Search the sex offender registry. All of it, at once.
Type a name and search every US registry in one go — the 50 states, DC and the territories. Photographs, official records and a plain answer, on continuously updated data. Your first 25 searches are free.
No card. No sales call. 25 free searches on sign-up.
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How to search the sex offender registry by name
1. Type a name
A first and last name is enough to start. Add a date of birth, an age, a city or a ZIP whenever you have one — every extra detail narrows the answer to the person you mean, and misspellings and nicknames are caught automatically.
2. Get a clear answer
You are told the result in plain words: “No match found” after every US registry has been searched, or “3 possible matches to review.” No counting rows, no guessing what a code means.
3. Review real records
Each possible match is a full profile — photograph, date of birth, addresses, offense history, physical description and aliases — with a link to the official registry record, and a plain explanation of why it matched your search.
What a sex offender search result looks like
Not a wall of raw text — a scored record you can read and act on: photograph, date of birth, offense and tier, last known address, the registry it came from, and what the search matched on.
Jordan A. Sample
Review · match 0.98- Date of birth
- 1984-03-11
- Sex
- Male
- Offense
- Registrable offense · Tier II
- Last known address
- Springfield, IL 62704
- Registry
- Illinois Sex Offender Registry
- Matched on
- last name, first name, date of birth
Sample result — fictional data. Every real result links to the official registry record so you can verify it at the source, and carries the match score and the fields it matched on.
The sex offender registry you're searching, by the numbers
From our index, August 2026.
The largest registries are Texas, Florida, California, and the five largest states hold 40% of all state-registry records — but a person can be listed anywhere, which is why every search runs across all of them. State-by-state figures are on registry numbers by state, and what registrants are listed for is on the national total page.
Tips for finding the right person in a sex offender search
- Add a date of birth whenever you have one. It is the detail that separates two people with the same name. Not all registries publish a full date — see the registry identity gap — so each result says how closely it matched.
- Use an age range if you only know roughly how old someone is. Give or take a few years catches a registry that lists age rather than a birth date.
- Try the name the person used before. Registries list aliases, but a maiden name or a former surname you know about is still worth a second search.
- Leave the state open. A state filter narrows results to people living there; someone who registered elsewhere still appears in an unfiltered search.
- Confirm with the photograph. A name and age can coincide; a face rarely does.
Searching every sex offender registry vs. one state site at a time
Public state searches answer one state, save nothing, and leave the judgment to you. Searching here is built to answer the question you are actually asking.
One search covers the whole country
State websites answer for one state. A person who registered somewhere else is invisible there. One search here covers all 58 US registries — the 50 states, DC and the territories — at once.
Your searches are saved
Every search you run is stored with the results you were shown — who you checked, when, and what came back. That is an audit trail you can stand behind, not a browser history.
Narrow the way you actually think
Search by name plus date of birth, age give-or-take a few years, city, ZIP or street address. Spelling variants and nicknames are matched for you instead of silently missing.
Built for more than one person
Add teammates to your account, upload a whole CSV list and screen everyone on it at once, and move to the full API whenever your own system is ready — same account, same data.
Search the sex offender registry by state
Every search covers the whole country. If you want the reference page for a specific registry — what it publishes and how to search it well — pick it here.
Making a hiring or tenant decision? Use an FCRA workflow.
FCRA workflows are built primarily for tenant screening and hiring decisions. If a result will help decide whether to hire someone or rent to them, the check has to run as an FCRA-regulated consumer report, with a permissible purpose, consent, accuracy controls and a dispute path for the person. Our standard search and API are not a consumer report. FCRA workflows run through FCRA Partner Access, for background check companies and screening platforms under a written FCRA agreement.
FCRA pricing is quoted per partner, so contact us for pricing.
Sex offender registry search: common questions
Is searching free?
Your first 25 searches are free — no card and no sales call. After that it is $0.15 a search with no seats and no minimum, so an occasional check stays inexpensive and a screening program scales without a contract negotiation.
What do I see on a match?
A profile of the person as the registry publishes them: photograph, name and aliases, date of birth or age, addresses, physical description, offense history and any flags — plus a link to the official registry record and a plain-language explanation of why this record matched your search.
What does “no match found” actually mean?
It means every US registry we cover was searched — the 50 states, DC and the territories — and nobody matched the details you entered. If the search could not be completed in full, we say so instead of showing a clean answer, so a clear result always means what it appears to mean.
Do I need to know which state to search?
No — that is the point. Every search runs across all 58 US registries at once. Adding a state narrows the results to people living there; it never limits where we look, so someone registered in another state still appears.
Can I use results for hiring or housing decisions?
Standard results are not a consumer report, so they must not be used for FCRA-covered decisions; FCRA-regulated screening runs through FCRA Partner Access. Use is subject to our acceptable-use terms and applicable law.
Can I search the sex offender registry by address?
Yes. Enter a street address or ZIP and a radius, and the map shows registrants listed nearby, each pin opening the full record. To check one named person, search the name instead — an address search only finds people whose registered address is in the area.
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