Sex Offender Registry
The Thomas County Sheriff's Office uses OffenderWatch, a comprehensive registered sex offender management and community notification tool. You may enter any address in the county and see real-time information on the publishable offenders within the specified radius of the address you enter. You may confidentially register as many addresses in the county as you wish, and OffenderWatch will continuously monitor the addresses and send you an email alert if a new offender registers an address within one mile of any address you register. 
To search sex offenders elsewhere in the state of Georgia, please use the GBI Sex Offender Search Tool.
Registrations and offender status updates are accepted Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with the exception of holidays.
The sex offender needs to bring with them some form of photo identification and have all the required information with them. Failure to report to the Thomas County Sheriff's Office within the required times stated by law may cause criminal action to be taken. Furthermore, failure to report at the established times set by the Thomas County Sheriff's Office as stated above or failure to produce the required documentation or information at the time of reporting to the Thomas County Sheriff's Office may also cause criminal action to be taken.
Sex Offender Registry Contact Information:
Pamala Cason
Office Number: 229-225-3315
Email: pamala.davis@thomascountyga.gov
Andy Forte
Office Number: 229-225-3313
Email: andy.forte@thomascountyga.gov
The offender must be convicted of a crime that is by its nature a sexual offense, such as:
O.C.G.A. 16-6-1 Rape
O.C.G.A. 16-6-2 Sodomy (against a minor); Aggravated Sodomy (against a minor or an adult)
O.C.G.A. 16-6-3 Statutory Rape (unless the age of the perpetrator is 18 years of age or younger)
O.C.G.A. 16-6-4 Child Molestation; Aggravated Child Molestation
O.C.G.A. 16-6-5 Enticing a child for indecent purposes
O.C.G.A. 16-6-22.2 Aggravated Sexual Battery
In relation to crimes where the victim is a minor, O.C.G.A. 42-1-12 includes the following offenses under (a)(4)(A):
(i) Kidnapping of a minor, except by a parent
(ii) False imprisonment of a minor except by a parent
(iii) Criminal sexual contact toward a minor
(iv) Solicitation of a minor to engage in sexual contact
(v) Use of a minor in sexual performance
(vi) Solicitation of a minor to practice prostitution
(vii) Any conduct that by its nature is a sexual offense against a minor
Georgia's equivalent to Megan's Law became effective in 1996. It requires every individual released from prison or placed on probation parole (or some supervised release) to register with the sheriff of the county in which residency is declared. The sex offender must register any change of residency within 72 hours.
