Download or read book California Law Enforcement and Correctional Agencies written by Elaine M. Howle and published by . This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns the accuracy of the CA Dept. of Justice's database of registered sex offenders (SO) known as Megan's Law Database (MLD). It contains thousands of errors and inconsistencies, and out-of-date info., so the public is not accurately informed about all known SO. The MLD does not inform the public of the threat posed by some serious and high-risk SO because it excludes their records or erroneously lists them as incarcerated. Conversely, it may unnecessarily alarm the public because it includes hundreds of duplicate records and indicates that 1,142 SO are living in public communities although they are actually incarcerated. The address info. for 23,000 records in the MLD has not been updated for at least a year because the SO have not registered.