Sex Offender Community Information
The Massachusetts
Sex Offender
Registry Board is responsible for the registration and classification
of sex offenders pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 6 Sections
178C through 178P. The Sex Offender Registry Board classifies offenders as
follows:
Level 1 - Low risk to re-offend and
a degree of dangerousness
Level 2 - Moderate risk to re-offend
and a degree of dangerousness
Level 3 - High risk to re-offend and
a degree of dangerousness [Attleboro Level 3 Sex Offenders]
The law only permits the public to receive
information on sex offenders required to register and have been classified
by the Sex Offender Registry Board as a Level 2 [moderate risk] or Level 3
[high risk] offender.
When the Sex Offender Registry Board
classifies an individual as a Level 3 Sex Offender the police department
is required to perform community notifications.
Pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws
Chapter 6 Sections 178C through 178P the police department shall notify
organizations in the community that are likely to encounter an offender
classified as a Level 3 Sex Offender and notify individual members
of the public who are likely to encounter such an offender. Organizations
in the community that are likely to encounter Level 3 Sex Offenders
include but are not limited to, public and private organizations, areas
and establishments which provide services of any type to children, the
elderly or other members of the community.
Community notification shall require that
all schools in the community be made aware. The police department may
notify other organizations, such as day care centers, youth / recreational
programs and organizations providing elder services, as deemed necessary
to protect the public safety.
The method of community notification shall
include but is not limited to:
Publication of information in the local
newspapers/cable television.
Posting the information in publicly
accessible areas.
If you have any questions, please call the
Sex Offender Registry Board Community Notification Unit at (978)-740-6505
or the Attleboro Police Department at (508)-222-1212
NOTE:
Any information provided by either the police
or the Board will be limited only to offenders who have been finally
classified by the Board as Level 2 or Level 3 offenders or Sexually
Violent Predators. The law prohibits the Board and police departments from
disseminating any information on a sex offender who has not been finally
classified by the Board or who has been finally classified as a Level 1
offender.
Section 178N. Information contained in the
sex offender registry shall not be used to commit a crime against a sex
offender or to engage in illegal discrimination or harassment of an
offender. Any person who uses information disclosed pursuant to the
provisions of sections 178C to 178P, inclusive, for such purpose shall be
punished by not more than two and one-half years in a house of correction
or by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by both such fine and
imprisonment.
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