Meet the chief evaluator of Georgia’s sex offenders

SORRB Atlanta office

SORRB is headquartered in the James H. "Sloppy" Floyd Building across from the State Capitol in Atlanta. (Credit: Beau Evans for State Affairs)

Key Points
  • Playmaker: Tracy Alvord.
  • Role: Executive Director of the Georgia Sexual Offender Registration Review Board.
  • Tenure: 2010 to present.
Sexual abuse was something nobody talked about in the small upstate New York town outside Buffalo where Tracy Alvord grew up. Now, she deals with it on a daily basis. For the past decade, Alvord has headed up the little-known state agency that plays a big role in how Georgia’s more than 23,000 sex offenders are tracked after they’ve served time in prison for convictions of rape, child molestation or possessing child pornography. Read about how ankle monitors are being removed from ...