Australian sex offender website launches PERTH, Australia, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Officials in Western Australia said they launched a website to help protect children by listing the names, photos and neighborhoods of convicted sex offenders. The register includes the information of about 50 sex offenders, something critics said could be used for vigilantism and mistaken identity, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported. "The concern is that if these people are identified down the track, potentially at a time where they have rehabilitated, whether people will try and track them down in some kind of vigilante action and take their version of the law into their own hands," said Linda Black, the president of Western Australia's Criminal Law Association. Western Australia Premier Colin Barnett defended the website, saying it is not an attempt to persecute people. "It is simply saying there is some information which is hitherto not been available to the community," he said. It is now being made available; there are all sorts of protections in there. Though the neighborhood where a sex offender lives is included on the website, a specific address is not.