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34 U.S.C. § 20928 — Development and availability of registry management and website software
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**(a) Duty to develop and support** The Attorney General shall, in consultation with the jurisdictions, develop and support software to enable jurisdictions to establish and operate uniform sex offender registries and Internet sites.
**(b) Criteria** The software should facilitate—
(1) immediate exchange of information among jurisdictions;
(2) public access over the Internet to appropriate information, including the number of registered sex offenders in each jurisdiction on a current basis;
(3) full compliance with the requirements of this subchapter; and
(4) communication of information to community notification program participants as required under [section 20923 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section20923&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c) Deadline** The Attorney General shall make the first complete edition of this software available to jurisdictions within 2 years of July 27, 2006.
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**(a) Duty to develop and support** The Attorney General shall, in consultation with the jurisdictions, develop and support software to enable jurisdictions to establish and operate uniform sex offender registries and Internet sites.
**(b) Criteria** The software should facilitate—
(1) immediate exchange of information among jurisdictions;
(2) public access over the Internet to appropriate information, including the number of registered sex offenders in each jurisdiction on a current basis;
(3) full compliance with the requirements of this subchapter; and
(4) communication of information to community notification program participants as required under [section 20923 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section20923&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c) Deadline** The Attorney General shall make the first complete edition of this software available to jurisdictions within 2 years of July 27, 2006.
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**(a) In general** Except as provided in this section, each jurisdiction shall make available on the Internet, in a manner that is readily accessible to all jurisdictions and to the public, all information about each sex offender in the registry. The jurisdiction shall maintain the Internet site in a manner that will permit the public to obtain relevant information for each sex offender by a single query for any given zip code or geographic radius set by the user. The jurisdiction shall also include in the design of its Internet site all field search capabilities needed for full participation in the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website and shall participate in that website as provided by the Attorney General.
**(b) Mandatory exemptions** A jurisdiction shall exempt from disclosure—
(1) the identity of any victim of a sex offense;
(2) the Social Security number of the sex offender;
(3) any reference to arrests of the sex offender that did not result in conviction; and
(4) any other information exempted from disclosure by the Attorney General.
**(c) Optional exemptions** A jurisdiction may exempt from disclosure—
(1) any information about a tier I sex offender convicted of an offense other than a specified offense against a minor;
(2) the name of an employer of the sex offender;
(3) the name of an educational institution where the sex offender is a student; and
(4) any other information exempted from disclosure by the Attorney General.
**(d) Links** The site shall include, to the extent practicable, links to sex offender safety and education resources.
**(e) Correction of errors** The site shall include instructions on how to seek correction of information that an individual contends is erroneous.
**(f) Warning** The site shall include a warning th
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There is hereby established an Office of Justice Programs within the Department of Justice under the general authority of the Attorney General. The Office of Justice Programs (hereinafter referred to in this chapter as the “Office”) shall be headed by an Assistant Attorney General (hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the “Assistant Attorney General”) appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section 16921 was editorially reclassified as [section 20923 of Title 34](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section20923&num=0&edition=prelim), Crime Control and Law Enforcement.
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### Statutory Notes
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Section 16926 was editorially reclassified as [section 20928 of Title 34](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section20928&num=0&edition=prelim), Crime Control and Law Enforcement.
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TITLE 34—CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
§ 20928
1 See References in Text note below.
2 So in original. Probably should be followed by a comma.
July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 590, known as the Sex Offender
Registration and Notification Act. For complete classi-
fication of title I to the Code, see Short Title of 2006
Act note set out under section 10101 of this title and
Tables.
The software described in section 20925 of this title,
referred to in subsec. (a)(2), became available on July
25, 2008. See Office of Justice Progs., U.S. Dep’t of Jus-
tice, Annual Report to Congress 26 (Fiscal Year 2008).
CODIFICATION
Section was formerly classified to section 16924 of
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to edi-
torial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
§ 20927. Failure of jurisdiction to comply
(a) In general
For any fiscal year after the end of the period
for implementation, a jurisdiction that fails, as
determined by the Attorney General, to substan-
tially implement this subchapter shall not re-
ceive 10 percent of the funds that would other-
wise be allocated for that fiscal year to the ju-
risdiction under subpart 1 of part E of title I of
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et seq.).1
(b) State constitutionality
(1) In general
When evaluating whether a jurisdiction has
substantially implemented this subchapter,
the Attorney General shall consider whether
the jurisdiction is unable to substantially im-
plement this subchapter because of a dem-
onstrated inability to implement certain pro-
visions that would place the jurisdiction in
violation of its constitution, as determined by
a ruling of the jurisdiction’s highest court.
(2) Efforts
If the circumstances arise under paragrap
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