Get Texts About Pervs Near You!

Since everyone loves the online database that maps and gives rap sheets for rapists and pedophiles, the state of New York is taking it one step further. Now, you can sign up (at this website) to be contacted by text message, email, fax or phone when one of NY's high- or moderate-risk sex offenders moves within striking distance. (Then you can set special ring tones to go along with the notifications!) The sex-offender alerts are a new feature of the Emergency Management System, which also lets New Yorkers know about road closures, storms and—conveniently for the pedophiles—missing children, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal. The AP says there are more than 30,000 registered sex offenders in the state.

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By Sabrina Jaszi in News on March 15, 2010 4:05 PM

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Kevin Bracken

This is atrocious. And probably an invitation to commit vigilante justice against somebody who quite possibly doesn't deserve it, given the dubious nature of the list itself.

Gnomie

Ugh, these lists are unconstitutional. You know public urination can get someone on the sex offender registry? So can consensual teenage sex. The laws don't change of course because no politician wants to be seen as soft on child molestation which is what the general public seems to think Megan's Law is all about

Cannibal

you sound like a sex offender. My friends get drunk and get tickets for public urination all the time and they aren't sex offenders. As for having "consensual" teenage sex, if one is an adult this is not consent because the the teenager is not old enough to know what that is.

I know a few parents that would love this service.