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<span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="3">Obtaining Information
About Sex Offenders </font></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="3">Living and Working In
Your Community </font></span></h2>
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<a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" target="_blank" href="http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eopsterminal&L=3&L0=Home&L1=Crime+Prevention+&+Personal+Safety&L2=Sex+Offenders&sid=Eeops&b=terminalcontent&f=sorb_info_aboutSO&csid=Eeops">
Click here for explanation</a></font></span></h2>
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Level 3 Sex Offenders (High Risk)</span></p>
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<a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" target="_blank" href="http://sorb.chs.state.ma.us/">
Search here</a></font></span></font></p>
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Level 2 Sex Offenders (Moderate Risk)</span></b></p>
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<font size="2">You may obtain registry information by appearing in
person at the Needham Police Department</font></span><ul>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="1">The requester
must present proper identification (i.e. Drivers� License)</font></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="1">The requester
is required to fill out and sign a request form</font></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="1">The Needham
Police will furnish the name, D.O.B., offenses, and the home or
work address that the offender is registered to.</font></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="1">Requests are
free of charge</font></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="1">All records of
inquiry will be kept confidential, except to assist or defend in
a criminal prosecution.</font></span></li>
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<font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="line-height: 150%">Or by
requesting information directly from the <u>S</u>ex <u>O</u>ffender
<u>R</u>egistry <u>B</u>oard by written request on an
<a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" target="_blank" href="http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eopsterminal&L=3&L0=Home&L1=Crime+Prevention+&+Personal+Safety&L2=Sex+Offenders&sid=Eeops&b=terminalcontent&f=sorb_sorb_forms&csid=Eeops">
approved request Form</a>.</span></font></li>
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Level 1 Sex Offenders (Low Risk)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="2">The law prohibits the
Board and police departments from disseminating any information on a sex
offender who has not been finally classified by the Board or who has
been finally classified as a Level 1 offender.</font></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana">Please Note</span></u></b></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="2">Information about a
sex offender is available to the public only if he/she has a duty to
register and he/she has been finally classified by the Board as a Level
2 or a Level 3 Offender. Once an offender is finally classified as a
Level 2 or a Level 3 Offender, his/her sex offender registry information
will be available to the public. Registry information will be updated
regularly.</font></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; color: red"><font size="3">Penalties
For Improper Use Of Sex Offender Registry Information</font></span></u></h2>
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Information contained in the Sex Offender Registry shall not be used to
commit a crime against an offender or to engage in illegal
discrimination or harassment of an offender. Any person who improperly
uses Sex Offender Registry information shall be punished by not more
than two and one-half years in the house of correction or by a fine of
not more than $1,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.</font></span></p>
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<font face="Verdana"><b><font size="2">NOTE:</font></b><font size="2">
Any information provided by either the police or the Board will be
limited only to offenders who have been finally classified by the Board
as </font></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" target="_blank" href="http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eopsterminal&&L=3&L0=Home&L1=Crime+Prevention+&+Personal+Safety&L2=Sex+Offenders&sid=Eeops&b=terminalcontent&f=sorb_levels&csid=Eeops">Level
2</a></span><font face="Verdana"> or </font><span style="font-family: Verdana"><a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" target="_blank" href="http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eopsterminal&L=3&L0=Home&L1=Crime+Prevention+&+Personal+Safety&L2=Sex+Offenders&sid=Eeops&b=terminalcontent&f=sorb_levels&csid=Eeops">Level
3</a></span></font><font size="2" face="Verdana"> offenders</font></p>
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<font face="Verdana" size="2">Information Obtained from:</font></p>
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<a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" target="_blank" href="http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eopsagencylanding&L=3&L0=Home&L1=Public+Safety+Agencies&L2=Sex+Offender+Registry+Board+(SORB)&sid=Eeops">
Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board</a></font></p>
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