Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 45-33-27 (2026)
Time frame and place for registration of offenders
✓ current as of July 2026
- (1) A person required to register on the basis of a conviction, adjudication of delinquency or acquittal by reason of insanity entered shall register with the responsible agency within three (3) business days of the date of judgment unless the person is immediately confined or committed, in which case the person shall register before release in accordance with the procedures established by the department. The responsible agency shall immediately forward the registration information to the Department of Public Safety. The person is also required to personally appear at a facility designated by the Department of Public Safety, or in a manner of the Department of Public Safety's choosing, including by electronic means, within three (3) days of registration with the responsible agency and to obtain a sex offender registration card.
- (2) If a person who is required to register under this section is released from prison or placed on parole or supervised release or in a restitution center or community work center, the Department of Corrections shall perform the registration duties before placement in a center or before release and immediately forward the registration information to the Department of Public Safety. The person is also required to personally appear at a facility designated by the Department of Public Safety, or in a manner of the Department of Public Safety's choosing, including by electronic means, within three (3) days of release or placement in a restitution center or community work center.
- (3) If a person required to register under this section is placed on probation, the court, at the time of entering the order, shall register the person and immediately forward the registration information to the Department of Public Safety. The person is also required to personally appear at a facility designated by the Department of Public Safety, or in a manner of the Department of Public Safety's choosing, including by electronic means, within three (3) days of the entry of the order.
- (4) Any person required to register who is neither incarcerated, detained nor committed at the time the requirement to register attaches shall present himself to the county sheriff to register within three (3) business days, and shall personally appear at a facility designated by the Department of Public Safety, or in a manner of the Department of Public Safety's choosing, including by electronic means, within three (3) days of the time the requirement to register attaches.
- (5) An offender moving to or returning to this state from another jurisdiction shall notify the Department of Public Safety ten (10) days before the person first resides in or returns to this state and shall present himself to the sheriff of the county of his residence within three (3) business days after first residing in or returning to a county of this state to provide the required registration information. The person is also required to register by personally appearing at a facility designated by the Department of Public Safety, or in a manner of the Department of Public Safety's choosing, including by electronic means, within three (3) days after first residing in or moving to a county of this state. If the offender fails to appear for registration as required in this state, the department shall notify the other jurisdiction of the failure to register.
- (6) A person, other than a person confined in a correctional or juvenile detention facility or involuntarily committed on the basis of mental illness, who is required to register on the basis of a sex offense for which a conviction, adjudication of delinquency or acquittal by reason of insanity was entered shall register with the sheriff of the county in which he resides no later than August 15, 2000, or within three (3) business days of first residing in or returning to a county of this state.
- (7) Every person required to register shall show proof of domicile. The commissioner shall promulgate any rules and regulations necessary to enforce this requirement and shall prescribe the means by which such person may show domicile.
- (8) Any driver's license photograph, I.D. photograph, sex offender photograph, fingerprint, driver's license application and/or anything submitted to the Department of Public Safety by a known convicted sex offender, registered or not registered, can be used by the Department of Public Safety or any other authorized law enforcement agency for any means necessary in registration, identification, investigation regarding their tracking or identification.
- (9) The department will assist local law enforcement agencies in the effort to conduct address and other verifications of registered sex offenders and will assist in the location and apprehension of noncompliant sex offenders.
Laws, 2000, ch. 499, § 4; Laws, 2001, ch. 500, § 3; Laws, 2005, ch. 353, § 1; Laws, 2006, ch. 563, § 2; Laws, 2007, ch. 392, § 3; Laws, 2011, ch. 359, § 3, eff. 7/1/2011.
Amended by Laws, 2020, ch. 477, HB 1371,§ 11, eff. 7/8/2020.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 2005–2006 · leading case: Garrison v. State, 950 So. 2d 990 (Miss. 2006).
Garrison v. State, 950 So. 2d 990 (Miss. 2006). “Section 45-33-27, a statute requiring sex offenders to register with the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.”
Peckinpaugh v. State, 949 So. 2d 86 (Miss. Ct. App. 2006). “2000); one count of failure to register as a sex offender, in violation of Mississippi Code Annotated section 45-33-27 (Supp. 2005); and two counts of sexual battery, in violation of Mississippi Code Annotated section 97-3-95(l)(b) (Rev.”
Ralph Garrison v. State of Mississippi (Miss. 2005). “” Miss. Code Ann. § 45-33-27 (1). If an offender is released from 35 incarceration, the Department of Corrections is required to register the offender at the time of his/her release.”
— Miss. Code Ann. § 45-33-27(1) — 1 case
Garrison v. State, 950 So. 2d 990 (Miss. 2006). “Section 45-33-27, a statute requiring sex offenders to register with the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.”
— Miss. Code Ann. § 45-33-27(2) — 1 case
Garrison v. State, 950 So. 2d 990 (Miss. 2006). “Section 45-33-27, a statute requiring sex offenders to register with the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.”
— Miss. Code Ann. § 45-33-27(5) — 1 case
Garrison v. State, 950 So. 2d 990 (Miss. 2006). “Section 45-33-27, a statute requiring sex offenders to register with the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.”
— Miss. Code Ann. § 45-33-27(6) — 1 case
Garrison v. State, 950 So. 2d 990 (Miss. 2006). “Section 45-33-27, a statute requiring sex offenders to register with the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.”
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