Neither Kentucky, Indiana nor Illinois are among the 18 states in the nation meeting federal guidelines for sex offender registering and notification.
In its most basic form, registering as a sex offender means providing certain information, including physical description, fingerprints, a DNA sample, social security number and Internet communication identities to the authorities in the area where the person is going to live, work or go to school.
While many states, including Kentucky, began requiring convicted sex offenders to register in the 1990s, it didn’t become federal law — known as the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) — until 2006. Full Article