Grant County Sheriff, Department of Corrections, and U.S. Marshals Conduct Sex Offender Compliance Check

Grant County Sheriff, Department of Corrections, and U.S. Marshals Conduct Sex Offender Compliance Check

The following news release was published by the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Marshals Service on June 24, 2019. It is reproduced in full below.

Grant County, WI - The U.S. Marshals, along with the Wisconsin Department of Corrections Sex Offender Registry Program and the Grant County Sheriff’’s Department, conducted a residence verification operation for registered sex offenders. On May 28th and 29th, deputies checked the addresses of 81 registered sex offenders in Grant County. Six were found to be noncompliant. The sex offender registry program specialist will investigate and make recommendations to the district attorney as necessary.

This initiative is part of the working relationship between the U.S. Marshals Sex Offender Investigations Branch and the Wisconsin Department of Corrections Sex Offender Registration Program which monitors all 24,187 Wisconsin sex offenders. The Wisconsin Department of Corrections maintains a database for the general public at http://offender.doc.state.wi.us/public/.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Marshals Service

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