We present new results of our program to systematically search for strongly lensed galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey ( SDSS ) imaging data .
In this study six strong lens systems are presented which we have confirmed with follow-up spectroscopy and imaging using the 3.5m telescope at the Apache Point Observatory .
Preliminary mass models indicate that the lenses are group-scale systems with velocity dispersions ranging from 466 - 878 km { s ^ { -1 } } at z = 0.17 - 0.45 which are strongly lensing source galaxies at z = 0.4 - 1.4 .
Galaxy groups are a relatively new mass scale just beginning to be probed with strong lensing .
Our sample of lenses roughly doubles the confirmed number of group-scale lenses in the SDSS and complements ongoing strong lens searches in other imaging surveys such as the CFHTLS ( 8 ) .
As our arcs were discovered in the SDSS imaging data they are all bright ( r \lesssim 22 ) , making them ideally suited for detailed follow-up studies .