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January
SUFFOLK ANNOUNCES PLAN TO CLOSE SEX-OFFENDER TRAILERS
Newsday/Paul Larocco
Thursday morning Suffolk police announced the county’s intention to close the controversialEast End trailers that house homeless sex offenders. Officials call this part of a plan thetoughest monitoring and enforcement program in the nation for all registered sex offenders. The 38 homeless sex offenders now clustered nightly in the trailers in Riverside and Westhamptonwill be spread throughout the county’s existing shelter system, no more than one perfacility. The county will team with the advocacy group Parents for Megan’s Law to betterproactively monitor registrants and offer more tools for residents