Double edged sword

SANTA CLARA COUNTY / Sex offender list used to find dates, police say / Convict on Megan’s Law roster charged with misdemeanor — Oh, brother.

While fearful parents were searching the Megan’s Law sex offender database for local molesters, police said Glen Westberg, a registered sex offender himself, was perusing the internet listing for a very different reason: a date.

In what is considered to the first case of its kind in California, Westberg, 35, of Cupertino was charged Thursday with one misdemeanor count of illegally accessing the database as a registered sex offender.

Authorities said Westberg used the newly released on-line database of registered sex offenders to find potential dates, sending explicit letters to a handful of offenders in hopes of wooing them for sex.



  1. Anonymous says:

    Next thing you know, porn shops and brothels will use the registered sex offender list as a mailing list.

  2. Now wait just a minute! This story is about one sex offender trying to get together with another sex offender. Wouldn’t it be better if they occupy each other, rather than go looking for other victims?

    – The Precision Blogger
    http://precision-blogging.blogspot.com

  3. lincolnmontana says:

    Megans Law in California is Unfair!!
    Unfair to those of us who are FORCED
    to REGISTER as OFFENDER every
    single year for the rest of out life?
    for 1944 MISDEMEANOR convictions?
    The pasadena police refuse to register
    manditory registrations ON TIME
    now many of us are facing PRISON TIME
    for a 30 year old MISDEMEANOR CONVICTION!!
    this is totally unfair !!!!!!!!!!!!!
    back in the early 1970s i was railroaded into
    a false arrest wrongful misdemeanor past conviction
    in los angeles county california
    in fear for my life or JAILFORCEDRAPE i was
    forced to take a guilty plea i was ionnocent!!
    in 1996 the state of california made all former
    sex convictions from check this out 1944 on to
    have to REGISTER at the POLICE / SHERIFFS
    stations every year on thier birthday !!!
    on or about the year 2003 they finally caught up
    with me and i did not know what was going on at
    all!!
    suddenly i was ARRESTED in rough hard HANDCUFFS
    and on my way back to JAIL for failing to REGISTER
    form that point on i am FORCED once every year to
    go to the pasadena police station only to get
    DELAYED and put off and told to go away even
    after repeat APPOINTMENTS i am told everytime …
    ”the lady who does that is not here” !!!
    and so what usually happens is my regestration s
    are always LATE ”the pasadena police”
    this last time i was ARRESTED and BOOKED for not
    registering HELL I WAS TURNED AWAY FIVE TIMES !!
    finally after 4 weeks i finally got to tha’ LADY
    now i face court AGAIN for something i did not do
    back in he early 1970s !!!!!!!!!
    WHERE IS THE JUSTICE HERE !! none for black men !!
    and none for me !!
    i may have to leave california when i become a old
    man i do not want to have to do this forever!!
    the state of california megans law is wrong!!
    it must be reformed completely !!
    i have never been charged or even accused of any
    nothing like this ever since the 1970s
    and i did not do what they said i did then !!
    WHY AM I A FORCED REGISTER NOW?


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