(1) Parents for Megan’s Law, Inc., a nonprofit 
corporation described in section 501(c)(3) of the In-
ternal Revenue Code of 1986 and headquartered in 
New York, has since 1998 educated and supported 
the community, law enforcement, criminal justice, 
and government agencies on issues related to sex of-
fender registration, notification, responsible use of 
information, sexual abuse and abduction prevention, 
Internet Safety, and crime victim support. 
(2) Parents for Megan’s Law, Inc., established 
and operates the National Megan’s Law Helpline, a 
free confidential telephone helpline that provides in-
formation, support, and criminal justice referrals, 
nationally and internationally, on sex offender man-
agement issues. Parents for Megan’s Law, Inc. is a 
certified rape crisis center and provides support and 
assistance to child and adult victims of sexual abuse 
and all victims of violent crime. Research suggests 
that sexual assault victims who receive counseling 
support are more likely to report their attack to the 
police and participate in the prosecution of the of-
fender. 
(3) The National Megan’s Law Helpline has 
generated over 70,000 requests for assistance, infor-
mation, or follow-up contacts on sex offender man-
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agement, crime victim support, and prevention edu-
cation issues. Helpline requests utilize the Helpline’s 
resources and often entail coordination with outside 
resources, follow-up calls, or actual referrals to any 
or all of the following: law enforcement and other 
criminal justice agencies, state and local crime vic-
tims assistance agencies and organizations, social 
service and human service providers, and other serv-
ice provider organizations. 
(4) The Internet website of Parents for 
Megan’s Law, Inc., serves as a clearinghouse and 
national resource for information related to sex of-
fender registration, notification, sexual abuse and 
abduction prevention, and crime victims’ support 
and referrals. Such Internet website is also utilized 
by the public to anonymously report Internet child 
pornography and child sex tourism and as a resource 
for Internet Safety education. Reports are forwarded 
to local law enforcement for appropriate follow-up. 
(5)(A) With limited resources, the National 
Megan’s Law Helpline has provided the public with 
a resource for confidentially reporting registered sex 
offenders failing to comply with registration require-
ments, supervision, or employment restrictions or 
who are in positions of trust where potential child 
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victims can be accessed. Confidential tips are 
triaged, crime victim support is provided, and refer-
rals are made to the appropriate criminal justice 
agency for follow-up action. 
(B) In fact, because of anonymous tips to the 
Helpline, actions have been taken to mitigate poten-
tially dangerous situations, including— 
(i) sending a registered sex offender back 
to prison after he was identified as residing in 
a registered child day care center where he 
could access potential child victims; 
(ii) preventing a convicted former middle 
school teacher required to register as a sex of-
fender and give up his teacher’s license, from 
gaining employment as an in home children’s 
tutor for a reputable tutoring company where 
he could gain unsupervised access to potential 
child victims; 
(iii) having a registered sex offender who 
targeted a child, and subsequently was barred 
from using the Internet to develop online rela-
tionships, removed from an Internet Dating 
service where he attempted to develop a rela-
tionship with whom he believed was a single 
woman with children; 
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(iv) sending a registered sex offender, who 
was on parole for a weapons charge and re-
stricted from entering school grounds, back to 
prison for entering school grounds and drug 
possession; 
(v) identifying and reporting a registered 
sex offender, convicted of sexually victimizing a 
4-year-old boy while baby-sitting, who had ab-
sconded and failed to register; and 
(vi) identifying, locating and reporting reg-
istered sex offenders in violation of conditions 
of probation, parole, local employment or other 
restriction laws. 
(6) A national Sex Offender Registration Com-
pliance survey conducted by Parents for Megan’s 
Law, Inc., in 2003, indicated that, 24 percent of (or 
over 100,000) registered sex offenders were not com-
plying with sex offender registration laws. Sex of-
fender registry information provides parents and 
community members an opportunity to protect them-
selves, their children, and their communities from 
sexual victimization, but that information, in order 
to be of value, requires labor intensive follow-up 
intervention and proactive maintenance to be kept 
current. 
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(7) Access to the National Criminal Informa-
tion databases is necessary for Parents for Megan’s 
Law, Inc., to effectively evaluate the veracity of tips 
received, proactively research noncompliant reg-
istrants or registrants engaged in criminal activities 
and provide law enforcement with viable accurate in-
formation for follow-up action. 
(8) The Sex Offender Registration Tips 
(SORT) Program will reduce sexual victimization 
and increase sex offender registration compliance 
through community tips and proactive maintenance. 
(9) Authorizing federal funds for the SORT 
Program will reduce criminal sexual victimization 
by— 
(A) supporting crime victims seeking as-
sistance; 
(B) supporting sex offender registration, 
notification, and sexual abuse and abduction 
prevention education and Internet Safety in-
quiries; and 
(C) providing the public two interactive 
confidential resources, the Helpline and Inter-
net website, for the public to provide informa-
tion— 
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