WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office Offender Registration Unit conducted a verification sweep at the homes of 432 registered of offenders on Friday in the eastern portion of Sedgwick County including east Wichita.

Nineteen sheriff’s deputies, two parole officers from the Kansas Department of Corrections and 14 officers from the Wichita Police Department were involved in the verification sweep.

Deputies and officers went to locations offenders had given as their home address to verify they lived there. During the sweep, they found that 19 offenders had moved and not reported their new address, or never lived at the address, or had given an address that did not exist. Offenders that fail to register or give false or misleading information may be charged through District Court with felony non-compliance of offender registration

Registered offenders in Kansas are required under state statute to register with their local sheriff’s office every three months and are required to provide their home address. The offender’s information is entered into the Offender Watch Program accessible to the public through the Sheriff’s Office website. Citizens may search for the presence of registered offenders in proximity to any address in Sedgwick County through the Offender Watch Program.

Site visitors may also sign up for e-mail alerts that notify them should a registered offender move within their neighborhood. Citizens may access the offender registry through the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s web page at www.sedgwickcounty.org/sheriff.