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Oregon Sex Offender Registry: How to Check

Check the Oregon sex-offender registry before you buy: the official Oregon State Police search — a count takes one extra step — and how to read the result.

Published 2026-11-03 · Sources cited inline

Before you offer on a home in Oregon, run its address through the official registry: the Oregon Sex Offender Inquiry System, run by Oregon State Police. It is free, it takes two minutes, and it is the check listing sites never do for you.

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1. Open the official Oregon registry. 2. Search by the home's street address (a radius or map search works best). 3. Note the counts within a quarter mile, a half mile, and a mile — distance bands tell you more than a single pin. 4. Repeat the search the week you close. Registries update as people move and register new addresses.

Can you get an exact count in Oregon?

Partly — Oregon's official search can produce a count, but only through the route below (a subset, a radius detour, a CAPTCHA or a display cap), so getting the number takes an extra step.

How it works: OSP's public website posts only the subset Oregon law allows online (Level 3 and designated/predatory registrants); everyone else is name-inquiry by phone/email only, so ZIP counts from the public search are subset counts.

Worth knowing: VERIFICATION GAP: the OSP SOR info page fetched live (200) and links the search host sexoffenders.osp.oregon.gov, but that host timed out from both the sandbox and the crawler today (000/DNS-timeout), so the search app itself could not be read live.

Method checked against the NSOPW state directory on 2026-11-04.

How to read what comes back

Treat the addresses as reported addresses: the system depends on registrants reporting moves and on agencies processing them, so the map is a strong signal, not a guarantee. Judge the pattern around the address — how many, how close, typical for the area or an outlier — and remember the registry lists only people required to register; it is not a crime map.

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How CurbFacts uses this data

A CurbFacts report summarizes the same public registry data as ZIP-level counts for the address — never offender names or photos. The full Oregon records guide and the Oregon disclosure guide cover the rest of the record file.

Frequently asked questions

Can I get an exact registrant count for a Oregon address?

Partly. OSP's public website posts only the subset Oregon law allows online (Level 3 and designated/predatory registrants); everyone else is name-inquiry by phone/email only, so ZIP counts from the public search are subset counts.

Who runs the Oregon registry?

The Oregon State Police — the official search is the Oregon Sex Offender Inquiry System. It is free; if a site asks you to pay for registry results, you are on a data broker.

Does a CurbFacts report show offender names or photos?

No. Reports show the count of registrants in the home's ZIP from state registry data, and link you to the official registry if you want the underlying public record.

Sources: currycountyor.gov · oregon.gov · harris-sliwoski.com · legalclarity.org · oregon.public.law

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