Operation Safe County

The Choctaw County Sheriff’s Office in conjunction with the United States Marshall Service conducted a sex offender compliance check throughout Choctaw County.  Dubbed as Operation Safe County, the compliance check began Monday, July 10, 2017.  Two teams made personal visits to all Choctaw County registered sex offenders.  The goal was to visit all sex offender homes to ensure they were in compliance with the Sex Offender Reporting and Notification Act.  Operation Safe County concluded Tuesday night, July 11, 2017.  Of the registered sex offenders, 36 met the legal standards set out for a home inspection.  At the conclusion of Operation Safe County, three federal cases were made on existing registered sex offenders.   All three federal cases were for registered sex offenders leaving the state of Alabama without  notifying the Choctaw County Sheriffs Office prior to departure.  The Choctaw County Sheriffs Office made a total of  eight state charges.  Two arrests were made on site.  One on site arrest was for obscuring the “Registered Sex Offender” on their Alabama drivers license or Alabama identification card.  The other on site arrest was for two violations; not residing at the proper address of record and another charge for having contact with a minor when forbidden to do so.  Five additional warrants were issued for sex offenders which were not present during the inspection and the investigations revealed that they were not in compliance.  Those five warrants were for moving without notifying the Choctaw County Sheriffs Office or for failure to register.  Of the 36 registered sex offenders checked, 10 registered sex offenders will be arrested at some point for violations of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.  This was the first time in many years that the Choctaw County Sheriff’s Office has performed a random compliance check on sex offenders.  Sheriff Scott Lolley would like to thank the United States Marshalls Service for their assistance with this endeavor.

To view a listing of registered sex offenders in Choctaw County go to www.choctawso.com.  Click on “Sex Offender Search” and then click “Accept”.  Under “County” enter “Choctaw” and all of the registered offenders will be listed.