The U.S. Department of Justice announced today a new tool giving tribal governments the ability to directly input data and gain access to the FBI’s National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR) using the Tribe and Territory Sex Offender Registry System (TTSORS). The system connection will be available to all tribal governments already participating in the Tribal Access Program (TAP), which allows information sharing between tribal and federal government criminal information systems.
TTSORS is a no-cost registry system provided by the Justice Department’s Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART). The Department’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) developed the connections which allows tribes to seamlessly submit new and updated sex offender information directly from TTSORS to NSOR.
“The Department of Justice is dedicated to addressing the public safety crisis in American Indian and Alaska Native communities, including the high rates of sexual violence against women and children,” said Attorney General William P. Barr. “Providing a direct connection to the FBI National Sex Offender Registry gives tribal law enforcement the information they need to investigate and prevent these heinous offenses.”
Yeah, that’ll solve the issue of high rates of sexual violence. This is so disingenuous it’s ridiculous. These people are worthless! There’s virtually no correlation between people who previously offended and the people they want to stop now!
How does it prevent crime? Tell me one more time…. lol.
More manufactured “crisis” in Alaska nonsense from Barr. He’s a slimy smokescreen master just like Gonzalez was.
This is in response to the current movement afoot of addressing DV, etc on reservations where SA could be involved. The movie Wind River addressed this initially and got it going with recent publicity on the incidents towards women on reservations where folks are not held accountable through lack of action, etc. There were recent events with the Yakama nation in WA State and the high school track runner who dedicated her state championship efforts to those who are impacted in this vein to draw attention to it. So, this is not just manufactured by AG Barr. Given the tribes listed on the bottom of the PA release are some of the smaller tribes in the area, it makes sense they would get these resources for free.