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Quantico, Va. — More than 30 years ago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched a revolutionary computer system in a bomb shelter two floors beneath the cafeteria of its national academy. Dubbed the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, or ViCAP, it was a database designed to help catch the nation’s most violent offenders by linking together unsolved crimes. A serial rapist

Hand Up Ministries, an Oklahoma City nonprofit agency that seeks to help sex offenders re-enter society, has faced challenges after a 2012 law added manufactured homes to the list of living quarters where two or more sex offenders could not live together. David Nichols drives through his trailer park on the southeast side of Oklahoma City surveying the seemingly constant

A South Daytona registered citizen was accused of soliciting a teen in a bathroom of a party venue at a local mall. Allegedly, a 15 year old boy was at a birthday party at the venue, went to use the bathroom, someone made suggestive gestures under the stall. The boy and his father followed the suspect until he slipped away,

Sharon Denniston, a PhD candidate in public policy is doing a study on registrants to present at the ATSA conference. She is in need of additional participants who meet certain requirements. Her post is below:     Folks, Good news!  I have enough participants in my control group now!    Also, I was thrilled to get 4 new registrant or

This is pretty horrible….     DeBARY, Fla. -Neighbors are on alert after they say a registered sex offender is living in the wrong neighborhood. Jason Minton is fresh out of jail on bond after he was arrested and charged with drugging and raping a woman in Volusia County. Since his release, neighbors said they have seen more of him

When Les and Amanda Anderson went to pick up their son from a county jail in St. Joseph, Michigan, it was the first time they had seen him in two and half months. “I was thinking just coming up here it’s like he shouldn’t be here,” Les Anderson said. “This, you know, it shouldn’t be happening.” Since his release last