by Dan Lungren

About the author: Dan Lungren is a former California attorney general.

In the [San Francisco] Bay Area, a father viewing the CD-ROM confirmed that his ex-wife’s boyfriend, with whom she lives, is a registered sex offender.

In less than one month’s time, the Megan’s Law CD-ROM directory of nearly 64,000 California sex offenders has proved its greatest worth: protecting children from the horror of molestation.

Molesters have been caught. Sex offenders who refused to properly register with police have been located and arrested. Mothers have been alerted that men near their kids—even boyfriends, in some cases—are sex offenders. All this because California has finally lifted the cloak of anonymity that has shielded sex offenders from public view...