I transferred from Vermont to South Carolina. The process can take 90 days or longer.

South Carolina owns my supervision but Vermont owns my probation. I too am a computer programmer (retired now) and Vermont refused to let me use internet or own a smart phone. South Carolina does.

My registration in Vermont was 10 years after probation while it's lifetime in South Carolina although my current PO believes that will change. I'm level 1 but South Carolina doesn't have only level 2 & 3 so I'm treated like a level 2.

The receiving state has the right to impose any stipulations or restrictions they wish as a condition of accepting the responsibility of supervising you. They can also refuse to accept that responsibility and not allow you to live in the state. If they do accept you, you legally have to abide by all the restrictions of BOTH states

So what happens when the charges are in one state but I reside in another?

We did an interstate compact. My son was in Floriduh federal prison. 4 months before his release the request was put in. PA Probation came out to look at my home and was okeyed.. When you transfer to another state it really is up to the state you're going to. They can deny it.
We have certain things in the federal sentence release that , because it's federal, stuck with my son. I don't know if you're state.. that might be different.
,My son benefited from the laws in PA, because of their laws that he has to follow, he's not lifetime on the registry, he got 15 years instead.
Upon release we drove directly to PA and did not stay in Fl so those state laws had no effect on him.

@frogpond

If you are convicted on state charges in a state other than the state you live in there are some things that have to happen before you would be allowed to continue to reside in your home.

First you would have to have some kind of order from the court of conviction stating you can transfer your supervision to another state. This can be done as part of a plea agreement or as some kind of motion during sentencing or if there's any kind of incarceration, you could petition the court while serving the incarceration before being released. The important part is, you won't be allowed to transfer your supervision unless and until the court says you can.

Second you would have to apply for an Interstate Compact and it would have to be accepted by the receiving state which for you would mean your home state. Your home state has the right to refuse to accept you leaving you stuck wherever you were convicted. I didn't have too much trouble with it but I know of others that have.

There's a guy near me from Georgia whose wife and children still live in Georgia in the home that they own outright, not even a mortgage, but he is stuck in Missouri because Georgia refused the compact. The stated reason is because Georgia felt he would be a burden on society.

We didn't have to get a court order for my son to move to PA. We lived in FL, he was sentenced and spent time in FL federal but we never had a court order saying he could or couldn't move out of state. But things are different everywhere..

Federal convictions are handled differently. If your son had been convicted by the state of Florida, a Florida court would have had to give permission to transfer probation to another state.

ok, i can see that i'm gonna have to go off on another tangent of attempted googling of interstate compacts.

i am new to all of this but i was under the impression that if you were convicted in federal court and sentenced to life time registration that there was no changing that? but if i understand Naohichi right? time on the registry goes by state limits? he was suppose to register for life because that state did lifetime but by moving to PA, his sentence of life time registry was reduced to 15yrs? if he had moved to a state that did 10yrs would have still have worked that way?

Echo,

This should get you started.

http://tinyurl.com/co9cn3q

rewdiazepam

If my son staying in Floriduh for 3 days or more when he was released he would have had to register there as an SO. But because I picked him up at the door of the prison and we drove home to Philly he didn't have to register and so the FL lifetime status didn't apply.
If he registered then it would and , even if he got to PA he's be lifetime instead of the 15 years.
When he went to the police department to sign in in PA they took his info. Then there's an evaluation done to find out what tier and how many years he'd be on the registry. I held my breath for weeks until we got the paperwork and it said 15 years.

Finding answers to our questions is just gut wrenching. It has taken years off of my life.. and I'm still freaked out worrying about my son every day.

LOL thank you Rew! now to try and wade thru all the mumbo jumbo and attempt to understand what i'm reading! : /

thanks Nakohichi!

a couple of off the wall questions. i am reading thru the site that Rew posted and there's one question i've had since my daughter conviction, how does someone go about getting an offer for a job if they are in prison? isn't one of the requirements for parole (state) or release (fed) an offer of a job?

also thinking back on the Slate articles that were posted with the maps that show the registry lengths of time in various states, some are lifetime then they go lesser in mand/min of time required in different states. i know that states can refuse to allow you to move there. but, i have to wonder how many families, if they are able to have moved to states which require less time on the registry? i want to say Kansas, i think for example. i think that state required the least amount of time on the registry?

One of the reasons they didn't have a problem with my son transferring to PA was because he had a family member, me. He had a place to live, my home. And he had a job. He worked for me before he went in and that job was there for him when he got out.

When my son went in he got 30 months. The first year I spent looking into a place for him in Floriduh and learning about all those issues there. Seeing that he would end up under a bridge or living in the swamp I started looking for a place for me to move to, so that he would have all those things.. home, family, job.

I own a business. I move myself and my shop.. with only the help of my daughter. It was a big chore. I had 3 dogs, 2 cats, snakes, geckos, a Cockatoo.. that I had to find a new home for. And all my shop full of things. I took a chance. Because they could have refused him and they could have made him stay in Floriduh. They can do that.
I moved to PA when he had a little less than 2 years to go. I opened my business there. 4 months before his release they asked him where he would live and he gave the address here in PA as his residence. The couselor or whoever else were inside there could have been real pricks and not allowed him to put PA as his residence, but 1 guy helped him and it was done. Then the 4 month wait to see,.. even at the day of his release, if it was all going to go as I hoped.

You never know. Never think that you have things set because they can change at the whim of any of those people who are now in charge of your life. I'm glad I took the chance. But it could have gone really wrong.

i am so glad that it worked out for you and your son!!!

My husband was charged and did his time in CA but we live in TX. He had 3 years of parole to do and he applied for the interstate compact. CA agreed to let him go but TX refused to take him. The receiving can say yes or no, can impose any conditions they want, etc. I have no idea how federal works, though.