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In accordance with Megan’s Law and The Jacob Wetterling Act, all 50 states are required to register sex offenders and perform community notification via a sex offender registry. However, each state differs in terms of how it administers its community notification process, its sex offender registry, what offenders are required to register, the duration of registration, what information is registered, how the information is shared, whether the public has access to the sex offender registry, and who is granted access to the sex offender registry.

Megan’s Law is named after Megan Kanka, a New Jersey girl who was raped and killed at age seven by a known child molester who had moved across the street from the Kanka family without their knowledge. In the wake of the tragedy, the Kankas sought to have local communities warned about sex offenders in the area and on May 17, 1996, President Clinton signed Megan’s Law. Now there is a national sex offender registry.