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Employers have an improved weapon in their hiring safety arsenal now that California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has made sex offender background information more readily available.

Lockyer announced March 1 that California’s Megan’s Law system has been updated so the public can receive day-old information on sex offenders instead of month-old data. The improvement makes it easier for citizens and employers to gather information on convicted sex offenders in their community or in their resume pile.

“It also will make it more difficult for a registered sex offender to hide by moving from place to place often, as many of them do now,” said Lockyer.

The web-enabled application also makes the information available in 12 additional languages: Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese.

The updated information is available to California law enforcement agencies through a secure Intranet connection to the U.S. Department of Justice database. The dial up system replaces a monthly CD-ROM produced by the Attorney General’s office. Anyone interested in the updated information can call or visit their local Police or Sheriff’s department.

Megan’s Law, enacted in 1996, allows public access to the identities and whereabouts of the state’s “high risk” registered sex offenders. Approximately 77,000 of California’s 93,000 registered sex offenders are on the list.