Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website

The SMART Office is making some cosmetic changes to the National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW) that will improve the site's layout and accessibility. These changes are expected to be finalized within the first quarter of 2011.

The SMART Office continues to work with jurisdictions to provide additional offender information to NSOPW so that new search functionality and more offender information can be made available to the public. The new information will enable NSOPW to provide thumbnail images, current ages, full addresses, and aliases in the search results. In addition, address-based radius searching will be available for addresses within those states that provide the latitudes and longitudes of offender addresses.

At this point, Connecticut, Indiana, Louisiana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Utah are providing the new Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA)-required information. Once 15 states are doing so, the SMART Office will consider making public the new search functionality and offender information from those 15 states so that NSOPW users can begin to access the new features.