The state of New York requires that any person that is convicted of a sex crime registers with the Division of Criminal Justice Services upon their release from incarceration. The New York State sex offender registry is comprised of the information that sex offenders provide in order to stay compliant with the New York sex offender laws. The information available in the database is general, but personal information such as the true name of the offender, any nic names of the offender, the current residential address of the offender, the workplace of the offender, and a recent photograph of the face of the offender. All of this information is available to the general public and can be viewed at any time.
The New York State Sex Offender Registry
In order to access the New York State sex offender registry, you must first find the website for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. From there you can perform a sex offender search by clicking in the search the sex offender registry button. Anybody can do a search, the only requirement is that you acknowledge by clicking on the search button that you agree to the disclaimer. The disclaimer announces that they are not responsible for inaccurate sex offender information and that sometimes the entries into the database are outdated or incorrect.
New York State Sex Offender Laws
Not only does the State of New York require sex offenders to register, but it also groups sex offenders into categories based on how big of a risk they are to the community. The level one sex offenders are the lowest risk of the registered offenders and are not considered high risk. The level two sex offenders in the State of New York are considered to be moderately dangerous and at a substantial level of risk. The level three sex offenders are the highest risk to the community that surrounds them because they have a history of repeated sexual violence and could be more prone to re-offend. Level three sex offenders have to remain registered as sex offenders for the remainder of their lifetime unless instructed otherwise by the courts.
New York State Sex Offender Information
Currently, in the year 2021, the state of New York has almost 22,000 registered sex offenders. The counties in New York that have the highest numbers of convicted sex offenders are Bronx county, Kings county, Erie county, New York county, and Oneida county. The top sex offenses in the State of New York are Sexual abuse in the first degree, rape in the first degree, sexual abuse of the first degree; which is sexual contact with an individual of a person under eleven years of age, and rape of the third degree which is when the victim is under seventeen years of age and the assailant is over twenty-one years of age.
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