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Folks, please pay attention to the following.
Do you have a Sex Offender's Registry in your state? If so, go check it now and see if there are any registered sex offenders living near you.
I got bored this morning and, remembering a story on the news, decided to check the NC state registry. There turned up a lot for my town, but none for my street or the surrounding streets.
Big relief for me.
Then I decided to plug in all of my coworkers' addresses.
Out of 16 employees, we got one match. One woman in the office has a guy who was convicted of attempted rape living on her street. I'm currently making everyone with children go through the registry, because while I knew what streets they lived on, I didn't know what streets were *around* that area. It's important to know what's going on in your community, especially when it affects your children. Check it folks.
ETA: One of my coworkers with a small child...he just checked it, and of the three people in his town that are registered offenders, one lives a couple of blocks over.
Do you have a Sex Offender's Registry in your state? If so, go check it now and see if there are any registered sex offenders living near you.
I got bored this morning and, remembering a story on the news, decided to check the NC state registry. There turned up a lot for my town, but none for my street or the surrounding streets.
Big relief for me.
Then I decided to plug in all of my coworkers' addresses.
Out of 16 employees, we got one match. One woman in the office has a guy who was convicted of attempted rape living on her street. I'm currently making everyone with children go through the registry, because while I knew what streets they lived on, I didn't know what streets were *around* that area. It's important to know what's going on in your community, especially when it affects your children. Check it folks.
ETA: One of my coworkers with a small child...he just checked it, and of the three people in his town that are registered offenders, one lives a couple of blocks over.
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