Remember when registered sex offenders became an issue last winter–around the time we all learned about those registered sex offenders who all lived in the same Alamitos Beach apartment building?
Remember how TV’s Dr. Phil McGraw came to town, (like radio’s John & Ken), and wound up doing a show about the situation?
Remember how neighbors were [...]

Interviewing a convicted sex offender is like interviewing anybody–except for the ankle monitoring bracelets, and the stories, and the sex crimes

PHOTO by DANIEL DE BOOM
The scariest part of trying to interview a convicted sex offender? The possibility–however remote–that you yourself could be assaulted. Sex offenders have a high rate of recidivism–a word which, ironically, [...]

TV’s Dr. Phil wants to hug it out with the Second District’s convicted sex offenders
Britney Spears: so yesterday! Dr. Phil McGraw–television’s Oprah-approved, magnolia-mouthed mother hen–has a new cause celebre: the convicted sex offenders who live in that vintage Streamline Moderne apartment complex in the 1100 block of East First Street.