PUBLIC SAFETY INFORMATION ACT
Florida Sex Offender/Sexual Predator Registration
and Notification Program

The Public Safety Information Act (PSIA) became effective October 1, 1997 which established criteria for registration and community notification of sex predators and sex offenders. 

Sex Predators who committed their act on or after October 1, 1993, are subject to mandatory community notification and registration requirements.  Registration requirements were also broadened under the PSIA to include sex offenders who have been released from any sanction of the court or from care, custody and control of the Florida Department of Corrections on or after October 1, 1997.

Sex Offenders are defined in legislation by their conviction or certain enumerated sex offenses. The PSIA does not require community notification on sex offenders.  However, the Sheriff or Chief of Police is required under the PSIA to make community notification where the predator is residing within 48 hours after notification is received from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

The PSIA also requires all sex predators and sex offenders, if not under custody or supervision of the Florida Department of Corrections, and after having initially registered in person with FDLE or the Sheriff in the county where he/she resides, to contact, in person, a local office of the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, within 48 hours of any change of address, and to obtain a Florida driver’s license or identification card, if applicable.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement maintains the FDLE Sexual Predator and Sex Offender Registration Database in addition to a 24 hour, 7 day-a-week telephone line where additional information may be obtained.  You may obtain more information by visiting the FDLE Web Site at the following address http://www3.fdle.state.fl.us/sexual_predators/ or by calling 1-888-357-7332.