Map of sex offenders in your area
 

You can enter your address and see how many sex offenders are in your area:

http://www11.familywatchdog.us/Search.asp

Something I wonder about: after looking at my neck of the woods in San Diego, I entered my friend's address in the Sugarhouse area of SLC, and was surprised to see more dots on the map there.

- So are there more sex offenders in SLC than San Diego?
- Or are Salt Lakers more active at reporting sex crimes?
- Or do the people in the two cities have a different idea of what is a sex crime and what is not? In other words, what SoCal people consider to be consensual, is what Salt Lakers consider heathen?

It could simply be that the threshold requirements for making the location of sex offenders publicly available are lower in Utah than in California (which I think is true).

Mike looked up the sex offender registry in our neighborhood awhile ago-- we have an offender living a couple doors down from us, convicted of sexual assault of a 7 year old girl. He is married and very friendly.

I've heard other people talk about this-- they are surprised at the number and proximity of sex offenders in their area.

not all two sex offenders are created equal
 

one person registered here was convicted of exposing himself in a casinod. He is now a registered sex offender seventeen years later.