Department Of Justice Enables Direct Tribal Access to FBI National Sex Offender Registry

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). U.S. Attorney Trent Shores of the Northern District of Oklahoma applauded the decision, which provides a critical tool to combat sexual violence in Indian country. 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.