PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Portland Police Bureau is using federal grant money to track down each and every convicted sex offender who lives inside city limits. 

The program is called Sex Offender Registration Detail, or SORD, and it aims to ensure convicted sex predators live where they say they live. 

Experts say one in every five offenders lies about his or her permanent address.

Officer Jason Jones is one of 29 officers assigned to the project. 

“We want to make sure all the kids in the community are safe,” Jones said.

He invited KGW to tag along as he made his rounds one day last week. 

Jones first stopped at a house in a southeast Portland neighborhood.  The sex offender living at this address was in compliance. 

“I was able to positively verify he lives at the address,” he said. 

But it was a much different story at an apartment complex in northeast Portland. No one answered the door at an apartment allegedly registered to a convicted offender. 

Jones then asked neighbors whether they recognized the man. They did not. 

Meanwhile, at another stop, the convicted predator who claimed to live there did not answer the door. Neighbors did not answer their doors, either. 

After calling the offender’s parole officer Jones found out the man had recently moved to Troutdale.  He called the man to remind him to register his new address.

These were just a few of the numerous cases Portland officers are tracking down, but Officer Bridget Sickon, the program’s coordinator, said sex offenders are taking note. 

“They're sitting in their sex offender classes saying, ‘Whoa, what's going on? Somebody's finally looking. Somebody's finally trying to figure out if we are where we say we are,’” she said.

Police should complete phase one of the project by early next year. Phase two will involve searching for the offenders who are eluding police.

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