Statutes | 9 GTBC ยง 4.01 | 2020

(a) Title. This code shall be known as the &ldquoSex Offender Registration Code.&rdquo

 

(b) Purpose. The intent of this code is to implement the Federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) (Title I of Public Law 109-248) and shall be interpreted liberally to comply with the terms and conditions of SORNA as presently written or hereafter amended.

 

(c) Need. Violent crime in Indian Country is more than twice the national average. On some reservations it is twenty (20) times the national average. An astounding thirty percent (30) of Indian and Alaska Native women will be raped in their lifetimes. Tribal nations are disproportionately affected by violent crime and sex offenses in particular from both Indian and non-Indian perpetrators consequently, the conduct and presence of convicted sex offenders in Indian Country threatens the political integrity, economic security, health and welfare of tribal nations even to the point of imperiling the subsistence of tribal communities.

 

(d) Intent. The GTB declares the intent of the Tribe is to use the tiering for sex offenders and sex offenses as provided in the State of Michigan Sex Offender Registration Act, Act 295 of 1994 (as amended).

 

(e) Creation of Registries.

    (1) Sex Offender Registry. There is hereby established a sex offender registry, which the Michigan State Police (MSP), based on information provided by the Grand Traverse Band (GTB), and as documented by a cooperative agreement (Memorandum of Agreement) between MSP and GTB dated June 25, 2009, shall maintain and operate pursuant to the provisions of this code, as amended.

    (2) Public Sex Offender Registry Website. There is hereby established a public sex offender registry website, which the MSP/State of Michigan and the GTB shall maintain and operate pursuant to the provisions of this code, as amended.

 

History: Tribal Act #10-28.2164, enacted by Tribal Council on July 21, 2010. As amended by Tribal Council motion on October 29, 2014 and amended by Tribal Council motion on January 31, 2018.