Scary this spark interest in me to find out how many are in my city and look what I found:
"By tallying the numbers above, Redding currently has 329 sex offenders living within its boundaries. In total, there are 98,808 sex registrants in California (Office of the Attorney General, Department of Justice, as of November 3, 2003). Of these, 1,826 are High-Risk offenders; 80,432 are Serious offenders; and 16,550 are Other offenders."