Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website

The Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR) receives grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justice to provide technical assistance and coordination in support of the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website.

The Website is a time-saving national search site that provides parents and other concerned residents with real-time access to public state and territory sex offender registries, to search for and display public sex offender data from state and territory registries through a single query. Currently, the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website connects sex offender registries in all 50 states, the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and Guam, and the District of Columbia.

The Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website:

• Promotes public safety by using already existing sex offender data.
• Minimizes the time and funding required to create a new repository.
• Requires no special certifications, training, or fees for users.
• Maximizes state and local agencies' ability to retain control over their data.

Users may search all or selected sex offender registries by name, state, county, city/town, and zip code. This nationwide tool allows residents to identify sex offenders not only in their own neighborhoods but in adjacent communities as well, even if the neighboring community is across a state line.

An effective and affordable tool, the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website uses Web services and the U.S. Department of Justice’s XML implementations—the Global Justice XML Data Model and the National Information Exchange Model—to establish a link between already built and maintained public state and territory sex offender registries and the national search site. Mirroring industry standards, this extraordinary resource provides the most up-to-date information possible regarding the location of registered sex offenders.