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Sex offender registry near you
Search your state’s official registry by address, often on a map, with its limits explained.
Get startedCheck a Roblox game
See Roblox’s own maturity rating, who made it, and how many people play it, before you say yes.
Get startedCheck a Roblox account
A new friend or someone sending gifts? See when the account was made and the names it has used.
Get started10-minute family checkup
Build three manageable steps around games, messages, or AI.
Get startedConversation cards
Pick a prompt for younger children, tweens, or teens.
Get startedPrintable resources
Take a family agreement, checklist, or educator handout offline.
Get startedSearch the site
Find a guide, lesson, or state reference by topic and audience.
Get startedOfficial services and external resources
Official sources and free services, grouped by what you are trying to do. Everything here opens on somebody else's site — we do not run any of it, we make no money from any of it, and we have deliberately left out the data brokers and paid "background check" services that dominate these searches.
Call 911. Nothing on this page is a substitute for that, and none of these tools reaches a person.
If something has already happened
Check what is already exposed
Useful to do once, calmly, rather than in a panic. Nothing here needs a password — and no legitimate service will ever ask you for one to run a check.
Check an account exists
This is the one lookup worth doing, and it is deliberately small. It confirms an account exists and shows the names it is using — nothing else. A username that resolves to nothing is a real signal; so is a display name your child talks about as one person that turns out to be shared by hundreds of strangers.
There is no public way to look up the violation history of any player on any of these platforms — no report count, no prior bans, no warnings. That data is private and we would not build on it if it were not. A clean-looking account means not caught yet, and treating it as a safety check is the mistake this whole course argues against. Why the request matters more than the person
Roblox — check an account by username
Shows what Roblox itself publishes: when the account was made, whether it is terminated, the names it has used before, and the profile text as written. Roblox stopped printing the creation date on signed-out profile pages, so we read it from their API and show it here.
Letters, numbers and underscores. 3–20 characters.
Roblox stopped showing the join date on signed-out profiles — checked 9 September 2026. This is the one box on the site that sends what you type to our server, because Roblox will not answer your browser directly. We keep no record of it.
What to look at: how old the account is, whether it has been renamed, and whether the profile text pushes toward Discord or another app. None of it tells you whether the person behind it is safe — no public source can.
Roblox — check a game before you allow it
The other question a parent gets asked: can I play this? Paste the link and see Roblox's own maturity rating and content descriptors, who made it, when it was published, and how many people are in it.
Fortnite and Minecraft — the honest position
| Platform | Public lookup? | What you can learn |
|---|---|---|
| Roblox | Yes — official profile page | Display name, username, friend and follower counts, verified badge, and whether the account is terminated. The join date is no longer shown to signed-out visitors. |
| Minecraft | Partly | A username resolves to an account ID, and that is all. Mojang removed the name-history endpoint in 2022 for privacy, and account age was never public. Nothing useful to a parent. |
| Fortnite / Epic | No | Epic publishes no public profile and no open account lookup. The stats sites that appear in search results are third parties — not authoritative, frequently wrong, and several are ad-funded trackers. |
We have not linked the Fortnite tracker sites for the same reason we left out the background-check services: they sell the impression of an answer. If you want to know who your child plays with on Fortnite, the friends list on the account is real information and a stats site is not.
Public records
The registry is public, lawful to search, and worth knowing about. It is also the tool most likely to give a false sense of where risk actually sits, so three things are worth saying plainly.
- It lists people who were caught, convicted, and are required to register under their state’s law. That is a fraction of the people who have harmed a child.
- Most child sexual abuse is committed by someone the child already knows — family, a family friend, a partner, someone in a trusted role. Almost none of them appear on any map.
- Using registry information to harass, threaten, or exclude someone can be a crime, and it makes the neighbourhood less safe rather than more, because it drives people out of supervision.
Check it, by all means. Then spend the rest of your attention on the things that actually predict harm — unsupervised access, secrecy, and whether your child would tell you. Why the pattern matters more
Set up accounts and devices
Straight to each platform's own controls. Our guides explain what these settings do and — more importantly — what they do not cover.
Before your child uses something new
When someone needs a person
No people-search or background-check sites. They resell public records, charge for what is already free, are frequently wrong, and several are themselves data brokers that will sell your search back into the market. No monitoring or "spyware" products either — see the parents page for why covert monitoring usually costs you more than it buys.