Sex Offender Search Software
Does a Sexual Offender Live in Your Neighborhood?
A sex offender is a person who has
committed a sex crime. Sex offenders are also known as:
- Sexual offender
- Sex abuser or sexual
abuser
- Sexual predator
- Sexual deviant
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Sex Offender
Registries
The U.S. Congress passed
several laws that require states to implement registries for sex offender and crimes
against children:
- Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children
and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act
- Pam Lychner Sexual
Offender Tracking and Identification Act
- Megan's Law
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.
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On March 5, 2003, the United
States Supreme Court ruled that information about potential sexual predators may be
publicly posted on the Internet.
Finding Sexual Offender
Records
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 web sites, but these often have limited functionality and there
is no official nationwide government online registry.
Find Sex Offender Records
The
National Alert Registry aggregates all of the sex offender records contained
in the various state sex offender registries, providing a single database
with nationwide coverage. Using state-of-the-art mapping, database, and
e-mail notification technologies, National Alert Registry provides a simple
yet extremely powerful suite of products to help you and your family be
aware, be alert, and be safe!
The National Alert Registry (NAR)
was designed to bring this information directly to you. By conducting a ZIP
Code search we will be able to notify you if a sexual offender has moved
into your community and provide you with a profile of the
sexual offender.
How do I find
sexual predators in my neighborhood?
The National Alert Registry
nationwide database of nearly 500,000 registered sex offender records can be
searched instantly. Search results contain detailed information about
offender 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.
How do I discover if new predators move into my area?
With National Alert Registry,
you don't need to scour the Internet or visit your local police station to
get this information. From the privacy of your own home, you will receive
RED ALERT notifications delivered directly to your email address each time
our database is updated with new information that affects you.
What is a RED ALERT notification?
Though sex offender
registration information is often available if you take the initiative and
hunt it down yourself, National Alert Registry removes this burden and gives
you peace of mind by instantly notifying you via email when our database has
been updated with new offenders. Your customized Red Alert notifications
will keep you "in the know" and armed with the information you need to
protect yourself and your family from dangerous sexual predators!
National Alert Registry
Report
How to Search
for a Sex Offender in Your Neighborhood
To use the National Alert
Registry to Search for a sexual offender in a particular area, simply enter
the address into the form pictured below and click on Map It.
Search for Sex Offenders Now
What do the
sex offender search results look like?
Your report will include:
- High-resolution, customizable maps centered on the street address you input.
- The offenders' home addresses indicated on the map.
- Full Names, Aliases, and Addresses of the offenders.
- Color Photos of the offenders (in most states).
- A description of the crime committed by each offender.
- The ability to check any address including schools, day care centers, and homes of relatives and friends.
Frequently Asked Questions about Searching for Sex Offenders using the National Alert Registry
How is the National Alert Registry database compiled?
The National Alert Registry aggregates data pertaining to convicted sex offenders from the various state
registries. These records are catalogued in our database and made available
to National Alert Registry members via our suite of online applications.
These applications employ state-of-the-art database, GIS mapping
technologies, and e-mail alert facilities to keep our members informed as to
the reported locations of dangerous sexual predators and other registered
offenders. National Alert Registry relies solely on the reporting of the
various state registries to maintain our database. We do not take other
submissions to our database or alter the public records provided by the
various state registries in any way. Our aggregating, indexing, and display
technologies allow us the publish the offender data in a more usable form,
but the sex offender data themselves are a matter of public record and are
made available by the states in accordance with state and federal statutes.
Q. How
accurate are the data in the National Alert Registry database?
There are several issues here.
Firstly, it is certainly conceivable that an individual state sex offender
registry may introduce certain errors into the National Alert Registry
database. Typographical and other data input errors are always a
possibility. As National Alert Registry does not intentionally alter the
original public records in any way, we would reproduce defects in the source
data. Most state registries are quick to correct such errors and as soon as
the source repository is corrected, the National Alert Registry database is
likewise updated. Unless National Alert Registry has made a formatting error
in the display of the source information, it will be necessary to contact
the originating state registry in order to have an erroneous record
corrected. We are happy to assist in such situations. It is also possible that certain elements of a
correctly-reproduced sex offender record may be incorrect. For example, a
particular offender record may have a valid name and offense description but
contain an erroneous physical address. It is important to understand that
the reporting and verification requirements for registered sex offenders
vary from state-to-state. Many states do not have the resources to verify
the registration information provided by the offender. As such, it is
possible for an offender to register with the appropriate law enforcement
agency but provide a fake address. It is also possible that an offender may
move from one location to another and fail to report this change of address
to the proper authorities in either the original or destination
jurisdictions.
Because of the shortcomings of the current sex offender registration regime,
it is necessary to bear the above in mind and we encourage you to avail
yourself often of the benefits of your National Alert Registry membership.
Check the database often: local law enforcement across the United States are
always working to keep these data as complete and accurate as possible!
Q. How often is the National Alert Registry database updated?
The National Alert Registry database is updated several times each month. The individual state sex
offender registries which supply National Alert Registry with public records
are updated at various times -- some weekly or monthly on a set schedule and
others on an ongoing basis as new data become available. The National Alert
Registry database is generally synchronized with the individual sources at
least once monthly (often with a greater frequency) but occasionally, due to
technical difficulties or the unavailability of usable raw data, it may take
longer than the norm for a state's records to be updated in our database.
Q. Which states are not covered by the National Alert Registry?
At the time of this publication (3 April 2006), data for the following states were not available: Hawaii, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota.
Q. Why isn't this information provided free of charge?
The raw data contained in the National Alert Registry database are public records. These records are
often available via the web sites of the various state police agencies or
other authorized law enforcement entities. The existing online resources are
extremely limited and often difficult to use. The National Alert Registry
suite of online applications aggregate the individual states' sex offender
records, providing nationwide coverage in a single set of tools. The
National Alert Registry applications provide sophisticated database
searching technologies, plotting of sex offender locations nationwide on
high-resolution maps with simple, dynamic navigation controls, and a real
time e-mail notification system to keep our members fully-informed. In this
day and age, it is unfortunately the case that dangerous sexual predators
are a fact of life. Because of the concern of families across the United
States, there is an incredible demand for the services National Alert
Registry provides. In order to bring you these valuable tools, National
Alert Registry must maintain numerous web and database servers and maintain
our data centers and Internet bandwidth. The acquisition and compilation of
the sex offender records and the development of our sophisticated
applications are also quite expensive. Your membership fees ensure that we
can continue our mission, providing you ever better service and products in
the future!
Disclaimers: The National Alert Registry
does not make any representations that the information we make available is
accurate since our Service searches and gathers compilations of public
records that may not be accurate or complete. In addition, searches can be
conducted with a number of variables and therefore we do not control the
accuracy of the search conducted nor the data provided. Any data derived
from our Service should be independently verified at the originating agency
source prior to relying on same and should not to be used for any purpose
described under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. All searches are subject to
our Terms of Use and applicable law. |
