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Are residency restrictions a main reason 100,000 sex offenders are off the grid?

By Douglas A. Berman

The question in the title of this post is prompted by this new story, which is headlined "Authorities lose track of 100,000 sex offenders." Here are the basics: Thousands of convicted sex offenders are evading state and federal authorities, congregating in regions thought to have lax enforcement, slipping back and forth to Mexico or disregarding laws on reporting their whereabouts. As authorities stitch together a national system for overseeing America's 700,000 convicted sex offenders, they face a sobering challenge: locating the estimated 100,000 sex offenders who aren't saying where they are. State and local authorities, working with the U.S. Marshals Service, are conducting sex offender sweeps, checking old addresses and hunting down the missing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 11, 2010 (boomark / email).