Mildly Disturbing
 

I'm not sure I wanted to know that there were nearly 500 registered criminals and sex offenders in my neighborhood... but I thought it might be valuable to pass along this web site to you all so you can check out your area: http://www.familywatchdog.us/ShowMap.asp

The more you know... right?

I tried to do that for my neighborhood, the screen basically looked like the map of Manhattan was covered in confetti.

There is a red square right next to a school building on my map

the PA megan's law website posts pictures of these guys...and some of them (vast majority) are HARDCORE CREEPY. As in, nightmare worthy! I showed the site to my professors in Belfast, and they were AMAZED that it was legal (no such thing in the UK due to the Human Rights Act).

It only showed 21 (known) around my area. I noticed all the rape category people all lived very-very close to eachother....hmm.

There's 20 in my town of about 20,000. I recognize some of them, a downfall of living in a small town.

Me too - that's disturbing.

Distance: 0.01 miles

A meer three buildings away. :(

There aren't too many in our area ... of course, I live in the middle of nowhere right now. Still, I hope my little sister doesn't see this website, she'll never leave the house again.

Everyone should check out the sight for registered sex offenders in their area regularly. Last year someone sent me an email with a link to one and when I checked it out I discovered that my manager's son, who lived with him & had access to all apartments in the building (used to let repair people in and out), was a convicted sex offender.

He was not on the manager's lease, but the landlord refused to do anything about it. I moved.

Zero in my area. Relief.

Umm...eww. There are 292 of them in the neighborhood that I am moving to in less than week, including one that is only like .37 miles away, awesome. That's in downtown Omaha though so I guess it's not that surprising....The place I live right now though, a small college town, has 150 offenders and one of them is .06 miles away from me, even better! :( This website is terrifying.

It looks like I have about 10-15 in my area, the closest about 4 miles from my home. It looked like all mine were old old gray haired men. Yuck.....

Only 1 was for rape, and 2 were for children offenses, the others were in green and didnt say what for.

Creepy though. I hope I dont see any of them when Im out now.... When I lived in Akron and went to U of A, we had so many in downtown it wasnt funny. Our sorority house got notices people were offenders and living in the neighborhood and when I moved a few streets from the sorority house, we'd get notices all the time about people. I actually got scared and wouldnt walk alone because some were on my way to class. Id pull into the driveway and run into our house....

I came from a small town with like a couple thousand living there so that scared the crap out of me....

Now I need to go look and see if my hometown has any...

Ok I looked at my hometown. We have about 5. One is down the street from my moms. The guy looks like hes 90 and he was arrested for importuning. All the rest are for sexual conduct with a minor and sexual imposition.

One guy I know too. The girl he dated was 17 and he was 18 and the mom didnt like him so she reported him...