Because I just checked the Megans Law website and there are 106 sex offenders just in this zip code, and this city itself has I believe 3 zip codes. OMG!!!

By Mrsheidi on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 02:52 pm:

Is there another website for other states?

By Colette on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 03:06 pm:

http://www.parentsformeganslaw.com/html/links.lasso

By Bea on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 03:24 pm:

Don't feel totally secure. Sexual predators can wear uniforms also, or be dependants. We have all sorts of crime including sex crimes on our military forts and bases around here fairly often.

By Boxzgrl on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 06:45 pm:

I definitely don't feel totally secure, it's really easy to get on base if someone really wanted to. But its nice knowing that my immediate neighbors arent on that list. lol!

By Amy~moderator on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 07:23 pm:

I live on base. We have 4 on base. We have 103 in the surrounding area right off base. Ugh!

By Palmbchprincess on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 08:23 pm:

We have one on our street... I'm not sure which house, but I'm extra careful now that I know!

By Palmbchprincess on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 08:24 pm:

And Amy, I honestly feel you should be denied post housing if you have a registered sex offender in your household. I knew it was possible to have them on post, but I was shocked to hear there are 4 there!

By Colette on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 08:51 pm:

Thanks to our new governor we not only can get the name, address, picture and list of offenses but we also get the work addresses of the worst (level 3) offenders. Keep in mind that you are usually only finding out where they live. There could be more that work right around the corner but live in different towns. I posted a while back that my oldest dd won a poetry contest for a poem she wrote about her karate instructor going off to Iraq - she won a gift certificate to a store of her choice in this artsy little area in the next town over. By total chance, I happened to be looking at the sex offender site and decided to check the towns that border
mine. One of the places she could have got that gift cert for is owned by a level 3 sex offender, and she was planning on using it for a class he was offering.

Thankfully, because I work in the school district - I had access to this info before this governor came to office, we actually had pictures of the offenders posted on a bulletin board in the teachers room in case any of them came near the school.

By Amy~moderator on Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 04:19 am:

I totally agree, Crys. It is very scary to think that there are sex offenders right around the corner, or, in your case, on the same street. It is sickening.

By Insaneusmcwife on Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 12:17 pm:

I'm not sticking up for these predators by any means but I do want to point out that there is/was one on our base and his only crime was he was 18, she was 1 month shy of 18 and found out she was pregnant. Her parents pressed charges. Currently they have been married 13 years and this will forever be on his record.

By Dawnk777 on Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 12:47 pm:

Well, I don't live on a military base and there are sex offenders living in WI, too, but I'm not going to go out and be afraid of everyone I don't know. That's just not me. I'm going to live my life and live it to the fullest!

By Palmbchprincess on Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 01:09 pm:

Kristie has a point. Here you can actually check the offense, you get a name, address, alias, age, weight, height, often a picture, and a record of their offense. For the record the guy on my street was convicted aggrivated sexual assault on a 13 year old, and he's in his 60s now. Sickening!

By Tink on Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 03:46 pm:

One of my dh's best friends is also listed as a sexual predator because his gf was pregnant underage and he broke up with her. She said the baby was his and the parents pressed charges. Turns out the little girl isn't his, which is why they broke up, but it's on his record now. We have several in our zipcode but none in our neighborhood. I won't walk around looking over my shoulder. They were there before I knew how to find them and, to be honest, I'm more worried about the ones that haven't been caught and aren't on a data base. They can be anywhere, including a military base.

By Palmbchprincess on Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 04:35 pm:

Very true, Cori. A guy I worked with was arrested last year, we all knew he was creepy, and WAY too fond of our 18 year old co-worker, but yikes!