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Abstract: 

In February 2013, the United States General Accountability Office (GAO) released a report examining the implementation of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), Title I of the 2006 Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act. Summarizing the research to date and focusing on the experiences of both implementing and non-implementing jurisdictions, the GAO study was designed to provide Congress with an assessment of the SORNA implementation experience. It focused on two questions: 1) To what extent has the SMART Office determined that jurisdictions have met the requirements for substantial implementation of SORNA, and what challenges, if any, have jurisdictions faced in implementing the Act? 2) For jurisdictions that have substantially implemented SORNA, what are the reported effects that the Act has had on public safety, criminal justice stakeholders, and registered sex offenders?

Keywords: Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act; Sex Offender Registration

Affiliations:  1: University of Massachusetts Lowell, Co-editor.