Sex Offenders in OklahomaWritten by Jon and Ruth Udden
A Clarification of Sex Offender Classification From: sexoffendersoklahoma.com Herein lies problem in majority of communities in Oklahoma. The lack of sufficient : ENFORCEMENT-- REGISTRATION --IDENTIFICATION--AND NEIGHBORHOOD NOTIFICATION There is a major sense of false security and misunderstanding parents have in regards to their child's safety and protection against pursuit of sexual predators. Coupled with fact that in main law enforcement, including our elected city, county and state officials collectively, lack a thorough understanding of Title 57 of Oklahoma Constitution. Title 57 places restrictions on all convicted sex offenders. These restrictions are levied according to severity and frequency of offence adjudicated by a court of law be it a judge and/or jury. Inform your state and local elected officials or police department that as a citizen, taxpayer and voter you want to be able to see on web a picture of any sex offender who has moved into your neighborhood and personally be informed of same. Under state law, Title 57 of Oklahoma state statute says you as a citizen have right to be informed by your local police department in any manner they deem appropriate. Community notification is not required in Oklahoma. If a sex offender resides within city limit of a given municipality Oklahoma law requires that all cities use their law enforcement personnel to record and maintain a record of predator for a period of 10 years. This is assuming predator of his own volition reports to police station and completes necessary forms as prescribed by law. A sex offender living outside a given municipality comes under jurisdiction of county sheriffs office. The law applies equally between city and county law enforcement officials. Presently inorder to locate an individual sex offender in Oklahoma requires searching 77 counties and an untold number of both large and small cities. The reason being each entity can independently display sex offenders on internet. They may not display a predator outside their city limits or county jurisdiction. At present there are only 12 city and 2 county sheriffs departments with websites that display and provide sex offender information. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections website does an outstanding job of displaying sex offenders. They show sex offenders that have been classified as habitual or aggravated. This is only tip of iceberg. For this reason it is purpose and intent of sexoffendersoklahoma.com to become focal point for gathering and displaying sex offender information. Our goal is to provide parental education, child abuse and sex offender awareness statewide in order to protect and guard our children against sexual predators. Ultimately, you Mr. & Mrs. Citizen, with click of a mouse will be able to see picture of and identify all sex offenders residing in your neighborhood. Oklahoma has 3 classifications; at present they are: 1. (habitual) This sex offender has been convicted of more than one sex crime. Somewhere in this country, a predator attempts to abduct a child every 4 1/2 minutes!
| | Mending Broken TrustWritten by Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
The following article is offered for free use in your ezine, print publication or on your web site, so long as author resource box at end is included, with hyperlinks. Notification of publication would be appreciated.Title: Mending Broken Trust Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. E-mail: mailto:margaret@innerbonding.com Copyright: © 2004 by Margaret Paul Web Address: http://www.innerbonding.com Word Count: 935 Category: Relationships MENDING BROKEN TRUST Margaret Paul, Ph.D. Dylan and Hannah were to be married in a month when Hannah found out that Dylan had been cheating on her with another woman. Devastated, she ended their relationship. Dylan was also devastated. He really loved Hannah and had no idea why he had been having an affair with a woman who meant nothing to him. Fortunately, Dylan reached out for help and started phone sessions with me. In course of his Inner Bonding work, he discovered deep feelings of worthlessness from a highly abusive childhood. He had learned to define his worth through women and sex, and was addicted to validation he received from women. He had no idea how to fill and validate himself and was driven to appease his fear and anxiety through sex with multiple women. Dylan also discovered that he was terrified of being controlled due to his angry and controlling mother, and having an affair was a way to protect himself from this fear. Hannah frequently used anger as a way to have her way and Dylan had never learned how to stand up for himself, having learned to be a caretaker for his parents. Withdrawing into his addiction was only way he knew of not being controlled. While Dylan believed in God, he had no connection with a personal source of spiritual guidance. As he learned and began to practice six steps of Inner Bonding and developed his spiritual connection, Dylan began to fill up from inside instead of having always to fill up from outside. Dylan was diligent regarding his Inner Bonding work, and within a short time, he knew that his sexual addiction was behind him. He had no more desire to act out sexually. He loved Hannah and just wanted to be with her. Dylan was also healing old guilt from his parents’ blame and abuse. He was learning to stand up for himself rather let himself be controlled, to speak his truth rather than comply out of fear and guilt to another’s demands. At this point, he contacted Hannah. She was still hurt and furious and had no trust in him at all. However, she still loved him, and was confused about what to do. Her family and friends advised her to stay away, but she heard something new in Dylan’s voice that compelled her to open up a bit. She started phone sessions with me as well. “I love him but how can I ever trust him again?” she asked over and over. Instead of working on trusting Dylan, we worked on Hannah learning to trust herself. As we went back through relationship, it became apparent to Hannah that she had been ignoring inner promptings that told her something was wrong. She had not trusted her own inner knowing. Out of fear of conflict, she had let many events go by that, if she would have confronted them, would have shed light on problems much earlier. Instead of speaking her truth, she had learned to get angry as a way to protect against her fears of rejection. Hannah worked on developing her spiritual connection with a source of guidance that helped her begin to trust her inner knowing. As she stopped abandoning herself and learned how to take care of herself so that she no longer needed to control Dylan to feel safe, her anger subsided.
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