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Sex Offender Registries Asked: Where Are All the Sex Offenders?
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2003, page 36
Sex Offender Registries Asked:
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Sex Offender Registration,
Statistics/Trends.
Location:
United States of America.
Where Are All the Sex Offenders?
An informal poll by the organiza-tion Parents for Megan's Law has revealed holes in states' abilities to track the location of convicted sex offenders who are required to register with local authorities under the so-called "Megan's Law" each state now …
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