New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 10 - PUBLIC SAFETY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
Chapter 2 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
Part 3 - PROCEDURE TO CONTEST SORNA EQUIVALENCY DETERMINATION
Section 10.2.3.8 - NOTIFICATION TO COUNTY SHERIFF OF OUT-OF-STATE REGISTRANT

A. Within 10 business days of receipt by the department of a letter or other notification from an out-of-state law enforcement or other agency that an individual required by that state to register as a sex offender intends to relocate to New Mexico, the department shall notify the county sheriff in the county in which the out-of-state registrant intends to reside and shall provide to the county sheriff copies of any and all documents that may accompany that notification. The initial notification by the department to the county sheriff will remind the county sheriff not to place the out-of-state registrant on any public facing local registry until notified by the department that it may do so.

B. When an out-of-state registrant presents himself or herself to the sheriff and prior to the translation, the sheriff shall make an entry into the investigative notes section of Offender Watch, noting that the out-of-state registrant presented himself or herself for registration and that the translation by the department is pending. The sheriff shall also notify the department of the need for the department to enter the same information into the miscellaneous notes in the National Crime Information Center .