Category Archive for : ‘TRACKING SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS’

California has lost track of more than 33,000 convicted sex offenders, despite a law requiring rapists and child molesters to register each year for inclusion in the Megan’s Law database.  Sex offenders are not checking in with law enforcement, which in most cases is a felony and many overworked police departments are not following up.  Margaret Moore, who until recently ran California’s sex offender registry acknowledged, We don’t know where they are.  The state does not know the whereabouts of at least 33,296 sex offenders, or 44% of the 76,350

Daily Herald/Burt Constable

Douglas E. Day, a 44 year old paroled child molester, says of the concerned neighbors whocheered when police announced he had left their Gurnee subdivision, They’ll hound me wherever Igo, I can move, but then sooner or later, they’ll find out and run me out of town there, too. It’sjust going to start all over again. Day was on probation for molesting three young girls whenevidence of a fourth molestation wound up sending him to prison in 1997. He was labeled anindividual we considered to be very dangerous

A convicted rapist was released in March before Bergen County prosecutors could be told.  This release was not an accident but an example of the state’s failure to keep track of sex offenders who leave prison.  According to the New York Times, county prosecutors are routinely told just as sex offenders are walking out of prison, before any Megan’s law notifications can begin.  The Senate Judiciary Committee hired Michael Chertoff, a former United States attorney, after the Corrections Department admitted it made numerous errors before Raymond Alves was released in