Pennsylvania Sex Offender Registry Search
Search Pennsylvania's registry — and every other US registry at the same time. Continuously updated records with photographs, addresses, offenses and a link to the official registry entry for every match. Type a name; no code needed.
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Photographs and official records
Matches come back as people, not rows — the registry photograph, date of birth, addresses and offense, with a link to the official Pennsylvania record so you can verify at the source.
The whole country in one search
People move. One search here covers Pennsylvania and every other US registry at once, so a registration in Delaware and Maryland shows up on someone now living in Philadelphia.
Every search, kept
Each check is stored with the results you saw — an audit trail you can reopen, share with teammates, and stand behind later. Upload a CSV to screen a whole list in one pass.
Searching the Pennsylvania state site vs searching here
Pennsylvania's own public search is Pennsylvania Megan's Law (PSP) — free, official, and the right place for a one-off look at a single state. Here is what changes when you run the same search here instead.
| On the Pennsylvania state site | Searching here | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage per search | Pennsylvania only. A registration in any other state never appears. | Every US registry at once — the 50 states, DC and the territories. 58 registries in one search. |
| Your search history | Nothing is saved. Checking the same person next month means starting over, with no record you ever looked. | Every search is stored with the results you saw — a real audit trail you can reopen. |
| Narrowing a common name | Whatever the search form offers, one attempt at a time. | Date of birth, age give-or-take, city, ZIP, street address — and misspellings caught when you want them. |
| Checking a whole list | One name at a time, by hand. | Upload a CSV and screen everyone in one pass. |
| Working as a team | No accounts, so no way to share what has been checked. | Add teammates to one workspace with a shared history. |
| Building it into your product | No API. | A full REST API on the same data, when you are ready for it. |
Start with 25 free searches — create an account and run the first one in under a minute.
The Pennsylvania dataset, specifically
| Scope | Pennsylvania is in every nationwide search by default, and one setting narrows to it alone — in the dashboard a dropdown, in the API jurisdictions: ["PA"]. |
|---|---|
| Date-of-birth matching | A date-of-birth criterion in Pennsylvania resolves at year precision and returns year_match, so a same-year namesake is labelled rather than silently accepted. Match strength is a label on every record — year_match — rather than a boolean, so you set your own threshold instead of inheriting ours. 7 of the 56 jurisdictions we cover resolve it the way Pennsylvania does. |
| Best criteria to send | Send dob whenever you hold one — it is accepted in Pennsylvania exactly as it is everywhere else, and it narrows rather than filters, so a record with thinner birth evidence still comes back on the name. In Pennsylvania it resolves at year precision, so read matchState for year_match and hold your own threshold for it. |
| Location search | Narrow to a Pennsylvania city or ZIP, or search a radius of up to 100 miles around a point. Addresses come back as typed entries — residence, secondary, employment, school — so a work address in Philadelphia is distinguishable from a home address. |
| Freshness | Continuously updated, so a Regular result is close to live. Send a live block to re-verify named jurisdictions at the source in the request, and every record returns its own lastCheckedAt. |
| Verification | Every Pennsylvania match links to the person's official entry on Pennsylvania Megan's Law (PSP), so any record can be confirmed at the official registry before you act on it. Registry data is not a consumer report, and decisions made on it are regulated in that use. |
How Pennsylvania behaves next to the jurisdictions around it
Registration follows the person, not the state line, so screening that covers Pennsylvania almost always has to read Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and West Virginia in the same breath. One search here covers every row below at once.
| Jurisdiction | Date-of-birth match | matchState returned | Registered population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | Year precision | year_match | ≈ 25,300 |
| Delaware | Full date | dob_match | ≈ 4,010 |
| Maryland | Age precision | age_match | — |
| New Jersey | Full date | dob_match | — |
| New York | Full date | dob_match | — |
| Ohio | Full date | dob_match | — |
| West Virginia | Full date | dob_match | — |
The step-by-step procedure is on the Pennsylvania search guide.
Building Pennsylvania screening into your product?
The same dataset behind the search above is a full REST API: one request covers Pennsylvania or all 58 jurisdictions, every match scored and labelled, per-source status on every response. A last name is the only required criterion. Send dob whenever you hold one — it is accepted in Pennsylvania exactly as it is everywhere else, and it narrows rather than filters, so a record with thinner birth evidence still comes back on the name. In Pennsylvania it resolves at year precision, so read matchState for year_match and hold your own threshold for it.
POST /v1/search
{
"query": {
"lastName": "Doe",
"firstName": "John",
"dob": "1979-04-02",
"state": "PA"
},
"jurisdictions": ["PA"]
}Swap city, zipcode or lat/lng/radiusMiles into the query for location searches. Parameters, response shape and error contract are in the API reference; bulk work is in batch and async & webhooks.
What comes back for PA
| Identity | legal name and name parts, every recorded alias, sex, race and ethnicity, and the matched name that actually answered your query |
|---|---|
| Birth evidence | dob, birthYear and age, each populated to the precision available, with dobPrecision naming that precision explicitly |
| Physical description | height, weight, eye and hair colour, and scars, marks and tattoos |
| Addresses | residence, plus secondary, employment and school addresses as separate typed entries, each with line1, city, county, state, ZIP and coordinates where geocoded |
| Offense | offense description, statute, conviction and offense dates, conviction county and state, case number, conviction count, and victim age and sex |
| Registration | tier or risk level, registration start and end dates, last verification, compliance and custody status, absconder and predator flags, and the registering agency |
| Media | images[], newest first, with images[0] as the current photograph |
| Match & provenance | matchConfidence, matchBasis[], matchState, and lastCheckedAt on every record |
The same shape in all 58 jurisdictions — the reason the Pennsylvania integration is the nationwide integration. Field-by-field definitions are in the Record object.
Pennsylvania offender search FAQ
How many registered sex offenders are there in Pennsylvania?
Approximately 25,300 people are on the Pennsylvania register. It is a population that moves continuously — people are added, reclassified and released from the requirement every week — so treat the figure as scale rather than as a fixed number, and run a search when you need an answer about a specific person.
Should I search Pennsylvania's official registry site or here?
Pennsylvania Megan's Law (PSP) is free and covers Pennsylvania. Searching here covers Pennsylvania and every other US registry in the same search, keeps a stored history of every check you run with the results you saw, narrows by date of birth, age, city, ZIP or street address, takes a whole CSV list at once, supports teammates on one workspace, and has a full API behind it. If you check people more than once, or people who may have lived anywhere else, that is the difference that matters.
How do I search Pennsylvania sex offender records by name and date of birth?
Type a last name and add whatever else you hold — first name, date of birth, city or ZIP. In the dashboard that is a form; through the API it is one request with jurisdictions: ["PA"] to scope the answer to Pennsylvania. Send dob whenever you hold one — it is accepted in Pennsylvania exactly as it is everywhere else, and it narrows rather than filters, so a record with thinner birth evidence still comes back on the name. In Pennsylvania it resolves at year precision, so read matchState for year_match and hold your own threshold for it.
Does a Pennsylvania search include people registered in other states?
It does when you let it. A search with no state scope runs across every US registry in one pass, which is how a prior registration in Delaware and Maryland surfaces on someone now living in Pennsylvania. Scoping to Pennsylvania narrows deliberately to the PA roster — the two are one setting apart, and every response reports which registries answered.
What does a Pennsylvania record contain?
Every PA record returns under the same normalized shape as the other 57 jurisdictions: identity and aliases, birth evidence with its precision stated, physical description, typed addresses, offense and conviction detail, tier or risk level, registration and compliance status, photographs newest-first, and match scoring on every record. One integration — or one dashboard — reads all of them.
Can I search Pennsylvania by city or ZIP code?
Yes. Narrow to any Pennsylvania city or ZIP, or sweep a radius of up to 100 miles around a point. Addresses come back as typed entries — residence, secondary, employment, school — so a work address in Philadelphia reads differently from a home address, and each entry carries its own city, county, ZIP and coordinates where geocoded.
How current is a Pennsylvania result?
The dataset is continuously updated, so a Regular result is close to live — and when a decision needs a current, moment-of-decision check, a live block re-verifies the named jurisdictions at the source in the same request. Every record returns its own lastCheckedAt, so currency is a value you read off the response rather than a claim you take on trust.
Get alerts for Pennsylvania
We'll email you when a registered offender is added or moves near your Pennsylvania address. A monitor is a recurring watch on our continuously updated data, checked every morning — set one on an address and radius, or on one person by name and date of birth.
Area monitoring is $10/mo; watching one person by name is $3/mo. Send the alerts to yourself and anyone else who should know, and turn a monitor off any time.
This is not a consumer report and must not be used for FCRA-governed hiring, tenancy, or credit decisions.
Pennsylvania screening, by use case
The PA dataset is the same one behind every screening workflow we support. Each page below is the pattern for one of them — inline at onboarding, on a recurring cadence, or around a location.
Pennsylvania city pages
Pennsylvania county pages
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