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Sex offender registry near you

Every state publishes an official registry you can search by address, and many show it on a map. Here is how to check yours, and what it can and can’t tell you.

Open the registry

Or search every state at once, within one to three miles of an address, on the national registry search.

You type addresses on the official sites, not here. We never see them.

Two ways to search

  • The national searchDru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW), a partnership between the U.S. Department of Justice and state, territorial and tribal governments. It searches every state, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories and tribal registries at once, by name or within one, two or three miles of an address.
  • Your state’s registryYour state’s own site. Many show results on a map, and some let you sign up for email alerts about addresses you choose, such as your home or your child’s school.

Using the registry honestly

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 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 a neighbourhood less safe, not more, because it drives people out of supervision.

Check it, by all means. Then spend the rest of your attention on what actually predicts harm: unsupervised access, secrecy, and whether your child would tell you. Why the pattern matters more.

It covers addresses, not usernames

The people your child meets online are not on any map. For games, two checks read what Roblox itself publishes before you say yes.

  • Check a Roblox accountA new friend, or someone sending gifts? See when the account was made, the usernames it has used before, and what its profile says.
  • Check a Roblox gameAsked to play something new? See Roblox’s own maturity rating, who made it, and how many people play it.

What to do with what you find

  • Talk about safe adults, not stranger danger. Who your child can go to, which secrets are never okay to keep, and that they will not be in trouble for telling. What do I say?
  • Worried about a specific person or situation? Use your state’s official reporting contacts. Find them in your state’s help desk.
  • If a child is in immediate danger, call 911.

Every state’s official registry

Links opened October 19, 2026

From the national search’s list of registries. Where a state’s link had moved, we use its current official address. * Hosted by a provider that blocked our check; linked exactly as the national search lists it. If a link fails, use the national list.

Sources

  1. Search public sex offender registries — Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW), U.S. Department of Justice
  2. All registries — NSOPW, checked October 19, 2026