In accordance with state and federal law, the College is required to advise the campus community where information concerning registered sex offenders may be obtained. Information concerning Level 2 and Level 3 offenders is available to the general public by contacting your local Police Department or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Sex Offender Registry Board, located at P.O. Box 4547 Salem, MA 01970-4547, (978) 740-6400. Level 3 & Level 3/Sexual Predator offender information is also online at (www.mass.gov/sorb) or any Police Department including the following where the college campuses are located:
If you have any questions regarding access to sex offender information, please feel free to contact the College’s Campus Managers:
Matthew Sepe, Bedford Campus Manager, 781-280-3523
Molly Sheehy, Lowell Campus Manager, 978-656-3105
As provided by law, the Police Department shall notify organizations in the community that are likely to encounter an offender classified as a Level 3 offender or a sexually violent predator, and notify individual members of the public who are likely to encounter such an offender. Organizations in the community that are likely to encounter the sex offender include, but are not limited to, public and private organizations, areas and establishments which provide services of any type to children, the elderly, or other vulnerable members of the population.
Community notification shall require notification by the Police Department to all schools in the community. The Chief of the Police Department, in their discretion, may notify other organizations, such as day care centers, youth/recreational programs, and organizations providing elder services, as deemed necessary to protect the public safety.
Any such Level 2 & 3 sex offender information communicated to the college as provided above shall be maintained in a binder located in the College’s Campus Managers’ Office in Lowell and Bedford. Upon appropriate written request, the binder shall be available for public inspection and copies of Level 2 and 3 notices may be provided. A form to request sex offender information is available at the Campus Manager’s offices and online at www.middlesex.mass.edu. Using the menu listing, “Where do you want to go?” link to “Legal Advisories”.
Individuals who complete a written request form for sex offender information will receive the same information that was provided to the college that may include the name of the offender, the home address, the work address, the offense(s) and date(s) for which the offender was convicted/adjudicated, and the offender's vital statistics, including age, sex, race, height, and weight and a photograph, if available.
In addition, the College will post notice of Level 3 sex offenders that are employees or enrolled students at the College. The postings will be in the Lobby at the City Campus building at the Lowell Campus and Main Street in the Campus Center building at the Bedford Campus.
The information the College has in its possession on sex offenders is provided to it by either local law enforcement in the town/city in which the college is located or the Sex Offender Registry Board. The College does not have access to or maintain a complete list of all registered sex offenders who may be attending or working at the College.
As provide by law, use of sex offender information to engage in illegal discrimination or harassment of an offender shall be punishable by not more than two and one-half years in the house of correction or by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.