{"id":1374,"date":"2014-10-09T10:46:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T14:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:50:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T14:50:33","slug":"county-officials-check-meghans-law-website-before-halloween-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/10\/county-officials-check-meghans-law-website-before-halloween-arrives\/","title":{"rendered":"County Officials: Check Meghan’s Law Website Before Halloween Arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ocean County officials are urging parents to check to the state sex offender registry before their children embark on a trick-or-treating outing for Halloween this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis only takes a few minutes and can make a big difference in keeping a child safe,\u201d Freeholder Director Joseph Vicari said.<\/p>\n

New Jersey\u2019s sex offender registry, set up under what is commonly known as Meghan\u2019s Law, is run by the state police. The database lists up-to-date information on all convicted sex offenders who are residents of the Garden State, and towns, counties, ZIP codes and even individual streets can be easily reviewed. More advanced checks allow users to input the names of convicted sex offenders or check only newer records.<\/p>\n

A check of the database on Thursday showed 288 sex offenders living in Ocean County known by 863 names.<\/p>\n

Halloween is also a good time to talk to children about what they should if they\u2019re ever approached by a stranger.<\/p>\n

If a child is approached by an adult in a car who they don\u2019t know, they should be taught to run the opposite way \u2013 towards the rear of the car, according to county law enforcement officials. This way, the driver will have to first turn around before they can pursue the child.<\/p>\n

The sex offender registry can be accessed from the New Jersey State Police website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ocean County officials are urging parents to check to the state sex offender registry before their children embark on a trick-or-treating outing for Halloween this year. \u201cThis only takes a few minutes and can make a big difference in keeping a child safe,\u201d Freeholder Director Joseph Vicari said. New Jersey\u2019s sex offender registry, set up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[24,395],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ocean-county","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-halloween"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pumpkins.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-ma","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}