California Law Enforcement and Correctional Agencies : With Increased Efforts, They Could Improve the Accuracy and Completeness of Public Information on Sex Offenders

Concerns the accuracy of the CA Dept. of Justice's database of registered sex offenders (SO) known as Megan's Law Database (MLD). It contains thousands of errors & inconsistencies, & out-of-date info., so the public is not accurately informed about all known SO. The MLD does not inform the public of the threat posed by some serious & high-risk SO because it excludes their records or erroneously lists them as incarcerated. Conversely, it may unnecessarily alarm the public because it includes hundreds of duplicate records & indicates that 1,142 SO are living in public communities although they are actually incarcerated. The address info. for 23,000 records in the MLD has not been updated for at least a year because the SO have not registered.Howle, Elaine M. is the author of 'California Law Enforcement and Correctional Agencies : With Increased Efforts, They Could Improve the Accuracy and Completeness of Public Information on Sex Offenders', published 2003 under ISBN 9780756737863 and ISBN 0756737869.