Alabama

Alabama
This is all that is found in reference to Classifications in Alabama. If and when more information is found, it will be posted. 1. WHO IS REQUIRED TO REGISTER? An adult sex offender who resides in Alabama and who is convicted in any state or municipal court in Alabama or in another state in any court having jurisdiction similar to the jurisdiction of state or municipal courts in Alabama of a criminal sexual offense is required to register. (Ala. Code § 13A-11-200) 2. WHO IS AN “ADULT SEX OFFENDER”? An adult sex offender is a person convicted of a criminal sexual offense. (Ala. Code § 15-20-21(1)) 3. WHAT IS A “CRIMINAL SEXUAL OFFENSE”? A “criminal sexual offense” is any act of sexual perversion involving a member of the same or opposite sex, of sexual abuse of any member of the same or opposite sex, or any attempt to commit sexual perversion or sexual abuse. Specifically included are the offenses of: (1) rape in the first or second degree; (2) sodomy in the first or second degree; (3) sexual misconduct; (4) sexual torture; (5) sexual abuse; (6) enticing a minor to enter a vehicle, room, house, office, or other place for immoral purposes; (7) indecent exposure; (8) promoting prostitution in the first or second degree; (9) obscenity; (10) violating the Alabama Child Pornography Act; (11) kidnapping a minor, except by a parent; (12) soliciting a minor by computer for the purposes of committing a sexual act; (13) transmitting obscene material to a minor by computer; (14) incest, when the offender is an adult and the victim is a minor; (15) an attempt to commit any of the offenses listed in (1) through (14) above; or (16) an offense committed in any state or a federal, military, Indian, or foreign-country jurisdiction that, if committed in Alabama under the current provisions of law, would constitute an offense listed in (1) through (15) above. (Ala. Code § 13A-11-200; § 15-20-21(4)) 4. ARE JUVENILE OFFENDERS REQUIRED TO REGISTER? Juvenile, criminal sex offenders and youthful, criminal sex offenders may be required to register. (Ala. Code §§ 15-20-21(6), (16)) If a youthful, criminal sex offender has not been previously adjudicated for a criminal sexual offense, he or she will be considered a juvenile, criminal sex offender; however, if a youthful, criminal sex offender has been previously adjudicated or convicted of a criminal sexual offense, he or she will be treated as an adult, criminal sex offender. (Ala. Code § 15-20-31) http://www.sexcriminals.com/megans-law/us/alabama/

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