Talk about crying wolf when there is none!4-8-2013 Massachusetts:
Although a state audit of day-care centers found that eight in Greater Lowell shared addresses with known sex offenders, none of the matches was found to present a direct threat to children or violated state law.
Of the eight matches found in a review released last week by the State Auditor's Office, two were for day-care programs that had closed. Another was for a center that shared an address with a hospital where a sex offender worked.
Three others involved sex offenders who lived in an apartment that shared an address with the center, but the offender lived in a different unit. Another match came about because the day-care center shared an address with a temp agency that had a sex offender as a client.
The final match, found in Leominster, was for a day-care center that had moved to a new location without informing authorities. The license for that center has been revoked.
The auditor's report, which was released Wednesday, found 119 matches between addresses for sex offenders and the 10,528 registered day-care centers in the state.
Chris Thompson, the state auditor's press secretary, said the study was part of a routine audit of the Department of Early Education and Care. He said the department was not required to do the cross-checking.
"It was not required for EEC to perform Sex Offender Registry checks; that was our initial finding," said Thompson. "We found that out, so we did the check ourselves." ...continued... by Allison Thomasseau, Sun Statehouse Bureau
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