What is a Sex Offender?
A sex offender is any person who resides, works or attends an institution of higher learning in the Commonwealth and who has been convicted of a sex offense, or who has been adjudicated as a youthful offender or as a delinquent juvenile by reason of a sex offense, or a person released from incarceration or parole or probation supervision or custody with the department of youth services for such a conviction or adjudication, or a person who has been adjudicated a sexually dangerous person or a person released from civil commitment on or after August 1, 1981.
What are the sex offender classifications?
The Sex Offender Registry Board (SORB) classifies sex offenders based on dangerousness to the public and likelihood of re-offense. The classification determines where and how a sex offender must register, whether the public can see the sex offender’s information, and whether the local police actively distribute the information to the community:
Sex Offender Registry Information shall not be used to commit a crime or to engage in Illegal discrimination or harassment of an offender. Any person who uses information disclosed pursuant to M.G.L.c. 6 § 178C178P for such purposes shall be punished by not more than 2 ½ years in the house of correction or by fine of not more than $1,000 or both (M.G.L.c. 6 § 178N). In addition, of any person who uses registry information to threaten to commit a crime may be punished by a fine of not more than $100 or by imprisonment for not more than 6 months. (M.G.L.c. 275 § 4).
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