Washington State’s 1990 Community Protection Act included America’s first law authorizing public notification when dangerous sex offenders are released into the community. However, it was the brutal 1994 rape and murder of seven-year-old Megan Kanka that prompted the public demand for broad based community notification. On May 17, 1996, President Clinton signed Megan's Law. Megan's Law requires the following two components:

Sex Offender Registration – The 1994 Jacob Wetterling Act requires the States to register individuals convicted of sex crimes against children. Sex offender registration laws are necessary because:

• Sex offenders pose a high risk of re-offending after release from custody;
  
• Protecting the public from sex offenders is a primary governmental interest;
  
• The privacy interests of persons convicted of sex offenses are less important than the government’s interest in public safety;
  
• Release of certain information about sex offenders to public agencies and the general public will assist in protecting the public safety.
  

Community Notification – Megan’s Law allows the States discretion to establish criteria for disclosure, but compels them to make private and personal information on registered sex offenders available to the public. Community notification:

• Assists law enforcement in investigations;
  
• Establishes legal grounds to hold known offenders;
  
• Deters sex offenders from committing new offenses;
  
• Offers citizens information they can use to protect children from victimization.
  

Our interactive Megan’s Law map provides Internet access to better serve America’s evolving, fast paced, transient society. Young parents considering day care providers or businesses and organizations whose employees or volunteers have unsupervised access to children require this critical information so that they can make informed choices based on the best information available.

In order to remain current and maintain relevance we ask the public to provide updated information that we may have overlooked, including new, broken or invalid web links so that the KlaasKids Foundation can continue to be the Internet’s premiere Megan’s Law destination.

On July 27, 2006 President Bush signed the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act. One important component requires the U.S. Justice Department to create a public accessible Internet based national sex offender database that allows users to specify a search radius across state lines. The result is the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website.

Accessing Megan's Law - International Efforts - http://www.forsarah.com/html/mainpage.html

Updated 9/27/2012

Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky

Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota

Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington Washington, D.C. West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

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Alabama -- 14,000 as of 6/11/12 Alaska -- 11,731 as of 6/9/12 Arizona -- 14,500 as of 7/1/11 Arkansas -- 11,731 as of 6/12/12 California -- 98,569 as of 7/24/12 Colorado -- 15,232 as of 6/11/2012 Connecticut -- 5,299 as of 8/01/2012 Delaware -- 4,693 updated 7/17/12 Florida -- 9,514 predators and 49,197 sexual offenders as of 6/12/12 Georgia -- 21,422 registered; 373 non-compliant as for 6/12/12 Hawaii -- 3,594 as of 06/07/12 Idaho -- 3,588 Adults -- 109 Juvenile and 196 Non Compliant offenders as of 4/30/12 Illinois -- 28,123 as of 6/01/12 Indiana -- 9,191as of 7/16/12 Iowa - 5,593 as of 7/1/12 Kansas -- 10,660 as of 6/13/12 Kentucky -- 8,595 as of 7/20/11

Louisiana -- 10,574 as of 6/12/12 Maine -- 2,930 as of 7/26/2012 Maryland -- 6,435 as of 8/17/11 Massachusetts -11,204 as of 6/11/12 Michigan -- 39,875 as of 5/1/12 Minnesota -- 16,968 as of 7/11/12 Mississippi -- 7,170 as of 6/11/12 Missouri -- 12,772 as of 07/17/2012 Montana -- 2,135 as of 6/12/12. Nebraska -- 3,900 as of June 2012 Nevada -- 6,994 active 9,731 inactive as of 6/12/2012 New Hampshire -- 5,112 (cumulative) 2,469 (active) as of 7/10/12 New Jersey -- 14,617 as of 7/27/12 New Mexico -- 2,936 as of 6/11/12 New York -- 34,139 as of 6/11/12 North Carolina -- 14, 311 as of 06/21/2012 North Dakota -- 1529 as of 7/19/2011

Ohio -- 19,152 as of 6/14/2012 Oklahoma -- 7228+ active; 1038 non-compliant as of 4/20/12 Oregon -- 18,380 as of 6/20/12 Pennsylvania -- 17,568 as of 6/2/12 Rhode Island -- 1,582 updated 4/01/10 South Carolina -- 13.450 as of 6/12/2012 South Dakota -- 2,963 as of 6/11/12 Tennessee -- 18,363 as of 06/1/2012 Texas -- 71,422 as of 07/02/12 Utah -- 6,998 as 7/10/12 Vermont -- 2940 as of 7/17/2012 Virginia -- 19,192 as of 9/22/11 Washington -- 21,008 as of 6/1/12 Washington, D.C. 972. as of 7/17/12 West Virginia -- 3731 as of 6/12/12 Wisconsin -- 22,376 as of 7/10/12 Wyoming -- 1600 as of 06/11/2012

Source for State Megan's Law Grade Number of Registrants - Parents for Megan's Law
	                                                

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