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The state Department of Public Safety, which had removed the name of a man convicted of rape in Michigan from New Mexico's public list of sex offenders, said Friday he's going back on the list.

The reversal of the decision regarding David Siebers came after a second review of law enforcement records ordered by Gov. Bill Richardson.

Siebers spent 19 years in prison in Michigan for multiple rape and robbery convictions and a conviction for trying to lure a 9-year-old girl into his vehicle.

A news release said new information discovered during the review was not available to the Department of Public Safety before Friday. The agency said the information shows that the Michigan crime meets the requirements to post Siebers' name and photo on New Mexico's sex offender Internet site.

Siebers - who was run out of Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky before settling in New Mexico in late 2002 - has lived in various locations in the state, including Bernalillo County, Socorro County and near Santa Rosa. In 2003, someone burned his mobile home near Chilili; he also was punched by another man that year.

"If someone is convicted of a sex crime in another state, we owe it to the public to make sure that the public knows if that sex offender is moving to New Mexico," Richardson said.

DPS officials who originally examined Siebers' convictions had concluded that his formal crime, "criminal sexual conduct," didn't fall under the definition of a sex crime for purposes of the list.

Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White was upset by that decision and said his department wasn't notified about it. He had threatened legal action against the removal of Siebers' name, contending the state agency did not follow the law requiring that people convicted of certain crimes be placed on the list.