Some cities or counties have some unspecific information online, but most don't. On the San Diego perv pin map, they have approximate locations of registered offenders. As long as CA withholds convenient public information about the sex offenders, our state will attract them the way San Francisco attracts homeless people.
California's neglected database has an error rate near 25 percent.
That's better than not having any database. Remember a few months ago, during RecallGrayDavis season, the CA legislature almost didn't bother to renew Megan's law or funding for it. This was clearly not important to the Democrats setting the agenda, while things like SB2(mandatory health insurance from employers), SB60(illegal alien ID), special employment rights for transvestites, etc. were all scheduled and given far more consideration. Of course, with our expensive contracts with database companies like Oracle, you'd think we could handle 100,000 registries without so many errors.
There also is disagreement about whether better information about sex offenders could stave off these offenses. Not even the law's staunchest advocates can cite studies that indicate strong Megan's Laws help prevent crime.
But, if more people knew that their neighbor were a convicted child molester with a high-risk of repeat offenses, more would probably demand to be allowed to carry guns and that CA enact fewer gun restrictions. I don't think the liberals in our legislature want anything like that.
The liberals have a strange mentality. If you have lived a peaceful life, minding your own business and not hurting anyone, the liberals are very paranoid that you might become a criminal someday if you happen to own a gun. On the other hand, the left isn't concerned at all about people who are proven criminals. The left tried to make it illegal for gun owners to live within 1000 feet of any school -- evidently out of fear that the gun owner would go postal or else out of a fear that some little darling will steal guns on his way home from school. But if a convicted child molester lives next door to a school, why that is no big deal. Indeed, the child molester might even have the "right" to associate with children and parents who object just might find themselves guilty of a "hate crime." It is like the worse you behave, the more the left wants to empower you.