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

====== Texas — Registry Profile ======

**Weighted burden index 68.2/100** · rank **7 of 56** (1 = least burdensome) · 10/16 dimensions statute-verified.

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

^ Dimension ^ Rating ^ Detail ^ Statute ^
| **Registration length** | 🔴 restrictive | Lifetime (duty ends at death) for sexually violent and enumerated offenses — most reportable convictions; only a limited set gets a 10-yr term — **lifetime** | [[https://law.onecle.com/texas/criminal-procedure/62.101.html|Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 62.101(a)]] ✓ |
| **Removal / petition off** | 🔴 restrictive | Early termination reaches only the few offenses on the DPS list whose Texas term exceeds the federal minimum, requires a single conviction plus a risk assessment and court approval — effectively unusable for most — ⚑ needs human review | [[https://law.onecle.com/texas/criminal-procedure/62.402.html|Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 62.402; art. 62.403]] ✓ |
| **Individualized risk assessment** | 🟢 favorable | Yes — risk assessment used (Sex Offender Screening Tool), levels 1-3 | n/a |
| **In-person reporting frequency** | 🟠 moderate | Repeat offenders every 90 days; others yearly | 62.058 |
| **Registration fee** | 🟢 favorable | No registration fee — Code of Criminal Procedure ch. 62 contains no article imposing a registration fee on registrants (a separate $50 fee exists only for filing a deregistration petition, not for registering) | [[https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._code_of_crim._proc._title_1_chapter_62|Tex. Code Crim. Proc. ch. 62 (no fee provision)]] ✓ |
| **Residency restriction** | 🟠 moderate | No statewide distance restriction — Art. 62.064 bars only residing on a public/private college campus; there is no statutory statewide school/park buffer — local: common — many Texas home-rule cities impose 1,000-2,000 ft child-safety-zone residency ordinances (no statewide distance) | [[https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/code-of-criminal-procedure/crim-ptx-crim-pro-art-62-064/|Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 62.064]] ✓ |
| **Employment restriction** | 🔴 restrictive | Prohibited employment cited | 62.063 |
| **Presence / loitering restriction** | 🔴 restrictive | Restrictions on entry onto school premises | 62.064 |
| **Visitor registration trigger** | 🟠 moderate | If in state 3+ times for 48+ hours within a month, must report before the last day of that month | 62.059 |
| **Internet identifiers required** | 🔴 restrictive | Yes — registration form must include 'the identification of any online identifier established or used by the person' (Art. 62.051(c)(7)) | [[https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/code-of-criminal-procedure/crim-ptx-crim-pro-art-62-051/|62.051(c)]] ✓ |
| **Civil commitment** | 🔴 restrictive | Yes — civil commitment law cited | 61.201; 61.202 |
| **Public website exposure** | 🔴 restrictive | DPS central database (including numeric risk level and photo) is public information for all adult registrants; only certain juveniles may be court-ordered nonpublic | [[https://law.onecle.com/texas/criminal-procedure/62.005.html|Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 62.005]] ✓ |
| **Halloween / holiday restriction** | 🟠 moderate | No statewide statutory Halloween/holiday restriction; limits apply only as discretionary parole/supervision conditions under the child-safety-zone authority in Gov't Code § 508.187 | [[https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/government-code/gov-t-sect-508-187/|Tex. Gov't Code § 508.187 (no Halloween-specific statute)]] ✓ |
| **Marked driver's license / ID** | 🟢 favorable | License is not branded — Transportation Code § 521.121 lists required license contents with no sex-offender designation; registrants must renew in person annually (CCP art. 62.060) but no visible mark is printed on the card | [[https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/transportation-code/transp-sect-521-121/|Tex. Transp. Code § 521.121; Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 62.060]] ✓ |
| **Community notification (& who pays)** | 🔴 restrictive | Active notification for risk-level-3 registrants (DPS mails/delivers notices within 1 mile or 3 blocks; local LE may publish in a newspaper, hold neighborhood meetings, or distribute printed notices) AND the registrant must pay DPS's notification costs — **registrant pays** | [[https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/code-of-criminal-procedure/crim-ptx-crim-pro-art-62-056/|Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 62.056]] ✓ |
| **Age of consent (context)** | ℹ️ context | 17 — with close-in-age affirmative defense (actor not more than 3 years older and victim at least 14) | [[https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-22-011/|Tex. Penal Code § 22.011 (child = under 17); § 21.11]] ✓ |

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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.//