Tribes are facing a July 26 deadline to implement their own sex offender registration systems.

The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act requires tribes and states to develop tracking and notification systems. The original deadline to comply with the law was July 2009 but the Obama administration extended it to July 2010.

One-year extensions were granted on a case-by-case basis. That means this July is the final deadline for those tribes that received an additional extension.

"We're going to support them as best we can," U.S. Marshal Darrell Bell told The Billings Gazette of the agency's efforts to help tribes in Montana comply with the law.

Two tribes in Montana have already set up their own systems and three more are on their way to meeting the deadline, Bell said. The Blackfeet Nation, however, will let Glacier County handle sex offenders who live on the reservation.

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Montana tribes must track sex offenders by end of July (The Billings Gazette 6/6)