Popular iphone app tracks sex offenders

Applications for the apple iPhone usually fall into the categories of games and entertainment.

But a new top selling app is serving a more serious purpose.
It’s called ‘Offender Locator’ and it’s an application to provide its users with the names and addresses of sex offenders in any given location.

The app uses the phone’s built-in GPS to list and show, offenders in a map that pinpoints their locations for the user.

The information in pulled from state databases, which aren’t always up to date, but for many, the convenience of ‘offender locator’ is worth the 99 cents.

It’s been out for two months, and has consistently been a top seller.
“I have two little kids and I was kind of curious to see if, you know, there were any offenders nearby,“ said iPhone user Adam Roffman.