Sex offenders live in our communities. If you have questions about how they’re monitored, where they are and what they are -- and aren’t --permitted to do, continue reading for a comprehensive look at the guidelines they are instructed to live by and their limitations.

RICHMOND, Texas – The Richmond Police Department and Fort Bend County District Attorneys’ office is asking parents to sit down with their children to find out if they were ever victims of child abuse. This comes after a Richmond hair salon employee was arrested and charged with three counts of indecency with a child. Chavarria is also a registered sex offender and has been charged with two counts of violating his sex offender registration requirements. Fort Bend County Assistant District Attorney Craig Priesmeyer said that because of the allegations and evidence in the case they believe there could be more victims. Chavarria is being held at the Fort Bend County jail on a $320,000 bond.

HOUSTON Neil Patrick Broussard, 51, is behind bars in Lake Charles, Louisana, after a crime spree that sparked a 24-hour manhunt Wednesday. Broussard is a registered sex offender, who had already had charges pending in Houston and Lake Charles. Early Wednesday morning, he went to a friends house in suburban Lake Charles and confronted forty-year-old Catherine Hidalgo. On Wednesday, Broussard released the 14-year-old girl unharmed in Lake Charles. He remained at-large until Thursday morning when he walked into a Lake Charles Dollar General Store and surrendered.