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 detected from the address you enter — there is no state to 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, every state and DC).
• Child care (Oklahoma): OKDHS licensed providers (family-home names/addresses are omitted from the map).
• Child care (other states): OpenStreetMap (volunteer-drawn; may be incomplete).
• Parks / playgrounds: OpenStreetMap (volunteer-drawn; may be incomplete or mistagged).
• Home and site outlines (where available): Oklahoma county assessor tax-parcel layers via public ArcGIS REST, plus OSM grounds polygons when needed.
• Address lookup: US Census Bureau Geocoder, then OpenStreetMap (Photon). Rural house numbers missing from both fall back to Esri’s World Geocoder (free tier, lookups not stored). You can always paste the home’s map coordinates instead.

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 every other state, the home side falls back to the geocoded point (with the 10% safety ring). Other states use NCES school points plus OpenStreetMap child care, parks and playgrounds, with that state’s encoded footage rule; if OpenStreetMap data doesn’t load, the result is marked incomplete and never shown as green. States with no statewide distance rule say so instead of borrowing Oklahoma’s 2,000 ft.

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.

See also (Oklahoma): 500 ft loitering rules (§1125) and living with a minor (§590(B)).

No. The Residency Check screens proposed home addresses against mapped schools, licensed child care sites, and parks under the 2,000 ft residency rule in 57 O.S. §590. Oklahoma also has separate loitering and presence rules under 21 O.S. §1125 (often described as about 500 ft around certain places). Those presence/loitering zones are not drawn on this map. A LIKELY GREEN residency result does not mean you can loiter or stay near a restricted place. Read the statute and ask your supervising officer or an attorney what §1125 means for you. Not legal advice.

No. Rules about living with a minor (including parts of 57 O.S. §590(B) and other conditions) are separate from the distance screen this tool runs. The Residency Check does not ask who lives in the home and does not map “minor in the household” rules, victim residences, or many court or supervision conditions. Whether you may live with a minor depends on your offense category, court orders, and supervision — not on this map. Ask your registering agency or an attorney before you move in with a child. Not legal advice.

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.

Today the Jobs tab covers Oklahoma only. It lists workplaces that appear as employer / work addresses on Oklahoma’s public Sex and Violent Offender Registry (sors.doc.ok.gov), refreshed from a monthly pull of the public registry — not a job board and not hiring guarantees. Search by address with radius buttons for 5, 10, 20, or 50 miles (10 is the default). Results are sorted by straight-line distance and show address, phone when listed, and a website or “Look up” link. Pins on the map are those workplaces; the published file has no registrant IDs and no count of how many people listed each employer. Names and addresses are self-reported and can be stale or misspelled. A listing is not an endorsement of any employer, listed employers are not Fallen Valor partners, and a listing is not proof that anyone works there now, that the employer is hiring, or that the site fits your conditions — check with your supervising officer before you act.

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 listed workplaces have rules or locations that may not fit your conditions, so check with your supervising officer before you apply.

No. Oklahoma’s registry terms say registry information shall not be used to retaliate against registrants, their families or their employers in any way, and vandalism and threats of harm are crimes that can lead to arrest and prosecution. Fallen Valor forbids it too. Never use the Jobs list to contact, harass, threaten, report or single out any business or person. The list shows workplaces that appear in public registry workplace fields, never which person reported them, and a listing is not an endorsement of any employer.

Email outreach@fallenvalor.org (or info@fallenvalor.org) with the business name and address, and tell us whether you want the listing removed or corrected. Listings come from self-reported public registry records and may be outdated. Being listed does not mean Fallen Valor endorses or partners with your business.

Today it covers Oklahoma only. It maps Oklahoma apartment communities and rental buildings within 5, 10, 20 or 50 miles of an address you enter, and by default shows only the ones whose map point is more than 2,000 ft from every mapped school, licensed child care site and park (57 O.S. §590). Sources are Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency funded developments (data.ok.gov), HUD LIHTC and HUD assisted multifamily properties, and OpenStreetMap apartment buildings. Each listing shows its source.

No. It’s a list of buildings, not openings, and not landlords who agreed to rent to anyone on the registry. Many landlords run background checks, and federally assisted housing bars people subject to lifetime sex offender registration. Call the property to ask about openings and screening rules.

It measures point to point, from each property’s map point to the mapped facility points, which can under-read true property-line distance. Listings between 2,000 and 2,200 ft are marked CLEAR · REVIEW. Before you apply, run the Residency Check on the exact address for a parcel-edge measurement, then verify with your supervising officer or registering agency and an attorney. Spot a wrong listing? Email outreach@fallenvalor.org.