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.
Since Megan's Law was passed,
it is required by law for all sexual offenders to register with their local
police department. Unfortunately, budgetary restraints make it impossible for this vital information to be communicated to each parent in
every community.
On March 5, 2003, the United
States Supreme Court ruled that information about potential predators may be
publicly posted on the Internet.
While the contents of state sex offender registries are public records and
you have the right to see them, access is often difficult. Often, you must
know the name of the individual for which you are looking and, in many
states, you must go to your local police station and complete an information
request form. In some states, there are fees and search limits. Many states
now maintain sex offender registry web sites, but these sex offender often have limited functionality and there
is no official nationwide government online registry.
The
following websites allow you to search sex offender registries to locate
registered sex offenders.
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
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Alaska Sex Offender Search |
Search for
Sex Offenders in the state of Alaska |
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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! |
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Arkansas Sex Offender
Search |
State of Arkansas sex
offender registry. |
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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 |
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Connecticut Sex Offender Search |
Search for
Sex Offenders in the state of Connecticut |
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Delaware Sex Offender
Search |
Search for
Sex Offenders in the state of Delaware |
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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. |
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Idaho Sex Offender
Search |
Search for
Sex Offenders in the state of Idaho |
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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 |
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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 |
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Maine Sex Offender
Search |
The Maine Sex Offender
Registry Web Site is maintained by the Maine State Police, State
Bureau of Identification and is intended to provide the public
information concerning the location of registered offenders
currently within 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 |
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Michigan Sex Offender
Search |
Search for
Sex Offenders in the state of Michigan |
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Minnesota Sex Offender
Search |
Search for
Sex Offenders in the state of Minnesota |
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Mississippi Sex
Offender Search |
Search for
Sex Offenders in the state of Mississippi |
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Missouri Sex Offender Search |
Search for
Sex Offenders in the state of Missouri |
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Montana Sex Offender
Search |
Search for
Sex Offenders in the state of Montana |
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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 |
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New Hampshire Sex
Offender Search |
Search for
Sex Offenders in the state of New Hampshire |
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New Jersey Sex
Offender Search |
Search for
Sex Offenders in the state of New Jersey |
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New Mexico Sex
Offender Search |
Find the
location of sex offenders residing in the State of New Mexico |
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New York Sex Offender
Search |
Sex Offender Management -
DCJS is the state agency responsible for maintaining New York's Sex
Offender Registry, which provides New Yorkers information about sex
offenders living in their communities. There are three levels of sex
offenders – Level 1 (low risk), Level 2 (medium risk) and Level 3
(high risk). By law, only Level 2 and Level 3 sex offenders are
listed on this site. |
| 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 |
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| Ohio Sex Offender
Search |
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| Oklahoma Sex Offender Search |
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Oregon Sex Offender
Search |
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| Pennsylvania Sex
Offender Search |
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Rhode Island Sex
Offender Search |
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South Carolina Sex Offender Search |
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| South Dakota Sex
Offender Search |
The Division of Criminal
Investigation is mandated by state and federal laws to establish and
maintain a registry of convicted sex offenders living in South
Dakota. The purpose of this registry is to provide information to
the public regarding offenders living within their community. |
| Tennessee Sex Offender Search |
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Texas Sex Offender
Search |
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| Utah Sex Offender Search |
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| 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 |
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West Virginia Sex
Offender Search |
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Wisconsin Sex Offender
Search |
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Wyoming Sex Offender Search |
Search for sexual predators in Wyoming. |
