---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 20931"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "20931"
heading: "Registration of sex offenders released from military corrections facilities or upon conviction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/20931"
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"
---

# §20931. Registration of sex offenders released from military corrections facilities or upon conviction


The Secretary of Defense shall provide to the Attorney General the information described in [section 20914 of this title](/usc/34/20914.md) to be included in the [National Sex Offender Registry](/usc/34/21502.md?p=8) and the Dru Sjodin National [Sex Offender](/usc/34/20911.md?p=1) Public Website regarding persons—

- (1)
  - (A) released from military corrections facilities; or
  - (B) [convicted](/usc/34/20911.md?p=8) if the sentences adjudged by courts-martial under [chapter 47](/usc/10/chstA/ptII/ch47.md) of title 10 (the Uniform Code of Military Justice) do not include confinement; and
- (2) required to register under this subchapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–248, title I, § 128A, as added Pub. L. 114–22, title V, § 502(a), May 29, 2015, 129 Stat. 258.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website, referred to in text, is located at https://www.nsopw.gov.

This subchapter, referred to in par. (2), 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 16928a of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

For short title of title V of Pub. L. 114–22, which enacted this section, as the “Military Sex Offender Reporting Act of 2015”, see section 501 of Pub. L. 114–22, set out as a Short Title of 2015 Act note under section 10101 of this title.