918 Lathrop Avenue. Fink was convicted first in 1987 of second degree sexual assault and served an 18-month sentence. He was then convicted of attempted burglary and got a five-year stint in prison. Then, in 1994, he was convicted of attacking two 12-year-old girls. After he served his sentence, he was found to be sexually violent under Wisconsin's 980 law and committed to the Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center in Mauston.  State statute says …

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Sex Offender Meeting Thursday at Fratt School, Sex Offender Placement Moved Because It's Too Close to Victim, and Judge Tells State to Quickly Find Home for Sex Offender

Mike Itzenhuiser

12:14 pm on Tuesday, January 29, 2013

There's got to be a deserted island somewhere???   more ›

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Sex Offender Placement Moved Because It's Too Close to Victim

The Racine Police Department has canceled a public information meeting that was scheduled for Thursday at Fratt School about the impending supervised release of convicted sex offender Michael Fink.

The state Department of Health Services confirmed Wednesday that convicted sex offender Michael Fink will not be moved to a home on Lathrop Avenue in Manree Park. In an email to Patch, DHS spokeswoman Claire Smith said the reason Fink's release is being relocated is because one of his victims lives in the area. "I can confirm that we will not be placing Mr. Fink at the location that was proposed," she wrote. "We make every effort to ensure that individuals who are placed in the community are not placed near their victims. Had we known that a victim lived within a block or two, we would not have chosen that location." A public information meeting had been scheduled for Thursday at Fratt School to help explain to neighborhood residents the …

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Sex Offender Meeting Thursday at Fratt School

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1:46 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013

You pay for his housing and food and medical. Because out of fear and hysteria no one will employ or rent to a registered sex offender. Most halfway houses and homeless shelters will not take them. Therefore, we all pay for them. We are creating a disenfranchised underclass that congress will have to pay for eventually. We learned nothing from the Germans in the forties.   more ›

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