IowaWatch (https://www.iowawatch.org/tag/iowa-sex-offender-registry/)
I first encountered Smith on the school bus 1977. I was 6 years old, and he was 16, a journalist and native Iowan writes in this first-person examination for the Investigative Reporting Workshop into the life of an Iowa pedophile.
The number of sex offenders receiving treatment while living outside of prison walls on parole in Iowa towns is expected to almost double in two years. The dramatic increase is adding pressure for financial resources and people to supervise sex offenders on parole, a joint IowaWatch and Gazette investigation revealed.