sex offenders

You deserve to know if there is someone potentially dangerous living near you. That's one reason why there is a safe way to officially find out if your neighbor in Illinois is a past sex offender.

This certainly isn't fun or entertaining, but it's good to know where those who have been convicted of sex offenses live compared to you. Thanks to the Missouri Highway Patrol, you can enter your address and a map will show you what neighbors you might want to be wary of.

Prison reform groups are asking the Illinois Supreme Court to stop a state practice forcing more than 1,000 sex offenders to serve parole behind bars because they have no appropriate place to live.

On Thursday March 27, 2014 The Ralls County Sheriff’s Office in cooperation with the United States Marshal Service conducted a county wide operation to verify the location of registered sex offenders.