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Registered Sex Offender Websites By State
Alaska
http://www.dps.state.ak.us/nSorcr/asp/
Alabama
http://www.dps.state.al.us/abi/
Arizona
http://www.azsexoffender.com/
Arkansas
The Arkansas Crime Information Center provides information at http://www.acic.org/Registration/index.htm on sex offender registration requirements
but does not provide a list of sex offender registrants.
California
http://www.meganslaw.ca.gov
California maintains an online sex offender registry.
California provides information on sex offender registration requirements. More Info
Colorado
http://sor.state.co.us/
Connecticut
http://www.state.ct.us/dps/sex_offender_registry.htm
Delaware
http://www.state.de.us/dsp/sexoff/index.htm
District of Columbia
The District of Columbia does not maintain an online sex offender
registry.
Florida
http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/
Georgia
http://www.ganet.org/gbi/disclaim.html
Hawaii
http://pahoehoe.ehawaii.gov/sexoff/
Idaho
http://www.isp.state.id.us/sex_offender/index.html
Illinois
http://www.isp.state.il.us/sor/frames.htm
Indiana
https://secure.in.gov/serv/cji_sor
Iowa
http://www.iowasexoffender.com/
Kansas
http://www.accesskansas.org/kbi/ro.shtml
Kentucky
http://kspsor.state.ky.us/
Louisiana
http://www.lasocpr.lsp.org/socpr/
Maine
http://www.informe.org/sor/
Maryland
http://www.dpscs.state.md.us/sor/
Massachusetts
http://www.state.ma.us/sorb/
Michigan
http://www.mipsor.state.mi.us/
Minnesota
http://www.doc.state.mn.us/level3/Search.asp
Mississippi
http://www.sor.mdps.state.ms.us/
Missouri
missouri_offenders.html
Montana
http://svor.doj.state.mt.us
Nebraska
http://www.nsp.state.ne.us/sor/find.cfm
Nevada
Nevada Offenders
Additional information on registration requirements and on how to obtain registry
information at http://www.state.nv.us/ag/agpub/offender.htm.
New Hampshire
http://webster.state.nh.us/soupermail/secure/cprsor.html
New Hampshire does not maintain an online sex offender registry, but provides
information on how to receive the Registered Offenders Against Children list for your area.
New Mexico
http://www.nmsexoffender.dps.state.nm.us/
New York
http://criminaljustice.state.ny.us/nsor/search_index.htm
North Carolina
http://sbi.jus.state.nc.us/DOJHAHT/SOR/Default.htm
North Dakota
http://www.ndsexoffender.com
New Hampshire
http://www.oit.nh.gov/nsor/search.asp
New Jersy
http://www.state.nj.us/lps/njsp/spoff/resources.html
Nevada
http://ag.state.nv.us/
Nevada does not maintain an online sex offender registry.
Ohio
www.esorn.ag.state.oh.us
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction offender inmate database
http://www.drc.state.oh.us/cfdocs/inmate/search.htm
Oklahoma
http://www.tulsapolice.org/sexregistration/sexreg.html
Oregon
http://www.oregonsatf.org/offender_registry.html
Pennsylvania
http://www.pameganslaw.state.pa.us/
Rhode Island
http://www.doc.state.ri.us/contacts.htm
South Carolina
http://www.sled.state.sc.us/SLED/default.asp
South Dakota
http://www.sddci.com/id/sexoffender/index.asp
Tennessee
http://www.ticic.state.tn.us/
Texas
http://records.txdps.state.tx.us/soSearch/default.cfm
Utah
http://www.cr.ex.state.ut.us/asp-bin/sexoffendersearchform.asp
Vermont
http://www.dps.state.vt.us/cjs/s_registry.htm
Virginia
http://sex-offender.vsp.state.va.us/Static/Search.htm
Washington State
http://ml.waspc.org/Accept.aspx?ReturnUrl=/index.aspx
West Virginia
http://www.wvstatepolice.com/sexoff/
Wisconsin
http://offender.doc.state.wi.us/public
Wyoming
http://attorneygeneral.state.wy.us/so_registration.html
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Sarah Michelle Lunde - Suspect who dated girl's mother charged with murder
By: CNN's Susan Candiotti and Sara Dorsey
Monday, April 18, 2005 Posted: 8:59 AM EDT (1259 GMT)
David Onstott confessed to choking Sarah Michelle Lunde to death, police said Sunday.
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TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- A convicted sex offender faces a court hearing on murder charges Monday in the death of 13-year-old Sarah Michelle Lunde, Florida law enforcement officials said.
David Onstott, 36, was charged with murder Sunday after he confessed to killing the girl, whose partially clothed body was found Saturday in an abandoned fish pond, said Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee.
At the hearing, Onstott is expected to hear the murder charge against him read. He isn't expected to enter a plea. He likely will be asked whether an attorney should be appointed for him.
"He is the defendant," the sheriff said during a Sunday news conference.
In the days after Sarah's disappearance more than a week ago, authorities have been questioning Onstott, who was being held by authorities on unrelated charges.
"The defendant subsequently confessed to the crime post-Miranda," Gee said, referring to the rights suspects must be read for their statements to be admissible in court.
Onstott told police that between midnight and 5 a.m. on April 10, he went to the family's house looking for the victim's mother, who was not at home, Gee said.
The girl, who was alone in the house, invited him inside and became involved in a verbal confrontation with Onstott, which led him to put her in a choke hold, rendering her unconscious "and eventually causing her death," Gee said.
In addition to a charge of first-degree murder, "other charges are being reviewed at this time," Gee said.
Asked what made the man confess, the sheriff said, "I don't know."
Before Gee's announcement, Onstott's attorney denied that his client had anything to do with Sarah's disappearance. Onstott recently ended a relationship with the girl's mother.
Also before the announced charges, Sarah's 17-year-old brother said Onstott was at the family home in Ruskin early last Sunday, hours after his sister was last seen. The brother told police it was the first time he had seen Onstott in months.
Worshippers at Sarah's church remembered her during the weekly service.
"Today she's in a much better place than we," the Rev. Johnny Cook said during services at First Apostolic Church. "She won't have to suffer no more. She's at peace with God."
Her mother, Kelly May Lunde, attended a portion of the informal memorial.
Sarah's disappearance prompted a search focused within a three-quarter-mile radius of her mother's home in Ruskin, about 10 miles south of Tampa. More than 20 law enforcement agencies and 22 search-and-rescue teams from throughout Florida had joined the search.
Gee said the area where the body was found "was searched before at least once earlier in the week" before search dogs led authorities to the body.
Someone had tried to weigh down the body so it would be hidden underwater, law enforcement sources said.
"It was clear from investigators who were at the scene that whoever put her there went to great effort to conceal her body," Gee said. "And right now, we are asking the public if they would assist us in any articles of clothing that you would see in this area."
Mark Lunsford -- father of a 9-year-old girl who went missing in February and was found dead in a nearby Florida community -- also attended Sunday's church service. He had participated in the search for Sarah, along with dozens of volunteers. (Full story)
Onstott was convicted of sexual battery in 1995 for assaulting a female acquaintance in her home. He served six years in prison and two years on probation on that charge, a sheriff's spokesman said.
He was arrested Tuesday in Apollo Beach, Florida, north of Ruskin, on an unrelated charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after deputies said Onstott threatened a man with a screwdriver during an argument.
He was arraigned Thursday for failing to register as a sex offender and also was being held on a drunken-driving warrant from Michigan -- a charge for which he faces an extradition hearing Monday.
CNN's Susan Candiotti and Sara Dorsey contributed to this report.
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The Latest News On Sex Offender Bills By The Iowa Voice
I absolutely agree with this article on "The Iowa Voice" related to Sex Offender Awareness. The current proposed Bills are not strong enough. If someone is convicted of a sexual offense it afftects the victim for life and thus I believe the information about there where abouts should be public for the rest of their lives to protect others.
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Missing Girl - Sarah Michelle Lunde From Ruskin Florida
By VICKIE CHACHERE, Associated Press Writer
RUSKIN, Fla. - Authorities investigating the weekend disappearance of a 13-year-old girl from her family's mobile home questioned a convicted sex offender who once had a relationship with her mother, officials said.
Volunteers continued searching Thursday for Sarah Michelle Lunde, who has a troubled past and has run away before, Hillsborough County Sheriff's David Gee said. But she has usually returned after a few hours, and officials don't believe this is "a typical runaway," he said.
Mark Lunsford, whose daughter Jessica was found slain last month after disappearing from her Citrus County home, and Roy Brown, whose daughter Amanda was killed by a convicted child molester in 1997, were among those who turned out to help deputies and the girl's family.
By Thursday evening, Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee said there were no new developments in the search, and that investigators had just 43 telephone leads. He appealed for help from the public, offering a $10,000 reward.
The man questioned, 36-year-old David Onstott, was arrested Tuesday night in an unrelated incident in nearby Apollo Beach. Authorities say he threatened another man with a screwdriver.
"Obviously, he has our attention," Gee said. He declined to describe David Onstott a suspect, but said Onstott had been cooperative. Onstott was being held without bail on probation violations.
Sarah disappeared after returning home Saturday night from a trip with a church youth group. Her 17-year-old brother, Andrew Lunde, said he saw her at about 9 p.m. Saturday and later went out with friends. When he returned home about 4 a.m. Sunday, the front door was open and Sarah was gone, he said. A half-empty bottle of beer had appeared on the kitchen table, he said.
About an hour later, Lunde told The Tampa Tribune, Onstott showed up at the family's home before dawn that morning and asked for the teens' mother.
Lunde said that when he told Onstott that his mother wasn't home, Onstott grabbed the beer bottle and left.
"He just showed up out of the blue," Lunde said. "It was strange."
Sarah's mother, thinking her daughter was at a friend's house, didn't report her missing until Monday.
The relationship between the girl's mother and Onstott had ended months earlier, Gee said.
The mother, Kelly May Lunde, appearing exhausted and drawn, also pleaded for help.
"There are a lot of parents out there who can imagine what myself and my family are going through," she said. "We are just heartbroken. We just want to get her home as soon as possible."
Comforting the Lunde family was Lunsford, his grief still fresh from the February slaying of his 9-year-old daughter. He had shown up at 7 a.m. to search. "It's horrible things like this are taking place," Lunsford said.
Onstott spent 5 1/2 years in prison after being convicted in 1995 of sexual battery on an acquaintance. The victim testified Onstott knocked on her door, asked to use the bathroom then threw her on the floor and raped her.
David Onstott Sr. said he doesn't think his son is involved in Sarah's disappearance.
"I can't believe he would hurt a young girl," he said.
The sheriff's office also interviewed the girl's father, who lives in Zephyrhills, about 50 miles north of this Tampa Bay area town. He is not considered a suspect, Gee said.
Ruskin is about 100 miles south of Homosassa, where a three-week search for Jessica Lunsford ended with the discovery of her body last month. A registered sex offender who stayed at a home near hers has been charged with her slaying.
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Free Sex Offenders search service by National Alert Registry!
We have found a sex offender search service through National Alert Registry that will let you do a free zipcode search to see if there are registered sex offenders in your area and then (if you want) you can pay $10 to get a complete map with names, addresses, pictures, and offenses of those sex offenders. Being able to see a map of your area with the sex offenders really helps. You can try the free search below.
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Sex Offenders Report Promise
sex offenders report was created to keep you and your family informed about the latest information regarding registered sex offenders in your area. Because there are no state, local, federal or nationwide services specifically created to do this we are committed to researching the Internet and posting as much helpful information as possible. Have you found helpful information on the Internet that we could post? |
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Sexual Predator's Business Targeted
Police in Plant City, Floirda took the unusual step of handing out fliers and knocking on doors when they heard a convicted sexual predator, Gary Mark Hicks, had bought a local pet shop. At 10 a.m. today, a group of protesters is expected to gather a few blocks from Pet City Center. The rally and march are being organized by community activist Judy Cornett, who has organized protests against convicted sexual offender Kevin Kinder.
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The Jacob Wetterling Act
On October 22, 1989, 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling bicycled with his brother Trevor, 10, and friend Aaron 11, to their Minnesota home from a convenience store where they had rented a video. Their ride home was interrupted by a masked man who stepped out of a driveway with a gun and ordered the children to throw their bikes into a ditch and lie face down on the ground. After asking the boys their ages he told Jacob's brother and friend to run into the woods and not look back or he would shoot them. No arrest was ever been made and Jacob has never been found. Investigators later learned that, unbeknownst to local law enforcement, sex offenders were being sent to live in halfway houses nearby.
In February of 1999, four months after Jacob's disappearance, the Jacob Wetterling Foundation was established by Jacob's parents, Patty and Jerry Wetterling. Patty was appointed to a Minnesota governor's task force to make recommendations on sex offender registration. After successfully establishing sex offender registration in Minnesota, Patty and Jerry Wetterling went on to lobby for federal legislation to require all 50 states to register resident sex offenders.
The Wetterlings were not alone in their effort to lobby for a uniform federal law to mandate sex offender registration and some form of public notification. A hearing to discuss the revolving door of justice was called on March 1, 1994 by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice. The hearing was called to discuss the revolving door of justice in the U.S. and new approaches to recidivism. There were five panels called together - one included victims and their families. Testimony was given by Marc Klaas; Peggy, Gene and Jennifer Schmidt; Susan Sweetser, a Vermont State Senator and rape survivor; and Dick and Diane Adams, whose son, a store clerk, was killed during an armed robbery. Testimony at that hearing urged the passage of federal legislation to register and notify communities of the presence of sex offenders.
Marc Klaas is the father of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, who was kidnapped by a career criminal at knifepoint from her bedroom slumber party and was later found murdered. Marc founded Klaas Kids Foundation, a nonprofit children's advocacy organization that has been instrumental in working for nationwide and international laws to stop crimes against children. The foundation provides parental awareness and child-safety information and encourages partnerships between neighborhoods, law enforcement, organizations and the private sector to create safe and crime-free communities.
Gene, Peggy and Jennifer Schmidt from Kansas are the father, mother and sister, respectively, of 19-year-old college student Stephanie Schmidt, who was brutally raped and murdered by a coworker whom she was not aware was a known convicted sex offender. The Schmidt family founded SOS (Speak Out For Stephanie) The Stephanie Schmidt Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to changing laws and promoting public safety and awareness about sex offenders . The Schmidt family is best known for their efforts in successfully advocating for nationwide laws that confine sexual predators indefinitely. These laws are referred to as Sexual Predator Commitment Laws or Sexual Predator Civil Confinement Laws. Nine months after Stephanie's death, the Stephanie Schmidt Sexual Predator Act - empowering a state civil commitment procedure - became a retroactive law for all Kansas sex offenders. Although originating in Washington State, the Kansas statute reached the U.S. Supreme Court where it was ruled constitutional in 1997.
Patty Wetterling and these advocates worked tirelessly toward the passage of the Jacob Wetterling Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act and it was included in the Federal Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The Wetterling Act was signed into law on September 13, 1994 and required all 50 states to establish effective registration programs for convicted child molesters and other sexually violent offenders. The Wetterling Act also required the states to establish more stringent registration standards for a subclass of offenders considered the most dangerous, designated under law as "sexually violent predators." States that failed to comply with the minimum standards risked a 10% reduction of formula grant funding under the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program . This is federal funding allocated to states for improving functioning of the criminal justice system with an emphasis on violent crime and serious offenders. There was, and continues to be, no federal registration requirement for juvenile sex offenders, even if they were treated as adults in the criminal justice system.
Although there was no federal requirement, as of 2001, 28 states in the nation register juveniles adjudicated or convicted of a sex offense - including Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. Only California, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina and Vermont prohibit the release of this information to the public and the remaining states authorize notification in some or all cases. The Wetterling Act also gave states the discretion to decide whether to release sex offender registration information to the public but did not make it a requirement. The following is an excerpt pertaining to the release of sex offender information from The Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act:
(d) Release Of Information
The designated state law enforcement agency and any local law enforcement agency authorized by the state agency may release relevant information that is necessary to protect the public concerning a specific person required to register under this section… The carefully crafted joining of the two words may and release gave states the discretion to decide whether to release relevant information to protect the public. Conversely, it also gave permission for law enforcement not to release information to the public even if the sex offender was determined to pose a high risk to public safety. Law enforcement agencies and state agency staff across the nation have reported reluctance to release information and notify communities of resident sex offenders for fear of community unrest, liability and concern over potential constitutional challenges that were thought to have to be worked out in our courts. The Wetterling Act is best known for establishing uniform federal minimal standards for registration of convicted sex offenders in all 50 states. As discretionary in nature as it was, for the first time in the history of the United States, it gave all states the discretion to release relevant information to the public about convicted sex offenders who posed a risk to public safety. An additional catalyst to the passage of The Jacob Wetterling Act was the July 29, 1994 brutal rape and murder of 7-year-old Megan Kanka.
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Megan's Law Will Not Keep You Informed
Parents nationwide have been under the false impression that they, too, would be notified of a resident sexual predator, because of the false assumption that New Jersey's state law is the same as each individual state's law. The federal version of Megan's Law is drastically different than New Jersey's version of Megan's Law. The federal law required all 50 states to release information to the public about known convicted sex offenders when it was necessary to protect their safety but did not mandate active notification. If a state failed to comply with minimal release of information standards established by the federal government, then that state risked losing federal crime-fighting funding. The federal mandate to release information to the public is often mistakenly referred to as community notification when, in actuality, the federal mandate requires just the release of information to the public - not active notification. There is a significant difference between simply releasing information (making it available for the public to access on its own) and active community notification, where law enforcement officers go door to door to inform neighbors and schools. The federal Megan's Law does not require all 50 states to enact active notification laws, whereas New Jersey's state Megan's Law has specific requirements for active community notification.
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Megan's Law
Megan's Law is named after a 7-year-old Hamilton Township, New Jersey girl named Megan Nicole Kanka. On July 29, 1994, she was lured into her neighbor's home with the promise of a puppy and was brutally raped and murdered by a two-time convicted sex offender who had been convicted in a 1981 attack on a 5-year-old child and an attempted sexual assault on a 7-year-old. Eighty-nine days after Megan Kanka's disappearance, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman signed the first state-level version of what we know as Megan's Law. The passage of Megan's Law in New Jersey eventually lead to the May 1996 passage of a federal law which is also known as Megan's Law. New Jersey's Megan's Law has specific mandates for active community notification which ensures that the community will be made aware of the presence of convicted sex offenders posing a risk to public safety. Under New Jersey's law, if a convicted sex offender is determined to pose a moderate risk of re-offending then schools and community groups likely to encounter that offender will be notified. If an offender is determined to pose a high risk of re-offending, then schools, community groups and members of the public, such as neighbors likely to encounter the offender, will be notified.
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