Hegseth May Be Required to Create Public Military Sex Offender Registry

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Source: prospect.org 8/20/25

Service members and their families would have to be notified about registered sex offenders on military bases.

 

After scraping his way through a bruising confirmation hearing that saw interrogations over allegations of sexual assault, harassment, and drunken behavior, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth may soon be tasked with overseeing the creation of the first-of-its-kind military sex offender registry. That is part of the Senate’s version of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, a perennial must-pass vehicle in Congress.

As it currently stands, sex offender laws are governed by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), passed during the George W. Bush administration in 2006. This law expanded the amount of information shared with the public about registered sex offenders, broadened the scope of sex offenders required to register under law, and expanded the territories in which sex offenders are required to register.

Conspicuously absent in the 2006 bill is a requirement for U.S. military bases to notify service members about registered sex offenders. While Defense Department directives and federal statute ensure that many sex offenders register with their bases, that information is not always shared with service members and their families, and every service branch has a different policy. The language in the current Senate version of the NDAA would …

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Please let Pete Hegseth be stone cold drunk as long as he’s at the Pentagon. As a native Minnesotan and someone his age I find him to be a disaster.

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This is interesting given SOs are not allowed on base either to work or live. If they get on base, which they can, it is usually a special occasion through a sponsor they are admitted.

The illustrious gent in question should be actually investigating the number of false accusations of Art 120 against military members as has been quietly discovered and being discussed (including by those who are elected to the nation’s capitol). The travesty that has been under the guise of allegedly taken care of the military members who are allegedly impacted at the hand of politics is gross and sad.

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