Updated 2020 Sex Offender Registry For Tolland

TOLLAND, CT — There are seven registered sex offenders living in Tolland as of October 2020, according to the Connecticut Sex Offender Registry.

The Connecticut Department of Emergency Services & Public Protection maintains the registry and updates information regularly, but information can change quickly. Information is often provided by offenders themselves as required by law.

Law enforcement officials and researchers caution that the registries play 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.

Here is the full list of registered sex offenders living in town, according to the state's registry (an asterisk* indicates non-compliance):

1. THOMAS APGAR, 207 LOEHR ROAD
2. TODD JUROVATY, 63 OLD FARM ROAD
3. NEAL MANEELEY, 1270 TOLLAND STAGE RD
4. MICHAEL MEE, 144 GEHRING RD
5. FREDERICK MERRILL, 528 MERROW RD
6. ANDREW PICARD, 132 SHENIPSIT LAKE RD
7. MICHAEL SZEMREYLO JR, 69 ALFRED DR

Click here to see the full state registry.