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Meetings

The Victorian Offender Treatment Association's (VOTA) meetings will be held on or close to the third Monday of the month. All members and guests are welcome to attend. Members will be reminded via email (if supplied) a week prior.

Meetings consist of discussion about the management of VOTA, upcoming seminars and events, other projects being undertaken by VOTA and will in as many cases as possible be followed by a guest speaker.

All meetings will be held at 6.00pm at La Notte, 140-146 Lygon St. Carlton, 3053.

If possible, send an RSVP to Anita Kilkenny 03 9512 1032 (Press 1 for VOTA) or secretariat@vota.org.au which allows us to make sure there is a chair for you.

In the news

• One in 20 registered sex offenders breaks release conditions - UK - 20 Oct 08
• Child Pornography Law - NSW Parliamentary Library Briefing Paper
• Standards and Guidelines for the Evaluation, Assessment, Treatment and Supervision of Juveniles Who Have Committed Sexual Offenses
• Balancing privacy and safety in the sex offender realm - 05 Oct 08
• Inside the minds of murderers and sex offenders - Transcript of interview with NZ clinical psychologist Nigel Latta - 07 Oct 08
• Tasmania's Justice Minister has rejected claims that he's not taking the rehabilitation of jailed sex offenders seriously - 03 Oct 08
• Sex offenders get tracking bracelets - 02 Oct 08
• Report by Australian Law Reform Commission has reportedly found 95 per cent of child sex offenders escape conviction - 03 Oct 08
• $4.3 Million in grants to enhance sex offender registry and notification programs - 02 Oct 08
• High-risk sex offenders in danger of being released without having addressed their behaviour - 30 Sep 08
• Police issue stern warning to vigilante - 30 Sep 08
• Sex offender legislation to be strengthened - WA - 01 Oct 08
• Elderly man who sexually abused eight members of his family over almost four decades sentenced to 18 years in jail - 30 Sep 08
• Poland to become the first EU country to impose chemical castration on convicted paedophiles - 26 Sep 08
• Church-based prison program proving a godsend in the battle to bring down New Zealand's alarming prisoner reoffending rate - 28 Sep 08
• Government taking Supreme Court action to keep one of South Australia's most notorious rapists behind bars permanently - 28 Sep 08
• Pedophile jailed for nine years - 26 Sep 08
• Teacher jailed for sex with student - 26 Sep 08
• Number of sex offenders caught breaching their reporting conditions in NSW has almost doubled in the past year - 23 Sep 08
• Rules for mandatory polygraph tests for sex offenders - UK - published 19 Sep 08
• Recidivism of Delaware Adult Sex Offenders Released from Prison in 2001
• Sex offenders to face lie tests - UK - 19 Sep 08
• Ferguson won't get my cash, vows vigilante - Qld - 20 Sep 08
• Images of convicted pedophiles and sex offenders living in WA will be posted on the internet - 20 Sep 08
• Changes to youth sex offender treatment recommended - NZ - 16 Sep 08
• Crown 'defective' in paedophile case - 16 Sep 08
• Sex offender alerts plan launched - UK - 14 Sep 08
• Sex offender charge a first - SA - 14 Sep 08