§20925 — Title 34 Navy | U.S. Code

§20925 Development and availability of registry management and website software

Title 34 › Subtitle Subtitle II— - Protection of Children and Other Persons › Chapter CHAPTER 209— - CHILD PROTECTION AND SAFETY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND NOTIFICATION › Part Part A— - Sex Offender Registration and Notification › § 20925

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General must work with states and local governments to build and run software that lets them create and operate the same kind of sex offender registries and websites across the country. The software must let jurisdictions share data right away; let the public view appropriate information online, including up-to-date counts of registered sex offenders in each area; follow all rules in this part of the law; and send required notices to people in community notification programs. The first full version of the software must be given to jurisdictions within 2 years of July 27, 2006.

Title 34, §20925

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(a)The Attorney General shall, in consultation with the jurisdictions, develop and support software to enable jurisdictions to establish and operate uniform sex offender registries and Internet sites.

(b)The software should facilitate—

(1)immediate exchange of information among jurisdictions;

(2)public access over the Internet to appropriate information, including the number of registered sex offenders in each jurisdiction on a current basis;

(3)full compliance with the requirements of this subchapter; and

(4)communication of information to community notification program participants as required under section 20923 of this title.

(c)The Attorney General shall make the first complete edition of this software available to jurisdictions within 2 years of July 27, 2006.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in subsec. (b)(3), was in the original “this title”, meaning title I of Pub. L. 109–248, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 590, known as the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see

Short Title

of 2006 Act note set out under section 10101 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 16923 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.