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California’s Sex-Offender Internet Site Gets 14 Million Hits In First Four Days

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2005 published in Prison Legal News August, 2005, page 39
Filed under: Discrimination, Sex Offender Registration, Internet. Location: California.
California’s new public internet data-base listing 63,000 of 85,000 convicted sex-offenders was put on line December 15, 2004. By that evening, it was too crowded to navigate, receiving 14 million hits in the first four days. This data was previously only available at police stations.

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