All 50 U.S. States Join Website Listing Convicted Sex Offenders
An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
US authorities said all 50 states have joined a national web site that lists addresses and other details of convicted sex offenders.More here.
The states of South Dakota and Oregon were added last week to the registry, which "provides real-time access to public sex offender data nationwide with a single Internet search," the Department of Justice said in a statement.
The online database includes more than 500,000 convicted sex offenders who are required to register their address with local authorities.
posted by Fergie @ 7/03/2006 01:29:00 PM
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