A Court in which an individual is either adjudicated guilty or acquitted on grounds of mental disease or defect of a sex offense, aggravated sex offense, or sexually violent offense, shall advise the individual that he or she is required to register as a sex offender. The Registration form, the ACIC Acknowledgment form, and Sex Offender Community Notification Assessment Disclousre [FN1] Form shall be a part of the paperwork completed at the time of conviction and shall be included with any other paperwork completed by the offender at that time. The prosecutor is to provide these forms to ACIC with the packet of information completed by the sex offender. These forms are available at the ACIC website.

The law enforcement agency having jurisdiction will ensure that sex offenders moving into their jurisdiction, whether from within Arkansas or from an out of state jurisdiction, register with the Arkansas Sex Offender Registry. The law enforcement agency with jurisdiction shall complete the registration form and have the offender read and sign the ACIC Acknowledgement form and immediately fax those forms to ACIC or use CENSOR, the electronic system established by ACIC. Law enforcement officials shall also fax these forms to SOCNA (Fax: 870-850-8446) unless the information is entered into eSOMA, the electronic sex offender management system in use by SOCNA. This will alert SOCNA to the need to begin the assessment process and/or alert SOCNA to the fact that an offender has relocated.

The ADC, the DCC, the Department of Human Services (DHS), and the Arkansas State Hospital shall complete the registration form for any offender being released from confinement ten days prior to release. The custodian shall also have the offender read and sign the ACIC Acknowledgement form. These forms shall be faxed to ACIC and SOCNA.

Sex offenders released from custody must register with the law enforcement agency where they will reside upon release.