County lists sex offender information on Internet

County lists sex offender information on Internet:
County lists sex offender information on Internet
The Web site has names, photos and details of 193 deemed predatory to help the public be aware
Friday, September 16, 2005
KIMBERLY A.C. WILSON

Some of the faces on a new Multnomah County Web site are smiling. But visitors to the site aren't likely to smile back.

On Thursday, the Department of Community Justice launched its revised catalog of predatory sex offenders, a rogue's gallery of 193 convicted rapists, child molesters and sexual abusers under supervision by Multnomah probation officers.

Some are would-be pimps; others target children for sex; still others attack strangers on darkened streets. A few are calculating, and many are opportunistic. Most are men, but two are women.
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In all, the county supervises about 900 sexual offenders, 22 percent of them identified as 'predatory.' That's a legal term for offenders who have demonstrated a tendency to victimize or injure others, and who have been convicted for crimes such as rape, sodomy, sex abuse and sexual penetration.

The site, www.co.multnomah.or.us/dcj/acjsoffendersup.shtml, features the names, photographs, addresses and other information about each offender currently on probation or post-prison supervision, as well as contact information for the offender's probation officer.

Most of them are in regular contact with probation"