Reply #6: Those laws ...known sometimes as Megan's Law [View All]

[bleedingheart]

are an unfunded mandate... so it all depends on the resources of your local county as to whether or not they will keep the database and the neighbors updated.

For example, I know of a fellow who was arrested and served time for molesting some young boys... when my mother told me that he was back in town I went to the database and searched our county to see if he was "registered"...much to my suprise they had NO one registered.

I checked the neighboring county and they didn't have anyone at all.. I live in a very populated area...and as much as I would like to say there are no sex offenders in our area...I think there probably are...

so I asked the assistant district attorney about this and he told me that the reason I saw nothing was because the local police stations do not have anyone regularly check into this ... or keep the database up to date.