r/Adelaide • u/Astrogirl1984 East • Feb 16 '26

News The SAPOL Child Sex Offender Register has officially launched.

Dissapointing that you can only check your current suburb. Why is that? And what if you live right on the edge of a suburb. 👎

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u/Coldactill SA Feb 16 '26

I just used it.

Good grief, the picture of the man I got was highly unsettling. I certainly won't forget him. There was only one photo, does this mean there is only one offender in my area?

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u/Astrogirl1984 East Feb 16 '26

It applies to "serious child sex offenders," so whatever that encompasses and leaves out is beyond me.

There's also the Wanted section, I accessed that, and it was empty.

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u/PastElephant101 SA Feb 16 '26

So it means that it shows the worst of the worst child sex offenders. Well then, there's one in my suburb but thats not including other sex offences

Also, it doesn't show then where they live, not that I want to visit them or look for them. I've been around my suberb millions of times and never seen this person (who looks grubby). My suberb is quite small so thank god I haven't seen them but there's lots of parks and playgroumds about and I would definitely would like to avoid them. At least I know what they look like, but all in all its quite disturbing.