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OR - Is Oregon's sex offender registry effective?

View the article here 03/14/2009 By WILLIAM McCALL - Associated Press Writer PORTLAND - Vi Beatty, manager of the Oregon State Police sex offender registry, says the registry's Web site gets about 34,000 hits a day, and more when stories about offenders make the news, sometimes nearly doubling. - Since we know that other web sites provide access to all state registries, I wonder if the vast majority of the hits to these state registries are due to stuff like web bots crawling the sites and accessing the registry to check for updates?  How are they determining if the hits are due to humans or programming code? In addition, Beatty says, state police get more than 400 phone calls and e-mails each month asking whether people are on the list...continue to full post

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