The Iowa Department of Public Safety has updated the look and some of the features of the Sex Offender Registry website .

DCI Special Agent in Charge Hunter Bellon oversees the site and says one thing they updated is the landing page. “Put a few of those features that we found were most used more prominently on that landing page to include our search feature in a lot of different locations. We’ve updated our most wanted landing site and our active registrant website,” Bellon says.

He says they’ve added what’s called a “heat map” to the iowasexoffender.gov site that shows where the approximately 6,700 registered offenders are located. “We had that in a portion of our old site, but it was searchable by county. So now you can go in and on this interactive map, scroll over any of the area

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