Connecticut Sex Offender Registry Updated

The Connecticut Sex Offender Registry completed registrations on 336 new registered sex offenders during the 2007 calendar year, bringing the total number of sex offenders in the State of Connecticut at the end of the 2007 calendar year to 4,834. There are currently 4,929 registered sex offenders living, working, or attending schools in Connecticut.

As of April 17, 2008, there were 14 people in Newtown registered on the Connecticut Sex Offender Registry.

People required to register under Connecticut’s sex offender registry laws must verify their address every 90 days. The registrants have ten days to return an address verification form to the Sex Offender Registry or face arrest for a Class D felony. There are currently 412 registrants who have failed to verify their address in Connecticut.

In 2007 the Sex Offender Registry Unit completed 356 investigative reports on registrants who have failed to verify their address. These reports were forwarded to the local law enforcement agencies where the registrants last reported residing.

The local law enforcement agencies, who are required by law to apply for arrest warrants for these violations, use the investigative reports to obtain the arrest warrants. In 2007 there were 201 arrests for registry violations statewide with 138 convictions being recorded during the year.

The Connecticut Sex Offender Registry website had more than ten million hits on registered sex offenders living, working, or attending schools in the state in 2007. Information can be searched on the website by last name, town, Zip Code, or by viewing an entire list of registrants. The information is provided free of charge and persons making inquiries do not have to identify themselves.

Residents who have questions regarding the registration of sex offenders in Connecticut or have information on a registered sex offender that appears to be in violation are asked to contact the Connecticut Department of Public Safety, Division of State Police, Sex Offender Registry Unit at 1111 Country Club Road, Middletown CT 06457-9294; by phone at 860-686-8060, or by e-mail to sex.offender.registry@po.state.ct.us. Registry records are also available at local police departments for registrants living within that department’s jurisdiction.

To access the Connecticut Sex Offender Registry website visit www.state.ct.us/dps.

Residents should note that any person who uses information in this registry to injure, harass, or commit a criminal act against any person included in the registry or any other person is subject to criminal prosecution.