Quoted: you'd be amazed how many of those people live near you. there's a website fot texas residents to type in their zip code and see how many sex offenders live near them. i had 6 of those sick fucks living near me at my old house. i haven't checked my new place yet.
ETA: here y'all go. i'm about to check my new zip code
records.txdps.state.tx.us/soSearch/soSearch.cfm
ETA#2: i have 11 of those monsters living near me and over 20 alias records(whatever that means?).
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I did a crude neighborhood map with each known sex offender from our state's database, and gave it to our neighbors, good friends of ours with two little girls.
It scared them, but they were glad to know where the offenders lived. One was only two houses away on a nearby street.
I also matched up some faces from the database to people who woudl loiter in the library when I worked there. We made sure to keep walking around where they were so that they would not have any private opportunities with anyone. Would you believe that the children's librarians hadn't seen that database before?
On the one hand, I believe that once the formal prison sentence and/or release conditions are over, the punishment is finished and that's that. On the other hand, I know too many people who have been abused, assaulted, or raped, and I'm glad the resource is available to keep an eye on the released convicts.
Jim