Here's something that might be worth the 10 bucks:

http://www.nationalalertregistry.com/cgi-bin/NAR_guest.cgi?GID=TkFSU3xDTU5BUjd8fHx8MXw=&current=new_index

A lot of states have their databases online for free. Might check for a free db for your state first...

Have there been any reports of 'vigilante justice' meted out to people whose pics and addresses are posted on these sites? It has occurred to me that these people could easily be targeted by their neighbors in ways that go beyond embarrassing leaflets.

Michigan has had the database for 5 years there have not been any problems so far.

One flaw that I think has been corrected is public urination offenders were listed with the bad guys.

Have you ever used one? They are difficult to use. For 10 bucks, they add all kinds of searchability. I've got two kids under 8 years of age, and a freaking sewer of humanity flows thru Houston to begin with. I don't know if my liberal sensibilities will be offended if the guy's house is set on fire or if he is found dangling from a tree. I worked in social services at one point with these type of characters, and came away with the opinion that certain classes of offenders should never be let out. I don't think there is any such thing as a "first offender" child molester who should only get 5 or 10 years, same thing with violent rapists. They should never get out. Never. They have an incurable criminal mental illness. If the states aren't smart enough to do that, then this is the best I can hope for.

Mercedessop member W126 alerted me that Helmut Mauer, who owned the only indy MB only shop in Minnesota was caught with child porn. They're everywhere, I wonder if this guy did anything else and wasn't caught. Imagine all the folks going into his shop with little kids and all.

http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_234141458.html

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Last year Spock posted a link to find sex offenders in your area.

I did a search of Reston, VA. Luckily, there aren't any too near to me. But while looking through the database, I found out that my best friend, who lives in a group house nearby, has a convicted rapist for a housemate!!

The guy's a real jerk, stays out late all the time, and usually comes home drunk.

Fortunately, my friend is buying a house and will be out of there soon!

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My wife did a search a couple of years ago on one of the free links and found that a guy leasing a house just across the street from ours was a registered sex offender...he molested a 9-year old girl...our daughter was 9 back then!

The thing was, he was prosecuted and did time almost a decade ago, so it may have been water under the bridge. Still, my wife alerted the rest of the neighborhood, and the first action was to move the school bus stops (which the first was in front of his house).

This guy lived with his girlfriend and mom, and pretty much kept to himself. Fortunately they moved out about a month later when their house construction was completed.

People usually profile a sex offender as some dirty homeless-looking drug and alcohol-addicted freak! But we live in a nice neighborhood, and the home he was renting was a pricey one. The house he finished building was even more expensive! And the few times I saw him puttering around the garage, he would have blended in well with the rest of the community.

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Apparently they now have a database that is Nation wide concerning this matter and all levels of criminals are listed not just the ones they consider dangerous. Check the Americas Most Wanted website for information.

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