Communities want to know when convicted sex offenders are living in their midst. For a quarter century, federal law has guaranteed communities the right to know. Sex offender laws and registries sprang up in all states, but jurisdictional inconsistency left a patchwork of programs, evidencing a need for national norms.
In 2006, Congress passed the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) to redress those state-level asymmetries and deficiencies by creating comprehensive national standards for sex offender registration.
Recent research supported by the National Institute of Justice, in collaboration with the SMART Office (which oversees the implementation of SORNA), measured states’ progress implementing the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), particularly in the areas of standards implementation and information sharing within and between states and with the federal government.
Read about states’ compliance with SORNA, deficiencies identified by the researchers, and core policy enhancement recommendations made by the researchers in our article.
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