This partial image came from FamilyWatchDog.com. The whole image shows 20 registered sex offenders in the San Ramon Valley. I was a little surprised by this.

We’ve used this blog in the past to alert the community about sex offenders and we wanted to let people know about this site developed by John Walsh from America's Most Wanted.

Enter your street address and a map will pop up with your house as a small icon. There will be red, blue, green and yellow dots surrounding your entire neighborhood. When you click on these dots a picture of a criminal will appear with his/her home address and the description of the crime committed.

The best thing is you can show your children these pictures and see how close these people live to your home or school.

Last night KRON news reported that Daniel Duran had been arrested outside an elementary school. Danile has been a "peson of interest" the last several weeks to local law ewnforcement agencies.

Duran, a convicted sex offender, was going to local real estate offices and open houses and representing himself as an interested buyer. There was one report at one of the local Realtor marketing meetings that he had walked one neighborhood representing himself as a preacher who was looking for a playmate for his 14 year old daughter. He has no such daughter.

At the local Realtor meetings over the last several weeks, there were reports of Duran operating in Marin, contra Costa, and Alameda counties. East Bay Realtors, real estate agents, affiliates and all parents will be breating a little easier if Duran can be locked up for good. We'll see what the details are of the arrest and report more later. 

Added 4/6/07 - The Pleasanton Weekly has a more detailed story online.