DORAL, Fla. -- A special police task force on Thursday arrested convicted sexual predators who moved and never reregistered with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Under a new law, the Jessica Lunsford Act, convicted sex offenders in Florida have to check in with police at least twice a year. The law is named after a 9-year-old girl who was kidnapped, abused and killed in Homosassa, Fla., allegedly at the hands of a convicted sex offender, NBC 6's Tom Llamas reported.
The Miami-Dade Police Department said many offenders do not follow the law, so detectives hit the streets Thursday to round up sex offenders who have not registered with the FDLE."That requirement consists of them reporting twice a year, once in their birth month and six months thereafter," said Ronald Rebozo of the Miami-Dade Sex Crimes Bureau.One of the men was convicted of showing his genitals to a girl who was a minor. The man said he always reports to police and that he has not broken any laws or tried to run. But police arrested the man and several others for not reregistering.Miami-Dade police had a list of about 85 offenders, all men, whose crimes ranged from rape to lewd behavior with a minor."We will on the spot reregister them, give them a notice of responsibilities of the requirements of all the new legislation. And we're going to be able to make the community safer," Rebozo said.Many of the sex offenders told NBC 6 they had no idea about the new law. Miami-Dade police said that law enforcement agencies had sent the offenders several pieces of mail, so they should have been aware of the new legislation.
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