Sex Offender Registry Check

The Campus Sex Crimes Prevention Act is a federal law enacted on October 28, 2000, that provides for the tracking of convicted sex offenders enrolled at or employed by institutions of higher education. This information is supplied by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections to the UW-Madison Police Department (PD). Several clinical sites require that SMPH verify students placed at their site are not on the sex offender registry. To comply, SMPH will review information provided to UW-Madison PD annually.

Process

Annually, the Compliance Specialist will review the published Sex Offender Information to ensure students in SMPH clinical programs are not listed. The check will be done in mid September when the University releases its list of students, faculty, and staff found on the sex offender registry. 

  1. Review UW-Madison PD’s published Sex Offender Information

  2. Verify names provided do not match with students enrolled in the Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Master of Genetic Counselor Studies, and Master of Physician Assistant Studies programs provided in Exxat and CastleBranch. Master of Public Health students will be checked on an as needed basis.

  3. If no matches are found, email the Director of Education Accreditation and Compliance (megan.heneke@wisc.edu) to verify the check has been completed.

Template:
Review of the Sex Offender Information provided to the UW-Madison Police Department was completed on date. No students enrolled in the Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Master of Genetic Counselor Studies, and Master of Physician Assistant Studies programs were included on the list. Please retain this email as documentation that the annual review was completed.

  1. If matches are found, notify the program the student is enrolled in to determine next steps.

    Program Contacts
    Program Contact Email
    Doctor of Medicine Megan Kapke mkapke@wisc.edu 
    Doctor of Physical Therapy Jeanne Duncan duncan@pt.wisc.edu
    Master of Genetic Counselor Studies Lisa Fisher fisher@pediatrics.wisc.edu
    Master of Physician Assistant Studies Stacy Davison sldavison@wisc.edu
    Master of Public Health Sweta Shrestha sshrestha@wisc.edu


Keywords:
compliance, sex offender registry, clinical compliance 
Doc ID:
130663
Owned by:
Claire F. in SMPH Academic Affairs Resource
Created:
2023-08-28
Updated:
2024-08-05
Sites:
SMPH Academic Affairs Resource