Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website
The Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR) receives grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, 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 utilizing a single interface. This nationwide tool allows residents to identify sex offenders not only in their own neighborhoods but adjacent communities as well, even if the neighboring community is across a state line.
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.
An effective and affordable tool, the Website uses Web services and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Global Justice eXtensible Markup Language (XML) to link existing public sex offender registries. The Website uses Internet technology to search for and display public sex offender data from state and territory registries through a single query. Users may search all or selected sex offender registries by name, state, county, city/town, and zip code. Mirroring industry standards, this extraordinary resource provides the most up-to-date information possible regarding the location of registered sex offenders.
Currently, the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website connects sex offender registries in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam.
