71 Sex Offenders In Tempe: 2020 Safety Map

TEMPE, AZ — Tempe has 71 registered sex offenders living in the city, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety's sex offender registry.

All 71 offenders have known addresses in Tempe (though some are registered under cross streets) and none are currently incarcerated. Of the 201 people considered noncompliant with state sex offender registry laws, none are registered in Tempe.

Here is where sex offenders are registered as living in Tempe. Pins on the map represent addresses of offenders convicted of sex crimes. Roll your cursor over the pins, and you will see more information pop up.

Arizona does not impose any Halloween-specific restrictions on sex offenders, though 10 states have a "no candy" law in place.

Law enforcement officials and researchers caution that the registries play a limited role in preventing child sexual abuse and stress that most perpetrators are known to the child.

The U.S. Department of Justice, which oversees the National Sex Offender Public Website, estimates that only about 10 percent of perpetrators of child sexual abuse are strangers to the child.

The Justice Department estimates 60 percent of perpetrators are known to the child but are not family members but rather family friends, babysitters, child care providers and others, and 30 percent of child victims are abused by family members. Nearly a quarter of the abusers are under the age of 18, the department estimates.

The Association for the Treatment of Sex Abusers, a nonprofit organization for clinicians, researchers, educators, law enforcement and court officials involved in sexual abuse cases, cautions that children do not face a heightened risk during the Halloween season: "There is no change in the rate of sexual crimes by non-family members during Halloween. That was true both before and after communities enacted laws to restrict the activities of registrants during Halloween. The crimes that do increase around Halloween are vandalism and property destruction, as well as theft, assault, and burglary."

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