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Police stay busy with sex offender site

By "eAdvocate"

What an unbelievable waste of taxpayer money for a glorified address book w/pics that tells everyone WHERE a registrant SLEEPS for a few hours of the day or night. There isn't a single research paper that proves, knowing where a registrant SLEEPS will PREVENT further crimes, or protect the public at all. 1-19-2011 West Virginia: CHARLESTON, W.Va.--Kanawha County's two "sexually violent predators," who are required to provide authorities with updates on their whereabouts every 90 days, last reported that they were living in homeless shelters in downtown Charleston. While there are only 23 such "sexually violent predators" statewide, a total of 3,228 offenders overall are now registered in West Virginia. Keeping up with them has becoming a big job for the State Police, with 639 officers responsible for that and a myriad of other duties...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on January 19, 2011 (boomark / email).