Choose treats

October 28, 2005 on 2:10 pm
Posted by: Rochelle Stewart

Ghouls, ghosts and goblins will be walking the streets this weekend, knocking on doors and requesting tricks or treats. Will your son or daughter be one of them?
If so, you’re going to want to make sure they are protected.
Here’s a Web site that will help your son or daughter avoid encountering a sex offender’s home.
FamilyWatchDog.us’s free service allows you to search for registered sex offenders living in your town. You just enter an address and the site shows you a map. Squares represent the home or workplace of the registered sex offender. Click on the square and a photograph, name and address of the registered offender appears. The site also lists the sex offender’s previous convictions.
The squares are colored coded to represent the offense. A red square represents an offense against a child, a yellow square represents a rape, a blue square represents sexual battery and a green square represents other offenses.
For a fee, you can register for the site and receive an automatic notification when an offender moves within five miles of the three addresses you provide. Subscribers also receive sex crime alerts, an e-mail notification when a sex crime has been committed.
The site is updated daily using data from multiple public data sources. So stay safe, have fun and save some candy for me!
E-mail: Rochelle Stewart.