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Fugitive Sex Offenders
State and federal authorities have lost track of 100,000 of the nation's 700,000 convicted sex offenders. This report examines the sex offender oversight that was supposed to have been addressed by a landmark 2006 law requiring states to keep uniform records on sex offenders. Only four states complied with this law.
Tags: sex offense; oversight; FOIA; sex offender tracking; AWOL
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No title (id: 7349)
Detroit News finds nearly 9 percent of the U.S. military reserves annually go AWOL; cost to federal government is more than $2 billion during the past five years to retrain replacements, Sept. 23 - 28, 1990.
Tags: MI Smith
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No title (id: 6368)
New York Post uncovers massive fraud by New York National Guard officials, including one general who skillfully derailed federal investigators; finds evidence of bribery in Congress and the Pentagon involving defense contracts; the guard allowed thousands of no-shows, or AWOLs, to remain on the books to inflate the guard's troop strength and mislead the Pentagon about the state guard's readiness for war or national disaster; the inflated figures allowed the guard to build its budget to nearly $400 million a year--triple the size of a decade ago, Dec. 11 - 13, 1989.
Tags: NY Weiss Army