---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 20918"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "20918"
heading: "Periodic in person verification"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/20918"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Protection of Children and Other Persons"
  - "Chapter 209 — Child Protection and Safety"
  - "Subchapter I — Sex Offender Registration and Notification"
  - "Part A — Sex Offender Registration and Notification"
---

# §20918. Periodic in person verification


A [sex offender](/usc/34/20911.md?p=1) shall appear in person, allow the [jurisdiction](/usc/34/20911.md?p=10) to take a current photograph, and verify the information in each registry in which that offender is required to be registered not less frequently than—

- (1) each year, if the offender is a [tier I sex offender](/usc/34/20911.md?p=2);
- (2) every 6 months, if the offender is a [tier II sex offender](/usc/34/20911.md?p=3); and
- (3) every 3 months, if the offender is a [tier III sex offender](/usc/34/20911.md?p=4).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–248, title I, § 116, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 595.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 16916 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.