# Info about sex offenders **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 28, 2002, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-sex-offenders/111259 "2002-05-28T23:52:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-sex-offenders/111259/1 "2002-05-28T23:52:59Z")
No, not **me.** Sheesh. A guy who was my ex-girlfriends boyfriend before I was her boyfriend, well it turns out that he is on a list of sex offenders. Nice thing to put on your resume:rolleyes: . Anyway, I’m curious as to how much info about his “offense” I am allowed to know and who I would contact. The police? Here’s a link: [www.foxbaltimore.com/news/xtra/offenders/offenders/20874.htm](http://www.foxbaltimore.com/news/xtra/offenders/offenders/20874.htm) Mods, if this isn’t an appropriate link, please take it down. ---
**Author:** ![Forbin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Forbin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Forbin)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-sex-offenders/111259/2 "2002-05-29T00:58:32Z")
The police can probably show you the “Megan’s Law” information. You’ll have to go to the station house, sign in, and they will show it to you. It is exclusive. They don’t just wave it around, you have to sign in. Anyway, that’s true in California if I am not mistaken. I don’t know how it is where you live. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-sex-offenders/111259/3 "2002-05-29T01:26:31Z")
I’m not sure if sex offender lists are nationwide, so you might have to contact a police department in another state (if that’s where the offense occurred or where the list originated). Your local police department should be able to tell you what information they can and cannot provide for you.