January 7, 2011

State police report shows 5,231 on sex offenders list

Would love to know what the "investigations" were about, and if any resulted in further charges?
1-7-2011 Connecticut:

State police released a quarterly sex offender report Thursday, showing a total of 5,231 registered sex offenders in the state at the end of 2010.

There were 339 new registered sex offenders during 2010, while 188 registrants completed their 10-year registration term and were removed from the list.

The reports also shows 652 registrants who are non-compliant with registry requirements. The Sex Offender Registry conducted 3,224 superintendent of schools notifications of address changes by registered sex offenders last year.

In 2010, there were 1,263 investigations by the Sex Offender Registry Unit and the website logged 509,898 hits on registered sex offenders living, working or attending schools in the state. Since October, 2009, 6,881 households have signed up for e-mail alerts and 37,179 alerts were sent. ..Source.. by Staff reports
Norwich Bulletin