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Treat DD Form 2791 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2791, Notice of Release/Acknowledgement of Convicted Sex Offender Registration Requirements, March 2013. Function: Notice of Release/Acknowledgement of Convicted Sex Offender Registration Requirements. Because the number carries DD rather than a service prefix, the same edition covers all military departments and the defense agencies at once. Nobody issues a Navy copy or an Air Force copy.
Authority: not stated prescribes it, not stated maintains it. Those two names settle most disputes about why the form is being asked for. Local commands add timing on top; the requirement itself comes from above them.
Edition not stated, status not stated. That comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Formats: PDF. Length 3 pages, approximately 62 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
Take the fillable pdf unless you have a reason not to. Fillable means the boxes are real fields that accept typed text and retain it in the file. Printable means a flat blank — no fields, printer and pen only. The difference is not cosmetic: one produces a record that reproduces cleanly through scanning and forwarding, the other depends on penmanship.
Skip xfdl unless the viewer is already installed. It is the IBM Lotus Forms format, adopted Department-wide for electronic forms and still present in the set for that reason; ordinary pdf software reports it as unreadable.
Nothing costs anything here. Work in a full desktop pdf application rather than a browser preview; field behaviour in browsers is unreliable.
What the form asks for
- 1. To: Press space bar to mark X in first box if state law enforcement, second box if local law enforcement, third box if state sex offender registration official, or fourth box if U.S. Marshals - National Sex Offender Targeting Center.
- 1.a. Address (include zip code).
- b. Date: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 2. Name of offender: last, first, middle initial.
- 3. Date of birth: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 4. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 5. Discharged? X first box if yes, second if no.
- 6. Appellate review: X first box if yes, second if no.
- 7. Current and prior history of sexual offenses. a. Offense title and description (5 words or more), line 1 of 4.
- b. Date of conviction (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- c. Place of conviction (installation or city and state).
- d. Victim's age/date of birth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- a. Specific offense title and description, line 2.
- b. Date of conviction.
- c. Place of conviction (installation or city and state).
- d. Victim's age/date of birth.
- 7. Current and prior history of sexual offenses. a. Offense title and description, line 3.
- b. Date of conviction.
- c. Place of conviction (installation or city and state).
- d. Victim's age/date of birth.
- 8. Maximum release date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 9. Release conditions or restrictions.
- 10. Facility or command releasing offender. a. Name of facility or command.
- b. Address (include ZIP code).
Edition check comes first, ahead of any entry. Compare the printed date to not stated and replace anything older. Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
A number is a complete address in the DD series. Because the sequence is Department-level and not duplicated per service, there is nothing further to specify.
Do not read across from a service number. DA numbering is Army-specific under an Army proponent; DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. The sequences are unrelated, so identical digits in each identify two different documents. Read the prefix, not the digits.
Three drivers of revision: directive reissue, altered collection requirements, updated statutory notice text. No notification accompanies any of them, so download fresh and confirm not stated rather than reusing an archived file.
What is here is the blank form and a description of it. What is not here is legal guidance or any assurance about a particular filing — this page is not the issuing authority and does not speak for one. Those questions go to not stated, to your servicing administrative office, or to the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2791?
- DD Form 2791, Notice of Release/Acknowledgement of Convicted Sex Offender Registration Requirements, March 2013
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?