Sex Offender News - Vilsack: State provides too little money for monitoring sex offenders

Vilsack: State provides too little money for monitoring sex offenders (Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier)
DES MOINES --- Gov. Tom Vilsack said Monday that lawmakers have nobody to blame but themselves for providing too little money to monitor sex offenders.

Lost sex offenders land here (The Arizona Republic)
Authorities have no idea where most of the 4,500 registered sex offenders who fled Louisiana and Mississippi in the wake of Hurricane Katrina ended up. But although the federal government may know some names, it can't release them because of privacy laws.

Police check up on Level 3 sex offenders (Capital News 9)
With hundreds of kids roaming the streets for Halloween, officials made sure sex offenders were abiding by the rules. Teams of local police and state troopers went door to door at the homes of Level 3 sex offenders to check if they were obeying their curfew.

Find Out Where Sex Offenders Live And Work (WRTV TheIndyChannel.com via Yahoo! News)
Indiana is among most states with listings of sex offenders posted online. While the information is very valuable, it is not particularly visual.

SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS HAS HUNDREDS OF REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS (Pine Bluff Commercial)
Editor s note: This is the first of a two-part report on Southeast Arkansas registered sex offenders, how they re assessed, who monitors them and where they live.

Message sent to sex offenders (Chicago Tribune)
Armed with red and yellow tags, police fanned out through Elgin and other communities Monday to check on hundreds of registered sex offenders, warning many not to hand out Halloween candy to kids.

Child sex offenders banned on Halloween (Sunday Mail)
CHILD sex offenders in the US have been barred from going outdoors on Halloween. Several states have initiated a crackdown, banning known paedophiles from opening the door to trick or treaters, attending parties or putting so much as a pumpkin on their doorsteps.

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