Tennessee Sexual Offender Registration Law
In June of 2004 the Governor of Tennessee signed into law the Tennessee Sexual Offender
and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification, and Tracking Act of 2004.
This law completely changed the way sex offenders are registered and tracked in
the state. The Sheriff’s Office point of contact for Sex Offender Registration is
Inv Jeff Morlock, in Criminal Investigations. He can be reached at
(931) 648-0611 ext 5209
or jrmorlock@montgomerycountytn.org
The State of Tennessee said that “repeat sexual offenders, sexual offenders who
use physical violence and sexual offenders who prey on children are violent sexual
offenders who present an extreme threat to the public safety. Sexual offenders pose
a high risk of engaging in further offenses after release from incarceration or
commitment, and protection of the public from these offenders is of paramount public
interest”.
This new law requires the registration of sexual offenders along with a continuing
requirement for them to report annually or quarterly, depending on their classification,
to verify their information. Violations of the law are felonies with mandatory minimum
jail sentences and fines established.
The Sheriff’s Office is spearheading a community-wide, multi agency approach to
enforcing the new provisions of this law. This group includes among others the Montgomery
County Sheriff’s Office, The Clarksville Police Department, The local District Attorneys
Office (of which District Attorney General John Carney and Assistant DA Chris Clark
were instrumental in drafting the law), and the local State Probation and Parole
Office.
The Sheriff’s
Office’s has partnered with the Austin Peay State University Graphic Interface System
Department to provide a map of
Montgomery County
. This map is linked to the known locations of Registered Sexual Offenders
in
Montgomery County
, whose information is releasable to the public (see
FAQ ).
“Click” on the link above to access the map, this will load the actual map page, let
it fully load. There will be map in the middle and a toolbar on the left side.
There will be a zoom in and zoom out button and a button with a
lightening bolt on it, the lighting bolt is the “select” tool.
Click on the select tool, and than click on one of the blue stars, which represents
the sex offenders. This will open up a pop-up from the TBI database with the
offender’s information on it
This page, from the TBI website, allows you
to search by name and location for sex offenders
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