Sunday, November 27, 2005

How much do you trust your neighbor?

Belle at Leaning Blue brings to our attention that starting Thursday the state registry online of sex offenders will include the sex offender's address. Currently all you have is a zip code and a list of aliases (see example here).

According to the Associated Press, "When the Department of Corrections makes the change next week, people still will need to punch in their ZIP codes to bring up all the sex offenders in their area. Then they can scroll through the offenders to see where they live."