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No safe distance: New law to push sex offenders further away from schools (The Daily News Transcript)
A law being debated on Beacon Hill would force Level 2 or 3 sex offenders to live and work farther away than 1,000 feet from the nearest school. That might make parents feels safe.

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.

Sex Offenders Fleeing Katrina Become Public Safety Concern (NBC 13 Birmingham)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- State officials are trying to track down thousands of convicted sex offenders who were forced to leave their homes when Hurricane Katrina hit. Some of those offenders could be in Alabama.

Thousands of sex offenders difficult to track after Katrina (Blogging Baby)
Tens of thousands of people were forced to evacuate after Hurricane Katrina blew through the gulf coast almost a month ago. Not surprisingly, 4,500 sex offenders are among the evacuees. Louisiana State Police say, by their estimates, 3,300 to 4,500 sex offenders lived in areas swamped by Katrina. Of those, around 270 usually check in with parole officers in five districts shut by Katrina and are

Hurricane refugee family placed near sex offenders (KATC3)
WILMINGTON, Del. Delaware officials failed to check the state's sex-offender registry before placing a Kenner family of Hurricane Katrina evacuees -- including three children -- on the same street with at least four convicted sex offenders.

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