updated 6/16/26
| Contact Person: | Brad VanderVegt – Department of Public Safety Registration & Determinations: brad.vandervegt@state.mn.us
Sonja Walker – Department of Corrections, Risk Assessment / Community Notification Director: Phone (651) 361-7359; Email Sonja.L.Walker@state.mn.us |
| Offenders Required to Register: | Registration: Applies to predatory offenders who are released, sentenced, or adjudicated delinquent on or after August 1, 1991.Community Notification: Applies to predatory offenders released from confinement after January 1, 1997. |
| Information Collected: | Residence address, (primary, secondary or owned) work address, motor vehicle used or owned, schools attending, Fingerprints, photo, DNA sample (required by another statute), other identifying information . Any property that they own, lease or rent, and phone numbers. Phone numbers and license tab expiration year. |
| Administrating Agency: | Registration: Minnesota Department of Public Safety; Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). 651-793-7070. Community Notification: Minnesota Department of Corrections; Risk Assessment and Community Notification Unit (RA/CN) in conjunction with local law enforcement. |
| Timeframe for Registration: | Registration: Upon conviction; immediately upon release from a state corrections facility or state security hospital facility; prior to entering state if accepted while on supervised release/probation/provisional discharge with same or similar crime; 5 days prior to changing address; out of state offenders no longer under supervision have 5 days after beginning employment or school in the state. Community Notification: Upon release from any state correctional facility or state security hospital. Prior to entering state if accepted under interstate compact for supervised release/parole. For those not under active supervision law enforcement may request a risk level to be assigned by the DOC. Those under probation supervision solely or those minors who’ve been adjudicated delinquent are not subject to community notification. |
| Applies to Out of State Offenders: | Registration: Yes. Community Notification: Yes, if under supervised release/probation; acceptance of an offender under the interstate compact agreement is conditional on the offender registering, with other requirements; contact the Department of Corrections directly for additional information. |
| Duration of Requirement: | 10 years or length of active supervision, whichever is longer, lifetime under specific circumstances, and aging restarts in conjunction with durational extensions for certain infractions. |
| Verification of Address: | Local law enforcement is enabled to physically verify offender’s reported address at a frequency determined by the given agency. The BCA mails a verification letter to the primary address annually or semi-annually for risk level 3 offenders who’ve successfully completed active supervision and offenders who have been civilly committed to a state security hospital in the MN Sex Offender Program. |
| Penalties for Non-Compliance: | The first offense is a felony with a minimum year and a day in prison. Second offense is minimum 2 years in prison. For every registration violation resulting in a conviction (Failure to Register), 5 years is added onto the registration period. |
| Access to Information: | Registry: All data is deemed private information by law and is available to law enforcement and corrections for enforcement purposes only. The only registry information made public is on offenders who are over 16 years of age and who have been marked non-compliant for 30 days or more. Community Notification: Level One offenders are determined to possess a lower amount of predictive risk factors. Law enforcement may notify other law enforcement agencies; any victims of, or witness to, the offense committed by the offender, and other adults residing in the same domicile as the offender (child protective services is notified of any registry involved person residing in a home with minors). Level Two offenders are determined to possess a moderate amount of predictive risk factors. In addition to Level 1 notifications, law enforcement may notify specific: entities and/or individuals who they’ve determined to be at elevated risk based on the specific offender’s historical patterns of harmful behavior or conduct. Level Three offenders are determined to possess a higher amount of predictive risk factors. In addition to Level 1 and Level 2 notifications, law enforcement shall authorize the DOC to post the offender on the Public Registrant Search site. Additionally, they may provide broad community notification. This notification varies in methods and is predominantly reliant on how a local law enforcement agency communicates important information most effectively with its community. These methods are impacted by departmental policy as well as historical president and community need. |
| Confidentiality Provision: | Limited confidentiality requirements. |
| Number Registered: | 19,229 as of 6/9/2026 |
| Percent Compliance: | 92.4% |
| Internet Access: | Minnesota Non-Compliant Sex Offender Registry This is the only time the offenders registry data is made public and is limited as far as what information is posted.Public Registrant Search This is for all who are required to publicly register for a sex offense. |