Agents launch 'Operation Boo' in Fresno to monitor sex offenders ahead of Halloween

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Before nightfall, parole agents gathered successful East Central Fresno connected Friday to spell implicit their plans for "Operation Boo."

The instrumentality enforcement enactment is to interaction convicted and registered enactment offenders who served clip down bars and are present free.

Authorities accidental it's each to marque definite enactment criminals are not doing thing to lure imaginable victims to their homes.

Agent Robert Provencio with the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation says erstwhile convicted enactment offenders are released from serving jailhouse time, they hold not to enactment successful holidays similar Halloween.

"They cannot person immoderate decorations, they cannot person immoderate candies successful the residence. And nary light, nary exterior lights tin beryllium connected astatine the residence," Agent Provencio says.

He explains that agents are going to absorption connected those with underage victims and past dispersed retired to different intersexual predators.

If instrumentality enforcement does find idiosyncratic not pursuing the rules, they volition beryllium arrested immediately.

"The extremity is that families and children are enjoying Halloween, determination are nary different victims retired there," helium says.

Provencio says Operation Boo has been ongoing for decades crossed the state, including successful Tulare County.

On Thursday, the Tulare County Sheriff's Office conducted its ain operation.

"Doing it a mates days earlier benignant of sends the connection retired there, similar hey, we haven't forgotten astir you. We cognize that you're retired there. We're watching and we're making definite you're staying successful compliance erstwhile it comes to the law," Ashley Ritchie, Media Supervisor for the Tulare County Sheriff's Office.

The Sheriff's Office says they visited implicit 60 homes and made nary arrests during Thursday's operation.

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