Sex Offenders Targeted In Statewide Sweep
(KABC) – Sex offenders in violation of their parole are being rounded up by law enforcement on Friday as part of a statewide sweep called “Operation Safe Playgrounds.”
State, federal and local law enforcement are teaming up to crack down on convicted child molesters, rapists and other sex offenders considered the greatest risk to the public.
L.A. County has the most sex offenders of any other county in California.
See an updated list of Sex Offenders living in the Coachella Valley here
The California Parole Apprehension Team (CPAT) fanned out across the state this week to arrest parolees who have cut off contact with their parole agents. Some of the sex offenders, who are now back in custody, had let the batteries run low on their GPS bracelets, making them harder to track.
CPAT also checked cell phones and computers of parolees and found some of them had violated the terms of their parole based on the content agents uncovered.
“We found individuals that had various amounts of pornography,” said Erskine Richmond, a CPAT member. “One person, I believe, had child imaging and stuff like that. The rest had some type of pornography.”
Some of the parolees had crossed state lines, and others failed to register as sex offenders – both are violations of their parole.
