Feds to Launch Sex Offender Site

State-by-state information on sex offenders will be available on a new internet site run by the federal government. Participation by states is voluntary. The Justice Department said it hoped to have the site up and running within two months.
The announcement by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Friday coincided with National Missing Children's Day.
The site won't provide any information not already made available on the internet by 49 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. But it will be designed to allow someone to do a national search online to determine whether an individual who has been convicted in one state has moved to another.
"With this technology, every citizen and law enforcement officer will be able to search the latest information for the identity and location of known sex offenders," Gonzales said in a speech at the National Press Club.