//**PROOF OF CONCEPT** — full quality-of-life profile for District of Columbia, 16 dimensions of the sex-offense registry regime. Ratings are researcher judgments from the //registrant's// perspective; each links its statute. NOT legal advice.//

====== District of Columbia — Registry Profile ======

**Weighted burden index 32.3/100** · rank **46 of 56** (1 = least burdensome) · 11/16 dimensions statute-verified.

Legend: 🟢 favorable (less burden) · 🟠 moderate · 🔴 restrictive · ℹ️ context · ⚪ unknown. ✓ = statute-verified.

^ Dimension ^ Rating ^ Detail ^ Statute ^
| **Registration length** | 🟠 moderate | 10 years after release/supervision by default; lifetime for a lifetime-registration offense, sexual psychopath, or multiple qualifying dispositions (§ 22-4002(b)) | [[https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/22-4002|D.C. Code § 22-4002]] ✓ |
| **Removal / petition off** | 🟠 moderate | No discretionary early-removal petition confirmed; 10-year registrants' duty ends by expiration of the term, but lifetime registrants have no termination path — ⚑ needs human review | [[https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/22-4002|D.C. Code § 22-4002]] ✓ |
| **Individualized risk assessment** | 🔴 restrictive | No risk assessment; classes assigned by offense | § 22-4002 |
| **In-person reporting frequency** | 🟠 moderate | At least annually; agency may require more frequent reporting | § 22-4008 |
| **Registration fee** | 🟢 favorable | No fee — the statutory duties of registrants include no registration fee | [[https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/22-4014|§ 22-4014]] ✓ |
| **Residency restriction** | 🟢 favorable | No — DC has no residency distance restriction; registrants may live anywhere absent a specific court order — local: none (DC Council has never enacted residency restrictions) | [[https://www.probationinfo.org/restrictions/dc/|None (no DC Code residency restriction)]] ✓ |
| **Employment restriction** | 🟢 favorable | Page states the only special restriction is public notification | § 22-4011 |
| **Presence / loitering restriction** | 🟢 favorable | Page states the only special restriction is public notification | § 22-4011 |
| **Visitor registration trigger** | 🟢 favorable | Nothing found in the statutes for visitors | n/a |
| **Internet identifiers required** | 🟢 favorable | No — internet identifiers/email not among the required registration info enumerated in § 22-4007 | [[https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/22-4007|D.C. Code § 22-4007]] ✓ |
| **Civil commitment** | 🔴 restrictive | Yes — DC's 'sexual psychopath' scheme civilly commits a person who by repeated sexual misconduct lacks power to control his sexual impulses so as to be dangerous, to an institution until released under § 22-3809 | [[https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/22-3808|D.C. Code §§ 22-3803, 22-3808]] ✓ |
| **Public website exposure** | 🟠 moderate | Public internet inspection limited to Class A (lifetime) and Class B offenders; Class C (all others — the lowest tier) is law-enforcement/authorized-entity access only, not on the public site — lowest tier withheld | [[https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/22-4011|D.C. Code § 22-4011]] ✓ |
| **Halloween / holiday restriction** | 🟢 favorable | No Halloween/holiday restriction — the DC sex-offender registration chapter (§§ 22-4001 to 22-4017), including the duties-of-registrants section, contains no holiday/candy/porch-light/trick-or-treat rule | [[https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/22-4014|D.C. Code § 22-4014]] ✓ |
| **Marked driver's license / ID** | 🟢 favorable | Not marked — DC does not require the driver's license or ID to be labeled to identify a registrant | [[https://www.probationinfo.org/restrictions/dc/|n/a (no marking requirement)]] ✓ |
| **Community notification (& who pays)** | 🔴 restrictive | Statute authorizes broad ACTIVE notification — community meetings, flyers, door-to-door contacts, direct mailings, media releases — in addition to the public website; no registrant cost | [[https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/22-4011|D.C. Code § 22-4011]] ✓ |
| **Age of consent (context)** | ℹ️ context | 16 — 'child' is defined as under 16; sexual contact with a child is child sexual abuse (18 threshold applies only to persons in a position of trust) | [[https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/22-3001|D.C. Code § 22-3001 (definitions); § 22-3008/§ 22-3009 (child sexual abuse)]] ✓ |

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//Weighted index from the v1 model (weighted_score.py); weights encode NARSOL's judgment about everyday lived burden. Removal ratings and the weights need NARSOL/attorney sign-off before authoritative use.//