How many sex offenders are there in your city?

In My Humble Opinion
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I got up the guts to visit the sheriffs department for a look see. We have 9. All males, kinda scuffy looking guys, none of who I know. We only have 15,200 people so thats kinda low.

There are some stats posted at abc7news.com for the SF Bay area if you want to search there for your Bay area city. Now do they have a lot!

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      • The sex-offender listing thing has gotten rather a bad rap in my town (pop 60,000, St Louis area). Recent newspaper stories found that a number of people’s names were placed on it in error, and people who were correctly placed on it often move around without informing the police properly. I haven’t ever gone down and looked at it though. - MC
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Here’s one listing site:

http://www.stopsexoffenders.com/statelistings.shtml

I don’t know how accurate it is - it lists a bunch in my zip code.

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According to beatle’s site, there are 9 in my town, but I don’t believe it.

This is Oklahoma, damn it. I thought we hung 'em all!

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15 men are listed in my zip code [Florida] - one listed twice with two different dates and addresses. What bothers me is the fact that the list [from the state govt site] says that there is no guarantee that those listed are really sex offenders. Info includes photo, address, status, offense and whether the offense involved a minor. I hope this list was NOT compiled like the infamous “Felons” list that was used to “cleanse” the registered voters list in the last election.

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That site doesn’t have California online, so you have to either call at $10 or visit the sheriff yourself. Im still not sure if you can copy the names of the guys & post on your website. Not that I’d want to.

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A guy in Quebec was just beaten to death because he was accused of being a sex offender.

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None in my town, which is sort of odd. I thought that we had at least one that I read about somewhere and the cops came through here a month ago asking if we had any objections to a sexual predator living in the area.

You know, this is odd. We have a couple of murderers living here, dozens of convicted and paroled drug dealers, scads of spouse abusers, assorted thieves and perverts but the only ones anyone are concerned with are sexual predators and those who use prostitutes. They publish the names of people who get caught buying hookers.

The only ones they ever ask if we mind having in the area are sexual predators. I think I’d me more concerned over a paroled murderer or drug dealer.

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How many sex offenders are there within earshot? It’s 3:15 a.m., and if I sneezed right now I’d wake up three child molesters and a rapist. Go to the Texas Department of Public Safety’s online database and search for my zip code, which is 78751, and see if you can guess my address.

http://records.txdps.state.tx.us/soSearch/soSearch.cfm

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There’s boatloads in my town, and I can look them up on the web. The State of Alaska Department of Public Safety maintains a registry of convicted sex offenders, who are supposed to register upon their release from incarceration.

Lots of info there too, including; photo, height, weight, age, race/ethnicity, “current” address, employer and employer address, and dates of conviction for the sex crimes among other stuff.

And you can do searches by city, zip code, name and address too.

As to be expected, there’s many Constitutional challenges to this whole registry thing, and for good reason I believe. The two major points being - 1) singleing out just sex offenders for registration; and 2) the reasonableness of making a person register himself when he served and completed his sentence decades before the sex offender registry ever existed.

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Okay, lets see what info you can get in Calif from that cdrom. name, date of birth, scars, zip code, county, & what they did, e.g. “sex with someone under 18”. Thats about it, if you want to find out where they are you have to look them up in your phone book, call them & ask ‘are you the guy on that SO list?’

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Fairly disturbing. I’m not exactly certain of the population of Spokane itself. In '96 it was about 200k, but I’ve recently seen it listed as slightly higher than 100k. I might be confusing numbers for the city and the county.

I seem to recall that this most recent campaign period, one of the candidates for a local position used statistics of something like 1,700 sex offenders in the greater Spokane area (entire county of Spokane) as part of her platform and was hellbent on reducing it.

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There are three on my street. I live, by the way, in a dorm at a women’s college.

Luckily we have a big wall.

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      • That is what set off the news investigations in my town: a guy was getting harassed (vandalization to his house and property, mostly) because apparently, somebody decided at one point to go look at the sex offender list at the local sheriff dept. They found an offender registered to an address, which was this guy’s address, and many neighbors commenced to dealing him major sh*t for it. This guy’s name was different from the other guy’s name, but somehow none of the ace citizen-detectives remembered to checked that. The real sex offender had moved out months earlier, and never registered his new address with the police. - MC