Sex Offender Mapping Web Site Shut Down

After being up and running for only a week, a Web site that mapped the addresses of registered sex offenders has shut down.
Jul 19, 2005
SALT LAKE CITY (KSL News Services) -- After being up and running for only a
week, a Web site that mapped the addresses of registered sex
offenders has shut down.

Mark Olsen who works for the company that designed the site
says he was told by the Utah Department of Corrections that as many
as two-thirds of the database's addresses may be incorrect.

The department maintains the database of registered sex
offenders.
Olsen says the site has been receiving between 15-thousand and
30-thousand hits every day since it launched last week.

Olsen says the company had planned to launch similar sites for
every state. However, he says those plans are on hold while they
confirm the data it has collected in other states.