Don't Trick-or-Treat At These Homes
To help you keep your family protected, here's a map of registered sex offenders in East Atlanta Patch
View East Atlanta area Sex Offenders in a full screen map
After talking to our children all year about being safe and not talking to strangers, there's one day each year we send them out onto the streets and tell them to knock on strangers' doors.
Halloween is upon us, and Patch wants to help everyone stay safe.
So we've created this map of registered sex offenders in East Atlanta Patch, so you can choose whose door to knock on and whose not to — especially if your family is trick-or-treating in a new neighborhood, with friends or at Grandma's.
Georgia has 21,559 registered sex offenders, including 4,127 offenders who live in the state but are registered with an out-of-state jurisdiction.
Fulton County has the the most registered sex offenders in the state with 1,523. DeKalb County is No.2 with 1,026 registered offenders.
To check out your neighborhood, zoom in or out of the map above. Click on a flag to get specific addresses or consult the list below the map by scrolling on the right-hand side of the map.
To find out more information about the people listed here, and to see photos, visit the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's Sex Offender Registry.
Leslie Grant
8:25 am on Saturday, October 27, 2012
Good to know! It's the ones that haven't been caught that might be more worrisome though. Thanks for the article to remind folks to be safe. By the way...who is James Anderson?
Anna Varela
2:24 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
Hi, Leslie. Due to a glitch, offender James Anderson's name accidentally showed up next to all the listings of every other offender. We've fixed that now.
E Keathley
9:03 am on Saturday, October 27, 2012
Well, here's the problem: older gay men caught with their partners decades ago might be registered as sex offenders. Nineteen year olds with sixteen year old partners might have been prosecuted as sex offenders. I don't want a map with those folk on; I want a map of predators and pedophiles. This map just raises uncomfortable questions.
Dot Wiggins
8:06 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Until a change in the law can allow the exceptions you described, this is the best we can do. I agree it is unfair, but I would rather be aware of who is out there, "uncomfortable questions" or not.
Debbie Gathmann
7:30 pm on Saturday, October 27, 2012
I agree with Keathley--registered sex offenders aren't a problem with trick or treaters, because parents should be with their kids--not dropping them off in a neighborhood and going out for coffee. I'm not sure that knowing sex offenders' addresses will keep us safe from crazy gang members or armed robbers.
Dot Wiggins
8:13 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Really!? Unless a parent monitors every moment of trick or treating there is a chance for a predator to come in contact, converse, manipulate your child. Most parents stand back and allow the child to approach the door, out of ear shot. And these are the parents who do accompany their child. Older kids (age 12 or so) go on their own.
I am just disturbed with the statement "...sexual predators are not a problem for trick or treaters." That is naive at best.
Dot Wiggins
8:17 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
??? I am QUITE sure this map will not protect us from gangs violence and armed robbery. Because there is one danger, you won't do what you can to avoid another?
Péralte Paul
7:53 pm on Saturday, October 27, 2012
Most parents do go out with their kids, Debbie. But I can tell you from last year, when I was walking my dog, I saw a few groups of kids walking from house to house by themselves and it was already dark.
Anna Varela
2:26 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
Hi, readers. I know a few people wanted to know more about who is required to register as a sex offender. Here are the people required by Georgia law to be listed on the Registry:
- Persons convicted on or after July 1, 1996 of a dangerous sexual offense.
- Persons previously convicted of a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor and may be released from prison or placed on parole, supervised release, or probation on or after July 1, 1996.
- Persons who have previously been convicted of a sexually violent offense or dangerous sexual offense and may be released from prison or placed on parole, supervised release, or probation on or after July 1, 1996;
- Persons who are a resident of Georgia who intends to reside in this state and who is convicted under the laws of another state or the United States, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, or in a tribal court of a sexually violent offense, a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor on or after July 1, 1999, or a dangerous sexual offense on or after July 1, 1996.
- A nonresident who changes residence from another state or territory of the United States or any other place to Georgia who is required to register as a sexual offender under federal law, military law, tribal law, or the laws of another state or territory, or who has been convicted in this state of a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor or any dangerous sexual offense;