Coming Soon to Your Inbox: Sex Offenders

Because your inbox isn't already a landmine of things you may or may not want to see and know, the state of Washington has decided to offer email notifications to residents when sex offenders move into the neighborhood. While the website and notification system is still in the planning stages, it could be up and running within three months. It would include "real-time updates for newly registered offenders," as well as the email notification program.

We've made the mistake of looking at registered sex offenders in our neighborhood before. There were too many for the system to compute. Then we searched our last two neighborhoods as well as our childhood address and suffered the same fate. We didn't sleep soundly for weeks. So we certainly won't be signing up for these real-time updates and emails. Our nerves just couldn't take it.

"Got Sex?" courtesy of Seattlest Flickr Pool user SlightlyNorth