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Effectiveness of Megan's Law questioned
By The Philadelphia Inquirer
Published: 05/14/2007

TRENTON, NJ - New Jersey's pioneering Megan's Law, which costs millions of dollars to alert citizens when sex offenders move nearby, may not make children safer, new research suggests.

A federally funded study under way in Trenton is trying to determine whether Megan's Law is worth the cost of its "enormously expensive" monitoring and enforcement requirements, said Phillip Witt, a consultant on the study. Read more.

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