Code of Alabama
Title 15 - Criminal Procedure.
Chapter 20A - Alabama Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act.

Section 15-20A-1 - Short Title. - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

Section 15-20A-2 - Legislative Findings. - The Legislature makes all of the following findings: (1) Registration...

Section 15-20A-3 - Applicability. - (a) This chapter is applicable to every adult sex offender...

Section 15-20A-4 - Definitions. - For purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have...

Section 15-20A-5 - Sex Offenses. - For the purposes of this chapter, a sex offense includes...

Section 15-20A-6 - Allegation of Sexual Motivation. - (a)(1) The indictment, count in the indictment, information, complaint or...

Section 15-20A-7 - Registration Information - Required. - (a) The following registration information, unless otherwise indicated, shall be...

Section 15-20A-8 - Registration Information - Public Registry Website. - (a) All of the following registration information shall be provided...

Section 15-20A-9 - Adult Sex Offender - Requirements Prior to Release. - (a) At least 30 days prior to release, or immediately...

Section 15-20A-10 - Adult Sex Offender - Registration With Local Law Enforcement; Residence Restrictions. - (a)(1) Immediately upon release from incarceration, or immediately upon conviction...

Section 15-20A-11 - Adult Sex Offender - Prohibited Residence Locations, Etc. - (a) No adult sex offender shall establish a residence or...

Section 15-20A-12 - Adult Sex Offender - Homelessness. - (a) An adult sex offender who no longer has a...

Section 15-20A-13 - Adult Sex Offender - Employment Restrictions. - (a) No adult sex offender shall accept or maintain employment...

Section 15-20A-14 - Adult Sex Offender - Requirements Upon Entering State. - (a) Any adult sex offender who declares he or she...

Section 15-20A-15 - Adult Sex Offender - Travel. - (a) Immediately before an adult sex offender temporarily leaves his...

Section 15-20A-16 - Adult Sex Offender - Contact With Former Victims. - (a) No adult sex offender shall contact, directly or indirectly,...

Section 15-20A-17 - Adult Sex Offender - Loitering in Certain Areas; Requirements for Entering K-12 School Property or Attending K-12 School Events. - (a)(1) No adult sex offender, after having been convicted of...

Section 15-20A-18 - Adult Sex Offender - Identification Requirements. - (a) Every adult sex offender who is a resident of...

Section 15-20A-19 - Adult Sex Offender - Sexually Violent Predator. - (a) The state, upon conviction and prior to sentencing, may...

Section 15-20A-20 - Adult Sex Offender - Electronic Monitoring. - (a) The Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall implement a...

Section 15-20A-21 - Adult Sex Offender - Community Notification. - (a) Immediately upon the release of an adult sex offender...

Section 15-20A-22 - Adult Sex Offender - Registration Fee. - (a) An adult sex offender shall pay a registration fee...

Section 15-20A-23 - Adult Sex Offender - Relief From Residency Restriction. - (a) A sex offender required to register under this chapter...

Section 15-20A-24 - Adult Sex Offender - Relief From Registration and Notification. - (a) At disposition, sentencing, upon completion of probation, or upon...

Section 15-20A-25 - Adult Sex Offender - Relief From Employment Restriction. - (a) A sex offender may petition at sentencing, or if...

Section 15-20A-26 - Juvenile Sex Offender - Treatment; Risk Assessment. - (a) Upon adjudication of delinquency for a sex offense, a...

Section 15-20A-27 - Juvenile Sex Offender - Community Notification. - (a) In determining whether to apply notification requirements to a...

Section 15-20A-28 - Juvenile Sex Offender - Lifetime Registration and Notification. - (a) A juvenile adjudicated delinquent of any of the following...

Section 15-20A-29 - Juvenile Sex Offender - Requirements Prior to Release. - (a) Prior to the release of a juvenile sex offender,...

Section 15-20A-30 - Juvenile Sex Offender - Registration With Local Law Enforcement; Residence Restrictions. - (a) Immediately upon release or immediately upon adjudication of delinquency...

Section 15-20A-31 - Juvenile Sex Offender - Employment Restrictions. - (a) During the time a juvenile sex offender is subject...

Section 15-20A-32 - Juvenile Sex Offender - Requirements Upon Entering State. - (a) A juvenile sex offender or youthful offender sex offender,...

Section 15-20A-33 - Juvenile Sex Offender - Retention of Court Records. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the court records of...

Section 15-20A-34 - Juvenile Sex Offender - Relief From Lifetime Registration Requirements. - (a) A juvenile sex offender subject to lifetime registration pursuant...

Section 15-20A-35 - Youthful Offender Treated as Juvenile or Adult. - For the purposes of this chapter, a youthful offender sex...

Section 15-20A-36 - Name Change of Offender. - (a) No sex offender shall change his or her name...

Section 15-20A-37 - Failure to Register; Absconding. - (a) When a sex offender declares, and the county is...

Section 15-20A-38 - Escape From Correctional Facility. - (a) If a sex offender escapes from a state or...

Section 15-20A-39 - Harboring, Assisting, Concealing, or Withholding Information About a Sex Offender. - (a) A person is guilty of the crime of harboring,...

Section 15-20A-40 - Public Records - Certified Copies of Adjudication or Conviction. - (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that a...

Section 15-20A-41 - Victim Assistance. - (a) After a sex offender's conviction or adjudication, and upon...

Section 15-20A-42 - Collection and Dissemination of Information by Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency. - (a) Any jurisdiction or agency responsible for registering a sex...

Section 15-20A-43 - Registration and Notification Requirements Mandatory. - (a) Except as provided in Sections 15-20A-5, 15-20A-16, 15-20A-23, 15-20A-24,...

Section 15-20A-44 - Rulemaking Authority. - (a) The Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency...

Section 15-20A-45 - Penalties. - (a) A sex offender who is convicted of any offense...

Section 15-20A-46 - Disposition of Funds. - (a) The two hundred dollar ($200) filing fee paid by...

Section 15-20A-47 - Construction. - Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as creating a...

Section 15-20A-48 - Relation to Other Laws. - (a) For the purposes of Sections 13A-5-2, 13A-5-6, 14-9-41, 15-18-8,...