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Sex Offenders
State and federal authorities have lost track of 100,000 of the nation's 700,000 convicted sex offenders. Using a Freedom of Information Act request, the reporter found that only four states have complied with a law requiring states to keep uniform records on sex offenders.
Tags: sex offender; records; FOIA; sex
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Fugitive Sex Offenders
State and federal authorities have lost track of 100,000 of the nation's 700,000 convicted sex offenders. This report examines the sex offender oversight that was supposed to have been addressed by a landmark 2006 law requiring states to keep uniform records on sex offenders. Only four states complied with this law.
Tags: sex offense; oversight; FOIA; sex offender tracking; AWOL
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Slain Pagan Targeted in Drug Probe; State Police Lose Track of Sex Offenders; Trapped in Despair; White Supremacy in the Internet Age; Delaware's Deadly Prisons; Wilmington's Deadly Streets; Deadly Force; Resisting Arrest
These eight investigations show Williams' commitment to crime reporting. They run the gamut from exploring the neo-Nazi presence on the internet to monitoring how effectively the police track sex offenders.
Tags: religion; paganism; drugs; sex offenders; low-income housing; Section 8 housing; white supremacy; Internet crimes; prisons; civil rights violations; police corruption
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Tracking Sex Offenders: The Impact of Megan's Law
A look at how the sex offender registry in New Jersey has affected the community and the sex offenders. The investigation found that because the law was written and passed so quickly offenders, even those with less than a high school education, could easily find ways to exploit the loopholes. If the offender were to move every 30 days there would be no need to notify the community in which the person was living.
Tags: sex offender; rape; sexual predator; Megan's Law; New Jersey; New Jersey sex offender registry; sexual abuse
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Sex Offenders
Beginning with a gloat from state officials that they were able to keep track of sex offenders, the reporters found that even though offenders were listed on a web site, over a third of the offenders named on the website were living at a different address.
Tags: sex offenders; law enforcement; sex offender notification law; public safety
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Betrayal of Trust
This project focused on sexual abuse by teachers and other school employees against minors. The investigation found that potentially abusive teachers can slip through the cracks due to inadequate tracking of teachers by the state Department of Education, incomplete criminal background checks and poor communication among schools, courts and law enforcement agencies.
Tags: education; harassment; sexual abuse; child abuse; sex offenders; school; abusive teachers; principals; state government; city government; FOIA; background checks; MI Department of Education
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Tracking Sex Offenders
Using mapping techniques, reporters from a station in Moline,Ill plot sex offenders who were living within 500 feet of day care centers. This revealed the inefficiency of the law that prohibits sex offenders from living 500 feet from day care centers.
Tags: mapping techniques; sex offenders; day care centers; sex offenders living near day care centers; Illinois law
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Registered Sex Offenders: Do You Know Who's Living Next Door?
This investigation exposed many of the flaws in the Nevada sex offender registry system. The state has major issues tracking sex offenders, does a bad job of making their locations known to schools and daycares, and does not account for sex offenders who might move in from other states.
Tags: sex offenders; Megan's Law; FBI
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Tracking Sex Offenders
The Birmingham Post-Herald looks at the existing problems with Megan's Law, which requires convicted sex offenders to register their address with the state and notify their neighbors of their presence. The investigation showed that a number of these sex offenders have slippped between the cracks and how law enforcement has failed to track them.
Tags: Megan's Law; registered sex offenders; Alabama Community Notification Act
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"Tracking sex offenders"
This investigation uncovered serious flaws in the Massachusetts sex offender registry. The information about where offenders live and work is often wrong and thousands of offenders are not even listed, particularly those who move in from another state.