Indiana Sex Offender Registry Information

You can learn about sex offenders in Indiana by requesting information to ensure that you are well aware of sex offenders living in your community. In case, you are a sex offender, then you need to register complying with the norms that is found in Indiana’s registration statute under Indiana code IC 11-8-8. For Indiana sex offender registry requirements and norms, one can visit http://www.insor.org/insasoweb/general/faq.jsp;jsessionid=739EE53C44FF2DDEF8ABA1EA7832202A.prodejb07.

Sex Offender Definition:

According to Indiana law IC 11-8-8-5, a sex offender is a person who has been convicted in the past for offenses such as rape, child molestation, child exploitation, criminal deviate conduct, child seduction, kidnapping a person below 18 years, incest, and possession of child pornography.

Sex Offender Registration:

If you are considered as a sex offender under Indiana law, then registration is necessary. An offender who resides for 7 days consecutively in Indiana within 180 days or someone who keeps coming to Indiana and has property in the place needs to register. Registration is also mandatory for an offender who works or carries on a vocation in Indiana full-time or part time for more than 30 days (may not be in a row) in a year.

The sex offenders who are enrolled or are to be enrolled on a part-time or full-time basis in a public or private educational institution located in Indiana also have to register.

Registration dos and don’ts

The offenders have to register with the Sheriff's Department in the county, where the offender lives, has his/her property or is enrolled at an institution. While registering himself/herself as a sex offender, the individual has to provide certain details like his/her full name, alias names, sex, date of birth, height, weight, race, any scars or marks information, eye color and hair color. Information regarding state identification number, social security number, mailing address, driver’s license number, and other details.

The registration should occur in just 3 days of the offender’s arrival in Indiana for the purpose of living, working or studying. Whenever the offender changes his/her location of residence, work place or institute of learning, he/she has to re-register.

In case an individual fails to comply with the sex offender registration laws of Indiana knowingly and willingly, the offense will be termed as a Class C felony. The address of sex offenders are verified at least once a year in Indiana, and every 3 months in case the offender is sexually violent. The sex offender may move to another state or move outside Indiana, but has to notify before doing so. The Sheriff’s Department will be informing the new state’s state police.

Assistance for Victims:

Indiana’s sex offense victims can seek assistance from the Indiana Department of Correction, which notifies victims as well as witnesses of crimes about the release of an offender from the state correctional facility in advance. For further details, you can visit http://www.state.in.us/indcorrection.

For sheriff departments in Indiana, people can visit http://www.indianasheriffs.org/isa/sheriffs.asp, which maintains the up to date information on sex offenders and their whereabouts.