How To Tell Where Sex Offenders Live In Culver City

CULVER CITY, CA – Before kids go out trick or treating on Halloween, fall is a good time to take an inventory of who is living in your neighborhood. Culver City currently has 27 registered sex offenders listed on the California Sex Offender Registry.

The California Department of Justice has a website called Megan's Law, which provides information on registered sex offenders pursuant to California Penal Code § 290.46, so that members of the public can better protect themselves and their families.

According to the website, there are 27 registered sex offenders in Culver City and 10 are currently in violation. In addition, 10 are without a listed address and another three are listed as transient. Only one is currently listed as "incarcerated."

To learn more about whether or not there are sex offenders in your neighborhood, check out Megan's Law where you can filter by city, zip code, or county.

Law enforcement officials and researchers caution that the registries can play only a limited role in preventing child sexual abuse and stress that most perpetrators are known to the child. The U.S. Department of Justice, which oversees the National Sex Offender Public Website, estimates that only about 10 percent of perpetrators of child sexual abuse are strangers to the child.

The Justice Department estimates 60 percent of perpetrators are known to the child but are not family members but rather family friends, babysitters, child care providers and others, and 30 percent of child victims are abused by family members. Nearly a quarter of the abusers are under the age of 18, the department estimates.

Source: California Sex Offender Registry

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