---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 20925"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "20925"
heading: "Development and availability of registry management and website software"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/20925"
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"
---

# §20925. Development and availability of registry management and website software

- (a) **Duty to develop and support—** The Attorney General shall, in consultation with the [jurisdictions](/usc/34/20911.md?p=10), develop and support software to enable [jurisdictions](/usc/34/20911.md?p=10) to establish and operate uniform [sex offender registries](/usc/34/20911.md?p=9) and Internet sites.
- (b) **Criteria—** The software should facilitate—
  - (1) immediate exchange of information among [jurisdictions](/usc/34/20911.md?p=10);
  - (2) public access over the Internet to appropriate information, including the number of registered [sex offenders](/usc/34/20911.md?p=1) in each [jurisdiction](/usc/34/20911.md?p=10) on a current basis;
  - (3) full compliance with the requirements of this subchapter; and
  - (4) communication of information to community notification program participants as required under [section 20923 of this title](/usc/34/20923.md).
- (c) **Deadline—** The Attorney General shall make the first complete edition of this software available to [jurisdictions](/usc/34/20911.md?p=10) within 2 years of July 27, 2006.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–248, title I, § 123, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 598.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in subsec. (b)(3), was in the original “this title”, meaning title I of Pub. L. 109–248, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 590, known as the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Short Title of 2006 Act note set out under section 10101 of this title and Tables.

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 16923 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.