Are There More Sex Offenders Located in Wauwatosa?

WAUWATOSA -- In 2014, the Milwaukee Common Council voted to approve a new sex offender ordinance, banning them from living within 2,000 feet of schools, parks and day care centers.

According to a report by the Journal Sentinel this week, supporters of the ordinance back in 2014 said it would protect the public by pushing more offenders out of the city and into the suburbs, where a disproportionately low number of the county’s offenders lived.

We wanted to know what this meant for Wauwatosa.

Using information compiled by the State Department of Corrections, we were able to create a registered sex offender map for Wauwatosa, showing locations of each offender.

In total, Wauwatosa houses 17 such offenders.

Here is a list of the approximate location, crime and conviction date for each offender.

500 block N. 66th St.
60-year-old male
Crime: Use of a Computer to Facilitate a Child Sex Crime
Conviction Date: January 18, 2006

2900 block N. 124th St.
Crime: Second-Degree Sexual Assault of a Child
Conviction Date: Sep. 15, 1993

1300 block of N. 116th St.
Crime: First-degree sexual assault of a child
Conviction Date: April 11, 1994

6000 block of Menomonee Drive
Crime: Second-Degree Sexual Assault of a Child
Conviction Date: May 15, 1997

4700 block N. 117th St.
Crime: Child Enticement
Conviction Date: October 29, 2014

8000 block Red Arrow Ct
Crime: Possession of Child Pornography
Conviction Date: May 16, 2011

1000 block N. 68th St.
Crime: second-degree sexual assault
Conviction Date: July 15, 1988

12000 block W. Potter Road
Crime: second-degree sexual assault
Conviction Date: February 26, 1985

11700 block of W. Dearborn Ave.
Crime: Third-degree sexual assault
Conviction Date: December 2, 2004

6000 block of W. West Washington Blvd.
Crime: Possession of Child Pornography
Conviction Date: November 2, 2007

4400 block of N. Glenway St.
Crime: Second-degree sexual assault
Conviction Date: June 18, 1985

2100 block N. 64th St.
Crime: Second-Degree Sexual Assault of a Child
Conviction Date: October 7, 1996

10700 block W. York Pl.
Crime: Child Enticement
Conviction Date: June 17, 2002

2400 block N. 63rd St.
crime: possession of child pornography
Conviction date: July 14, 2005

9400 bock W. Watertown Plank Rd.
Crime: Second-degree sexual assault
Conviction Date: January 10, 1994

600 block N. 108th Pl.
Crime: Second-Degree sexual assault of a child
Conviction Date: January 23, 1995

1100 block N. 117th St.
Second degree sexual assault of a child
Conviction Date: November 18, 1996

What the Journal Sentinel had found was that Milwaukee County suburbs continue to house about 10% of county offenders — about the same percentage as before the ordinance. As it turns out, tighter rules in Milwaukee haven't produced the mass-exodus into the suburbs as initially thought.

Instead, it has given rise to a spike in the homeless sex offender problem - and that's worrisome for public officials.

For more information, you can visit the Department of Correction's website here: http://offender.doc.state.wi.u...