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Fostering self-help in tracking sex offenders

By Douglas A. Berman

The New York Times has this interesting article about sex offender tracking, headlined "Woman With a Mission: Keeping Tabs on Sex Offenders." Here are excerpts: For the past decade, Ms. [Laura] Ahearn has been painstakingly compiling such information about sex offenders and distributing it ? first by hand, then by e-mail ? to their neighbors, including updates like a new car or new scar.  Last week, her nonprofit advocacy group, Parents for Megan?s Law and the Crime Victims? Center, received a $593,000 federal grant to take the project national, using the sharp new mapping program that enables such a computerized tour. ?Probably safer than giving it in person,? said Ms. Ahearn, 44, a tough-talking smoker and workaholic who started the group as a grass-roots crusade with several volunteers and now has 25 part- and full-time employees and a million-dollar annual budget...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 09, 2008 (boomark / email).