With the advent of offshore internet companies, it has become increasingly difficult to enforce expunction and deregistration orders. If the company refuses to comply with the order, it is difficult - if not impossible - to enforce it. Furthermore, with the caching of outdated information on Google and Yahoo, even if the records are removed there are still old copies that may resurface on the internet. Finally, our office has encountered blatant disregard for deregistration orders as some of the companies that republish sex offender registration information claim a moral responsibility to let the public know of a respondent’s offense. Representatives from these companies delighted in telling us that “they threw the order away” because our client would “always be a sex offender.” Even with these hurdles, deregistration is still incredibly advantageous considering that most Internet searches for sex offenders are done by zip code and not by name.
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