ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A Central Florida woman said she used an online search and found that a registered sex offender was working at a tanning salon -- legally, according to a Local 6 News report.

Viewer Brooke Nelms said she had just moved into a new neighborhood and decided to search the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Web site for sex offenders.

She called Local 6 after discovering that a man who works at her tanning salon in west Orange County is a sex offender.

"He happened to be the first person who popped up within two miles of my new address," Nelms said. "(It) made me kind of nauseous. I've seen girls that are high-school age in there."

Nelms said that people are vulnerable at tanning salons.

"You're basically asleep, you have the music up, you feel like there's this level of safety because the door is locked," Brooke Nelms said. "But you're not safe because someone has a key."

Local 6 did not identify the man or the salon because the person in question said he is always supervised, there are no complaints against him, he is not on probation and he is not doing anything wrong.

Police said sex offenders and predators are allowed to work at tanning salons.

"It is absolutely legal, which surprised us," Local 6's Erik von Ancken said. "Sure sex offenders have to work somewhere but are tanning salons a good idea? (It's) where women, many of them young, are exposed, alone and vulnerable."

"If you have some sort of a problem and you are a sex offender, you don't need to be somewhere in a place where you have easy access to (where) potential victims might be," Nelms said.

Paul Weber, who owns a different tanning salon in College Park, said he checks out all of his employees and would never hire a sex offender.

Weber told Local 6 that he thought it was a terrible idea to hire sex offenders at salons and that it should be illegal.

"I think it is opportunity," Weber said. "It's the same reason you don't want sex offenders living within so many yards of an elementary school or high school."

Weber and Nelms said the law should be changed, either making it illegal for sex offenders to work at tanning salons or requiring businesses to post notice if they do hire an offender, Local 6 reported.

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