(1) California requires that if a sex offender’s GPS tagging device signals that he’s in a prohibited area, parole agents must immediately respond, but that law was easier to pass than to implement. As of June, according to a San Diego Union- Tribune investigation, the state had fallen about 31,000 responses behind. (2) A July Illinois law requires that all hospital “rape kits” on victims be tested for blood and DNA (in that finding a rapist, and certainly convicting him, without such evidence is often hopelessly difficult). Until now, 80 percent of the rape kits taken in the state had sat, untested. (As TV police dramas emphasize, many rape victims are reluctant to submit to the indignity of swabbing and photographing so soon after being violated and comply only because detectives assure them of the rape kit’s importance.)
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Today's services Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012
Hackett, Francis, services 10:30 a.m. at St. James Catholic Church.
Jirak, Sister M. Emeria, SSND, services 10:30 a.m. at Good Counsel Chapel, Mankato.
Peterson, Donald "Pete", services 11 a.m. at St. Immanuel Lutheran Church, rural Courtland.
VanStelten, Corrine Evelyn, services 11 a.m. at Centenary United Methodist Church in Mankato.
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Wells' city-owned Flame theater burning brightly
The Flame is one of the state's few city-owned theaters
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