Thanks for these informative posts. Really.

Looking at the table of people registered each year, I started wondering which states were getting more sensible, and which were still tacking on more and more registrable offenses. Using the statistics, I got these values, where a value over 1 means the state has increased its rate of registration since 2005-2006 and 2014.

Alabama 2.43
Alaska 0.75
Arizona 1.44
Arkansas 1.87
California 0.86
Connecticut 1.34
DC 1.56
Delaware 1.61
Florida 1.80
Georgia 2.36
Hawaii 1.43
Idaho 1.47
Illinois 1.30
Indiana 1.63
Iowa 0.96
Kansas 2.12
Kentucky 1.92
Louisiana
Maine 1.94
Maryland 2.01
Massachusetts 0.87
Michigan 1.06
Minnesota 1.18
Mississippi 2.29
Missouri 1.28
Montana 0.96
Nebraska 2.13
Nevada 1.31
New Hampshire 0.77
New Jersey 1.53
New Mexico 1.98
New York 1.71
North Carolina 1.79
North Dakota 2.26
Ohio 1.35
Oklahoma 1.29
Oregon 1.43
Pennsylvania 2.08
Rhode Island 1.07
South Carolina 1.40
South Dakota 1.74
Tennessee 2.46
Utah 0.95
Vermont 0.72
Virginia 1.89
Washington 1.00
West Virginia 1.55
Wisconsin 1.32
Wyoming 2.40

The numbers show kind of what you'd expect. For the most part, Southern states have greatly increased registration.. A couple of New England states have decreased registration, as has California, though California's rate of registration remains quite high.

Very interesting chart - thank you. The numbers are mind boggling. It would be very interesting to see how the numbers relate to population of the state. In other words, do the states with the highest numbers of registrants necessarily have the highest population?

Here you go, Advocate.

http://tinyurl.com/3v8ght6

Here is a United Stated map that will tell you how many registrants per 100,000 residents.

Place your mouse pointer over each state and it will show you that information.

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64,431 Floriduh! They're crazy down there. PA is 17,197

"Looking at the table of people registered each year, I started wondering which states were getting more sensible, and which were still tacking on more and more registrable offenses."

Going by these numbers you can't assume a direct correlation between number of registrants and the way the states create new sex offenders.

Like everyone else, Registered Citizens move for various reasons. Also, some states have larger populations in general so they are expected to have more RSOs.

The latest stats have Cali back up over 100,000 RSOs:

http://www.missingkids.com/en_US/documents/Sex_Offenders_Map.pdf

Oregon has the highest per-capita RSO rates, but it is possible that their lax laws on RSOs attract a number of people from surrounding states which influences the numbers.

Louisiana is really tough on RSOs yet they have a small RSO per capita population compared to Florida. The national average per-capita rate is 262 per 100,000. PA has the lowest per-capita rate.

The states with a high per-capita rate, outside Oregon, is very interesting. Arkansas, SD, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Delaware all have per-capita rates over 400. That is quite an eclectic collection of states.

Bottom line, these numbers alone really tell little about anything other than states vary greatly on registration. Ohio is a rare exception because the older registrants under the prior law who were "sexually oriented offenders" are starting to be removed because their 10 years has ended, thus keeping our rates steady.

Once fallen: I'm not comparing state to state, just looking at the trend within each state. So, unless there's been a reason why a lot of RSOs should preferentially move to Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, these states have had a greater than 100% increase in registration over the last decade — I'd suspect from zealous prosecutors and more and more violations that end in registration. Kansas, Nebraska and North Dakota also became much more registration-prone.

Meanwhile Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire have had significant declines in registration —possibly because they're no longer pressing to put people on registerable offenses. California has also had a sizable drop.

OnceF.. good points. My son, altho he was prosecuted, sentenced and imprisoned in Floriduh he's not on the registry there. We escaped here to PA.

One need only look at the California numbers to know that this 'statistic' is completely made up and void of any merit. But like my friend teacher said "put it in a spreadsheet and they will accept anything' (speaking of parents freaking over lil' Suzie's grades)...

There is NO way that number of registrants in CA went from 102,000 to 63,000 from 2005 to 2009. CA is and always has been lifetime and other than death or moving out of state a handful (literally), those convicted of misdemeanors pretty much, can petition to be removed after 10+ years IF they have been living the life of a saint.

2014 numbers for California - PFML shows 82,646. When the CASOMB (California Sex Offender Management Board) clearly states

"There are about 98,000 registered sex offenders on California’s registry. About 76, 000 live in California communities and the other 22,000 are currently in custody. Of these offenders, 80% are posted on the state’s Megan’s Law web site with their full address or ZIP Code and other information, depending upon
the offense they committed. About 20% are not posted or are excluded from posting on the web site by law, again depending on the conviction offense."

http://www.cce.csus.edu/portal/admin/handouts/Tiering%20Background%20Paper%20FINAL%20FINAL%204-2-14.pdf

How difficult is that to research? The NCMEC numbers showed the same 'dip' for California over the past few years.

I do not understand how difficult it is for the States to add records in a very simple database. And does not PFML get funded to provide a service to the public? If I ran my business with made up numbers like this I'd be out of a job in a jiffy. At the very least the IRS would be all up in bid'ness to demand straight numbers.

As seen time and time again, good sense and basic reason takes a leave of absence when it comes to this topic. Totally bizarre...