The States of Pennsylvania and Oregon have temporarily suspended in-person registration for all registrants in those state. Instead of in-person registration, Pennsylvania is allowing registrants to register by mail, if needed, and Oregon is allowing registrants to register by telephone.
“Pennsylvania and Oregon are protecting the public, including registrants and their families, from further infection of COVID-19 by suspending in-person registration,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci. “These states are setting an example that should be followed by all 50 states in the nation.”
In Pennsylvania, registrants are required to register by mail only if they need to change or update previously reported information, such as home address, employment or school address. For those registrants, the state has provided a form which is be mailed to the Pennsylvania State Police, Megan’s Law Section 1800 Elmerton Avenue, Harrisburg, PA 17110. A link to that form is immediately below this article.
Pennsylvania State Police Sexual Offender Update Form – March 2020 [PDF download]
In Oregon, registrants are expected to call their local law enforcement agency to see if that agency will register them by phone. If unable to register with local law enforcement, registrants have been provided a list of phone numbers to call based upon their geographic location. And registrants living in the Portland area have been provided the name and phone number of their registration officer who is available four days a week for eight hours a day. This compares to San Diego County which has limited registration to four hours each on two days of the week.
Below is a list of phone numbers for Oregon registrants to call:
AREA PHONE
McMinnville 503-472-0294
Astoria 503-861-0781
Newport 541-265-5354
Tillamook 503-842-2899
Albany 541-967-2026
Salem 503-934-0319
Baker City 541-523-5867
Bend 541-388-6213
LaGrande 541-963-7175
Ontario 541-889-6469
Pendleton 541-278-4090
The Dalles 541-296-9646
Central Point 541-776-6114
Central Point 541-776-6236
Grants Pass 541-955-6370
Coos Bay 541-888-2677
Gold Beach 541-247-6641
Roseburg 541-440-3334
Klamath Falls 541-883-5713
Springfield 541-726-2536
If you live in the Portland area, the Portland Police Bureau will process sex offender registration by phone.
Please call Officer Lara Maul at 503-545-3559 Monday-Thursday from 7am – 5pm.
Awesome. One problem we have here in california though is the requirement in the law that registrants provide a new photo every year. We’d probably have to send one in the mail provided the in person component of the law is suspended.
Thank you for posting this information!
I have just emailed my City’s Police Chief to suggest revising requirements to allow for mail-on and/or phone-in registration during the COVID-19 pandemic.
I will post any response I receive here.
At-least they respect the law enforcement people enough to protect them from being exposed to the virus whereas California doesn’t seem to give a darn about the health of the law enforcement people who do the registration.
People have to be seen as humans again. That they have families, lives, jobs, and that they are like everyone else.
But the ones propagating the agenda have been emboldened by the effectiveness of the sex offender label. It’s just too easy to ride the “public safety” train even though the facts are this system isn’t providing any real-world proof of its claims. Labels, blackballing, and an unnecessary waste of resources is what the results are. People’s lives being reduced to intolerable conditions.
Sad as it seems to keep being on the losing side you have to rememember that there’s also a way to win. The size of the registry will be its undoing. The cost of their registry will be its undoing. The uselessness of the registry will be its undoing.
It just takes perspective for people to see that. Like a pandemic.
It was nice while it was going on, Now in person is back.