Archive for the ‘South Dakota’ Category

The law enforcement departments that track gun permit holders are not keeping their records current, according to an article on permits issued to New York pistol owners. The newspaper has posted the names and addresses of licensees in two New York counties.

The Argus Leader has posted a searchable database of all weapon permit holders in South Dakota, which the newspaper obtained just before a state law made those names confidential in July 2006.

The Ohio Attorney General has a database of conceal carry weapon instructors that can be searched statewide by name. Select “unknown” from the alphabetical county list (just after Union) to search statewide. Results include the instructor’s telephone number.

Concealed carry laws and topical discussions can be found at Packing.org.

South Dakota and Oregon have had county based sex offender lookups that are now integrated into their statewide sex offender registries. Each are online at their state sites and at the National Sex Offender Public Registry operated by DOJ. The DOJ site also includes searches in the District of Columbia and the territory of Guam.

The Ohio legislature is entertaining a bill that would establish a civil registry of child sexual abusers.

A recent Missouri Supreme Court decision will require that sex offenders convicted of crimes prior to 1995 be removed from the sex offender registry. Read the story