Perhaps it is well past time we form our own 501(c)(3) to replace them.

If only our ranks would donate just a dollar a year to FAC or other registrant advocacy groups, think of how much work could be done with those resources to make all of our lives better.

Folks, can we give up one bottle of soda a year for that kind of cause?

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Some of their numbers are very questionable.

I was personally told by the supervisor over the Missouri registry that they ‘do not’ give NCMEC juvenile numbers. Also, I have stated for years that when Congress rolled the debacle (AWA) out they didn’t include a yearly report giving the recidivism rate based on a solid and consistent set of guidelines to measure the effectiveness. How did that happen?

The NCMEC has reported that in June 2011, there was a total of 739,853 registered sex offenders in the United States.

The US Census population for the US in 2010 is 308,745,538. That means about one in every 417 people in the US is on the sex offender registry.

If they all lived in one solitary city, they would make the 17th largest city in the US, eight thousand more than Charlotte, NC and just two thousand less than the 16th Largest City– Ft. Worth, TX.

If they all moved to one state, they would outnumber every resident of the following states– Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont, or Wyoming.

In May 2007, the NCMEC reported there were 602,189 RSOs. In 49 months between May 2007 and June 2011, there were 137,664 new registrants added; that is 33,714 new registrants in a year, 2,809 in a month, 92 per day, 4 per hour, or about one new registrant added every 15 minutes.

At the current 33,714 per year average is maintained, the registrant population will top 1 million by March, 2019 (7 years and 9 months from June 2011).

Now, the registry numbers had slowed down because some folks are timing off the registry or the laws have changed somewhat, but the last time I saw numbers, it broke 900,000. Here we are in 2019 and we are very close to a million names on the government blacklist. Maybe they don’t want a bunch of headlines for reaching such a landmark number.

I predicted we’d hit a million at the rate the registry had continued at the pace it had from 2007 to 2011. We aren’t far from that mark.Perhaps we’ve already reached that pinnacle?

At the rate that the list was growing , almost 5%, the number of individuals affected will double in approximately 14 years. It will then double again every 14 years assuming a constant rate of growth.

At this rate, management and administrative costs [to say nothing of the human costs] will become a governmental burden too large to ignore.

The agencies in charge may not care about the damage to lives of individuals and families [unless/until they are personally affected] but they take note when it affects the bottom line.

Contact your elected officials, state and federal, it may catch their attention. Can’t hurt.