The Oregon State Police registry welcome page describes the program in a sentence: it tracks registrations of persons convicted of sex crimes who reside, work or attend school in Oregon. The page is the doorway to the online search, the reporting requirements, the list of registering agencies, the annual fee, relief from registration through the state parole board, the international travel laws, treatment and housing information, the failure to report law, the compliance sweeps, the national public website, the U.S. Marshals and the level three and dangerous offender restrictions, and it carries the department's disclaimer that the information is general, may contain errors and omissions and is not legal advice. The public search does not show every registrant: under the leveling system described below, the people who appear on the website are those the Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision has classified at notification level three, the highest of the three levels, alongside the media and the neighbors who are told about them. The Sex Offender Registration Section sits at 3565 Trelstad Avenue SE, Salem, OR 97317, answers at 503-934-1258 and askSOR@osp.oregon.gov from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, and asks anyone with new information or an update about a registrant to contact it.
Oregon is unusual in splitting the work three ways. The state police keep the registry and send the invoices, the local sheriffs, police departments and state police offices take every in person report, and the parole board alone assesses risk, assigns the notification level and hears every petition for relief or a lower level, so a question about who sees a registrant's record goes to the board at 503-945-0900, option 10, or ParoleBoardSONotification@paroleboard.oregon.gov, and a question about a missed report or an invoice goes to the state police. The offender information page warns that not all persons convicted of a sex offense are required to register and not all Oregon sex crimes are registerable, pointing to ORS 163A.005 for the definitions and to the Oregon Youth Authority for juveniles under ORS 163A.025 and 163A.030. The sheriff and police departments that register offenders in each county are on the Oregon county pages.
- Search: the state police online search linked from the registry welcome page, which lists the registrants the parole board has classified at notification level three.
- Reporting: in person at a law enforcement agency in the county of residence within ten days of release, within ten days before or after the birthday, within ten days of any move, name change or college enrollment or employment change, and 21 days before leaving the country.
- Fee: $70 a year under ORS 163A.035 for every registrant not under supervision, invoiced by the state police and paid online, by mail or by phone, with unpaid balances sent to the Department of Revenue.
- Levels and relief: level one, two or three set by the Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision on the Static-99R; level one may seek relief after five years and levels two and three a reclassification after ten, both at a board hearing on clear and convincing evidence.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Oregon's own systems: the Oregon State Police sex offender registration welcome page, the state police offender information page, the state police registering agencies page, the state police annual registration fee page, the state police annual fee invoice and law change notice, the state police leveling and classification page, the state police compliance sweeps page, the Corvallis Police Department release on the Benton County sweep, the Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision notification leveling page, each read on October 14, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
Who registers: the sex crimes of ORS 163A.005
The offender information page reproduces the definition of a sex crime in ORS 163A.005(5), amended on March 27, 2024 by Senate Bill 1574: rape, sodomy, unlawful sexual penetration and sexual abuse in any degree, incest with a child victim, using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct, encouraging child sexual abuse in any degree, transporting child pornography into the state, paying for viewing a child's sexually explicit conduct, compelling and promoting prostitution, first degree kidnapping of a victim under 18, contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor, sexual misconduct by an offender 18 or older, first degree possession of materials depicting sexually explicit conduct of a child, second degree kidnapping of a victim under 18 except by a parent or a person under juvenile court jurisdiction, online sexual corruption of a child in any degree when the offender reasonably believed the child more than five years younger, luring a minor when the offender believed the minor more than five years younger or under 16 and the court designated the offense a sex crime, sexual assault of an animal, public or private indecency with a prior conviction for a listed crime, trafficking in persons under ORS 163.266(1)(b) or (c), purchasing sex with a minor when designated or on a second conviction, first degree invasion of personal privacy when designated, sexual abuse by fraudulent representation, first degree abuse of a corpse under ORS 166.087(1)(a), any attempt at those crimes, burglary committed with intent to commit one, and criminal conspiracy to commit one.
Who counts as a sex offender is defined in ORS 163A.005(6), the laws on offenders granted relief run from 163A.120 to 163A.150, and a person adjudicated in juvenile court reports under 163A.025 after the hearing 163A.030 provides, with the Oregon Youth Authority the place to ask; the state police direct any doubt about whether a particular person must report to the registration section, the local police or an attorney.
The ten day rules, and the 2021 additions
ORS 163A.010, 163A.015 and 163A.020 set when a sex offender reports, and the state police summary keeps to one number. An Oregon resident makes the initial report in person at any local law enforcement agency in the county of residence within ten days of discharge, release on parole, post-prison supervision or any other supervised or conditional release, then reports within ten days of the date of birth each year, meaning up to ten days before and up to ten days after it, within ten days of any address change including a move out of state, within ten days of starting, stopping or changing employment or a vocation at an institute of higher education, within ten days of starting, stopping or changing enrollment or attendance at one, within ten days of a legal change of name, and at least 21 days before any intended travel outside the United States.
A person moving to Oregon reports no later than ten days after moving and then follows the same calendar, and a person who lives outside Oregon but attends school here reports no later than ten days after the first day of attendance and thereafter on changes in higher education enrollment or employment. The legal name change and international travel rules came from House Bill 2045 of the 2019 session and took effect on January 1, 2021, the state police noting that federal law already required every registered sex offender to report international travel to the registry 21 days ahead; the law change notice printed with the annual invoice gives their penalties, failing to report a legal name change being punishable by up to 364 days in jail, a $6,250 fine or both, or by up to five years and a $125,000 fine when the sex crime that requires reporting is a felony, and failing to report intended international travel by up to 364 days and $6,250.
International travel is reported by completing an in person registration at any registering agency.
Where to report: the registering agencies
The registering agencies page lists, county by county, the sheriffs' offices, police departments, county jails and state police worksites and area command centers that take sex offender reports, since the law requires the report in person at a law enforcement agency in the county where the offender resides, and in the county of work or school for non resident workers and students. The state police warn that each agency keeps its own hours, which vary greatly by location, that some require an appointment to register while others take walk ins, that not every agency can fingerprint and some that can require an appointment for it, and that a location listed as a county jail may register only offenders in custody who ask to report while lodged or on release, so the hours, appointments and fingerprinting are confirmed with the agency itself.
Baker County, for example, lists the state police worksite on Windmill Road and the sheriff's office on K Street in Baker City; Benton County the sheriff's office and the Corvallis Police Department, both at 180 NW 5th Street, and the county jail; Clackamas County the sheriff's office on Sunnybrook Boulevard, the state police Portland patrol office in Milwaukie and the police departments of Canby, Gladstone, Happy Valley, Lake Oswego, Milwaukie, Molalla, Oregon City, Sandy and West Linn; Deschutes County the sheriff's office and jail on Highway 20, the Bend area command center and the Bend, Redmond and Sunriver police; and Gilliam County the sheriff's office alone, in Condon.
The $70 annual fee
Under ORS 163A.035, quoted on the annual fee page, the state police assess every person required to report under ORS 163A.010, 163A.015, 163A.020 or 163A.025 who is not under supervision a fee of $70 each year, and the invoice goes to anyone who is a registered sex offender in Oregon, lives, works or goes to school in the state, and was not on supervision for the sex crime on the date of birth in the year billed. The fee is paid online with a credit or debit card through the registration section's payment portal using the invoice number and PIN printed on the invoice, by mail with a check, money order or cashier's check payable to Oregon State Police at Unit 08, PO Box 4395, Portland, OR 97208 with the full name and invoice number, or by phone at 503-934-0025 on weekdays; the bank statement shows the charge as Sex Offender Registration Fee and serves as the receipt, email receipts are available and paper ones are not, payment arrangements need approval from state police management, partial payments go to the oldest balance first, and an old balance may already be with the Department of Revenue for collections.
A registrant who moved away but never reported the move in person at an Oregon registering agency still owes the fee and must return to report, one who moved after the birthday owes that year, and one granted relief by a court is removed only when the section receives a certified copy of the order and owes the fee for that year if the relief came after the birthday.
The parole board's levels, and who is notified
The state police leveling page hands classification to the Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision, which Oregon law requires to complete a risk assessment for every convicted and registered sex offender and every person found guilty except for insanity of a sex crime who must register under ORS chapter 163A, under the procedures in Division 85 of the board's rules. The board's notification leveling page explains the tools: adult male registrants are scored on the Static-99R, which the board calls the most widely used sex offender risk assessment, built on the ten risk domains most closely tied to sexual recidivism, and females, juveniles and people with certain other registerable offenses are assessed with the LS/CMI and an in person evaluation.
The three notification levels describe who may be told. At level one, low, only a person who lives with the registrant; at level two, moderate, a person the registrant is in a relationship with, residential neighbors and churches, community parks, schools and child care centers, convenience stores and businesses, other places that children or other potential victims may frequent, and long term and residential care facilities; at level three, high, everyone on the level two list plus local or regional media and anyone who visits the state police registry website.
A registrant who does not know the current level asks the board at 503-945-0900, option 10, and the board sits at 1321 Tandem Avenue NE, Salem, OR 97301.
Relief at level one, reclassification at levels two and three
Only a level one registrant may be granted relief from registration, and only when every condition on the board's list is met: five years have passed since supervision for the sex crime ended, or since discharge from the court's jurisdiction when there was no supervision; five years have passed since any reclassification from level two to level one; there is no conviction for a crime in ORS 163A.115, meaning first degree rape, first degree sodomy, first degree unlawful sexual penetration, first degree kidnapping under ORS 163.235(1)(e) or of a victim under 18, or first degree burglary with intent to commit one of the listed sex crimes; there has never been a later finding of guilt for a person felony or a person Class A misdemeanor; the person was never classified at level three under the 2013 law that converted predatory sex offender designations made between February 10, 2005 and December 31, 2013; the person was never designated a sexually violent dangerous offender under ORS 137.765, was not initially classified by the Psychiatric Security Review Board, has no sex crime conviction in a jurisdiction that does not permit a petition for relief, and lives, works or goes to school in Oregon as rule 255-087-0020 requires.
A level two or three registrant may apply for reclassification after ten years from the end of supervision or discharge, with no later person felony or person Class A misdemeanor, no dangerous offender designation and no initial classification by the review board, and a person already reclassified from three to two may not petition for level one. An unleveled registrant may apply and is then leveled, the board warns that an application may end in a level two or three assessment that makes the person ineligible, an incomplete application may not be considered, and at the hearing the registrant appears before a panel, answers sensitive questions and carries the burden of proving by clear and convincing evidence that the person is no longer a risk to the community; applications and questions go to ParoleBoardReliefandReclass@paroleboard.oregon.gov, and the state police remove a relieved registrant on receiving the certified court order.
Level three and dangerous offender restrictions, and the sweeps
The leveling page names the statutes that restrict certain classifications: ORS 144.642 on the criteria for deciding where certain sex offenders may live, ORS 137.765 defining and governing supervision of sexually violent dangerous offenders, ORS 163.479 on unlawful contact with a child, and ORS 163.476 on unlawfully being in a location where children regularly congregate, the last two applying to dangerous offenders and level three registrants.
Compliance is checked in the field. The compliance sweeps page collects the press on operations run with federal, state, county and city partners, among them an Albany sweep in April 2026 that found 99 offenders out of compliance, a Keizer sweep in May 2026 with eight arrests, a Corvallis countywide operation in July 2026 with eight arrests and a statewide sweep reported from Eugene in August 2026; the Corvallis Police Department's release on the October 26, 2023 Benton County sweep, posted by the state police, counted 145 compliance checks, five arrests or citations for failure to report as a sex offender under ORS 163A.040, one arrest on an unrelated warrant, three warnings, five offenders who registered after the contact and 19 found not living at their reported residence.
Reading an Oregon result
A name on the state police website means a level three registrant, the only level the public search carries, so the absence of a name says nothing about whether a person registers at level one or two; the registering agency in the county of residence holds the reports, the state police hold the fee account and the certified relief order, and the parole board holds the assessment, the level and every hearing file. A missing annual report, a move or a name change not reported within ten days, and foreign travel not reported 21 days ahead are the three violations the sweeps are built to find.
Questions about the Oregon sex offender registry
Related Oregon records
Oregon's other public records guides on this site are the Oregon arrest records guide for what a booking makes public, the Oregon inmate search guide for the Department of Corrections and county jail lookups, the Oregon court records guide for the circuit courts and the Judicial Department records search, and the Oregon county pages for every sheriff and police department.