The Maine Sex Offender Registry website is maintained by the Maine State Police, State Bureau of Identification, to give the public information about the location of registered offenders currently in Maine, and it does not contain every person convicted of a sex crime: information is provided only for people required to register under Title 34-A of the Maine Revised Statutes, chapters 15 and 17, and registration is limited to people sentenced for a qualifying offense. The information is updated daily to reflect what is on file with the bureau, the date of the last update appears on every page, registrants must verify their address periodically and on any change, and the date a registrant last verified is shown beside the address, though a registrant may have moved without telling the bureau; a Maine convicted registrant who moves out of state stays on the Maine registry until the obligation to register expires, but the record may no longer be updated, so an entry marked moved out of state should not be relied on, and the national public website is the place to look for such a person. The bureau does not guarantee the accuracy of any listed address, makes no representation that the registry is accurate, and takes corrections at 207-624-7270 on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or at SOR.helpdesk@maine.gov.
Two laws govern the registrants, and the registry's questions page explains how to tell them apart. The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act of 1999, chapter 15 of Title 34-A, governs crimes committed before January 1, 2013, and a registrant under it is listed as a ten year or a lifetime registrant; the Sex Offender Registration Act of 2013, chapter 17, governs any crime committed on or after January 1, 2013, and a registrant under it is listed as Tier I, Tier II or Tier III. The registration requirements differ between the two chapters, and the terms differ too: under the 1999 act a person convicted of a sex offense registers for ten years and a person convicted of a sexually violent offense for life, the lists of those crimes sitting in section 11203, while under the 2013 act a Tier I registrant registers for ten years, a Tier II registrant for 25 years and a Tier III registrant for life, the tier offenses defined in section 11273. The police department or sheriff that takes registrations in each county is on the Maine county pages.
- Search: the State Bureau of Identification website by an individual's first and last name, by city or town, or by ZIP code and radius, after accepting the agreement; free, anonymous and updated daily, with alerts for subscribers.
- Two acts: crimes before January 1, 2013 fall under the 1999 act, with ten year registrants for a sex offense and lifetime registrants for a sexually violent offense; crimes on or after that date fall under the 2013 act, with Tier I at ten years, Tier II at 25 years and Tier III for life.
- Verification: a ten year registrant under the 1999 act verifies on each anniversary of the initial registration and a lifetime registrant every three months, a Tier I registrant yearly, a Tier II registrant every six months and a Tier III registrant every 90 days under the 2013 act, on a nonforwardable form mailed ten days ahead and completed in person at the local police, with the date of the last verification shown beside each address.
- Residence: the registration laws set no restriction on where a registrant may live; probation or supervised release conditions may, and a town ordinance may, but only for Class A, B or C crimes against children under 14.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Maine's own systems: the Maine Sex Offender Registry website, the registry's frequently asked questions, the Maine Department of Corrections adult resident and community corrections client search, Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A section 11222 on the duty to register and verification under the 1999 act, Title 34-A section 11225-A on the duration of registration under the 1999 act, Title 34-A section 11282 on the duty to register under the 2013 act, Title 34-A section 11285 on the duration of registration and the frequency of verification under the 2013 act, each read on October 14, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
What the search shows, and the extended search
The initial search returns, for a registrant under the 1999 act, the name, the date of birth, a photograph if one is available, the city or town of physical domicile, the place of employment, the place of school attendance, the statutory citation and name of the crime of conviction, and the designation as a ten year or lifetime registrant; for a registrant under the 2013 act it adds the known aliases, the designation as Tier I, Tier II or Tier III, the date of the last verification, and the registrant's address with its location on a map.
The extended search, opened by reading and agreeing to the terms of use, adds, to the extent available, the aliases of a 1999 act registrant, the physical description with gender, race, height, weight and hair and eye color, the mailing and home address or domicile, and a legal description of the crime with the date of conviction, the court, the docket number and the sentence imposed. There is no cost, and the identity of anyone who uses the site is not public information and is not disclosed to a member of the public who asks.
The convictions listed are only the crimes that were reported and successfully prosecuted, and a full Maine criminal history record, which does not include other states' or federal or tribal convictions, is bought from the bureau at 207-624-7240 or through the state's online public criminal history request service.
Registering, and the verification calendar
Both acts start the duty the same way. Under section 11222 of the 1999 act and section 11282 of the 2013 act the court notifies the offender of the duty at sentencing, the Department of Corrections, the county jail or the state mental health institute notifies a confined offender before discharge or conditional release, and the duty is triggered when a wholly suspended sentence or a non custodial sentence begins to run, when a straight or split prison term ends in discharge or conditional release, or when a commitment ends; an offender told of the duty after those events have passed registers within five days under the 1999 act and within three days under the 2013 act.
The custodial agency or the court collects the initial registration information, takes fingerprints and a photograph, and has the offender read and sign a bureau form acknowledging the duty, and within 24 hours of becoming a domiciliary or a resident, beginning work or attending school the offender also notifies the law enforcement agency with jurisdiction, the municipal police department where there is one, the campus police department for a school that has one and otherwise the sheriff.
A change of domicile, residence, workplace or school goes to the bureau in writing within five days under the 1999 act or three days under the 2013 act and to the local agency within 24 hours, a move to another state means registering there within the same five or three days when that state has a registry, and work in another state for more than 14 consecutive days or 30 days in a year, or enrollment in any school there, is reported to the bureau in writing in the same time.
Verification then runs by the act and the label. For a registrant sentenced on or after September 18, 1999 under the 1999 act the bureau verifies a ten year registrant on each anniversary of the initial registration date and a lifetime registrant every three months after it, mailing a nonforwardable form to the last reported mailing address at least ten days before the date, deemed received three days after mailing, which the registrant completes in person at the local agency, where the identity is checked, the form signed, fingerprints taken and everything forwarded to the bureau at once; a registrant sentenced before that date, from January 1, 1982, verifies in writing instead, mailing the completed form and a current photograph back within five days of receipt, on the anniversary for a ten year registrant and every three months for a lifetime registrant, and appears in person once every five years.
Under section 11285 of the 2013 act a Tier III registrant verifies every three months for life, a Tier II registrant every six months for 25 years and a Tier I registrant annually for ten years, each period counted from the date the person in fact initially registered, with a person convicted at any time of two or more Tier I or Tier II offenses, even on the same day, registering as Tier III; a registrant arriving from another jurisdiction serves the Maine term for the tier but may apply to the bureau for day for day credit for time already registered there.
The bureau may suspend verification while a registrant lives in another state, is incarcerated or is incapacitated or hospitalized, may correct a term it assigned in error at any time with notice to the registrant, the district attorney, the court and the local agency, and no registration is owed once the underlying conviction is reversed, vacated, set aside or pardoned, under section 11225-A.
Why a name may be missing
A member of the public who believes someone should be registered can tell the registry office, whose staff research the person and decide whether the law requires registration, and the questions page lists why a convicted person may not appear: the person is still incarcerated; the required registration period has been completed; the crime does not require registration; the person is a new registrant whose registration is in process; the conviction was vacated or set aside or the person was pardoned; the person is not living, attending school or working in Maine; the person was granted relief from the duty to register under section 11202-A of Title 34-A; or the conviction is controlled by an earlier registration law that did not provide for posting on the internet.
The registry also warns that sexual assault and abuse are among the most underreported crimes, so many offenders are not listed because they were never convicted, and that many registrants are required to register only for a limited time. A person in the custody of the Department of Corrections is found on the adult resident and community corrections client search, which covers adults in the department's facilities, in county jails, other states or federal facilities under its jurisdiction, and adults it supervises on probation, supervised release for sex offenders, supervised community confinement or parole, updated daily; people held in county jails on local charges are checked with the jail.
Notification, and the absence of a residence rule
Public notification when a registrant moves into a neighborhood is made at the discretion of the law enforcement agency with jurisdiction where the registrant lives, so the question of how a community is told goes to the local police or sheriff. Maine's registration laws include no restriction on where a person may live. A sentence that includes probation or supervised release may carry special conditions on where the person may live, work or travel, whether or not the person must register; some towns have enacted ordinances limiting where convicted sex offenders may live, which apply only inside the towns that adopted them and only to people convicted of serious crimes, Class A, B or C, against children under 14, the town office being the place to ask; and a conviction may restrict contact with minors under section 261 of Title 17-A, which the local police explain.
The official site, the local sites and the fraud warning
Maine law makes the internet site published by the Maine State Police the official registry site, holding information on people required to register who have actually registered in Maine; police departments and sheriffs' offices may post information about sex offenders on their own websites but must link to the official site, other states, territories and some tribes run their own registries linked from the national site, and websites published by private organizations are neither maintained nor sanctioned by the state, which has no knowledge of how accurate or current they are.
The bureau also warns of fraud: it has received reports of people contacting registrants to claim that a fine must be paid for noncompliance or jail will follow, and reminds everyone that while officers contact registrants for routine business, fines are imposed only by a court and officers have no role in collecting them, so a registrant who gets such a call hangs up and reports it to the local police. Subscribers who open an account on the site are notified of registry activity in their area, and a registrant may email a passport style photograph, full face and chest up on a white background and taken within the past six months, to the help desk.
Reading a Maine result
An entry on the bureau's site tells the reader which law applies by its label, ten year or lifetime for a crime before January 1, 2013 and Tier I, II or III for a later one, and therefore the term, ten years, 25 years or life, and carries the date the registrant last verified the address, a date that recurs yearly, every six months or every three months by the label; an entry marked moved out of state is frozen at the last Maine update.
A missing name may belong to a prisoner, a person whose term ended, a person relieved by a court, or a conviction under an old law never posted online. The registry office at 45 Commerce Drive, Suite 1, 42 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0042 holds the file and takes corrections, the local police or sheriff takes the in person verifications and decides any public notification, and the Department of Corrections search shows who is in custody or under supervision.
Questions about the Maine sex offender registry
Related Maine records
Maine's other public records guides on this site are the Maine arrest records guide for what a booking makes public, the Maine inmate search guide for the Department of Corrections resident search and the county jails, the Maine background check guide for the bureau's criminal history record service, and the Maine county pages for every sheriff and police department.