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Department of Defense form 2791. Official designation: DD Form 2791, Notice of Release/Acknowledgement of Convicted Sex Offender Registration Requirements, March 2013. Purpose: Notice of Release/Acknowledgement of Convicted Sex Offender Registration Requirements. Current edition not stated, status not stated.
Governing directive: not stated. Responsible office: not stated. The DD designation signals joint scope — all military departments, combatant commands and defense agencies draw on a single edition of the document.
The form reaches military personnel across the services, civilian employees of the Department, and the personnel and records specialists who receive it.
Timing of submission is fixed by not stated and by the implementing guidance of the submitting organization. What follows describes the blank document, not agency procedure.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 3 pages and contains approximately 62 fillable fields.
Every listed format is free to download. Modern pdf software handles the pdf files, with the caveat that browser-embedded viewers sometimes ignore field properties that a desktop reader honours.
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).
The document is filled from the top down. Identification precedes substance, substance precedes certification. Fields lower on the page are commonly keyed to entries made above them.
The current edition is not stated. Superseded editions of DD forms are frequently rejected at the receiving office, since Department-wide forms change centrally and older layouts lose their field correspondence. Edition date appears in the lower corner of the printed blank.
The signature block takes an actual signature. On paper this means ink; electronically it means a credentialed digital signature, commonly CAC-based. Typed text in a signature field satisfies neither.
Privacy Act notice: DD forms that collect personal data carry a Privacy Act Statement stating the authority for collection, the principal purpose, routine uses and whether disclosure is voluntary or mandatory. The statement is part of the form and should be read before entry, not after.
Frequent defects: obsolete edition, unfilled required boxes, handwriting that fails on reproduction, non-conforming date format, and certification without a corresponding date.
Guidance for specific entries sits on the form face and in not stated; the directive is authoritative where the two do not agree.
The completed document moves to the office named in not stated or in local guidance. A retained copy is conventional practice.
Associated forms are traced by number within the series. Because the DD sequence is common to all military departments, no service qualifier is needed to identify a referenced form.
A DD number and a DA number may appear in the same instruction without being related. DA forms belong to the Army alone; DD forms belong to the Department and are administered at Department level. The sequences are independent.
Revision occurs when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when statutory notice language is amended. Verification of the edition date at download addresses all three.
The material here is descriptive. Nothing on the page constitutes legal or procedural advice, and no statement here determines whether a submitted form will be accepted. Such questions go to not stated, a servicing administrative office, or 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?