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Sex Offenders - Sex Offender Registration

  • SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND NOTIFICATION ACT: Jurisdictions Face Challenges to Implementing the Act, and Stakeholders Report Positive and Negative Effects (2013)

    This report addresses: (1) To what extent has the SMART Office determined that jurisdictions have substantially implemented SORNA, and what challenges, if any, have jurisdictions faced? (2) For jurisdictions that have substantially implemented SORNA, what are the reported effects that the act has had on public safety, criminal justice stakeholders, and registered sex offenders?

  • SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND NOTIFICATION ACT: Survey of States and Territories on Implementation of the Act (GAO-13-234SP, February 2013), an E-supplement to GAO-13-211 (2013)

    The purpose of this e-supplement is to provide information from GAO's Web-based survey of state sex offender registration and notification offices about their efforts to implement the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), challenges associated with doing so, and perspectives on the effects of the law in their jurisdictions.

  • Sex Offender Registration and Notification in the United States: Current Case Law and Issues (2015)

    This report gives an overview of sex offender registration and notification systems have been established within the United States.

  • 50-State Survey of Relief from Sex Offender Registration (2015)

    This page highlights a 50-state chart which details the registration obligations that sex offender must meet in each state and under federal law.