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Monday, August 01, 2005

Ind. Law - Indiana to join national sex offender database

The Munster (NW Indiana) Times reports today, in a story headlined "Justice Department launches sex offender database: Lack of technology prevents Indiana from listing names on Web site," that:

WASHINGTON | Indiana is three to four months away from joining a national online database that will allow users to search the country's more than half a million registered sex offenders.

Illinois was one of 21 states plus the District of Columbia included in last Wednesday's launch of the National Sex Offender Public Registry, a searchable Web database controlled by the Justice Department's Office of Justice Programs.

Indiana has yet to join primarily because the state did not have the needed technology in place, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department said.

All states were invited by the Justice Department to join the database, which allows users to conduct a free nationwide search for a person based on a name, state, county, city/town or zip code.

Here is the National Sex Offender Public Registry website.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 1, 2005 08:43 AM
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