Once convicted and ordered by the court, sex offenders/pedophiles must register with the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction where they live. Furthermore, EVERY offender knows they cannot live, nor be within a specified number of feet from a school, playground or place where children gather, to list just a few limitations.

Well, recently, a sex offender/ pedophile from Rockport, Texas, Aransas County missed the memo or that tell-tale sign as he wandered into town. He did not know that Rosenberg is NOT the place an offender who has failed to follow the rules wants to live. Rosenberg does not take the task of minding sex offenders lightly.

Rosenberg Police could be considered a little narrow-minded about sex offenders in their city, never forgetting the offender’s civil rights but ever mindful of the liberty and safety of their own citizens.

Last week, we learned that not only the police are concerned for the citizens, but also local businesses. Because of the extra effort taken by a local business in a background check on an applicant, registered sex offender, James Arnold Huff, 38, is now back behind bars. He was arrested on an outstanding warrant for failure to maintain registration as a sex offender.

According to police, Huff last registered in 2002 and then moved without notification to law enforcement. He was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a 13-year-old female in 1991 and sentenced to 10 years in TDC. In March, 2001, he was released from prison.

According to police, Huff told his prospective employer that he had been living in Rosenberg for two and half years and was working as a maintenance man at a mobile home park behind Bowie Elementary School. Inquiry at the Texas sex offender database shows Huff’s last listing with Aransas County as October 20, 2004. His address information is listed as unknown.