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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Investigative reporter Daralene Jones has since learned there is no law that force sex offenders to stay off the properties that have become long-term housing solutions for Central Florida's growing homeless community.

Jones spent weeks pulling information from the public websites maintained by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulations where it revealed hundreds of sex offenders living in extended stay motels in Orange, Seminole, Volusia, Brevard, Osceola, Lake and Marion counties.