Delaware County Sheriff's Office Implements Use of OffenderWatch Program – Newstalk KZRG

The Delaware County Sheriff's Office is currently implementing a program called OffenderWatch.

This program is the nation's largest and most versatile sex offender registry monitoring and community notification resource for law enforcement. Delaware County Sheriff James Beck says more than 15,000 law enforcement agencies currently use the program, including the Cherokee Nation.

The program will help the Sheriff's Office track and ensure compliance of registered sex offenders.

One feature of this program is that if a person moving to the county is a registered sex offender and the agency they moved from used this program, all previous law enforcement information that was entered into the system can be transferred.

Another important option for OffenderWatch is a mobile app called the Family Safety App.

The use of technology in today's Internet of Things to track, solve and fight crime is important.

Sheriff Beck, as part of the deal for OffenderWatch, included all local police departments in the county so they would have the opportunity to use the software at no cost to their agency.