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The Nationwide Sex Offender Registry Search provides information regarding the location of individuals who are required to register through a State Sex Offender Registry.
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Information about individuals who appear on these lists is dependent on the individual states registry requirements but typically will contain information on individuals who have committed sexually violent offenses against adults and children, as well as certain sexual contact and other crimes against victims who are minors.
Currently information is available from 49 states (plus Washington, D.C.), Guam, and Puerto Rico. Age and physical characteristics may be provided, along with pictures.
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Registration in a state SOPR is a requirement or condition of sentencing for convicted offenders in most states. However, if an offender moves or relocates, he or she can sometimes evade the registration requirements.
It is important to know that some states only publish sex offender names associated with certain levels of offenses. A person may be a lower level sex offender (according to that state's guidelines) and that state may not make the information available to the public. In these cases, the sex offense may show up in a multi-state criminal, county criminal or state criminal search.
Members of the public should be aware that not all states provide for public disclosure of information about all sex-offenders who reside, work, or attend school in the state. For example, a given state may limit public disclosure over its web site concerning offenders who have been determined to be high-risk, while another state may provide for wider disclosure of offender information but make no representation as to risk level of specific offenders.
In sum, members of the public may be able to obtain certain types of information about specific offenders who reside, work, or attend school in the state and have been convicted of one or more of the types of offenses specified, depending on the specific parameters of a given State's public notification program. (As an example in Minnesota, only level 3 offenders, who are more likely to be a repeat offender, are posted, while level 1 or 2 offenders, who are less likely to be a repeat offender will not. Typically with level 1 or 2 offenders the local law enforcement agency will privately notify any daycare or school in the area as needed.)
Note: Since no database search guarantees that it will find every criminal record, SafeGuard recommends that you use these reports as a
supplement to more in-depth searches such Criminal Records Searches.
