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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For Immediate Release

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office is pleased to announce the sentencing of registered sexual offender Timothy Flowers, 36 year old white male, to 5 years Department of Corrections for failure to follow sexual offender registration requirements according to Florida Statue.

Flowers is one of several sexual offenders that have been taken into custody as a result of increased monitoring as outlined in a new program instituted almost 2 years ago by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.  This new program which resulted in the development of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office Sexual Offender Registration Department, was designed to guarantee sexual offenders in Washington County are following the new state registration requirements.  State law requires offenders register every 6 months, but the Washington County Sheriff’s Office completes monthly residence checks to ensure offenders are residing at the residence in which they have registered. 

“When we identified that several sexual offenders were falling threw the cracks we made it a priority to assign a department, consisting of Sgt. Gary Hall and Karen Dodd, to focus on tracking these offenders and immediately apprehending those who do no follow the requirements for registration” states Sheriff Haddock.  “We have presented these cases to Assistant State Attorney Barbara Finch and with a successful prosecution in the Flowers case, we are sending a strong message to sexual offenders who choose not to follow the rules put in place by the state.”