[Zetman]

BUT, the reverse was not true for a long time. IIRC, even a few years ago you had to go to the local police and try to pry information out of them about suspected sex-offense convicts in your neighborhood.

I figure too many fruitloops in power in CA (Hollywood, SF) managed to keep registries repressed in CA. Hopefully that's on the way out.

The State of California does indeed maintain a web site which lists registered sex offenders, per Megan's law. One can search it by zip code, via a map, and via other search criteria:

http://ag.ca.gov/megan/

[VOA]

The State of California does indeed maintain a web site which lists
registered sex offenders, per Megan's law.

Thanks for the excellent news.
That's a real improvement over 4-5 years ago. When I was in Southern
California, one of the Los Angeles TV news shows had film of an
"average Joe" that showed up at a local police department to
check up on the register (at that time) and got very feeble response
from the police at the station.

(I'm not bashing the cops...they surely could have had enough on
their hands that day...)