Sheriffs’ offices conduct residence verifications, compliance checks and make arrests of non-compliant registered sex offenders throughout the year, in an effort to track the movements of offenders and enforce registration requirements.

This is the eleventh coordinated effort encompassing the resources and labor of all sheriffs’ offices in order to illustrate to the public and offenders this critical work is being accomplished.

We invite you to participate in this effort which proved to be a success in past years. Sheriffs’ Offices utilized different methods and approaches to accomplish the verification checks. Feel free to contact your GSA Task Force member or GSA staff to determine what methods were most successful.

Participating in this statewide initiative creates awareness that sheriffs’ offices work collectively, network, and actively engage by participating in statewide verification checks and other non-compliant matters, in order to make our state safer and showcase the excellent work of our sheriffs’ offices.

This planned initiative SHOULD NOT be considered a statewide roundup of sex offenders who are not in compliance with the law, rather, this initiative should demonstrate the ongoing mandated duty of the sheriff to provide notification to the public.

Address verification checks, though not required by law are an important part of public notification. The initiative will undeniably make an impact within the community, ultimately lead to a surge of arrests due to non-compliance, and be an affirmative public relations story for the sheriff.

The activity of this initiative is just a snapshot of the activity that takes place across Georgia’s counties, but will offer the public a glimpse of what this one mandated duty of the sheriff encompasses.

The Sheriffs of Georgia have initiated this statewide check primarily because sheriffs’ offices have a far greater responsibility to register and monitor sex offenders than any other law enforcement agency in Georgia. Primary agencies involved in this initiative are the Georgia Sheriffs’ Association, GSA Sex Offender Registry Task Force, Deputy Sheriffs, Investigators and other SOR Contact Personnel.

Additional law enforcement agencies which sheriffs may choose to involve are the U.S. Marshals, U.S. Probation Officers, Georgia Department of Community Supervision (probation & parole officers), other sheriff’s offices, local police departments and others.

If your office participates in a joint effort with other agencies, please make sure to report your activity to GSA via the electronic reporting system.

This initiative is no different than your weekly, monthly or quarterly verification checks. You may choose to perform as many verifications possible, search for absconders and execute warrants, or simply conduct the normal verification duties typically performed during a week.

• Utilize your regional task force representative if you need assistance planning this initiative. Click here to access your task force member’s contact information.
• Determine who in your agency will perform specific functions, such as:
  • Verification of addresses
  • Compliance checks; ensure RSO is in compliance with registry statutes
  • Secure and execute warrants; existing and newly secured warrants
  • Maintain stats to be reported through a web-based program provided by GSA.

A press release will be provided immediately following the operation, including the statewide statistical information.

Want to know more about this initiative? Join us for a live 15 minute information overview webinar on Tuesday, September 29th at 10:00 am or 2:00 pm.

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• # of RSO residing in your county as of October 26
• # of predators residing in your county as of October 26
• # of homeless offenders in your county as of October 26
• # of absconders registered in your county as of October 26
• # of residence verifications during October 26-November 2; include multiple attempts on each offender
• # of warrants issued for residence violations during October 26-November 2
• # of warrants issued for new sex offenses during October 26-November 2
• # of warrants issued for violation of SOR (other than residence violations) during October 26-November 2
• # of warrants issued for new charges other than sex offenses during October 26-November 2
• # of warrants executed for new charges other than sex offenses October 26-November 2 (ex: outstanding warrant served while conducting a residence check)
• # of newly registered sex offenders during October 26-November 2

• Please click here to complete the fields to populate your statistical data for the dates October 26-November 2.
• The deadline to provide statistics is Wednesday, November 4 by midnight.
• A press release will be emailed to you on Friday, November 6, which will include the statewide statistics.
• NOTE: GSA AND YOUR SORTF RECOMMEND THAT ALL PRESS RELEASES REGARDING OPERATION WATCHFUL EYE XI BE RELEASED AFTER THE EVENT, SO AS NOT TO ALERT THE OFFENDERS OF THIS INITIATIVE.

Please submit your results by
Wednesday, November 4, 2026

If you have questions, concerns, or would like additional information on performing the compliance checks, contact: