Policing Services

Ontario Sex Offender Registry

What is a criteria offence?

Criteria offences include the following current Criminal Code offences and any similar sex offences known by different names in the past:

• Sexual interference
• Invitation to sexual touching
• Sexual exploitation
• Incest
• Bestiality
• Child pornography (making, possessing, distributing)
• Parent or guardian procuring sexual activity
• Exposure in front of a child
• Sexual assault
• Sexual assault with a weapon, threats to a third party or causing bodily harm
• Aggravated sexual assault.

If someone living in Ontario has been convicted and received a sentence anywhere in Canada for one or more of these offences, that person must register with their local police.