Hundreds of Sex Offenders are in Concord

The state Supreme Court is currently looking at a challenge to the state’s sex offender requirement but the state database reveals that there are currently about 2,600 people registered in the “registration of criminal offenders” system, 90 percent of whom are accessible to the public as “non-private.”

Click here to check out the New Hampshire registration of criminal offenders list.

Click here to view a Google map with most of the addresses of where Concord's sex offenders live. 

In Concord currently, there are approximately 250 registered sex offenders in Concord, according to Lt. Timothy O’Malley, the commander of the criminal investigations unit for the department, but only about 220 are public knowledge, according to the database. 

According to Trooper First Class Rebecca Eder-Linell, the unit commander for the New Hampshire State Police who handles everything with the state’s registration of offenders, men and women listed publicly have either been convicted of a crime against a victim under the age of 18 or convicted of multiple offenses against anyone older than 18. About 10 percent of the people listed in database, she said, were private due to the person only have one sex crime conviction. 

State law requires that anyone convicted of a sexual offense – aggravated felonious sexual assault, felonious sexual assault, sexual assault, violation of privacy, or a second or subsequent offense within a five-year period for indecent exposure and lewdness – be listed. Those convicted of capital and first-degree murder are also listed on the registration, but few are on the list. 

Eder-Linell said that more than 2,000 on the registration were sex offenders. Her department, which has four civilian employees working in it as well as three retired state troopers who assist part-time, are constantly combing through police reports to keep the database up-to-date.

According to O’Malley, the police handle about “600 to 700 registrations a year” in Concord. Sex offenders are required to register with the department and inform police when residential changes. He noted that the department has taken “an aggressive approach” to registration following along with the state’s “zero tolerance” policy towards keeping track of sex offenders and where they live. 

Editor's Note: Some dots on the map, like the New Hampshire State Prison and some of the city's larger apartment buildings, have multiple offenders listed at the address.