

The violent offender law requiring registration and a registry of violent offenders is unconstitutionally retroactive under the Indiana Constitution as applied to violent offenders who committed their offenses in Indiana before the date the law went into effect, July 1, 2007, except insofar as the persons are required to register as a current condition of probation or parole. *NOTICE: TO ALL VIOLENT OFFENDERS WHO COMMITTED THEIR OFFENSES IN INDIANA PRIOR TO JAND WHO ARE NOT REQUIRED TO REGISTER AS VIOLENT OFFENDERS AS A CURRENT CONDITION OF PROBATION OR PAROLE Indiana Registration Appeal Procedure for Non-Incarcerated Registrants.If you are prohibited by law, by rule, or by court order from visiting the web site of the Department of Correction and the Registry web site, you may request this office make one complete copy of the procedure for you for the same cost as the office charges for other, similar copies.You also may read a complete and current copy at the Registry web site.You may read a complete and current copy of the whole procedure by clicking the link below.If you wait longer than 7 days, it will be too late and you will lose the right to have the Department of Correction consider any and all the issues raised in your complaint. The rules provide, however, that after the 30th day with no response from the local official, you must submit your request to the Department within 7 days. Those rules provide, among other things, that if you file a formal complaint in the proper manner with the local official who maintains the Registry, and if that official does not respond to you within 30 days, you may ask the Indiana Department of Correction to review your complaint.The procedure allows you to file an appeal if your complaint is denied, but it has a number of rules that you must follow in order to preserve your rights to complain and to appeal. Indiana has adopted a procedure that allows you to file a formal complaint about changes made to the Sex and Violent Offender Registry entry about you, or about a refusal to make changes that you request to the Registry.*NOTICE: TO ALL PERSONS REGISTERING PURSUANT TO THE INDIANA SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION ACT.
