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RI - Palumbo says there are 500,000 registered sex offenders in U.S. and 100,000 are unaccounted for

Original Article So, when is someone going to do an actual study, and show the outcome and how they came to those conclusions, for everyone to see? 01/25/2011 For several years, state Rep. Peter G. Palumbo has worked to revise the way Rhode Island registers and monitors convicted sex offenders. This year he introduced legislation to consolidate the state?s sex offender registry under the supervision of the state police and revamp it to comply with federal guidelines. A General Assembly news release announcing the new bill cites the reason such legislation is needed, attributing the statement to Palumbo: "Across the nation, there are nearly 500,000 registered sex offenders and at any one time about 100,000 of them are unaccounted for. As long as there is one sex offender out there that we cannot account for, there is the potential for great harm, the potential for another victim...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on March 03, 2011 (boomark / email).