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What is a Sex Offender?

A sex offender is a person who has been criminally charged and convicted of, or has pled guilty to, or pled Nolo contendere to a sex crime. Crimes requiring mandatory sex offender registration may include downloading pornographic material of persons under the age of 18, (child pornography), rape, statutory rape and even non-sexual offenses such as kidnapping. The term sexual offender is a broad term, with sexual predator being used to describe a more severe physical or repeat sexual offense. Sexual offenders are also sometimes classified into levels, where the highest level offenders have the most aggravating crimes and thus, the most risk to the public and usually must register as a sex offender for their entire lives. Low level sexual offenders may serve only a probationary sentence and only register for 10 years as well as having less restrictions placed on them compared to higher level offenders. As a label of identity it is used in criminal psychology. Especially in the United States and the United Kingdom, the person, if convicted, is most likely required to register with the respective jurisdiction's sex offender registry, a county- or statewide database that is often public and accessible to everyone through the internet.

What is a Sexual Predator?

A sexual predator is a person who was designated as a sexually violent predator between July 1, 1996, and June 30, 2006; or a person who is determined by the Sexual Offender Registration Review Board to be at risk of perpetrating any future dangerous sexual offense.

National Sex Offender Registries

The following websites allow you to search sex offender registries to locate registered sex offenders.

• National Alert Registry - The National Alert Registry nationwide database of nearly 500,000 registered sex offender records can be searched instantly. Search results contain detailed information about sexual offenders in your area: names, aliases, photos, home addresses, and offense details. The National Alert Registry's state-of-the-art mapping system provides detailed, high-resolution maps of all registered offenders in the area of your search.

• National Sex Offender Registry

• Sexual Offenders - Allows citizens to share information they have about criminal sex offenders, exchange links and post comments in a blog format. The site is updated daily with links to state and county sex offender registries, sheriff's offices and news of sex crimes and related prosecution from around the world.

• Sex Offender Background Check

• Sex Offender Search

State Sex Offender Search Resources

The following tools can be used to look up sex offenders and sexual predator information for a particular state:
 

Alabama Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in Alabama
Alaska Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Alaska
Arizona Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Arizona.  the official website for Sex Offender information for the state of Arizona. The purpose of the Arizona sex offender information website is to provide information to the public concerning the location of sex offenders within Arizona. The site is NOT intended to supplant the community notification process, but rather, it allows the criminal justice community to promote public awareness concerning the potential threat that sex offenders pose to Arizona citizens. An informed public is a safer public!
Arkansas Sex Offender Search	State of Arkansas sex offender registry.
California Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of California
Colorado Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Colorado
Connecticut Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Connecticut
Delaware Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Delaware
District of Columbia Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the District of Columbia, Washington D.C.
Florida Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Florida
Georgia Sex Offender Search	The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) is the central repository for Georgia's Violent Sexual Offender Registry.
Hawaii Sex Offender Search	The Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center's central repository of covered offenders in the State of Hawaii. The following information about those persons is available to the public: name, prior names, aliases, nicknames and pseudonyms, year of birth and alias year of births, physical description including scars and tattoos, photograph, residence, temporary and future addresses, personal vehicles(s) driven, street name of employment and volunteer location, college/university affiliation, and crime for which convicted, judgment of conviction, judgment of acquittal, or judicial determination of unfitness to proceed for which the offender is registered, and the provision of law defining the criminal offense.
Idaho Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Idaho
Illinois Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Illinois
Indiana Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Indiana
Iowa Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Iowa
Kansas Search Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Kansas
Kentucky Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Kentucky
Louisiana Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Louisiana
Maine Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Maine
Maryland Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Maryland
Massachusetts Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Massachusetts
Michigan Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Michigan
Minnesota Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Minnesota
Mississippi Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Mississippi
Missouri Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Missouri
Montana Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Montana
Nebraska Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Nebraska
Nevada Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of Nevada
New Hampshire Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of New Hampshire
New Jersey Sex Offender Search	Search for Sex Offenders in the state of New Jersey
New Mexico Sex Offender Search	Find the location of sex offenders residing in the State of New Mexico
New York Sex Offender Search
North Carolina Sex Offender Search	Sign up here to receive e-mail alerts when an offender registers to an address in your community, or to track a specific offender. You can also map all offenders' addresses up to five miles away from any site you choose, such as home, school, child care center or park.
North Dakota  Sex Offender Search
Ohio Sex Offender Search
Oklahoma Sex Offender Search
Oregon Sex Offender Search
Pennsylvania Sex Offender Search
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Rhode Island Sex Offender Search
South Carolina Sex Offender Search
South Dakota Sex Offender Search
Tennessee Sex Offender Search
Texas Sex Offender Search
Utah Sex Offender Search
Virginia Sex Offender Search	The registry, including the Public Notification Database, is based on the Virginia General Assembly's decision to facilitate access to publicly-available information about persons convicted of specified violent and sexual offenses. The Virginia State Police has not considered or assessed the specific risk of re-offense with regard to any individual prior to his or her inclusion within this registry, and has made no determination that any individual included in the registry is currently dangerous. The main purpose of providing this data on the internet is to make the information more easily available and accessible, not to warn citizens about any specific individual. Adult individuals found within the registry are included solely by virtue of their conviction record and applicable state law.
Washington Sex Offender Search
West Virginia Sex Offender Search
Wisconsin Sex Offender Search
Wyoming Sex Offender Search