Michigan Sex Offender Registry Statistics

Michigan Sex Offender Registry

Michigan has its registration annually for some folks, and quarterly for other folks. Following a registration period the Michigan State Police publish a file called the "Backgrounder File." In that file are various historical facts about the registry, and current registry statistics. The problem with the Backgrounder file is, that the current one replaces the previous one, wiping it out when they update their figures. We store that file as they produce it, see dates in table below to read those files if you want.

The files we stored were used to create the following chart:

Report Date	No. On SOR	No. of Juveniles	No. In Prison	Net Change	Req. To Verify	Compliance I=In O=Out	No. On PSOR
12-1-02	31,045	2,034	11,675	.	.	15,109 (I) 1,313(O)	.
5-1-04	34,402	2,194	.	+3,357	.	.	.
4-25-05	36,748	2,344	11,882	+2,346	.	.	.
6-1-05	36,900	2,400	11,900	+422	23,800	15,799(I) 8,100(O)	20,000
7-29-05	37,296	2,395	12,028	+396	24,022	15,601(I) 8,421(O)	20,546
11-4-05	37,916	2,433	12,333	+620	23,885	15,539(I) 8,346(O)	18,176
2-21-06	38,346	2,457	12,567	+430	23,884	15,493(I) 8,391(O)	18,405
11-3-06	39,945	2,427	13,313	+1,595	23,976	.	19,489
2-13-07	40,484	2,440	13,371	+539	24,188	15,330(I) 8,858(O)	19,401
8-15-07	41,472	2,472	12,872	+988	25,343	15,276(I) 10,067(O)	21,592
11-14-07	41,942	2,487	13,025	+470	25,443	15,243(I) 10,200(O)	21,807
9-2-08	43,510	Eliminated	14,588	+1,568	24,649	38,565(I) 4,945(O)	40,717
11-18-08	43,613	Eliminated	14,888	+103	25,166	39,071(I) 4,492(O)	41,010
2-3-09	43,964	Eliminated	14,788	+351	25,467	39,427(I) 4,537(O)	41,339
8-1-09	44,773	Eliminated	14,095	+809	25,868	40,257(I) 4,516(O)	42,133
11-2-09	45,164	Eliminated	14,087	+391	26,185	40,849(I) 4,315(O)	41,713
1-25-10	45,546	Eliminated	13,528	+382	27,085	40,896(I) 4,650(O)	43,030

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Additional Facts About the Michigan Registry:
Michigan has two registries, one for law enforcement which contains everyone required to register (and everyone who has ever registered, even if they are no longer required to register) and is called the SOR. Now, from the SOR they create the public sex offender registry which they call PSOR (not everyone appears on the PSOR).

Now, the "Not in Compliance" is a very interesting number, but you need to know what that means. From past "Backgrounder Files" we wrote a few commentaries in 2005 (now in our archives) covering the issue of "Not in Compliance," see our commentary 6-17-05 "Michigan Registered Sex Offenders: Out of Compliance, AWOL, Unaccounted For, Absconded, what does that mean?"

Not In Compliance Defined As:
1) Failure to change address and within time limits;
2) Failure to verify address and within time limits;
3) Failure to register and within time limits;
4) Failure to sign registration form;
5) Failure to have either a Michigan driver's license or State ID;
6) Failure to have the same address on the registry and at the DMV;
7) Registering a false address;
8) Failure to comply with reporting duties (likely the worst because the state can construe anything as 'failure to comply' even spelling errors).

Any of those, under the Adam Walsh Act, could cause someone to spend 10 years in federal prison and be subject to civil commitment, or if the state prosecutes at least one year in prison! States are out of control...

Here we discussed what the State Auditors found, the system is full of various kinds of errors that would lead a registrant, should s/he trip on one, to prison for 10 years.

UPDATE: January 2008: Michigan is now listing on PSOR (Public Sex Offender) registry, all those who are incarcerated -IN PRISON- for sex crimes. Now if that isn't insane enough, Michigan also includes in their NON-COMPLIANT figures, anyone IN PRISON who has not completed forms according to registry laws.

Insane? Yes, some incarcerated for LIFE, or 20-30-40-50 years, for a sex crime, do you think they care about registry laws, while in prison? NO! Michigan wants the public to be in a constant state of hysteria, thats the only reason to do something like this. Those in prison should not be on the Public registry until they are released!

Correctional Facility Addresses: CLICK, using the facility zip code and address, check for yourself. Registry
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