Dear Ministry of Justice,

I request from you the statistics on sex offenders* and sentencing in New Zealand.

Please provide the following information for 2019-2024 (5 year period) for the below points 1-3. Please provide full statistics for points 4-8

1. Number of people found guilty of sex offending

2. Number and Percentage of people who pled guilty to sex offending and were granted bail while awaiting sentencing, with access to public spaces during bail

3. Breakdown of sentencing outcome of people guilty of sex offending
e.g. served a prison sentence less than 5 years, more than 5 years, home detention vs community detention and other sentences

4. Number and Percentage of people guilty of sex offending who were discharged without conviction

5. Number and percentage of all guilty sex offenders who were awarded permanent name suppression

6. Number and percentage of guilty sex offenders who did not need to appear on the sex offenders register for any reason

7. Percentage of sex offender reoffending rates within 5 years, 10 years and 15+ years

8. Number of registered sex offenders currently living in the below areas;
- Rodney District
- Whangaparāoa
- Auckland region
- Wellington region
- North Island
- South Island

Yours faithfully,

Jacinta McGregor

*sex offender has been used as a term to describe any sexual offence under New Zealand law