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In 1947, California became the first state in the United States to have a sex offender registration program. [11] C. Don Field was prompted by the Black Dahlia murder case to introduce a bill calling for the formation of a sex offender registry; California became the first U.S. state to make this mandatory. [12]
State sex-offender registration and notification programs are designed, in general, to include information about offenders who have been convicted of a "criminal offense against a victim who is a minor" or a "sexually violent offense," as specified in the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act ("the Wetterling Act") [1] – more specifically ...
The Australian National Child Offender Register (ANCOR) is a web-based system that is used in all states and territories. Authorized police use ANCOR to monitor persons convicted of child sex offences and other specified offences once they have been released from custody, or after sentencing in the event a non-custodial sentence is imposed.
Pages in category "Sex offender registries in the United States" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Before Megan's Law, the federal Jacob Wetterling Act of 1994 required each state to create a registry for sexual offenders and certain other offenses against children. . Under the Wetterling Act, registry information was kept for law enforcement use only, although law enforcement agencies were allowed to release the information of specific persons when deemed necessary to protect the p
A long list of studies using decades' worth of data have found no significant evidence that laws requiring public identification of sex offenders do anything to prevent sex crimes.
"Some of these doctors are the most prolific sex offenders in the country with hundreds and, in some cases, thousands of victims," AJC reporter Carrie Teegardin said.
A Texas man has admitted to kidnapping and killing 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham, who was found dead in a river nearly a year ago after she briefly went missing. Don Steven McDougal "has accepted ...