What is DD Form 2791? It is a Department of Defense form titled DD Form 2791, Notice of Release/Acknowledgement of Convicted Sex Offender Registration Requirements, March 2013, and its job is straightforward: Notice of Release/Acknowledgement of Convicted Sex Offender Registration Requirements. That single line covers most of what people want to know before they download it.
Will you need a different form because of where you serve? No. DD forms are Department-wide instruments, and that scope is what separates them from service publications. One edition, all branches, defense agencies included.
Who decides this form exists? not stated owns it; not stated directs its use. If someone told you to file this, the authority traces back to those.
Is this the right edition? The current one is dated not stated, and the publisher carries it as not stated. Check that against whatever copy you already have before going further.
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).
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 3 pages with roughly 62 fields to complete.
Fillable or printable — which do you have? Click inside a box. If it accepts a cursor and typed text, the file is fillable and your entries save with it. If nothing happens, the pdf is flat, and the only way forward is printing it and writing on paper.
Is handwriting acceptable? Yes, but it is the weaker choice. Scanning flattens pen strokes and reproduction blurs them, while typed characters survive the whole chain intact. Print in capitals if you are working from a paper blank.
Can you skip around the form? Better not to. The layout runs identification, then content, then certification, and entries near the bottom frequently take their meaning from what sits above them.
What if your copy is old? Replace it. Check the date printed on the form against not stated. Old blanks circulate for years in shared folders, and because a DD revision lands across the whole Department at once, the receiving office will be working from the new layout.
Is the form its own instruction manual? Partly. The rest sits in not stated, which is also the authority where the two texts conflict.
Where does the completed form go? To the office named in not stated or in your organization's local procedure. Should you keep a copy? Always — a scan or a saved file costs nothing and spares you the whole exercise if the original disappears.
Do you need to know which branch issued a related form? No. DD numbering is Department-wide and unified, which means the number on its own is a complete address for the document.
Why do some instructions cite both a DA and a DD form? Because the procedure touches both systems, not because the forms are related. Service forms answer to a service proponent; DD forms answer to not stated or another Department office. The sequences were never aligned.
How often does a form like this change? Unpredictably — revision follows directive changes, altered collection requirements and updated notice language. What is the practical defence? Verifying not stated every time you download rather than trusting a saved copy.
Is any of this advice? No. This page distributes a published Defense form and explains its contents, which is a different thing from telling you whether your circumstances qualify or whether a reviewer will accept your copy. Direct questions of eligibility, applicability and procedure to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office designated 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?