Frequently Asked Questions
What are the duties of a registered offender?
- I have been convicted or adjudicated of a crime that requires registration under
the Kansas Offender Registration Act, K.S.A. 22-4901 et seq., hereafter referred
to as "the Act", and must honor all duties specified by the Act.
- At the time of conviction or adjudication, the court will complete a notice of duty
to register if I am released prior to sentencing. Within three (3) business days,
I will report to the registering law enforcement agency in the county or tribal
land of conviction or adjudication and to the registering law enforcement agency
in any place where I reside, maintain employment or attend school, to complete the
registration form.
- If in the custody of a correctional facility, I will register with the correctional
facility within three business days of initial custody and shall not be required
to update such registration until released from custody, granted work release or
otherwise allowed to leave the grounds of the correctional facility.
- Within three (3) days of coming into any county or location of jurisdiction where
I reside or intend to reside, maintain employment or intend to maintain employment,
attend school or intend to attend school, I must register with each registering
law enforcement agency in the county or location of jurisdiction. Each time I register,
I must be photographed, pay a registration fee of $20, and complete the registration
form with all information and updated information required for registration as provided
in K.S.A. 22-4907. In addition to the Kansas Offender Registration Act, sex offenders
who reside, work or attend school on tribal land shall register pursuant to tribal
law. Tribes in the state of Kansas that require registration include the Prairie
Band Potawatomi Nation, Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska and the Kickapoo Tribe
in Kansas. Sac and Fox Nation has delegated the registration responsibility to the
state of Kansas through the local sheriff’s offices, therefore compliance with the
Kansas law is sufficient.
- I am required to report four times a year in person to the registering law enforcement
agency in the county or location of jurisdiction where I reside, maintain employment,
or attend school. After initial registration, I must report in the month of my birthday
and every third, sixth, and ninth month occurring before and after my birth month.
- If my birthday is in January, April, July, or October, I am required to report to
the registering law enforcement agency in January, April,July, and October.
- If my birthday is in February, May, August, or November, I am required to report
to the registering law enforcement agency in February, May, August, and November.
- If my birthday is in March, June, September, or December, I am required to report
to the registering law enforcement agency in March, June, September, and December.
- If I am transient, I must report in person to the registering law enforcement agency
of such county or location of jurisdiction in which I am physically present within
three business days of arrival in the county or location of jurisdiction. I am required
to register in person with the registering law enforcement agency every 30 days,
or more often at the discretion of the registering law enforcement agency and provide
a list of places where I have slept and otherwise frequented during the period of
time since the last date of registration and provide a list of places where I may
be contacted and where I intend to sleep and otherwise frequent during the period
of time prior to the next required date of registration.
- I must register in person upon any commencement, change or termination of residence
location, employment status, school attendance or other information within three
days of such commencement, change or termination, to the registering law enforcement
agency or agencies where last registered and provide written notice to the Kansas
bureau of investigation.
- If required by out of state law, I will register in any out of state jurisdiction
where I reside, maintain employment or attend school.
- I am required to immediately renew any Kansas driver’s license or state identification
card issued to me, and I must annually renew such license or identification card
on or before my birthday. The driver’s license and identification card shall indicate
that I am a registered offender. If maintaining primary residence in Kansas, I must
surrender all other driver's licenses and identification cards from other states,
territories, and the District of Columbia, except if I am or an immediate family
member is maintaining active duty in any branch of the United States military.
- If this is my first adult conviction, I must register for fifteen (15) years unless
a longer term is specified or present term limits are amended by statute for any
of the following: Sexual battery, Adultery if one party is less than 18 years of
age, Patronizing a prostitute if one party is less than 18 years of age, Lewd and
lascivious behavior if one party is less than 18 years of age, Capital murder, Murder
in the first degree, Murder in the second degree, Voluntary manslaughter, Involuntary
manslaughter, Criminal restraint if the victim is less than 18 years of age, Any
act which at the time of sentencing for the offense has been determined beyonda
reasonable doubt to have been sexually motivated, Conviction of any person felony
and the court makes a finding on the record that a deadly weapon was used in the
commission of such person felony, Unlawful manufacture or attempting such of any
controlled substance or controlled substance analog, Possession of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine,
red phosphorus, lithium metal, sodium metal, iodine, anhydrous ammonia, pressurized
ammonia or phenylpropanolamine, or their salts, isomers or salts of isomers with
intent to use the product to manufacture a controlled substance, Unlawful sale of
or distribution of a controlled substance. This time period does not include any
time incarcerated in any jail or correctional facility or any period of non-compliance
with the requirements of the Act. If I am convicted as an adult of a second or subsequent
offense(s) covered by the Act, I will be required to register for life. Any conviction
for an attempt, conspiracy or solicitation requires registration for the same term
as the underlying offense.
If this is my first adult conviction, I must register for twenty-five (25) years
unless a longer term is specified or present term limits are amended by statute
for any of the following: Criminal sodomy if victim is 16 or more years of age but
less than 18 years of age and a member of the same sex or an animal, Indecent solicitation
of a child, Electronic solicitation, Aggravated incest, Indecent liberties with
a child, Unlawful sexual relations, Sexual exploitation of a child if the victim
is 14 or more years of age but less than 18 years of age,Aggravated sexual battery,
Promoting prostitution if the prostitute is 14 or more years of age but less than
18 years of age. This time period does not include any time incarcerated in any
jail or correctional facility or any period of non-compliance with the requirements
of the Act. If I am convicted as an adult of a second or subsequent offense(s) covered
by the Act, I will be required to register for life. Any conviction for an attempt,
conspiracy or solicitation requires registration for the same term as the underlying
offense.
I must register for life if I am convicted of any of the following crimes: Rape,
Aggravated indecent solicitation of a child, Aggravated indecent liberties with
a child, Criminal sodomy if the victim is 14 or more years of age but less than
16 years of age or animal, Aggravated criminal sodomy, Aggravated human trafficking
if the victim is less than 18 years of age, Sexual exploitation of a child if the
victim is less than 14 years of age, Promoting prostitution if the prostitute is
less than 14 years of age, Kidnapping, Aggravated kidnapping, Any person who has
been declared a sexually violent predator pursuant to K.S.A. 59-29a01 et seq. Any
conviction for an attempt, conspiracy or solicitation requires registration for
the same term as the underlying offense.
- If adjudicated as a juvenile and required to register by law for an act which if
committed by an adult would constitute a sexually violent crime set forth in subsection
(c) of K.S.A. 22-4902, and amendments thereto, and such crime is not an off-grid
felony or a felony ranked in severity level 1 of the nondrug grid as provided in
2010 Session Laws of Kansas, and amendments thereto, or by court order, I must register
until eighteen (18) years of age, or for five (5) years from the date of adjudication
or release from confinement, whichever date occurs later. This time period does
not include time incarcerated in any jail, juvenile facility or correctional facility
or any period of non-compliance with the requirements of the Act. As a juvenile,
the court may order that my registration not be an open record displayed on the
public website. In such cases, it is my duty to provide a copy of the court order
to the sheriff at the time of registration.
If I am 14 years of age or more and adjudicated as a juvenile of an offense that
if committed by an adult would constitute a sexually violent crime set forth in
subsection (c) of K.S.A. 22-4902, and amendments thereto, and such crime is an off-grid
felony or a felony ranked in severity level 1 of the non drug grid as provided in
2010 Session Laws of Kansas, and amendments thereto, I shall be required to register
for life.
- If I reside, maintain employment, or attend school in the state of Kansas on a full-time,
part-time, or temporary basis and I have been convicted or adjudicated in an out
of state court, or where I was required to register by an out of state law, or if
I have been convicted or adjudicated of an offense comparable to a Kansas law that
requires registration, I shall register for the same length of time required either
by that out of state jurisdiction or by Kansas requirements, whichever term is longer.
I must register in person with the registering law enforcement agency in the county
or location of jurisdiction where I am residing, maintaining employment, or attending
school within three (3) days to complete a registration form.
- If receiving inpatient treatment at any treatment facility, inform the treatment
facility of my status as an offender and inform the registering law enforcement
agency of the county or location of jurisdiction in which the treatment facility
is located of my presence at the treatment facility and the expected duration of
the treatment.
- If I travel outside of the United States, I will report in person to the registering
law enforcement agency and provide written notice to the Kansas bureau of investigation
21 days prior to any such travel. I will provide an itinerary including, but not
limited to, destination, means of transport and duration of travel.
- If I use the internet, I am required to report to the registering law enforcement
agency any and all: email addresses; online identities; information relating to
membership in any and all personal web pages or online social networks; and internet
screen names.
- If I fail to register, fail to update my registration, provide any false information
or otherwise violate any requirement of the Act, I have committed a violation of
the Kansas offender registration Act. A first conviction of a violation of the Kansas
offender registration act is a severity level 6, person felony; upon a second conviction,
a severity level 5, person felony; and upon a third or subsequent conviction, a
severity level 3, person felony. A new and separate offense of non-compliance will
occur every 30 days that have elapsed until such time as I comply with the law.
Aggravated violation of the Kansas offender registration Act is failing to register
for more than 180 consecutive days and is a severity level 3, person felony.
- Pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 2250, if a sex offender fails
to register or fails to report a change in residence, employment, or student status,
and travels in or moves across state lines, the offender can be charged with a federal
crime and punished by up to ten (10) years imprisonment.
- I understand that if I receive an expungement for the crime that required registration,
my registration obligation does not terminate.
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Who is required to register?
- Any adult convicted of a crime set forth in KSA 22-4902.
- Any person who has been convicted or adjudicated in a federal, military, foreign,
tribal or in another state court of a comparable crime that requires registration.
- Any juvenile adjudicated of a sexually violent crime. However, the Court may relieve
a juvenile from registration requirements if it finds substantial and compelling
reasons for doing so.
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Do all adult offenders, who
are required to register pursuant to the Kansas Offender Registration Act, appear
on the Offender Registration website?
No, if an adult offender’s date of offense is before April 14, 1994, that offender’s
record is restricted pursuant to the Kansas Supreme Court’s decision in State v.
Myers.
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Do all juvenile offenders,
who are required to register pursuant to the Kansas Offender Registration Act, appear
on the Offender Registration website?
No, because the Court has discretion, in certain circumstances, to order a juvenile
offenders information be restricted from the public.
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Is every offender on the KBI Offender
Registration Web site a registered offender?
No, In addition to registered offenders, Kansas requires registration for certain
drug and violent offenders.
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How long is an offender required
to register?
- Adults are required to register for 15 years, 25 years, or lifetime depending on
their crime of conviction. If an adult is convicted of a second or subsequent offense
that requires registration, the offender must register for life.
- Juveniles less than 14 years of age who are adjudicated of a sexually violent crime
are required to register until 18 years of age, at the expiration of five years
from the date of adjudication or, if confined, five years from release from confinement,
whichever date occurs later.
- Juveniles 14 years of age or more who are adjudicated of a sexually violent crime
and such crime is not an off-grid felony or a felony ranked in severity level 1,
are required to register until 18 years of age, at the expiration of five years
from the date of adjudication or, if confined, five years from release from confinement,
whichever date occurs later.
- Juveniles 14 years of age or more who are adjudicated of a sexually violent crime
and such crime is an off-grid felony or a felony ranked in severity level 1, the
juveniles are required to register for life.
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How often is an offender required
to register?
Offenders are required to report four times each year, once during the month of
the offender’s birthday and every third, sixth and ninth month. Offenders are also
required to register in person within three business days of coming into any county
or location of jurisdiction in which the offender resides or intends to reside,
maintains employment or intends to maintain employment, or attends school or intends
to attend school, or upon any commencement, change or termination of residence location,
employment status, school attendance or other information as provided in K.S.A.
22-4907. Any offender who is transient is required to report in person every 30
days.
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What causes the duration of registration
to be extended?
Duration of registration does not apply while the offender is incarcerated or any
time period when the offender fails to comply with the registration requirement.
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Do Kansas registration requirements
apply to convictions and adjudications from another state?
Any person convicted or adjudicated and required to register in another state is
required to register for as long as that state would require or for the period of
time required in the State of Kansas, whichever is longer.
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Are there any laws that mandate how close an
offender can live to a school, daycare or community center?
Currently, the State of Kansas has no law that mandates where an offender can or
cannot live, work, or go to school, nor does Kansas law allow for local jurisdictions
to have such laws, however this may be a condition of their probation. The KBI does
not monitor these restrictions.
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Are there any laws that mandate with
whom an offender can or cannot associate?
Currently, the State of Kansas has no law that mandates who an offender can be around,
however this may be a condition of an offender’s probation. The KBI does not monitor
these restrictions.
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What does "Non-Compliant"
mean?
The offender has failed to report to the Sheriff’s Department as required by the
Kansas Offender Registration Act, or the offender has committed some other violation
of the Kansas Offender Registration Act. Therefore the offender is non-compliant
and considered to be in violation of the Offender Registration Act, which is a felony.
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Who do I contact if I suspect
a Sexual Offender has an account on a social networking site?
You can report that information to the KBI through this website and we will forward
it to the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the offender for further
investigation. Or you can report it directly to the social networking site by contacting:
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If an offender moves out of the State
of Kansas are they still shown on the public website?
If the offender was convicted in the State of Kansas they will remain on the public
website as long as the offender is required to register in this state.
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If the offender was convicted in
another state, where can I find information about the nature of the offender's offense?
You may access some information by going to the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender
Public Website at www.nsopw.gov and conduct
a national search or by contacting the Registry in the state the offender was convicted
in.
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What does the phrase "Registered Since" mean?
This is the date that the offender completed initial registration in Kansas.
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How often is the KBI Offender Registration
website updated?
Every 15 minutes.
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Does the KBI Offender Registration website
show all criminal history for each offender?
No, to obtain a complete criminal history for a specific offender, go to
http://www.kansas.gov/kbi/criminalhistory and conduct a criminal history
check.
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Can the KBI Offender Registration
website be used to conduct a pre-employment or housing screening check?
No, the website is for notification and public information only, and does not contain
all offenders required to register by law, nor does it contain all information about
any offender’s criminal history.
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Who can I
contact if I have information, questions or concerns regarding a Registered Offender?
You may contact your local Sheriff’s Office, the Sheriff’s Office in the county
where the offender resides, works or attends school, or the KBI Offender Registration
Unit by telephone at (785) 296-2841 or by e-mail at
registered_offender@kbi.state.ks.us.
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