Crimes Resulting In Sex Offender Registration

Under Utah Code § 77-41-107, crimes that require a person be listed as a registered sex offender for ten years following the end of their prison term include:

• 1. Kidnapping
  2. Voyeurism
  3. Unlawful Sexual Activity with a Minor
  4. Unlawful Sexual Conduct with a 16 or 17 Year Old
  5. Forcible Sexual Abuse
  6. Incest
  7. Lewdness (4 convictions or more)
  8. Sexual Battery (4 convictions or more)
  9. Lewdness Involving a Child
  10. Aggravated Human Trafficking
  11. Custodial Sexual Relations (if victim was under 18 years of age)
  12. Sexual Exploitation of a Vulnerable Adult
  13. Attempting, soliciting, or conspiring to commit any felony offense listed above (or in the “life” list below)

For the following convictions, an offender must register for life:

• 1. Two separate convictions of any offense listed above
  2. Child Kidnapping
  3. Aggravated Kidnapping
  4. Enticing a Minor over the Internet
  5. Rape
  6. Rape of a Child
  7. Object Rape
  8. Object Rape of a Child
  9. Forcible Sodomy
  10. Sodomy on a Child
  11. Sexual Abuse of a Child or Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child
  12. Aggravated Sexual Assault
  13. Sexual Exploitation of a Minor
  14. Aggravated Exploitation of Prostitution

Sex offenders must re-register two times each year and also every time they change residences, place of employment, vehicle information, or educational information.

The information in each registration will include:

• all names by which the offender is or has been known;
• the addresses of the offender’s primary, secondary, and temporary residences;
• a physical description, including the offender’s date of birth, height, weight, and eye and hair color;
• the make, model, color, year, and plate number of any vehicle or vehicles the offender owns or regularly drives;
• a current photograph of the offender;
• a list of all professional licenses that authorize the offender to engage in an occupation or carry out a trade or business;
• each educational institution in Utah at which the offender is employed, carries on a vocation, or is a student;
• a list of places where the offender works as a volunteer; and
• the crimes that the offender has been convicted of.