Welcome to the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART) site. The SMART Office was authorized in the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, which was signed into law on July 27, 2006.
The responsibilities of the SMART Office include providing jurisdictions with guidance regarding the implementation of the Adam Walsh Act, and providing technical assistance to the states, territories, Indian tribes, local governments, and to public and private organizations. The SMART Office also tracks important legislative and legal developments related to sex offenders and administers grant programs related to the registration, notification, tracking, and monitoring of sex offenders.
The State of Ohio, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation have substantially implemented the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), Title I of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006.
Substantial Implementation Checklist
The checklist has been removed from this website for updating. A new one will be added shortly.
Please be sure to make the following changes to any codes being written or edited for SORNA implementation:
- Sex Trafficking of Children by Force, Fraud, or Coercion (18 U.S.C. 1591) is a Tier II Offense, not a Tier I Offense
- The Kids Act of 2008 (42 U.S.C. § 16915a & b.) amended the SORNA provisions of the Adam Walsh Act by adding Internet identifiers as items that are NOT permitted to be displayed on sex offender public websites.
Model Tribal Sex Offender Registration Code
The SMART Office, with the assistance of a national panel of experts, has compiled this Model Tribal Sex Offender Registration Code to assist registration jurisdictions as they endeavor to substantially implement SORNA. This is the final version of the Model Code and has been approved by the SMART Office. Any prior versions of this model code that a jurisdiction may rely on have omissions or other items that will need to be changed before it is adopted and implemented. We recommend that any Model Code, including this final version, be utilized as a guide and that each jurisdiction adapt and customize to their laws and practices. It is available in Word format here or Adobe Acrobat format here.
