Migration of Iowa sex

Migration of Iowa sex offenders worries Nebraska town (Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier)
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. -- Officials in this eastern Nebraska town are worried that sex offenders in Iowa might move across the river to escape a new law that restricts where they can live.

East Alabama Evacuee Sex Offenders Urged To Register In Alabama (WTVM 9)
One Chambers County official is calling for displaced sex offenders to register, or face the consequences. Sheriff Sid Lockhart said Hurricane Katrina evacuees who are registered in other states must let Alabama officials know they're here.

Doyle announces team to find lost sex offenders (Gazette Extra Sports)
MADISON, Wis. - A team of retired detectives will try to hunt down more than 1,300 sex offenders whose whereabouts have been lost by the state, Gov. Jim Doyle announced Tuesday.

Nebraska city aims to thwart Iowa sex offenders (The Des Moines Register)
Find out if there are sex offenders living near you by searching an interactive database at www.iowasexoffender.com. Several states restrict where certain sex offenders live; some individual cities have taken similar steps.

Sex offenders who fled Katrina are tough to track (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
As many as 4,500 sex offenders are among tens of thousands of people evacuated by Hurricane Katrina, prison officials say, worsening what critics call an already patchy national database on sexual crimes.

Nebraska city aims to thwart Iowa sex offenders (The Des Moines Register)
To prevent sex offenders from moving across the border, South Sioux City has adopted an ordinance that mirrors Iowa law.

montgomeryadvertiser.com :: State keeping track of evacuated sex offenders (Montgomery Advertiser)
Law enforcement agencies in Alabama now have access to a list of convicted sex offenders who may have been displaced in the evacuations following Hurricane Katrina.

Police Crack Down On Sex Offenders (NBC4 Washington, D.C.)
Officials in Northern Va., form a special police unit dedicated to tracking down sex offenders. Video

Some worry that new Iowa law may bring Iowa sex offenders to Minnesota (KAALtv.com)
(KAAL) -- New Iowa sex offender laws are encouraging some offenders to leave the state. As they looking for new places to call home, some folks worry they could end up in Minnesota.

New law forces sex offenders to new areas (Sioux City Journal)
In the battle between the Iowa Legislature and the state's sex offenders the boundaries have been drawn at 2,000 feet. Authorities are mapping out where the offenders can't live, and those men and women are finding out their residential choices are restricted.

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