RD408 - Monitoring of Offenders Required to Comply with the Sex Offender Registry Requirements - January 2013


Executive Summary:
As of December 1, 2012, there were 19,530 sex offenders listed on the Virginia State Police Sex Offender Registry. They are divided into three groups: (1) 3,536 registrants under the purview of the Department of Corrections Probation and Parole Services, (2) 7,699 sex offenders whose registration and verifications are the responsibility of the Department of State Police, and (3) the remaining 8,295 registrants who are incarcerated in jails or prisons across the state.

The Virginia Department of State Police has developed and maintains a web-based system for recording and monitoring residential and employment address verifications. This database is utilized by Virginia State Police troopers and compliance officers, as well as Department of Corrections (DOC) probation and parole officers tasked with completing the verification process. Our agency conducts the training, and these probation and parole officers, as well as the troopers and compliance officers assigned to the SOIU, are trained in the system.

From December 1, 2011, to November 30, 2012, VSP SOIU conducted 18,995 verifications of home and work addresses.