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Newsday/Paul Larocco Last night the Suffolk Legislature passed an emergency bill that supporters said will end ayearslong debate about where to house homeless sex offenders while creating the toughestmonitoring and enforcement program in the nation.  The bill intensifies monitoring of thecounty’s 1,016 registered sex offenders and will close down trailers on the East End.  Thehomeless sex offenders will be dispersed to county homeless shelters throughout Suffolk but willnot be housed with families.  Upon enactment of this law, no one will have a strongerapproach than Suffolk County, said Laura Ahearn, executive

Newsday/Paul Larocco

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone is pressing lawmakers to act Tuesday on an emergencybill requiring more aggressive monitoring of the county’s 1,106 convicted sex offenders.  Heplans to seek a certificate of necessity, which bypasses the committee process and publichearings that require advance notice.  Suffolk police would contract with Parents for Megan’sLaw, a nonprofit that seeks to prevent child sexual abuse to step up enforcement of requirementsthat convicted sex offenders accurately register their current addresses with police.  Bellonealso will close trailers on the East End that house 38 homeless

Newsday/John Valenti

Scott A. Kessler, a 50 year old Southold man, faces charges of stalking and harassment in adomestic incident Monday and was found to be in possession of a .45-caliber pistol and ahigh-capacity ammunition magazine.  He was charged with fourth degree stalking, second degreeharassment and two counts of third degree criminal possession of a weapon.
(New York)

The New York Times/Michael Schwirtz

Two trailers in this wealthy beach town stand as testament to an increasingly intractableproblem for localities across the country: where to let sex offenders live after prison. About 40sex offenders in all are living in the trailers in Southampton within walking distance of aretirement community and the other is in the parking lot of a prison.  A bus service financedby the county transports the men between the trailers and pickup points, including train stations,in Suffolk.  County Executive Steve Bellone, had vowed to remove the trailers

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Philip Nicolopoulos, a 48 year old Setauket man, was arrested for possessing childpornography after his computers were seized from his 27 Branch Lane home just 1/2 mile fromArrowhead Elementary School.  He has been charged with two counts of Possession of a SexualPerformance by a Child.
(New York) 

Newsday

Housing homeless sex offenders in Suffolk County’s shelter system — but away from homelessfamilies — and more intensely monitoring all registered sex offenders, is a plan that couldfinally solve a problem that has bedeviled the county for years.  The Suffolk legislatureshould approve the proposal, which would allow Suffolk to close trailers in Westhampton andRiverside currently housing 38 homeless offenders, and avoid clustering the men in any othercommunities.  Rather than continuing to lavish time, attention and resources on the fewoffenders who are homeless, the plan developed by Suffolk County police