sex offenders

Proposed changes include the name of the board, making an actual offender part of the board, as well as a victim.

WA state classifies its sex offenders as Level 1-least likely to reoffend, Level 2, moderate risk, and Level 3-highly likely to reoffend.

These are the known addresses of registered offenders who are in the community, after having completed all mandated legal requirements per the courts and law enforcement.

If panel decides to recommend to legislature, they could possibly pass laws to do away with those alerts from law enforcement about sex offenders moving into neighborhoods upon completion of sentence.

Crime Stoppers of Yakima County needs your help in locating these fugitives of the law. If you have a tip to the whereabouts of any one of these criminals, you can leave a tip anonymously. If your tip leads to an apprehension, you could receive a $1,000 reward.

Benton County Sheriff's Office Searching for Sex Offenders

Often, when a significant portion of law or criminal codes is overturned or stricken, it affects the sentences of criminals. Some end of having to be 'resentenced.' Will that happen in WA?

The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on a North Carolina case that could set precedence across the country, when it comes to how convicted sex offenders are allowed to use social media.

Shasta Groene is an Idaho woman, who's story 11 years ago gripped the Pacific Northwest and the nation. Now, she's created petition that's probably the hardest-hitting one ever proposed for dealing with predatory and serious sex offenders.

A Mesa woman has seen the Washington State Supreme Court side with her, as they overturned a King County Superior court order that banned the release of Level 1 Sex Offender records. The court ruled information about Level 1 offenders, those considered the lowest risk to re-offend, can be released as part of the state's Public Records Act.