The Justice Department opened a national registry of sex offenders Wednesday that the public can use to track thousands of offenders across the country via computer.
Assistant Attorney General Regina Schofield said the national registry was designed to be a repository for the names of an estimated 500,000 sex offenders now listed on separate websites that are maintained by states. The national registry, located at www.nsopr.gov, had records from 22 states on Wednesday. Records from the rest of the states are expected to be online by year's end, Schofield said.
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