Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement
Part A · Chapter 209 — Child Protection and Safety
§ 20921. National Sex Offender Registry
Statutory text
Internet
The Attorney General shall maintain a national database at the Federal Bureau of Investigation for each sex offender and any other person required to register in a jurisdiction’s sex offender registry. The database shall be known as the National Sex Offender Registry.
Electronic forwarding
The Attorney General shall ensure (through the National Sex Offender Registry or otherwise) that updated information about a sex offender is immediately transmitted by electronic forwarding to all relevant jurisdictions.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act
Pub. L. 109–248 title I § 119 · 120 Stat. 587
Enacted · 34 U.S.C. § 20921
(Pub. L. 109–248, title I, § 119, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 596.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 109–248, title I, § 119, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 596.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 119. NATIONAL SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY. (a) Internet.— The Attorney General shall maintain a national database at the Federal Bureau of Investigation for each sex offender and any other person required to register in a jurisdiction’s sex offender registry. The database shall be known as the National Sex Offender Registry. (b) Electronic Forwarding.— The Attorney General shall ensure (through the National Sex Offender Registry or otherwise) that updated information about a sex offender is immediately transmitted by electronic forwarding to all relevant jurisdictions.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 16919 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.