The prison system sure doesn't make it easy for someone to find out the the status of these people. Plus, the mugshots have booking numbers but those don't seem to bring any pertinent information up. What good are they?
In another case I learned that the RSO mugshots and jail/prison information isn't connected (as far as communications) in any way. Notice how L's mugshot says latest update July 2012. He was arrested in August 2012 and again in November 2012 (for aggravated assault, disorderly person-jostling, and parole violation). He had been picked up for a parole violation in August and was out already in November! His arse should be in jail. It's unbelievable what these perps continue to get away with and people can't easily find out about their whereabouts. How's that protecting the public?
About the FB thing, they can easily set up a FB page (I think) and just participate until they get caught. I may be wrong, but I don't think there's a protective system in place and I'm not sure when they're caught violating the rule (maybe that's what he did last August) what the punishment is. Proof these perverts are on FB. It should be easy to find out his status and it's not.
Even if this isn't the perp in this case, this guy is bad news. He sure looks like the sketch and seems to love, love, love, the colors red and orange!
With technology why hasn't a system been designed to connect the dots of where these people currently are, if they've been released, etc.
Oh and Federal prisons don't connect to state prisons either. So if someone has a history in a state prison, gets out and ends up in a Federal prison, there's no chain of history linking their jail/state/federal prison record. Looking at one slice of it isn't the whole story on the criminal - it may be but there's no way to know. Because there are all different levels of sex offenders and different reasons they end up on the lists/registrations.
It's 2013 - man went to the moon in 1969, computers have been around for, what, twenty-five years now? The system sucks. It should connect and it should be easy for a citizen to access the information.