US Dept. of Justice NSOPW App

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About this app

This is the official U.S. Department of Justice national sex offender search app. This app is funded through a grant from the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking (“SMART”), Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. SMART is responsible for The Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW), a public safety resource that provides the public with free access to sex offender data nationwide. This application is designed to provide additional access to NSOPW.

This app provides users with information about registered sex offenders that have residential, employment, or school addresses that are within a close proximity of the mobile device running the app. Searches can be conducted nationally using a ¼ mile, ½ mile, or 1 mile radius or by offender name. The initial search will be performed based upon the location of the mobile device, but searches can be run from other locations by tapping those locations on the map. In the event that the registering jurisdiction (state, territory, Indian tribe, or District of Columbia) for the user’s area does not allow searching by geographic coordinates for registered sex offender addresses, a zip code search will be used to find matching offenders and the results can be viewed by tapping the status message at the top of the app. NSOPW is actively working with all jurisdictions to allow searching by geographic coordinates and will modify the app searching capabilities as improvements become available.

Please be aware that when you tap the “More Information” button when viewing the details of a matching record you will be directed to the details about the particular registered sex offender on the registering jurisdiction’s public sex offender website. These websites are outside of NSOPW’s control and may not be mobile device friendly.

The purpose of this app is solely to provide users with the ability to search for registered sex offender by location and name. If you would like sexual abuse education and prevention information or have questions about sex offender registration in general please visit NSOPW at nsopw.gov.

Ratings and reviews

This app is good, but it lacks some modifications or some updates!. For example, the ability to view a specific area or direction without having to be there. And should be able to give you certain alerts if you leave it set! or search by name... I always get an error when trying to use it by expanding the search areas by location. And the last update was in 2023?

An app to "help" the public but won't pinpoint the locations on the map as it is advertised. Instead, you get a list to the zip code your at only, and that's it! Technology is very advance and yet it tells a lot that this app offers the bare minimum. To get more details of an individual you got to click 2 links then hit the back button to do that to the long list of people registered. Very disappointing, also read the agreement to use this app is absurd. Not liable for accuracy, timeline, ect.

everytime I type in to search locations no matter how fast I type info in it keeps saying it is timing out. I only get results when I click on the location button. which means I need to go to the locations Piror to when I want to check out to make sure it is safe for my niece.

What’s new

Stability improvements