Find Sex Offenders Near You - Keep Them Away from Your Family and Kids

Alert for Moms and Dads: Need to Know

Zach Golt
I was watching Americas Most Wanted on the television and I got the strange idea to see if I could find sex offenders in my area. While Americas Most Wanted was on my television I decided to Google. After I Googled, I found the National Sex Offender Registry. The National Sex Offender Registry is a website that is free of charge. It's a free national Unites States search for registered sex offenders.

When you log into the site http://www.familywatchdog.us/Search.asp, you will see a place to find offenders. It splits up in two categories: Search by location and search by name are the two options. If you search by location you need to put in your street, city, state, and zip code. If you want to search by name you have to know the first, last name, and state. After you've chosen what option you would like to put in your information, you click search. After you click search, it will take you to a map that's titles registered offender map. At the top it will give the address you've entered or the first and last name. It brings up a map with a map legend. Find criminals!

The map legend is on the left side of the website. The dots on the page show different offenses, and locations of where the criminals work or live.

The Map Legend:

The little house that shows up on the map is your location

The X on the map show schools, parks, and public areas

Offense Against Children

Red Square: Offender Home

Maroon Square: Offender Work

Rape

Yellow: Offender Home

White: Offender Work

Sexual Battery

Blue: Offender Home

Navy Blue: Offender Work

Other Offense

Lime Green: Offender Home

Dark Green: Offender Work

I wanted to help provide this information for people that want to move to another location, or want to help protect their kids. This is very important for families that kids, or for young woman, and men that could be targets for these horrible people. Please, help yourself, family, kids, and friends and try to keep your loved ones safe. Just recently a sex offender entered the university's campus and raped a young woman in the library. This could happen anywhere, and at any time, just make sure that you take the extra precautions so that you are not the victim. I wrote this article because this is great information for any person to have. I hate to see people suffer, especially kids, so help keep these sex offenders away!

Alert your community about crime and sex offenders by putting up flyers, having a town meeting, and going to schools to alert young teenagers so that they could see how close sex offenders are! Maybe if it was more visual they could actually understand how dangerous it is to walk around at night. I've spend a lot of time on this website researching, and it's a really great site! Here it is again if you missed it up top: National Sex Offender Registry

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  • Patrisha Smith3/10/2011

    Hi Zach Golt! I have search those sites too where I could view sex offenders in a certain area. While browsing the net, I ran across a site where I could install a personal security on my cellphone that enables me to view crime data map and threat level of a certain area. I would be alerted too if I am near at the area where there are registered sex offenders. What I love the most about the service is the panic button alert installed on my cell phone, that in just a press of it my trusted friends and family members will be notified that I need help. If I am in a dangerous situation, the incident will be redirected to the nearest 911. All of these features rolled into one. If you want to check out, you will find more interesting features in their site http://SafeTREC.com/

  • Paul Smith7/8/2010

    Want to know what works? Consider this from page 44 of John Walsh’s “Tears of Rage” (Pocket Books, 1997): Reve Walsh left her son Adam to play a video game at a display while she went just around the corner, out of sight, to buy some lamps. Just for five or ten minutes. She never saw Adam again.
    No law currently in effect would have identified Ottis Toole as dangerous to Adam and therefore restricted his access to him or any child. Neither would Elizabeth Smart, Carlie Brucia , Somer Thompson, Danielle Van Dam or Samantha Runnion been protected in the least degree. None of their abductors were convicted sex offenders.
    Research the circumstances of each of these tragedies and tell me whether they would have been averted by some emotionally generated, factually baseless law, or by parents watching and involved with their children.

  • Zach Golt4/2/2009

    When I typed in my address I was shocked. I hope that families everywhere use this tool to keep their families and loved ones safe

    Thank you for visiting my page!

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