somaps.com Using Sex Offender Registries as Marketing Lists

A company called “SOMAPS” is using the sex offender registry as a marketing list to sell their app.

The app is described as “the app that was created by a sex offender for sex offenders” and supposedly warns registrants when they come in proximity of a “danger zone”.

What’s offensive is the company behind the app used the sex offender registry as their mailing list to market their app. What’s horrifyingly offensive is the mail piece is a full color postcard with the words “SEX OFFENDER” in red at the top. This way, you can be shamed by whoever distributes your mail and your neighbors!

If you’ve not received one in the mail, you can likely expect to get one.

Aside from the offensive nature of the app as well as the harmful method the owner is choosing to market it, is the ridiculousness of an app that would allow your movement to be geo-tracked and times when you accidentally or unknowingly stray inside an exclusion  zone potentially recorded. It’s like volunteering for GPS monitoring!

The owners of the company are not disclosed on their website, the domain name is hidden by “domains by proxy” but the app is registered to a “Mark Hall” and there is a business named “Somaps, LLC” registered in Cocoa, FL that is owned by a Mark Hall, who is also registered as a sex offender in Cocoa, Florida.