Superseded Offender Registration Statutes
Offender registration law in Indiana is heavily influenced by when a particular law took effect. One example is who must register. Over the years, the law has changed to add offenses that require registration. Thus, to know whether a person with a certain Indiana conviction must register you need to also know when the offense was committed and whether the Indiana Sex and Violent Offender Registration Act included that offense on its list of those requiring registration.
Another example is how long one must register. In 2001, Indiana’s Offender Registration Act was amended to require certain registrants to register for life. For a time, the Act required people convicted of sexual battery to register for life. The statute was later corrected to remove the low-level offense from the list of convictions requiring lifetime registration.
In 2006, the General Assembly recodified the Indiana Sex and Violent Offender Registration Act by removing it from Title 5 and moving it to Title 11 under the Department of Correction’s management. If you don’t know about the recodification, you might think the Act came about only in 2006.
Over the years, I have been asked by fellow practitioners for old versions of the Act. When I began learning this area of law a decade ago, I sat at the law library for hours and pulled all the old versions that were hard to find on Lexis and Westlaw. I have kept those statutes over the years. I thought I would share for those who find them useful. The list below covers the very first version passed in 1994, through 2009. Anything newer is now readily available on Lexis and Westlaw.