Hundreds of parents have used a special law to formally ask Nottinghamshire Police whether someone who has access to their children is a sex offender. The disclosure scheme, known as Sarah’s Law, allows worried parents, guardians or carers to find out if a person is a registered child sex offender or a known threat to children. The rule was brought in after the murder of eight-year-old Sarah Payne in West Sussex in 2000. A total of 252 applications have been made by the public to Nottinghamshire Police from 2019 to 2023, according to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by the Local Democrac…
