[USA] Is More Information Always Better? / Overcoming Bias, 15 January 2007
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/01/is_more_informa.html
"Sex-offender registration laws, known collectively and colloquially as "Megan's Law," frequently impose registration and public notification requirements on citizens who have been convicted of various sex crimes. The defences of these laws usually hinge on a claimed high recidivism rate of sex offenders, coupled with the position that people in a community have a right to protect themselves and their children from risky neighbours."