Registered Sex Offenders In Lake Elsinore-Wildomar: Map

LAKE ELSINORE, CA — Riverside County currently has 3,439 registered sex offenders living in the region. Of those, 96 have Lake Elsinore addresses, and 33 live in Wildomar. Within a 10-mile radius of Main Street in Lake Elsinore, 225 offenders are registered, according to public information listed on the California Department of Justice's Megan's Law website.

The sex offender registry website is made available "... so that members of the public can better protect themselves and their families," according to the state.

Here is where registered sex offenders are living in Lake Elsinore and Wildomar (snapshot in time):

Here's how to find information on these offenders. First, visit the Megan's Law home page. On the right-hand side of the page, go to California Sex Offender Map Search and type in Lake Elsinore, CA and choose 10-mile radius on the dropdown menu (this will give you all 225 offenders within a 10-mile radius of the city). NOTE: After entering your selection, you will be prompted to first read and acknowledge a disclaimer.

Once on the results page, you can click on the pins to get informations about each registrant, including name, address, offenses and release date. You can also view the registrants in a list format.

It's important to note that the database contains information on registrants who have committed various crimes. For families concerned about crimes involving children, law enforcement officials and researchers caution that the registries play a limited role in preventing child sexual abuse and stress that most perpetrators are known to the child.

The U.S. Department of Justice, which oversees the National Sex Offender Public Website, estimates that only about 10 percent of perpetrators of child sexual abuse are strangers to the child.

The Justice Department estimates 60 percent of perpetrators are known to the child but are not family members but rather family friends, babysitters, child care providers and others, and 30 percent of child victims are abused by family members. Nearly a quarter of the abusers are under the age of 18, the department estimates.