Are people who were convicted of a sex offense before Indiana had a registration law required to register?
Indiana’s sex offender registration law initially required people convicted of specific sex offenses after June 30, 1994 and those convicted of certain violent offenses after June 30, 1998 to register with local law enforcement authorities in the communities where they intended to live, work, or study. Effective July 1, 2001, these dates were removed from Indiana’s sex offender registration law. Consequently, offenders who may now be required to register because specific registration dates have been removed from the law may previously have been told that they did not need to register.
