Regarding RCW 9A.44.140, “Registration of sex offenders and kidnapping offenders — Duty to register”:

Just wondering if I’m the only person in Washington state that did not know this, but registered sex offenders are not placed on the sex offender registry for life?

I know a person who is a convicted sex offender and I check the list every once in a while and he did not show up on any list. So, I contacted the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office and they said the sex offender just goes to court and petitions to be taken off and the judge decides. No notification to anyone, anywhere, that they have been removed from the registry, so from then on no one will know they are a sex offender unless a background check is done.

Thank you, Washington state Legislature, for changing the law. It is a state by state law. I think that it should be consistent nationwide and that it should be posted when someone is removed from the registry, and the victim(s) should be able to go to court to voice their opinion against why the person should not be removed.

Any opinions for or against convicted sex offenders being removed from the National Sex Offender Registry according to each state’s law?

Laura Angove

Port Orchard