Mississippi FY24 SJSP

The Mississippi Statistical Analysis Center (MS-SAC) proposes a project entitled, "Challenges Faced by Mississippi Sex Offender Coordinators".  In the state of Mississippi, the state’s Sex Offender Registry is managed and administrated by a group of sex offender coordinators, or SOCs, who are in turn managed by the state’s Department of Public Safety (DPS) office  in a satellite basis throughout the state. There has never been an examination of these persons’ job impressions, challenges faced, and needs. Therefore, MS-SAC seeks to expand its mission to complete the following five objectives: (1) create and maintain a list of SOCs; (2) create a functioning list of state SOC needs and job tasks that may be worked on jointly with the state DPS; (3) ascertain the efficacy of the new data management system implemented in 2023; (4) update lists of registered sex offenders in jurisdictions that have been without contact with the state’s DPS; and (5) discuss workplace culture and how the career of SOCs can be better prioritized by state DPS for future recruitment. Findings will be presented in three (3) reports, three (3) briefings, publications, and at state conferences attended by staff from DPS, Mississippi Police Chiefs Association, and Mississippi Sheriff’s Association.