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On July 25, 2008, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that the
Alaska Sex Offender Registration Act’s registration requirement does not
apply to persons who committed their crimes before the act became effective
on August 10, 1994. Persons convicted of child kidnapping and sex offenses
that were committed on or after August 10, 1994, may still be required to
register in Alaska. Because the sex offender laws in other states are different
from Alaska’s, some sex offenders may be required to register if they live, work,
or go to school in another state.
A review of criminal history records for all of the registered sex offenders in
Alaska is being conducted by the Department of Public Safety. This review is to
identify individuals who may no longer have to register in Alaska as sex offenders,
based on this court ruling.
An initial review of the records has been completed, but additional research of
individual records is still being conducted. Updates to this website will be ongoing.
Records which may have been removed from this website during the initial record review
may be added back to the website as the research of the individual records progresses.
In 2006, the Alaska legislature directed the Department to
provide the public information about accessing or compiling sex offender and
child kidnapper information from this website in relation to a particular
geographic area. This information may include directions to Internet mapping
programs and websites where information from this registry has been converted
to a map or geographical format.
Numerous non-governmental, private websites take information from Alaska’s
registry and link it to maps that can be searched in several ways – for
example, by offender name, address, or zip code. These commercial mapping
websites can be located through Internet search engines such as
www.Google.com
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www.Yahoo.com,
www.Ask.com, or
www.hotbot.com
by using search terms such as “Alaska sex offender/child kidnapper registry mapping
services.” The official Alaska sex offender/child kidnapper registry is updated almost
daily, but private websites may not update their linking information as
frequently. Members of the public who use private mapping websites are
encouraged to confirm offender information on this official site.
The Department of Public Safety:
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does not endorse any particular mapping site or search engine;
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is not responsible for errors, outdated information, or other problems
associated with those sites or search engines; and
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is not responsible for any errors or omissions caused by secondary
dissemination of information obtained from this official sex offender/child kidnapper registry.
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