Facial recognition for sex-offender search
Search the national registry corpus by photograph, and get back the same ranked, source-cited records a name search returns. It is being built now — this page is how you get it first and how you shape what it does.
Not callable yet. Name, date-of-birth, address and radius search across all 58 registries are live today — see the API reference.
Where a photograph answers what a name cannot
A name that does not resolve
Common surnames, transliterations and nicknames return dozens of candidates. A photograph is a second axis of evidence when the text alone cannot separate two people.
Identity documents that do not match
Onboarding flows that already capture a selfie or an ID photo can screen against the registry corpus without asking the person for anything more.
Trust & safety review queues
Platform teams reviewing a reported account often have an avatar and little else. Ranked candidates give a reviewer somewhere to start rather than nowhere.
What it is being built on
The same corpus that answers every other call: all 50 states, DC, the US territories, the tribal registries and NSOPW, normalized into one schema, with per-source provenance on every record. Registrant photographs are captured from the official registries during the nightly ingestion, so a face search resolves to a full record — offences, addresses, source citation — rather than to an image alone.
- Ranked candidates with a score, never a single yes-or-no verdict
- Every candidate carries the registry it came from and when we last read it
- Photograph coverage varies by jurisdiction — some registries publish none
- Same contract, same auth, same terms as the rest of the API
Tell us what your workflow needs and it will inform what ships first — join the early-access list.
Facial search FAQ
Is facial search available today?
No. It is in active development and not callable yet. This page exists so teams who need it can tell us, and so we build it against real requirements rather than assumptions. Everything else on the API — name, date of birth, address and radius search across all 58 registries — is live today.
When will it ship?
We are not publishing a date we have not earned. Priority follows demand from the early-access list, which is the honest answer and the reason the list exists.
What will it search against?
The registrant photographs published by the official state registries, captured as part of the same nightly ingestion that produces the rest of the record. Coverage varies by jurisdiction because some registries publish photographs for every registrant and some publish none.
Will it return a yes-or-no answer?
No, and that is deliberate. It will return ranked candidate records with a score, in the same shape as a name search, so a person makes the decision with the full record — offences, addresses, source citation — in front of them. A face match is evidence, not a verdict.
How will it be priced?
Not set. Early-access participants will see pricing before anyone else and before they are asked to commit to anything.
Is this a consumer report?
No. Offendersearch is not a consumer reporting agency and results are not a consumer report. Do not use them for FCRA-covered decisions without appropriate process — the same terms that govern every other endpoint.