Registration Process

Please register at the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office/Administration Office. The 2012 Registration Form is available to download, complete and return to the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office to expedite your registration time. After completion of your registration packet expect to be photographed and have your fingerprints taken.

If you have any questions regarding the registration process 

Please call 208-446-2237

Criteria For Registration As An Adult

Qualifying Offenses

Sex offender registration applies to persons convicted of the crime or an attempt, a solicitation, or a conspiracy to commit one or more of the following felony offenses enumerated in Section 18-8304 Idaho Code:

18-909 Assault with attempt to commit rape, infamous crime against nature, or lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor, but excluding mayhem, murder or robbery

18-911 Battery with attempt to commit rape, infamous crime against nature, or lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor, but excluding mayhem, murder or robbery

18-1506 Sexual abuse of a child under sixteen years of age

18-1506A Ritualized abuse of a child

18-1507 Sexual exploitation of a child

18-1507A Possession of sexually exploitative material for other than a commercial purpose

18-1508 Lewd conduct with a minor child

18-1508A Sexual battery of a minor child sixteen or seventeen years of age

18-1509A Enticing a child over the internet

18-4003(d) Murder committed in perpetration of rape or in perpetration of lewd conduct with a child less than twelve years of age

18-4116 Indecent exposure, but excluding a misdemeanor conviction

18-4502 First degree kidnapping committed for the purpose of rape, committing the infamous crime against nature or for committing any lewd and lascivious act upon any child under the age of sixteen, or for purposes of sexual gratification or arousal

18-4503 Second degree kidnapping where the victim is an unrelated minor child

18-6101 Rape, but excluding 18-6101(1) where the defendant is eighteen years of age or younger

18-6108 Male rape

18-6110 Sexual contact with a prisoner

18-6602 Incest

18-6605 Crime against nature

18-6608 Forcible sexual penetration by use of a foreign object

18-6609 Video voyeurism

Qualifying Circumstances

Registration applies to the following circumstances:

• a conviction on or after July 1, 1993 in an Idaho court of the crime, or an attempt, a
  solicitation, or a conspiracy to commit any of the qualifying offenses.

• a conviction on or after July 1, 1993 of any crime, an attempt, a solicitation or a
  conspiracy to commit a crime in another state, territory, commonwealth, or other
  jurisdiction of the United States, including tribal courts and military courts, that is
  substantially equivalent to any of the qualifying offenses and enters the state to
  establish permanent or temporary residence

• has been convicted of any crime, an attempt, a solicitation or a conspiracy to commit a
  crime in another state, territory, commonwealth, or other jurisdiction of the United
  States, including tribal courts and military courts, that is substantially equivalent to any
  of the qualifying offenses and was required to register as a sex offender in any other
  state or jurisdiction when he established permanent or temporary residency in Idaho

• plead guilty to or has been found guilty of any of the qualifying offenses prior to July 1,
  1993, and the person, as a result of the offense, was incarcerated in a county jail facility
  or a penal facility or was under probation or parole supervision, on or after July 1, 1993

• is a nonresident regularly employed or working in Idaho or is a student in the state of
  Idaho and was convicted, found guilty or pleaded guilty to any of the qualifying offenses
  and, as a result of such conviction, finding or plea, is required to register in his state of
  residence

Special Notes

For the purposes of registration, conviction means that the person has pled guilty or has been found guilty, no matter the form of judgment or withheld judgment. Complying with registration requirements is not required while a person is incarcerated in a correctional institution operated or regulated by the Department of Correction, a county jail facility, or committed to a mental health institution of the Department of Health and Welfare.

A juvenile convicted as an adult of any of the offenses listed above is subject to registration under the adult sex offender registration program.

Nonresident definitions

For the purpose of the registration, the following definitions apply to nonresident offenders.

Employed means full or part-time employment exceeding ten (10) consecutive working days or for an aggregate period exceeding thirty (30) days in any calendar year, or any employment which involves counseling, coaching, teaching, supervising or working with minors in any way regardless of the period of employment, whether such employment is financially compensated, volunteered or performed for the purpose of any government or education benefit.

Student means a person who is enrolled on a full-time or part-time basis, in any public or private educational institution, including any secondary school, trade or professional institution or institution of higher education.

Criteria For Registration As A Juvenile

Qualifying Offenses

Juvenile sex offender registration applies to a person who was adjudicated delinquent under the juvenile corrections act for an action that would be an offense enumerated in section 18-8304, Idaho Code, if committed by an adult and who was between 14 and 18 years of age at the time of the qualifying offense.

Qualifying Circumstances

Registration applies to the following circumstances:

• an adjudication of delinquency in an Idaho court for the equivalent of any qualifying offense on or after July 1, 1998

• an adjudication of delinquency in an Idaho court for the equivalent of any qualifying detention, or commitment to the Department of Juvenile Corrections on July 1, 1998

• an adjudication of delinquency in another state for an action that is substantially equivalent to any qualifying offense, and is subject on or after July 1, 1998, to Idaho court jurisdiction under the interstate compact on juveniles is required to register in another state for having committed a sex offense in that state regardless of the date of the offense or its adjudication.

A juvenile convicted as an adult of any of the qualifying offenses is subject to registration under the adult sex offender registration program.

Registration Duties

The juvenile registration law imposes the same obligations as the adult registration program.

Duration of Registration

A juvenile sex offender is required to comply with registration requirements until reaching the age of 21. The prosecutor may petition the court to transfer a registered juvenile sex offender at age 21 to the adult registry if the person is likely to pose a threat to the safety of others. If no petition is filed, the juvenile offender's record will be deleted from the central registry.

Penalties for Violation of the Registration Law

• A juvenile sex offender subject to registration who fails to register or provide required notice is guilty of a misdemeanor.

• A parent or guardian of a juvenile sex offender, who fails to register or provide required notice, would also be guilty of the misdemeanor offense of failure to supervise a child. If convicted the person is subject to a fine of not more that $1000.

Obligations of Registered Offenders

Registration Duties

The registration law imposes a number of obligations on sex offenders required to register. They include:

• Within 2 days of coming into a county to establish residence or temporary domicile, the sex offender must register in person with the sheriff.

• Within 2 days of commencement of employment or enrollment in an educational institution, the nonresident sex offender must register in person with the sheriff of the county where employed or enrolled.

• Prior to commencement of employment in counseling, coaching teaching, supervising or working with minors in any way regardless of the period of employment, the nonresident sex offender must register in person with the sheriff of the county where employed.

• Within 5 days of the mailing date of the annual registration notice from the central registry, the sex offender must re-register in person with the sheriff.

• Within 7 days of the mailing date of the address verification notice from the central registry, the sex offender must mail back the address verification in the envelope provided by the central registry.  These are mailed to the offenders address every 4 months, unless the offender is designated as a "violent sexual predator".  If designated as "violent sexual predator" the offender will receive an address verification every month.

• Within 2 working days of changing the address or location of residence within the county where the sex offender is registered, the offender must complete an address change form in person with the sheriff of that county of the change.

• Within 2 working days of changing enrollment or employment in a college or university within the county where the sex offender is registered, the offender must report in person to notify the sheriff of that county of the change in status.

• Within 5 working days of moving to another state, the registered sex offender must provide written notice of the move to the central sex offender registry. The person must also register in the other State within the time period required by that State, but not to exceed 10 days.

• Within 5 working days of an order, event or occurrence of the offenders legal name changing whether by marriage, judicial order or any other means. the offender must complete a change form in person with the sheriff of that county of the change.

• If the offender is designated a "violent sexual predator," the person must return the registry's monthly address verification notice within 7 days after its mailing.

Duration of Registration

Registration is for the life of the offender.

However, a registered sex offender, who has not been designated as a violent sexual predator, may petition the court for exemption from the duty to maintain registration after a period of 10 years from the date of release from incarceration or of placement on parole or probation, whichever is greater. Section 18-8310 of the registration law lists the conditions for the petition.

Penalties for Violation of the Registration Law

A sex offender subject to registration who fails to register or provide required notice is guilty of a felony. The offender may:

• be sentenced by the court to imprisonment for a period of 10 years and fined $5,000.

• If the offender is on probation or supervised release at the time of the violation, the probation or release shall be revoked and the penalty for violating the registration law shall be served consecutively to the offender's original sentence.

• In addition, a sex offender subject to registration who willfully provides false or misleading information in the registration is guilty of a felony and may be sentenced by the court to imprisonment for a period of 10 years and fined $5,000.