The Oklahoma Attorney General's registry page states the division of labor in one line: the Oklahoma Sex Offender Registry is managed by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, and its website lets anyone search registered sex offenders by name, location or specific criteria and open profiles with personal information, physical descriptions, offense details and residency information. The law behind it is the Sex Offenders Registration Act in Title 57 of the Oklahoma Statutes, which the Oklahoma State Courts Network publishes section by section, and which tells the department to keep a file of every registration, to make a copy promptly available to state, county and municipal law enforcement, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State Commissioner of Health and the FBI's national registry, to open the file to public inspection or copying under the department's rules and through internet access, and to give every police department, county sheriff and campus police department a list of the registered sex offenders living in its county. Before any offender subject to the act leaves a correctional institution, section 582.1 has the department measure the person's risk to the community with a sex offender screening tool and assign a numeric risk level of one, two or three, and that level, printed in the registry, decides how long the person registers and how often the address is verified.
Oklahoma registers through two doors at once. The Department of Corrections takes the state registration, and a local law enforcement authority takes the local one: the municipal police department when the person lives or stays inside a city or town, the county sheriff when the person lives outside any municipality, and the police or security department of a college or university when the person enrolls, works there or lives on its property. Each local authority keeps its own registry open to anyone who asks at no more than the cost of other records under the Open Records Act, and when it hands a copy to a school or a licensed child care facility it attaches the warning that keeping a listed person employed may bring civil liability or prosecution. The sheriffs and police departments that register offenders in each county are on the Oklahoma county pages.
- Search: the Department of Corrections registry website, linked from the Attorney General's page, by name, location or criteria, with a profile for each registrant showing the description, the offense and the residence.
- Levels and years: level one registers for 15 years, level two for 25 and level three, habitual and aggravated sex offenders for life, counted from the day all incarceration, probation and parole end and extended by any period out of compliance.
- Deadlines: in person with the department within three business days of conviction or before release, with the local police, sheriff or campus police within three days of arriving, three business days before any move, and every seven days for a transient.
- Distance rules: no residence within a 2,000 foot radius of a school, educational institution, children's organization property or campsite, park, playground, licensed child care or the victim's residence, no living with a minor after an offense against one, and no two registrants in one dwelling.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Oklahoma's own systems: the Oklahoma Attorney General's sex offender registry page, 57 O.S. section 582 on the applicability of the act, as published by the Oklahoma State Courts Network, 57 O.S. section 582.1 on the pre-release risk assessment, 57 O.S. section 583 on the procedure for registration, 57 O.S. section 584 on registration information, verification and notification, 57 O.S. section 587 on penalties, 57 O.S. section 589 on working with children, 57 O.S. section 590 on the 2,000 foot residence rule, 57 O.S. section 590.1 on individual dwelling restrictions, 57 O.S. section 590.2 on removal of the registration requirement, each read on October 14, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
Who the act reaches
Section 582 applies the act to anyone residing, working or attending school in Oklahoma who after November 1, 1989 was convicted, on a verdict or a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, received a suspended sentence or any probationary term, or is serving a sentence, probation or parole for one of the Title 21 crimes it lists or an attempt at one: child abuse under section 843.5 and caretaker abuse under 843.1 when the offense involved sexual abuse or exploitation, assault under 681 when it involved sexual assault, kidnapping under 741 when it involved sexual abuse, human trafficking for commercial sex under 748, child sexual abuse under 852.1, child prostitution or trafficking under 856, the trafficking in children sections from 865 on, incest, crime against nature and forcible sodomy under 885, 886 and 888, child stealing under 891 when sexual, the indecent exposure and obscene material sections 1021, 1021.2, 1021.3 and 1024.2, section 1029 when it involved child prostitution, section 1040.8 when it involved child sexual abuse material, sections 1040.12a, 1040.13 and 1040.13a, sections 1087 and 1088, rape by instrumentation under 1111.1, rape under 1114 and lewd or indecent acts with a child under 16 under 1123, plus the newer offense of section 1040.13b.
Anyone who after November 1, 1989 lives, works or studies in Oklahoma after a conviction, a suspended sentence or a deferred judgment in another state, the District of Columbia, a territory, a federal, tribal, military or foreign court for a crime, attempt or conspiracy that would be one of those offenses here is covered too, though the act does not apply while the person sits in a maximum or medium security institution of the department, and a conviction elsewhere that was expunged from the criminal history is left out.
On November 1, 2002 everyone registered for kidnapping alone was removed unless the offense involved sexual abuse or exploitation. The section carries two versions passed in 2024, one by House Bill 3936 and one by House Bill 3450, which differ in wording, child sexual abuse material against child pornography and child sex trafficking against child prostitution, and the network marks the section as superseded from November 1, 2026.
Registering: three business days, with the department and the local authority
Section 583 sets the clock. A person who becomes subject to the act registers in person with the Department of Corrections within three business days of being convicted or receiving a suspended sentence or probation, including a deferred sentence imposed in breach of section 991c of Title 22, or no less than three business days before release from a correctional institution; with the local law enforcement authority where the person lives or intends to live for seven consecutive days or 14 days in a 60 day period, within three days of entering that jurisdiction; and with both the department and the local authority no less than three business days before abandoning or moving from the registered address, or within three business days of changing or ending a job or changing student status.
A person convicted elsewhere who enters Oklahoma registers with the department and the local authority within two days when staying five consecutive days or longer, working more than five cumulative days in any 60 day period, or enrolling as a student, and the local authority forwards the registration to the department's sex offender level assignment committee; an offender convicted here or elsewhere who lives in another state but is the spouse of an Oklahoma resident registers with the department within two days after five consecutive days or five aggregate days in a year in the state and with the local authority after two consecutive days.
At registration the department or the local agency explains every duty and has the offender sign a form: a move within the state means appearing in person and giving the new address to the department and the old local authority no later than three days before the move, a move to another state means notice to the department and the new state's registering agency ten days before, a change or end of employment means notice within three days, more than 14 cumulative days of work in another state in a 60 day period or 30 days in a year or enrollment there means registering there, enrollment in any Oklahoma school means registering, and work or a vocational course at any school in Oklahoma means notice at least three days before starting and within three days of any change. Owning or leasing a home inside a restricted zone does not excuse the duty to register.
Levels one to three, and how long
Under section 583 a person convicted or placed on probation in Oklahoma registers with the department and the local authority for a total of 15 years at level one, 25 years at level two and for life at level three or as a habitual or aggravated sex offender. The period starts on the date of completion of the sentence, meaning the day the offender completes all incarceration, probation and parole, and does not end until the offender has been in compliance for the full term, so a level one or level two offender who stops registering stays on the registry until the total time has been served in compliance; the department keeps the records that show it, and both the department and the local authority keep the registration for at least ten years after the obligation ends.
Section 584 defines the two lifetime designations the department assigns: a habitual sex offender is anyone convicted, given a suspended sentence or placed on probation for a listed crime who is later convicted of another, or who entered the state after November 1, 1997 with an additional such conviction from elsewhere, and an aggravated sex offender is anyone convicted or placed on probation on or after November 1, 1999 for sexual child abuse under section 843.5, incest, forcible sodomy, rape by instrumentation, rape or lewd acts with a child under 16.
The level itself comes from the screening tool before release, and it is one of the items both the state and the local registration forms record.
The verification mail, and what the file holds
The state registration form under section 584 takes every name and alias, a complete description with a photograph and fingerprints, a blood or saliva sample for a DNA profile within 30 days of registration unless the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation already holds one, with a $15 fee to the department, the offenses with where they were committed and where and under what name the person was convicted, every hospital or penal institution the person was committed to, the previous and current residence as a mappable physical address with a ZIP code, never a post office box, with how long the person has lived there and expects to stay in the county and the state, every school where the person is or expects to be enrolled or employed, a description of every occupant of the residence with name, date of birth, gender, relationship and length of stay, the level assignment, and every email address, instant message, chat or other internet identity the person uses or intends to use; the local form takes the full name, alias, date of birth, sex, race, height, weight, eye color, Social Security number, driver license number and mappable home address, a description of the offense with the conviction date and sentence, a photocopy of the driver license, the level and the internet identifiers, and an offender with an out of state conviction files a certified copy of the judgment and sentence with the local authority within 60 days of first registering and again within 60 days of moving to a new jurisdiction.
The department verifies every address by mail: once a year at level one, every six months at level two and every 90 days for a level three, habitual or aggravated offender, sending a nonforwardable form to the last reported address that the offender returns in person to the local authority within ten days of receipt, with proof of identity and a current mappable address, and is photographed there whenever the registry photograph is more than a year old or undated; the local authority sends the confirmed form to the department within three days, an offender who never receives the mail must still report to the local agency as the schedule requires, the department notifies the district attorney and the local authority within 45 days when an address cannot be verified, and a local authority named as the primary registration authority may mail its own verification form at any time.
A change of address, employment or student status is given in person to the local authority no later than three business days before leaving the current address, or within three business days of the job or school change, the local authority tells the department and the new local authority by teletype or electronic transmission, and the department tells the new state when the move crosses the line; an offender who gave a post office box is contacted and made to give a physical address, and one who cannot give a mappable address registers as a transient and reports in person to the nearest local authority every seven days with the approximate location of where the person is staying and plans to stay.
An offender who lives or intends to live with a minor child reports the child's name and date of birth and the registered offenses to the Department of Human Services statewide hotline within three days.
The 2,000 foot rule, the household rule and one registrant per dwelling
Section 590 makes it unlawful for any registrant to reside, temporarily or permanently, within a 2,000 foot radius of a public or private school site, an educational institution, property or a campsite used by an organization whose primary purpose is working with children, a playground or park established, operated or supported by a homeowners' association or by a city, town, county, state, federal or tribal government, a licensed child care center or family child care home, or the residence of the victim, measured since June 7, 2006 from the nearest property line of the residence to the nearest property line of the protected place; a child care center, family child care home or park that opens near an existing residence does not force the registrant to move or sell, a nonprofit that housed sex offenders before that date may continue, and nothing in the section makes anyone sell real estate or a home owned before the conviction.
A registrant whose offense had a minor victim may not reside with a minor child or set up any living arrangement where one lives, unless the registrant is the child's parent, stepparent or grandparent and the child was not the victim, and must report the household to the Department of Human Services hotline within three days, the department keeping its power to run a safety evaluation; the whole section gives way for a registrant living in a hospital or another facility licensed or certified by the state to provide medical services.
Willfully moving into a prohibited zone or into a home with a minor child is a Class B5 felony with a fine of up to $3,000, one to three years in the custody of the Department of Corrections, or both, and a second or later violation is a Class B2 felony with a fine of up to $3,000 or at least three years, the felony classes coming from House Bill 2104 of 2025 effective January 1, 2026. Section 590.1 adds that two or more registrants may not reside together in any individual dwelling during their registration terms, meaning a private residence, a room in a boarding house or group home, a single apartment or a separate unit in a condominium, duplex, triplex or similar structure, a misdemeanor of up to a year in the county jail and $1,000 on a first violation and a Class B5 felony of up to five years and $2,000 after that; separate dwellings inside a properly zoned boarding house, apartment building or multi unit structure are allowed, as are jails, prisons, contracted prisoner housing, properly zoned treatment or nonprofit facilities that house sex offenders for services and treatment, married registrants and blood relatives who are both registered.
The department may not contract to house a registrant where another lives, no halfway house, nonprofit or private entity may house registrants in a single family zoned neighborhood or outside a properly zoned multi unit structure, jail or correctional facility, a boarding house or group home for registrants is lawful only with treatment services in a properly zoned area, and an owner who knowingly lets registrants live together in violation faces a fine of up to $500 and a year in jail on a first conviction, $2,500 on a second and a Class B5 felony with $2,500 to $5,000 and up to five years on a third.
Notification for habitual and aggravated offenders, and the work ban
When a habitual or aggravated sex offender registers, section 584 directs the local law enforcement authority to notify, by any method it finds appropriate, anyone it decides should know, including the offender's family, any prior victim, residential neighbors and churches, community parks, schools, convenience stores, businesses and other places that children or other potential victims may frequent, and nursing facilities, specialized facilities, residential care homes, continuum of care facilities, assisted living centers and adult day care facilities; the notice may carry the offender's name and physical address, age, height, weight and eye and hair color, the vehicle the offender is known to drive, any conditions of probation, parole or conditional release, a description of the primary and secondary targets and the method of offense, a current photograph, the name and telephone number of the probation or parole officer and the level assignment, and the local authority makes the notification available to any person on request.
For every registrant the State Superintendent of Public Instruction distributes registry information to school districts and public and private schools, the State Commissioner of Health may distribute it to nursing homes and long term care facilities, and the department releases internet identifiers to a social networking service that applies in writing so the service can prescreen or remove sex offenders, updated monthly and never republished.
Section 589 makes it unlawful for a registrant to work with or provide services to children or to work on school premises, and for a person or business contracting for work on school premises to knowingly let such an employee do so, a misdemeanor with a fine of up to $1,000 plus civil damages; every person or business that offers services to children runs an annual name search of its employees against the sex offender and the Mary Rippy violent crime offender registries and has each one sign a statement that no registration duty exists, failing to search or refusing to sign being misdemeanors with the same fine and the refusal ending the job at once, anyone who discovers a violation reports it to the district attorney, and no law enforcement agency may employ a person with a registerable guilty verdict or plea as a peace officer or investigator, since the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training may not certify such a person as a peace officer, private investigator or security guard and revokes any certification already held.
Penalties, and the two ways out
Section 587 makes any violation of the act by a person required to register a Class B5 felony punishable by up to five years in the custody of the Department of Corrections, a fine of up to $5,000, or both, and failing to follow the guidelines for GPS monitoring a Class B5 felony punishable by a fine of up to $1,000, up to a year in the county jail, or both, the felony class again set by the 2025 act effective January 1, 2026.
Two provisions end registration early. Under section 583 a level one offender who has been registered for ten years and has not been arrested or convicted for any felony or misdemeanor since release from confinement may petition the district court of the county of residence to remove the level designation and the registration duty. Under section 590.2 a person convicted of rape by instrumentation or rape under sections 1111.1 or 1114, with no other such conviction, registered solely for it, who was not more than four years older than a victim aged 14 to 17, may petition the sentencing court, or move before sentencing, for removal of the registration requirement, alleging that removal will not conflict with federal law; the district attorney gets 21 days' notice and may oppose, a denial bars any further petition, and when the department receives a certified copy of an order granting removal it takes everything about the person off the public registry while the criminal history stays a public record.
Reading an Oklahoma result
A profile on the department's registry shows the level, which tells the reader the term, 15 or 25 years or life, and the verification rhythm, yearly, twice a year or every 90 days, and whether the person carries the habitual or aggravated designation that brought a local notification; a name that does not appear may belong to a prisoner still inside a medium or maximum security institution, a person whose term has run in full compliance, or a person a court released under the level one or age gap petitions.
The department's file, the local authority's own registry and the district attorney of the county of residence are the three places that settle a doubt.
Questions about the Oklahoma sex offender registry
Related Oklahoma records
Oklahoma's remaining public records guides on this site are the Oklahoma arrest records guide for what a booking makes public, the Oklahoma inmate search guide for the Department of Corrections offender lookup and the county jails, the Oklahoma court records guide for the state courts network docket search, and the Oklahoma county pages for every sheriff and police department.