The North Dakota Sex Offender Website
is provided to you by Attorney General Wayne
Stenehjem, pursuant to North Dakota Century Code Section 12.1-32-15.
This law requires a person who is a resident of North Dakota and who
has a qualifying conviction to maintain registration with the police
department or sheriff's office in the jurisdiction where the person
resides. The sex offender website is updated continuously based on
information provided by federal, state, and local government
agencies and the registrants themselves. However, registrants do
move and fail to notify the proper law enforcement agencies of their
change in residence. As a result, the Bureau of Criminal
Investigation cannot guarantee the accuracy of address information.
1. WHEN DID THIS SEX OFFENDER
LAW BEGIN?
The first sex offender registration statute
in North Dakota was passed in the 1991 legislative session. Since
then, there have been changes or additions made to the original
statute in every legislative session.
2. HOW OFTEN IS OFFENDER
INFORMATION UPDATED?
Address information is routinely verified
every three months for lifetime registrants and every six months for
other offenders. Offender employment and other information also are
regularly verified. The offender’s photograph is updated regularly.
3. HOW ACCURATE IS OFFENDER
INFORMATION?
Every effort is made to ensure that the
information is as accurate as possible. However, people may move
frequently or change employment, and it is possible that our
information has not kept up with a recent move if an offender has
failed to make the notifications required by law, or if the
information has not yet reached this office. We ask the public to
contact us if discrepancies are found between the information
presented here and the known location of a registered offender.
4. HOW OFTEN IS THE WEBSITE
UPDATED?
The information on this website is updated
every time there is a change to information on the official sex
offender information system. Changes of address, for instance, are
reflected on the website as soon as those changes are entered on the
sex offender database.
5. WHY AREN'T ALL OFFENDERS ON
THIS WEBSITE?
The website is simply one of the ways that
North Dakota has chosen to implement Megan's Law, which is a federal
mandate that all states notify the public of offenders who
constitute a risk to the public. Because this is a sex offender
registry, Offenders Against Children are not displayed even if they
have committed more than one non-sexual crime. However, Offenders
Against Children will be displayed on the Delinquent Offenders page
if they are not compliant with their registration requirements.