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http://www.wdrb.com/story/15863180/new-app-identifies-sex-offender-locations LOUISIVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Parents, your fingertips and your cell phone could offer some peace of mind this Halloween. A new smart phone app can track how close your kids are to sex offenders as they trick-or-treat.
As the youngest ghouls and goblins prepare to hit the streets for Halloween, many parents don't know where the scariest characters lurk in their neighborhood.
But a free sex offender search app changes all of that. It links to the National Sex Offender Registry database, then taps into your cell phone's GPS and identifies the address of offenders near the phone's location.
To test it, WDRB's Gilbert Corsey traveled to the Highlands off Cherokee Rd., just one block from Bardstown Rd. -- a location many would consider the heart of suburbia and a safe place for their children. But the app determined that there were two sex offenders, very close. In fact, one lives just across the street.
"You can't be too careful especially Halloween night. It pays to go that extra mile for safety," says Sgt. Andy Abbott of the Louisville Metro Police Sex Crimes Division.
Police admit the chances of encountering a sex offender on Halloween are rare, but unlike other states, Kentucky does not participate the mandatory "lights-out" program that keeps sex offenders from answering the door to trick-or-treaters.
Parents we talked to say the app could give them some piece of mind.
"I don't even want them walking down that street," said Rhonda Etheron.
There are more than 1,000 sex offenders in Jefferson County and 9,000 throughout the state. The app shows their address and a street view of the neighborhood. In many cases there's a picture of the offender and the charges they were convicted on.
"That's a good thing, just so you would know which places to avoid," Abbott said.
It's available to iPhone and Android users
And for Christy Grass and her 5-year-old daughter, added security is just a fingertip away.
"I have tons of apps," Grass said, adding that she'd consider using the sex offender app. "I'm all about the apps." Wow i just do not see how the American people can swallow this B/S year after year watch your kid on Halloween that's when all of the pervs will be running around. how things have changed since i was a kid the only thing we had to worry about was poisoned candy i remember it pissed me of to no end when i was a kid and my mother had to check my candy before i could eat it welcome to Amerika god help us all........peace out and god bless
As the youngest ghouls and goblins prepare to hit the streets for Halloween, many parents don't know where the scariest characters lurk in their neighborhood.
But a free sex offender search app changes all of that. It links to the National Sex Offender Registry database, then taps into your cell phone's GPS and identifies the address of offenders near the phone's location.
To test it, WDRB's Gilbert Corsey traveled to the Highlands off Cherokee Rd., just one block from Bardstown Rd. -- a location many would consider the heart of suburbia and a safe place for their children. But the app determined that there were two sex offenders, very close. In fact, one lives just across the street.
"You can't be too careful especially Halloween night. It pays to go that extra mile for safety," says Sgt. Andy Abbott of the Louisville Metro Police Sex Crimes Division.
Police admit the chances of encountering a sex offender on Halloween are rare, but unlike other states, Kentucky does not participate the mandatory "lights-out" program that keeps sex offenders from answering the door to trick-or-treaters.
Parents we talked to say the app could give them some piece of mind.
"I don't even want them walking down that street," said Rhonda Etheron.
There are more than 1,000 sex offenders in Jefferson County and 9,000 throughout the state. The app shows their address and a street view of the neighborhood. In many cases there's a picture of the offender and the charges they were convicted on.
"That's a good thing, just so you would know which places to avoid," Abbott said.
It's available to iPhone and Android users
And for Christy Grass and her 5-year-old daughter, added security is just a fingertip away.
"I have tons of apps," Grass said, adding that she'd consider using the sex offender app. "I'm all about the apps." Wow i just do not see how the American people can swallow this B/S year after year watch your kid on Halloween that's when all of the pervs will be running around. how things have changed since i was a kid the only thing we had to worry about was poisoned candy i remember it pissed me of to no end when i was a kid and my mother had to check my candy before i could eat it welcome to Amerika god help us all........peace out and god bless
I just read an article that said the "poison candy scare" was also a farse. Although a child did indeed die, it was at the hand of the child's own father. It stated one other incident where some children became ill.
Again, rare, very rare cases.
I know this will indeed show my age, but I can remember getting actual "homemade treats" and being invited into homes. I have so many wonderful memories of a cherished tradition.
Now, I hate Halloween.