Questions and answers

No. This is a screening aid only. A LIKELY GREEN result does not guarantee that an address is lawful housing. Confirm with an attorney and your registering agency before you sign a lease or move. Distances, maps, and labels can be wrong or incomplete.

The tool compares a proposed home address to mapped schools, child-care sites, and parks against the buffer distance for the state you pick (for Oklahoma, 2,000 ft property-line to property-line under 57 O.S. §590).

• RESTRICTED (parcel-edge) or RESTRICTED (mapped): at least one mapped facility falls inside the statutory distance.
• LIKELY GREEN: no mapped facility is inside the distance the tool used for that check.

“Likely” is deliberate — it is never a guarantee. Local ordinances, court orders, probation or parole conditions, victim residences, and facilities that opened later are often not on the map.

• Parcel (edge-to-edge): In covered Oklahoma counties, the tool pulls the home’s county tax parcel and each nearby site’s parcel or mapped grounds outline, then measures the shortest edge-to-edge gap in feet. That matches the statute’s property-line idea more closely than a pin on a map.
• Point (fallback): When no home tax parcel is available (outside those counties, other states, or a failed parcel lookup), the tool measures from the geocoded address point. A center point usually under-reads true property-line distance, so results are labelled RESTRICTED (mapped) or BORDERLINE — REVIEW (point) instead of a plain green.

In point mode only, the map draws two rings: the statutory distance (for example 2,000 ft) and a 10% safety ring at statute × 1.10 (for example 2,200 ft).

• Inside the statute distance → treated as inside the buffer (RESTRICTED).
• Between statute and statute × 1.10 → BORDERLINE · REVIEW (never shown as green).
• Beyond the safety ring → can contribute to LIKELY GREEN only if every mapped site is outside that ring.

The safety ring is not drawn when parcel-edge measurement is active.

Public, free sources — not private “jobs boards” and not employment hiring data:

• Schools: NCES EDGE (public and private school locations).
• Child care (Oklahoma): OKDHS licensed providers (family-home names/addresses are omitted from the map).
• Parks / playgrounds: OpenStreetMap (volunteer-drawn; may be incomplete or mistagged).
• Home and site outlines (where available): county assessor tax-parcel layers via public ArcGIS REST, plus OSM grounds polygons when needed.

Assessor lines are tax maps, not surveys, and can be off by roughly 5–50 ft. OSM outlines are volunteer-maintained.

Oklahoma is the deepest build. Edge-to-edge home parcels are wired for these counties: Oklahoma, Tulsa, Cleveland, Canadian, Creek, Osage, Rogers, Wagoner, Comanche, McClain, Muskogee, Washington, Beckham, Kay, Payne, Garfield, Pittsburg, Hughes, Okfuskee, Seminole, Sequoyah, and Adair (22 total). Elsewhere in Oklahoma, and in other states in the dropdown, the home side falls back to the geocoded point (with the 10% safety ring). Other states currently ship NCES school points (and, where encoded, statewide footage rules); some states are awareness-only with no statewide buffer.

Victim residences, many court orders, probation/parole conditions, later-opened schools or daycares, and many city or county ordinances are not included. Some OSM “parks” may not be legally protected parks. Large public parcels or condo units can misrepresent a facility’s own lot. A result near the statute distance needs a surveyor, not just this map.

No. Do not treat any result as permission to rent, buy, register, hire, or clear a background check. The tool does not provide legal advice, does not contact agencies, and does not guarantee housing or employment. Verify with counsel and the registering agency before you act.

It shows second chance employers that people on Oklahoma’s public Sex and Violent Offender Registry (sors.doc.ok.gov) have listed as their workplace, pinned on a map and sorted by straight-line distance from the address you enter. You can pick 5, 10, 20 or 50 miles.

No. A listing is a lead, not a job opening. It means a registrant once reported working there. Each employer makes its own hiring decisions, and we can’t promise a hire, an interview or a callback. Call the employer or check its website to see whether it’s hiring.

Registrants report their own employers, so names and addresses can be misspelled, out of date or incomplete. A listing does not mean anyone works there today. Addresses were mapped with the free US Census Bureau Geocoder. Entries with no street address, or that the geocoder could not match in Oklahoma, are left off the map. Some second chance employers have rules or locations that may not fit your conditions, so check with your supervising officer before you apply.

No. The registry forbids using its information to harass anyone, and so do we. The list shows second chance employers only. It never shows who reported them.