The 2023 session of the Indiana General Assembly is now over, and there was one change made to Indiana’s Sex Offender Registration Act that will be a benefit for many registrants. If a person is registering as the result of a delinquent act, Senate Enrolled Act 464 provides a process for the person to seek removal. The registrant need not wait until s/he has registered for a certain period of time; so long as the registrant has completed all court-ordered sex offender treatment a petition can be filed. Once a petition is filed, the court is required to consider expert testimony on whether the person is likely to repeat a sex offense.

There is no limit to the number of times the registrant can file a petition. Also, juveniles adjudicated delinquent cannot even be placed on the registry until after they have completed their treatment. Thus, any time after a child is placed on the registry the statute allows him/her to immediately file for removal.

A copy of the act, set to take effect on July 1st, can be found here.