Doyle: More Than 1,000 Sex Offenders Tracked Down
Effort Was Begun In 2005
Updated: 12:55 pm CDT October 12, 2006
BROWN DEER, Wis. -- Gov. Jim Doyle said that authorities have tracked down more than 1,000 sex offenders as part of an initiative to make them comply with the state sex offender registry.He said on Thursday in Brown Deer that the list includes 26 of Wisconsin's most-wanted sex offenders.The effort is part of the governor's anti-crime SAFE initiative launched in September 2005 to find about 2,000 sex offenders who haven't registered with the state as required by law. A team of retired detectives divided between Madison and Milwaukee hunts them down, relying heavily on online databases.Sex offenders have been required to register with the state since 1997. That allows police, victims and the general public to monitor and keep track of them as a way to keep neighborhoods safer and to improve public awareness about sexual violence.Doyle said that the 1,019 newly registered sex offenders include 616 who committed crimes against juveniles.
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