National Sex Offender Website

Housing authorities and projects may be asked by HUD to voluntarily adopt practices to aggressively pursue termination of assistance for lifetime sex offenders until such time as legislative changes could be passed to require such additions to existing policy. Further, the Office of Multifamily Housing stated in their response to an OIG audit that they believe owners currently have the authority to deny continued assistance and terminate tenancy based on lease provisions that cover terminations for criminal activity that threatens the health, safety, or right to peaceful enjoyment of the premises by other residents (including property management staff) etc.

For your reference, the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website can be accessed at www.nsopr.gov/ and contains useful click-throughs to public registry sites for all 50 states (plus Guam and Puerto Rico).

The electronic audit report (an interesting read) may be viewed directly at http://www.hud.gov/utilities/intercept.cfm?/offices/oig/reports/files/ig0970001.pdf