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Newsday/David M. Schwartz 2/18/15 Long Island officials called for strengthening state laws for monitoring convicted sexoffenders after a court ruling yesterday that struck down Nassau County’s restrictions on whereoffenders can live. The State Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court, ruled that localgovernments cannot impose their own conditions on where offenders may live. The court saidNassau overstepped its authority in passing legislation prohibiting Level 1 offenders, consideredlow risk of a repeat offense, from living within 1,000 feet of a school. The decisioneffectively invalidated more than 100 municipal ordinances across the