CHAPTER 15-7
SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION

15-7-1 Title and Purpose.

The intent of this Chapter is to implement the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) (Title I of Public Law 109-248) on the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, which shall be interpreted liberally to comply with the terms and conditions of SORNA as presently written or hereafter amended.

15-7-2 Need.

Violent crime in Indian Country is more than twice the national average. On some reservations it is twenty times the national average. An astounding thirty percent of Indian and Alaska Native women will be raped in their lifetimes. Tribal nations are disproportionately affected by violent crime and sex offenses in particular from both Indian and non-Indian perpetrators; consequently, the conduct and presence of convicted sex offenders in Indian Country threatens the political integrity, economic security, health and welfare of tribal nations even to the point of imperiling the subsistence of tribal communities.

15-7-3 Creation of Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Public Sex Offender Registry.

(A)    Sex Offender Registry. There is hereby established the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (PBPN) Public Sex Offender Registry, which the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Tribal Police Department shall maintain and operate pursuant to the provisions of this code, as amended.

(B)    PBPN Public Sex Offender Registry Website. There is hereby established the PBPN Public Sex Offender Registry Website, which the Tribal Police Department maintains and operates pursuant to the provisions of this code, as amended.