Houston-based Scan USA has a new service available:
Scan USA Corp. has launched a service that tracks the movement of registered sex offenders in neighborhoods.
The company’s new predator alert feature is available in California, Florida and Texas, and will be phased in nationally during the next eight weeks. The alert is provided to both public safety agencies and citizens free of charge through corporate sponsorships.
Scan USA developed the national predator tracking service as a result of public demand for information, according to George Sharp, chairman of Houston-based Sharp Holding Corp, the parent company of Scan USA.
The tracking of sex offenders led to legislation in Florida and is currently being reviewed by the U.S. Congress following incidents by sex offenders.
“This is public information, but many don’t know where to look or rarely take the time to go through the volumes of information available in states’ online registries,” says Russ Krauss, chief operating officer of Scan USA.
You can sign up online for the free service.
So far, there’s no word if the tough, smart LiveJournalist approves or disapproves. Maybe being tracked is an invasion of a predator’s privacy. Not that most of us care, of course.
