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The Knox County Sheriff’s Office Sex Offender Registration Unit actively serves arrest warrants and monitors the approx. 800 registered sex offenders in Knox County to make certain they comply with the laws of the State of Tennessee. The Sex Offender Registration Unit also makes notifications to neighborhoods and communities when a high risk registered sex offender moves in. The various allied agencies, in conjunction with the department’s Sex Offender Registration Unit, continue to be active in “Compliance Sweeps” throughout the county, arresting violators of the sex registration laws.