WILTON – Selectmen will consider a policy for telling the public about registered sex offenders when the board meets at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Last month, resident Kaaron Wadsworth presented officials with a petition asking that the police department draw up a policy to notify the community when a sex offender is in town. Four registered sex offenders live in Wilton, including Wadsworth’s former husband, Dennis Ayala.

Wadsworth took it upon herself to notify the community about her ex-husband by putting up postings around town. The notices were removed, but Ayala was arrested and charged with not registering as a sex offender as he is required to do.

At the board’s last meeting, Town Manager Peter Nielsen said policies from Bangor, Farmington and Lincolnville as well as the Maine Chiefs of Police Association were gathered and a half page draft was drawn up for selectmen’s consideration.

Suggested changes to the policy included possibly shortening the amount of time for notification and clarifying who will be notified. Residents favored making mandatory notification to schools and daycare centers regardless of where the sex offender lives in town.

Residents also suggested making it mandatory that all forms of media be used in the notification process, including television, radio, newspapers, and the Internet. The state maintains a Web site that gives information on registered sex offenders. The site can be accessed at www.maine.gov and clicking on the sex offender registry.

Nielsen said a state panel is looking at protocols for notification that all towns will be required to follow, and any policy the town makes will probably need to be changed.

Nielsen said he planned to meet with police Chief James Parker and former Department of Human Services caseworker Sandra Wyman to discuss possible changes to the proposed policy.