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Those who use this Offender Watch program, which comes with a generic presentation that has the "50% of sex offenders will re-offend" lie, and never change it, except Washington state. Why? Fear maybe? See here for more info. Since almost 99% of the police departments who use this, do not change it, why doesn't Offender Watch change it? We've emailed them, but as expected, no response!
09/21/2011
By Raquel Velasco
The Glendale Police Department has launched a new Web-based program that allows residents to monitor the whereabouts of registered sex offenders.
- Not exactly true. It tells you where they said they sleep at night, not where they go during the day, or night.
Police hope the free program, OffenderWatch, will help reduce the amount of time it takes to notify residents when a sex offender moves into the city.
The program is updated throughout the day as sex offender addresses and other offender information is posted.
Along with notifications sent to the community, residents have easy access to offender's information.
Residents can search addresses to see how many sex offenders live within a 2-mile radius and sign up for e-mail alerts when an offender moves in nearby. Residents can register as many addresses in the county as they wish.
The personal information of those who choose to use OffenderWatch is confidential.
OffenderWatch is utilized by hundreds of agencies and aims to make it easier for police to maintain accurate information on sex offenders, who tend to move often.
