Information on New Hampshire Sex Offender Registration

The state government of New Hampshire, United States of America has stringent laws regarding sex offenses and aims at making the community a safer place by designing several programs. These programs are designed to maintain a record of all the New Hampshire sex offenders.

The NH RSA 651-B, governing the process of sex offenders’ registration in New Hampshire says a sexual offender is a person convicted of inflicting “aggravated felonious sexual assault”, sexual assault, felonious sexual assault, lewdness, indecent exposure, and any equivalent offense in any other state. Any person convicted of offenses against children under 18, prostitution, or convicted with child pornography and related offenses, obscene matter, computer pornography, incest, kidnapping, and endangering welfare of minors or physically or mentally challenged persons are also regarded as sex offenders.

New Hampshire Sex Offender Registration

The New Hampshire Department of Safety administers over the process of the sex offender registration. The registry helps to maintain a record of the offenders and also store information about their present location. This makes it easier to track them and protect the common people from repeat crimes.

The following persons are required to register with the administering authority:

•    Sexual offenders or offenders against children must register with the Department of Safety
•    The division of state police on receiving information regarding nature of the charges against any sex offender will register the person
•    If any law enforcement agency from outside the state of New Hampshire provides the division with any information on a sex offender who has moved to New Hampshire, the offender gets registered in the New Hampshire Sex Offender Registry, following the rules of the state

Information concerning any person who is required to register as a sex offender is available to the department from his or her criminal records and motor vehicle records. If however, for some reason the person no longer needs to register, the department notifies the motor vehicles and the necessary changes in the records are made.

At the time of registering, a New Hampshire sex offender must enclose his or her recent photographs, full name, any alias name, and date of birth and place of birth, fingerprints, and details pertaining to the case he was convicted of along with his registration application.

The offender is also required to report in person to the local law enforcement agency. The offender must report to register within 5 working days following his or her release or 5 business days after the establishment of his or her residence. In case of multiple residences, the offender must specify the primary residence address and also mention addresses of all the other addresses. After registration is done, the offender [if tier1 and tier 2] should report to the agency semi-annually within 5 days after each anniversary of his DOB and every 6 months after that.

Each time a New Hampshire sex offender reports to the agency, he or she must provide name, email addresses, aliases, and any other Internet identities used, addresses of all permanent and temporary residences, details of any employment, license plate number of any vehicle that the offender is operating, professional licenses authorizing the offender to engage in any sort of business, and original date of birth. The agency will take a fresh photograph of the offender every time he or she appears for reporting.

New Hampshire Sex Offender Registry

The New Hampshire Sex Offender Registry is the repository of all registration forms submitted by the various local police departments. The contact number of the Sex Offender Registry, Division of State Police in New Hampshire is (603) 271 6344.

The office address of the New Hampshire Department of Safety is Division of State Police, Jeffrey Kellett, Chief Administrator, Central Repository for Criminal Records, 33 Hazen Drive, Concord, NH 03305, Phone: (603) 271-2538.

You may visit the official website of the Department of Safety of the state of New Hampshire by copying the following link: http://www.nh.gov/safety/divisions/nhsp/ssb/crimrecords/http://www.peoplepublicrecords.org/index.html#sexoffender. It will aid you to extract information about any New Hampshire sex offender.