Information About the Connecticut Sex Offender Registry

According to the Connecticut General Statutes 54-250 to 54-261, it is essential to preserve and maintain a central registry of all sex offenders who require registering in the state. It is a mandatory duty of the Connecticut Department of Public Safety. Connecticut Sex Offender Registry is a database of all persons who have been convicted of or found guilty of sexual offenses living in the state. There are particular sexual offenses that require the individual offenders’ registration in the central registry. You can find all individuals found not guilty by reason of mental defect or disease or the ones convicted in the registry.

Sex Offender Statutes

The statutes outline the sexual offenses that make the individual convicted of it a candidate for registration. Usually sex offenders convicted of minor crimes need to register for a particular time period. Individual sex offenders of Connecticut convicted of violent or aggravated sexual assault are registered for lifetime. The aim of maintaining this central repository of information about the sex offenders of the state is to assist all law enforcement agencies, employment agencies, state and local authorities, and the community in general to safeguard all, especially children, from sex related crimes.

Search for Offenders

When you click on the option for ‘Search for offenders in your area’ you are navigated to a search page. Here you need to fill in particulars about your address, city, state, and zip code and click on the search option. You can choose the radius of the area you wish to search for from options like 0.25 miles, 0.5 miles, 1 mile and 2 miles. The search results would show all registered sex offenders located within the radius. You can view the details of a particular Connecticut sex offender from the results. These details include full name, physical description, aliases, age, race, sex, identifiers, addresses, registration number, offense details and few others.

If you want more details about a particular sex offender of Connecticut you can mail to Connecticut Department of Public Safety,Division of State Police Sex Offender Registry Unit,1111 Country Club Road, Middletown, CT 06457.

They can also be contacted at (860)685-8060 or you can send an email to sex.offender.registry@po.state.ct.us.

It must be kept in mind that the information found in the Connecticut Sex Offender Registry is from the individual sex offender who has registered with the authorities as well as the concerned law enforcement agency and the court records. The sex offender also needs to notify the concerned authorities, i.e. the police department, of any changes in their details. It is updated on a regular basis.