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34 U.S.C. § 20924 — National Sex Offender Registry
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**(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.
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**(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.
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section 16917 was editorially reclassified as [section 20919 of Title 34](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section20919&num=0&edition=prelim), Crime Control and Law Enforcement.
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### Statutory Notes
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Section 16922 was editorially reclassified as [section 20924 of Title 34](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section20924&num=0&edition=prelim), Crime Control and Law Enforcement.
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TITLE 34—CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
§ 20923
§ 20923. Megan Nicole Kanka and Alexandra Ni-
cole Zapp Community Notification Program
(a) Establishment of Program
There is established the Megan Nicole Kanka
and Alexandra Nicole Zapp Community Notifica-
tion Program (hereinafter in this section re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Program’’).
(b) Program notification
Except as provided in subsection (c), imme-
diately after a sex offender registers or updates
a registration, an appropriate official in the ju-
risdiction shall provide the information in the
registry (other than information exempted from
disclosure by the Attorney General) about that
offender to the following:
(1) The Attorney General, who shall include
that information in the National Sex Offender
Registry or other appropriate databases.
(2) Appropriate law enforcement agencies
(including probation agencies, if appropriate),
and each school and public housing agency, in
each area in which the individual resides, is an
employee or is a student.
(3) Each jurisdiction where the sex offender
resides, is an employee, or is a student, and
each jurisdiction from or to which a change of
residence, employment, or student status oc-
curs.
(4) Any agency responsible for conducting
employment-related background checks under
section 40102 of this title.
(5) Social service entities responsible for
protecting minors in the child welfare system.
(6) Volunteer organizations in which contact
with minors or other vulnerable individuals
might occur.
(7) Any organization, company, or individual
who requests such notification pursuant to
procedures established by the jurisdiction.
(c) Frequency
Notwithstanding subsection (b), an organiza-
tion or individual described in subsection (b)(6)
or (b
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