Maine Sex Offender Registry

624,222: Number of hits on the Maine Sex Offender Registry Web site, July 2005

2 million: Number of Web hits the first week the registry went online in November 2003

1,640: Typical number of people on the Maine Sex Offender Registry. (Some committed crimes that landed them in the registry for only 10 years; others stay on for life.)

1982: Sentencing year after which people are required to register

3,200: Number of people on the New Hampshire Sex Offender Registry

1988: Sentencing year after which people are required to register

9,263: Number of people on the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry

1,544: Number of those people whose information is readily available to the public and online (worst offenders only).

1981: Sentencing year after which people are required to register

Source: State sex offender boards and registries
Sex offenders in Maine

City Number living there Number working or going to school there

Lewiston 85 12

Portland 71 50

Bangor 82 34

Augusta 70 18

Auburn 42 21

Note: Two people each in Bangor and Lewiston, and one person each in Auburn and Augusta, live half-time in one city and half-time in another.

Source: Maine Sex Offender Registry, as of Sept. 9