Arkansas Code Title 12, Subtitle 2, Chapter 12, Subchapter 9 - Sex Offender Registration Act of 1997

• § 12-12-901 - Title.
  This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Sex Offender Registration Act of 1997".
• § 12-12-902 - Legislative Findings.
  The General Assembly finds that sex offenders pose a high risk of reoffending after release from custody, that protecting the public from sex offenders...
• § 12-12-903 - Definitions.
  As used in this subchapter: (1) "Adjudication of guilt" or other words of similar import mean a: (A) Plea of guilty; (B) Plea of...
• § 12-12-904 - Failure to Comply With Registration and Reporting Requirements -- Refusal to Cooperate With Assessment Process.
  (a) (1) (A) A person is guilty of a Class C felony who: (i) Fails to register or verify registration as required under this...
• § 12-12-905 - Applicability.
  (a) The registration or registration verification requirements of this subchapter apply to a person who: (1) Is adjudicated guilty on or after August 1,...
• § 12-12-906 - Duty to Register or Verify Registration Generally -- Review of Requirements With Offenders.
  (a) (1) (A) (i) At the time of adjudication of guilt, the sentencing court shall enter on the judgment and commitment or judgment and...
• § 12-12-907 - Report to Arkansas Crime Information Center -- Report to Law Enforcement Agency.
  (a) (1) Within three (3) days after registering or updating the registration file of a sex offender, the Department of Correction, the Department of...
• § 12-12-908 - Registration Format -- Requirements.
  (a) The Director of the Arkansas Crime Information Center shall prepare the format for registration as required in subsection (b) of this section and...
• § 12-12-909 - Verification Form -- Change of Address.
  (a) (1) A person required to register as a sex offender shall verify registration every six (6) months after the person's initial registration date...
• § 12-12-910 - Fine.
  (a) The sentencing court shall assess at the time of sentencing a mandatory fine of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) on any person who...
• § 12-12-911 - Sex and Child Offenders Registration Fund.
  (a) There is established on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State...
• § 12-12-912 - Arrests for Violations.
  (a) In order for a sex offender to be charged with the commission of a violation of this subchapter so that an arrest warrant...
• § 12-12-913 - Disclosure.
  (a) (1) Registration records maintained pursuant to this subchapter shall be open to any criminal justice agency in this state, the United States, or...
• § 12-12-914 - Notice of Release.
  (a) (1) The Department of Correction shall provide notice by written or electronic means to the Arkansas Crime Information Center of the anticipated release...
• § 12-12-915 - Authority -- Rules.
  (a) The Department of Correction, the Department of Community Correction, the Department of Human Services, the Administrative Office of the Courts, and the Arkansas...
• § 12-12-916 - Publication and Notice of Obligation to Register.
  The Office of Driver Services of the Department of Finance and Administration shall provide notice of the obligation to register pursuant to this subchapter...
• § 12-12-917 - Evaluation Protocol -- Sexually Dangerous Persons -- Juveniles Adjudicated Delinquent -- Examiners.
  (a) (1) The Sex Offender Assessment Committee shall develop an evaluation protocol for preparing reports to assist courts in making determinations whether or not...
• § 12-12-918 - Classification As Sexually Dangerous Person.
  (a) (1) In order to classify a person as a sexually dangerous person, a prosecutor may allege on the face of an information that...
• § 12-12-919 - Termination of Obligation to Register.
  (a) Lifetime registration is required for a sex offender who: (1) Was found to have committed an aggravated sex offense; (2) Was determined by...
• § 12-12-920 - Immunity From Civil Liability.
  (a) Public officials, public employees, and public agencies are immune from civil liability for good faith conduct under this subchapter.(b) Nothing in this subchapter...
• § 12-12-921 - Sex Offender Assessment Committee.
  (a) The Sex Offender Assessment Committee shall consist of nine (9) members as follows: (1) The Governor shall appoint, subject to confirmation by the...
• § 12-12-922 - Alternative Procedure for Sexually Dangerous Person Evaluations -- Administrative Review of Assigned Risk Level.
  (a) (1) The alternative procedure under this section may be used for sexually dangerous person evaluations if information that was not available to the...
• § 12-12-923 - Electronic Monitoring of Sex Offenders.
  (a) (1) Upon release from incarceration, a sex offender determined to be a sexually dangerous person whose crime was committed after April 7, 2006,...
• § 12-12-924 - Disclosure and Notification Concerning Out-Of-state Sex Offenders Moving Into Arkansas.
  (a) A local law enforcement agency having jurisdiction where an out-of-state sex offender is moving or has moved may make immediate disclosure of the...
• § 12-12-925 - Travel Outside of the United States.
  (a) A person who is required to register as a sex offender under this subchapter must report at least twenty-one (21) days before traveling...
• § 12-12-926 - Release of Motor Vehicle Records by the Department of Finance and Administration.
  (a) The Department of Finance and Administration may release to a law enforcement officer or agency information contained in a person's motor vehicle record...
• § 12-12-927 - Medicaid Services by Sex Offender Prohibited.
  If a court has entered an order requiring a person to register as a sex offender or if the person is listed in the...

Last modified: November 15, 2016