A sex offender registry is a system in various countries designed to allow government authorities to keep track of the activities of sex offenders, including...

A sex offender (sexual offender, sex abuser, or sexual abuser) is a person who has committed a sex crime. What constitutes a sex crime differs by culture...

Sex offender registries in the United States exist at both the federal and state levels. The federal registry is known as the National Sex Offender Public...

community notification (making registry information public), whereas state-level "Megan's Law" may refer to both sex offender registration and community notification...

Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Registry is a cooperative effort between U.S. state agencies that host public sex offender registries and the U.S. federal...

The National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR) is a Canadian legal data base designed to monitor convicted sex offenders living in the country. It came into...

The Walsh Act organizes sex offenders into three tiers according to the crime committed, and mandates that Tier 3 offenders (the most serious tier) update...

sex offender laws in the United States describes the efforts of individuals and organizations to change state laws requiring Sex offender registries in...

The constitutionality of sex offender registries in the United States has been challenged on a number of state and federal constitutional grounds. While...

Violent Offender Registration Act, colloquially known as the Wetterling Act, is a United States law that requires states to implement a registry of sex offenders...

convicted of a sexual offense. W.A.R. advocates the abolition of sex offender registries altogether, but also wants officials to be more judicious in deciding...

National Association for Rational Sex Offense Laws Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws Women Against Registry - W.A.R. Healing Justice (Victims-Survivors...

States for sex tourism. While there are serious problems with the sex offender registries in the United States, human rights organizations such as ECPAT...

International Sex Offender Registry. The bill was introduced due to the fact that because laws differ in different countries someone who is on the sex offender registry...

proof. Various state and federal sex offender registry laws impose additional post-conviction requirements for sex offenders. Garry David (Australia) Johnson...

Tuttle Causeway sex offender colony (also called "Bookville" by former residents) was an encampment of banished, registered sex offenders who were living...

Sex offender registration and notification (SORN) laws in the United States are widely accepted, with supporters believing that disclosing the location...

no contest and had two subsequent arrests for failing to update his sex offender status. Jones was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Ruth (née Schooley)...

lost its original meaning and effectiveness. Civil confinement Sex offender registries in the United States Katherine Ramsland, Inside the Minds of Sexual...

terminology "pressured sexual contacts" and "forced sex contacts" to distinguish two types of offenders. Sex-pressure offenses had a lack of physical force...

publicly available sex offender registries in the United States, Marshall drove to the houses of two convicted sex offenders and killed them, before...

Wetterling has become one of the most vocal critics of current sex offender registry laws, painting them as overly broad and unnecessarily causing tremendous...

requires anybody convicted of such an offense to be placed on a sex offender registry. Legal professionals and academics have criticized the use of child...

the Tiered Registry Law, SB 384, which allows some, but not all, registrants to petition for removal from the state's sex offender registry. ACSOL is currently...

states exclude juveniles from sex offender registries. Adults may be able to petition for exclusion from the registry under state law. In Texas, the...

are not removed from the Criminal Register. Austria maintains a sex offender registry; however, this is for law enforcement and intelligence purposes...

In the United Kingdom, the Violent and Sex Offender Register (ViSOR) is a database of records of those required to register with the police under the Sexual...

to manage juvenile sex crimes including a sex offender registry and the courts and sentencing process. Juvenile sexual offenders are a heterogenous group...

and named for Jacob. It was the first law to institute a state sex-offender registry. The law has been amended several times, most famously by Megan's...

of law, it criticizes current sex offender registry laws in the United States. NARSOL asserts that current sex offender laws are not based on scientific...