New Mexico Department of public safety Support for Adam Walsh Act Implementation Grant Program

1. New Mexico Department of public safety Support for Adam Walsh Act Implementation Grant Program Project Initiation Certification DPS SOR Program Manager – Teresa Hernandez DPS IT Project Manager – John Oliver

2. Project Summary • Grant funding –SMART 2011-2940 / CFDA 16.750 • Project Initiation Certification – 3/2012 for $35,000 • Sole Source approval approved through State Purchasing and grant provider • Currently implemented in several southern New Mexico counties • Offender Watch system provided by Watch Systems, LLC.

3. Adam Walsh Act/Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) • The New Mexico Department of Public Safety (NMDPS) seeks to implement The Adam Walsh Act/Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). • The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Actis a federal statute that was signed into law by George W. Bush on July 27, 2006. The Walsh Act organizes sex offenders into three tiers and mandates that Tier 3 offenders (the most serious tier) update their whereabouts every three months with lifetime registration requirements. Tier 2 offenders must update their whereabouts every six months with 25 years of registration, and Tier 1 offenders must update their whereabouts every year with 15 years of registration. Failure to register and update information is a felony under the law. • The Act also creates a national sex offender registry and instructs each state and territory to apply identical criteria for posting offender data on the Internet (i.e., offender's name, address, date of birth, place of employment, photograph, etc.). The Act was named for Adam Walsh, an American boy who was abducted from a Florida shopping mall and later found murdered. • DPS received a grant that will address the improvements needed in the registration, data collection, inter-agency messaging, and information-sharing processes within the state, in order to meet requirements of SORNA.

4. Registration/Updates Automated Actions when address is saved Registration & Monitoring State registration forms are printed Emails alerts are sent to registered citizens Full detailed offender record can be imported by pre-registered agency

5. Collect, House, Preserve Rich Data Comments, full history, documents, modus operandi

6. Agency Communications Inter-agency, Statewide, or National messaging • System Messages • Officer Alert • Send Message • Emails to USMS, other registrants

7. Safety Buffer Enforcement Assure that offenders do not violate buffers around “protected address” • OffenderWatch® supports your “protected addresses” including: • schools • day cares • churches • libraries • parks • bus stops • Exempt offenders in violation are YELLOW while • Non-exempt are RED

8. Seamless New Mexico Solution Enforcement Agencies Community Awareness Management Mapping Reporting Personalized Email Alerts Law Enforcement and the community are both served from one comprehensive platform with no “edge effect” State Forms Community Flyers

9. OffenderWatch® Community Page Link from your web site To your hosted OffenderWatch Site Self-GeneratingPublic Alerts Maps Emails Flyers

10. Neighborhood mapping, Email Notification Search by address Automated email alerts Website Offender Details

11. Service / Support • No hardware or software to buy or install – internet based • Continuous Training / Help desk / Data Conversions / User Advisory Group • Mapping support – Bad geocodes corrected for agencies and citizens • Continuous support from industry leader