GROUP’S WEB SITE LISTS SEX CONVICTS

Syracuse Online/Sue Weibezahl

A Stony Brook based organization called Parents for Megan's Law, have the names, addresses,crimes and punishments listed of three hundred convicted sex offenders on an Internet Web site.Laura Ahearn, executive director of the organization said, we've had lots of positive feedback,people are so supportive and so thankful. One parent wrote that they lived right across the streetfrom a convicted sex offender and never knew it. In its first week of operation, the Parents forMegan's Law site had more than 150,000 Internet users checking it for information.