What this site is
TX Offender Map publishes a read-only, static snapshot of publicly available Texas sex offender registry records alongside public and charter school locations, so visitors can see registered addresses in relation to nearby schools. This site is an independent, unofficial project. It is not affiliated with, and is not endorsed by, the Texas Department of Public Safety (TxDPS) or any other state agency.
Data sources
- Offender registration records are sourced from the Texas Sex Offender and Public Protection Registry, published by the TxDPS at sor.dps.texas.gov.
- School locations are sourced from publicly available Texas public and charter school directories.
How the map is built
Each usable registered address is assigned an approximate latitude/longitude using a validated street-address geocode where the Census Geocoder can match it, and a ZIP code centroid when it cannot. Street-address geocodes are interpolated along an address range, not verified rooftop or GPS coordinates. Administrative, transient, unknown, and out-of-state placeholder addresses are excluded from mapping rather than placed at a ZIP centroid. "Nearby" offenders on a school page are calculated using straight-line (great-circle) distance from the school, not driving distance, and are limited to a 3-mile radius.
Update schedule
The full site — offender records, addresses, and county/school pages — is rebuilt from the registry on a weekly basis. Street-address and ZIP-centroid geocoding is refreshed incrementally during scheduled builds. The current snapshot's build time is shown at the top of the home page and on every county page.
Limitations & corrections
This site reproduces public records as published and may lag behind, omit, or mis-locate individual entries due to geocoding limitations, registry update timing, or data-entry issues in the source records. It should not be used as a substitute for the official registry. For the authoritative, current record on any individual, or to report an error in an official registration, use the official TxDPS registry directly.