Service makes it easy to track sex offenders
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December 18, 2013 |
The Idaho State Police Bureau of Criminal
Identification has added a new email
subscription service that will allow
notification to the public if a sex offender
listed on the Idaho Sex Offender Registry
changes residences.
Members of the public wishing to be notified
when any registrant moves inside of or out of a
given radius surrounding a particular address in
the state of Idaho, can simply register to be
notified on the Idaho Sex Offender Registry
website.
The site will ask for the address of interest,
the email address where the notifications are to
be sent and the radius between 1, 3 or 5 miles
from the street address desired for the
notification. The link to subscribe to the
service is located on the Idaho State Police
website at
http://isp.idaho.gov/sor_id/jsp/track_address.jsp.
Additionally, if a person is interested in being
notified when a particular registrant moves,
there is a link provided under the picture on
each registrant's page that says, "Track
Registrant." When the user clicks on the link
the user will be asked to provide the email
address where notifications should be sent.
The enhancements are in addition to the multiple
search capabilities that the site already
provides. Registrants can be searched by name,
city, county or zip code. The mapping search
allows for an address to be provided and all the
registrants within a one, three or five mile
radius of the address will be shown as balloons
on the map. When the curser is moved over the
balloon, the registrants' information is shown.
The Bureau of Criminal Identification has been
responsible for Idaho's sex offender
registration since it began operation on July 1,
1993.
The Idaho Legislature expanded the public's
right to access the information on the registry
in 1998 with the passage of the "Sexual
Offenders Registration Notification and
Community Right-to-Know Act."
The upgrade to the system for email
notifications was made possible with funding
from federal grants.
Users of the information in the Idaho Sex
Offender Registry are reminded the information
is provided only for the purpose of protecting
the public. It is not to be used for the purpose
of harassing or intimidating anyone. A person
who uses registry information to commit a
criminal act against another person is subject
to arrest and prosecution under sections 18-8326
or 18-8413, Idaho Code. |
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