AUSTIN, Texas - Austin Police is responding after a sexual assault survivor claims the department, in her case, did not verify a registered sex offender’s information for 7 years.

APD said they are doing everything the law requires them to do. That appears to be the root of this dispute.

What they're saying:

Tressa Cooper was sexually assaulted in 1999. The man who did it spent more than a decade in prison and is now on the lifetime sex offender registry.

The more than 1,500 sex offenders in Austin are required to come to the police department and provide information about where they live and work to the Sexual Offender Apprehension and Registration, or SOAR Unit.

"And if they feel that anything is off, they let the detective know, hey, something didn't feel right, let's go do a com

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