NEWS RELEASE
Morrison County Sheriff’s Office
December 12, 2025
Morrison County Sheriff Shawn Larsen announced that his office, in cooperation with all local police departments in the county, have recently completed the annual Predatory Offender Registration (POR) verifications for Morrison County. Each year the sheriff’s office organizes a verification check for all predatory offenders who are on the registry and residing within the county. It is important to note that Minnesota only began registering predatory offenders in 1991 and did not assign risk level until 1997. Only those offenders who have been sentenced to prison and who were released after January 1, 1997 have been assigned a risk level. Offenders sentenced to probation or juvenile offenders are not assigned a risk level. Level 1 offenders are those deemed by Department of Corrections officials as those least likely to re-offend while Level 3 offenders are considered most likely to re-offend. It should also be noted that Level 2 offenders are checked two times a year and Level 3 offenders are checked quarterly.
During the most recent round of checks, multiple predatory offenders were checked in Morrison County. 58 predatory offenders were checked by the Morrison County Sheriff’s Office, Pierz Police Department, Motley Police Department and Royalton Police Department. Of that number: 19 were Level 1 offenders, 7 were Level 2, 1 was Level 3 and 31 offenders were not assigned a risk level. Little Falls Police Department does their own compliance checks and are not part of this breakdown. All offenders were found to be compliant.
According to Sheriff Larsen, “Each year these verification checks remind us how important it is to stay proactive monitoring predatory offenders living in our communities. Our staff and partnering police departments put in a tremendous amount of work to ensure the safety of Morrison County residents. I am proud of their dedication and professionalism throughout this process. Our office will continue to remain vigilant and hold offenders accountable to the full extent of the law.”