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Georgia To Lose $250,000 In Grants Due To Issues With Sex Offender Registry
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Georgia's sex offender registration program stands to lose about $250,000 of its federal grant funding next year.
The registry does not contain important information about registered sex offenders, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The state has been found deficient in providing information on offenders since 2012, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Federal law also requires the state to classify the risk each person on the list poses to re-offend, but the AJC reports about 4,000 people on the registry don't have a risk level designation.
Offenders are classified as Level 1, which means offenders have a low chance of recidivism; Level 2 or Level 3 offenders, which are the most likely to reoffend.
Those assessed in the Level 3 category are considered sexually dangerous predators by the Sexual Offender Registration Review Board, according to the state registry.
There are currently 682 sexually dangerous predators on the registry, according to the AJC.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation maps more than 30,000 offenders on its county-by-county map as of May 1. That number includes both in and out-of-state offenders.
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