Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance

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National Sex Offender Public Registry
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The Design

• Distributive model
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Web Services
• US DOJ GXJDM
• Leverages work done by the States

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National Sex Offender Public Registry
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The Results

• Connected 22 sites in 60 days
• Connected additional 28 sites in 5 months
• Over 27 million hits in first 48 hours
• Peaked at 977 hits per second
• After 30 weeks over 201 million hits
• 48 states, DC, Guam searchable from on site0

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July 20, 2005 21 states DC completed in 60
days
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December 28, 2005 48 states DC Guam second
phase completed in 5 months
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About the site
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New search improvements
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Site has undergone 508 compliance review
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Additional Sex Offender Information

• Federal
• US Bureau of Prisons
• Military
• NCIS through JAG
• Tribal Nations
• Received calls on process of creating a registry
• Canada
• Canadian NSOR is LE only

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Statistics
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Average hits per day
Week ending 8/21/05
Week ending 11/20/05
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Total hits per week
Over 201 million hits after 30 weeks
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How the site is being used

• RI, KY, and TX used the site to check evacuees
• H.R. 3402 requires International Marriage Brokers
  to check all their clients against NSOPR or the
  state sites
• Department of State has recommended the residents
  of a home taking in a foreign exchange student

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Best practices

• Identify the stakeholders
• Leverage work already completed
• Cleary identify the policy decision maker
• Cleary identify the technical lead
• Adapt to what already exists

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Lessons learned

• Keep policy and technology separate
• Be open to suggestions from stakeholders
• Realize theres no single solution
• Design tool based on abilities
• Federal and state can work together

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Next phases

• Connect OR and SD
• Connect US Territories and Tribal agencies
• Create zip code radius searches
• Review mapping capabilities
• Bring states together to identify needs

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Future plans

• Provide plug ins for states
• Mapping
• E-mail notification
• Create communication network
• SOR management
• Sex offender management
• Meet needs to access information in other ways

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Questions?