Code of Alabama - Title 15: Criminal Procedure - Chapter 20A - Alabama Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act

• Section 15-20A-1 Short title
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Alabama Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act.
• Section 15-20A-2 Legislative findings
  The Legislature makes all of the following findings: (1) Registration and notification laws are a vital concern as the number of sex offenders continues to...
• Section 15-20A-3 Applicability
  (a) This chapter is applicable to every adult sex offender convicted of a sex offense as defined in Section 15-20A-5, without regard to when his...
• Section 15-20A-4 Definitions
  For purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) ADULT SEX OFFENDER. A person convicted of a sex offense. (2)...
• Section 15-20A-5 Sex offenses
  For the purposes of this chapter, a sex offense includes any of the following offenses: (1) Rape in the first degree, as provided by Section...
• Section 15-20A-6 Allegation of sexual motivation
  (a)(1) The indictment, count in the indictment, information, complaint or warrant charging the offense may include a specification of sexual motivation or the prosecuting attorney...
• Section 15-20A-7 Registration information - Required
  (a) The following registration information, unless otherwise indicated, shall be provided by the sex offender when registering: (1) Name, including any aliases, nicknames, ethnic, or...
• Section 15-20A-8 Registration information - Public registry website
  (a) All of the following registration information shall be provided on the public registry website maintained by the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency and may...
• Section 15-20A-9 Adult sex offender - Requirements prior to release
  (a) At least 30 days prior to release, or immediately upon notice of release if release is less than 30 days, of an adult sex...
• Section 15-20A-10 Adult sex offender - Registration with local law enforcement; residence restrictions
  (a)(1) Immediately upon release from incarceration, or immediately upon conviction if the adult sex offender is not incarcerated, the adult sex offender shall appear in...
• Section 15-20A-11 Adult sex offender - Prohibited residence locations, etc
  (a) No adult sex offender shall establish a residence or maintain a residence after release or conviction within 2,000 feet of the property on which...
• Section 15-20A-12 Adult sex offender - Homelessness
  (a) An adult sex offender who no longer has a fixed residence shall be considered homeless and shall appear in person and report such change...
• Section 15-20A-13 Adult sex offender - Employment restrictions
  (a) No adult sex offender shall accept or maintain employment or a volunteer position at any school, childcare facility, mobile vending business that provides services...
• Section 15-20A-14 Adult sex offender - Requirements upon entering state
  (a) Any adult sex offender who declares he or she is entering the state to establish a residence or who enters this state to establish...
• Section 15-20A-15 Adult sex offender - Travel
  (a) Immediately before an adult sex offender temporarily leaves his or her county of residence for a period of three or more consecutive days, the...
• Section 15-20A-16 Adult sex offender - Contact with former victims
  (a) No adult sex offender shall contact, directly or indirectly, in person or through others, by phone, mail, or electronic means, any former victim. (b)...
• Section 15-20A-17 Adult sex offender - Loitering in certain areas; requirements for entering K-12 school property or attending K-12 school events
  (a)(1) No adult sex offender, after having been convicted of a sex offense involving a minor, shall loiter on or within 500 feet of the...
• Section 15-20A-18 Adult sex offender - Identification requirements
  (a) Every adult sex offender who is a resident of this state shall obtain from the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency, and always have in...
• Section 15-20A-19 Adult sex offender - Sexually violent predator
  (a) The state, upon conviction and prior to sentencing, may petition the sentencing court to enter an order declaring a person convicted in this state...
• Section 15-20A-20 Adult sex offender - Electronic monitoring
  (a) The Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall implement a system of active and passive electronic monitoring that identifies the location of a monitored person...
• Section 15-20A-21 Adult sex offender - Community notification
  (a) Immediately upon the release of an adult sex offender or immediately upon notice of where the adult sex offender plans to establish, or has...
• Section 15-20A-22 Adult sex offender - Registration fee
  (a) An adult sex offender shall pay a registration fee in the amount of ten dollars ($10) to each registering agency where the adult sex...
• Section 15-20A-23 Adult sex offender - Relief from residency restriction
  (a) A sex offender required to register under this chapter may petition the court for relief from the residency restriction pursuant to subsection (a) of...
• Section 15-20A-24 Adult sex offender - Relief from registration and notification
  (a) At disposition, sentencing, upon completion of probation, or upon completion of a term of registration ordered by the sentencing court, a sex offender may...
• Section 15-20A-25 Adult sex offender - Relief from employment restriction
  (a) A sex offender may petition at sentencing, or if after sentencing, a sex offender may file a petition in the civil division of the...
• Section 15-20A-26 Juvenile sex offender - Treatment; risk assessment
  (a) Upon adjudication of delinquency for a sex offense, a juvenile sex offender shall be required to receive sex offender treatment by a sex offender...
• Section 15-20A-27 Juvenile sex offender - Community notification
  (a) In determining whether to apply notification requirements to a juvenile sex offender, the sentencing court shall consider any of the following factors relevant to...
• Section 15-20A-28 Juvenile sex offender - Lifetime registration and notification
  (a) A juvenile adjudicated delinquent of any of the following sex offenses, who was 14 or older at the time of the offense, shall be...
• Section 15-20A-29 Juvenile sex offender - Requirements prior to release
  (a) Prior to the release of a juvenile sex offender, the following shall apply: (1) The juvenile sex offender and the parent, custodian, or guardian...
• Section 15-20A-30 Juvenile sex offender - Registration with local law enforcement; residence restrictions
  (a) Immediately upon release or immediately upon adjudication of delinquency if the juvenile sex offender is not committed, the juvenile sex offender and the parent,...
• Section 15-20A-31 Juvenile sex offender - Employment restrictions
  (a) During the time a juvenile sex offender is subject to the registration requirements of this chapter, the juvenile sex offender shall not accept or...
• Section 15-20A-32 Juvenile sex offender - Requirements upon entering state
  (a) A juvenile sex offender or youthful offender sex offender, or equivalent thereto, who is not currently a resident of this state, shall immediately appear...
• Section 15-20A-33 Juvenile sex offender - Retention of court records
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the court records of juvenile sex offenders are to be retained, either in paper format or electronically, and not...
• Section 15-20A-34 Juvenile sex offender - Relief from lifetime registration requirements
  (a) A juvenile sex offender subject to lifetime registration pursuant to Section 15-20A-28 may file a petition requesting the sentencing juvenile court to enter an...
• Section 15-20A-35 Youthful offender treated as juvenile or adult
  For the purposes of this chapter, a youthful offender sex offender who has not been previously adjudicated or convicted of a sex offense and who...
• Section 15-20A-36 Name change of offender
  (a) No sex offender shall change his or her name unless the change is incident to a change in the marital status of the sex...
• Section 15-20A-37 Failure to register; absconding
  (a) When a sex offender declares, and the county is notified that a sex offender intends to reside, maintain employment or a volunteer position, or...
• Section 15-20A-38 Escape from correctional facility
  (a) If a sex offender escapes from a state or local correctional facility, juvenile detention facility, or any other facility that would not permit unsupervised...
• Section 15-20A-39 Harboring, assisting, concealing, or withholding information about a sex offender
  (a) A person is guilty of the crime of harboring, assisting, concealing, or withholding information about a sex offender if the person has knowledge or...
• Section 15-20A-40 Public records - Certified copies of adjudication or conviction
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that a duplicate of a certified copy of a public record be admissible and is not dependent...
• Section 15-20A-41 Victim assistance
  (a) After a sex offender's conviction or adjudication, and upon request of the Attorney General's Office, the office of the prosecuting attorney or the clerk...
• Section 15-20A-42 Collection and dissemination of information by Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency
  (a) Any jurisdiction or agency responsible for registering a sex offender shall immediately forward all required registration information and any changes to the required registration...
• Section 15-20A-43 Registration and notification requirements mandatory
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 15-20A-5, 15-20A-16, 15-20A-23, 15-20A-24, 15-20A-25, 15-20A-34 or the former 15-20-21(4)(a), the requirements of this chapter are mandatory and shall...
• Section 15-20A-44 Rulemaking authority
  (a) The Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall adopt rules establishing an administrative hearing for persons who are only made subject to...
• Section 15-20A-45 Penalties
  (a) A sex offender who is convicted of any offense specified in this chapter, in addition to any imprisonment or fine, or both, and in...
• Section 15-20A-46 Disposition of funds
  (a) The two hundred dollar ($200) filing fee paid by a sex offender who petitions the court for relief pursuant to Sections 15-20A-16, 15-20A-23, 15-20A-24,...
• Section 15-20A-47 Construction
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as creating a cause of action against the state or any of its agencies, officials, employees, or political...
• Section 15-20A-48 Relation to other laws
  (a) For the purposes of Sections 13A-5-2, 13A-5-6, 14-9-41, 15-18-8, 15-22-27.3, or any other section of the Code of Alabama 1975, a criminal sex offense...

Last modified: May 3, 2021