Category Archive for : ‘ABOUT SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS’

Newsday/Reid J. Epstein

Senator Charles Schumer and Representative Peter King said Parents for Megan’s Law andsimilar organizations should have the same access to federal criminal data as law enforcementagencies.  Schumer said he would introduce legislation to allow the Stony Brook-basednonprofit organization to have real-time access to the National Crime Information Center, anFBI-administered index of criminal justice information known as NCIC.  Schumer said Parentsfor Megan’s Law, with access to the federal criminal database, could help law enforcement agenciestrack convicted sex offenders.  Why should there be this wall? Schumer said.  It makesno

Riverhead officials have gone to court to force Suffolk County to move a trailer for sexoffenders from its current location behind a fence at the Riverhead County Jail, charging that thehousing is illegal because it is less than 1,000 feet from a town park.  But, county officialssay, the park is not really a park at all, just a bit of open space along the Peconic River withtwo benches and a garbage can and they add, the trailer for the homeless men was there first.

(New York)

New York Times/Abby Goodnough and Monica Davey

An aggressive federal effort to keep track of sexual offenders is at risk of collapse becauseof objections from states and legal challenges from sex offenders and others.  The effort,approved by Congress three years ago, requires all states to adopt strict standards for registeringsex offenders and is meant to prevent offenders from eluding the authorities, especially when theymove out of state.  The law followed several heinous crimes by sex offenders on the run,including Joseph E. Duncan III, who in 2005 fled North Dakota, where he

About 90,000 sex offenders have been identified and removed from the social networking web siteMySpace.  The number was nearly double what MySpace officials estimated last year. MySpace and Facebook implemented dozens of safeguards, including limiting the ability of olderusers to search members younger than 18.

(Raleigh, North Carolina)

The North Shore Sun/Peggy Spellman Hoey

Elected officials from various levels of government held a press conference on Sunday,spearheaded by former US Attorney and Brookhaven Town Supervisor candidate Mark Lesko, to denouncea recent court ruling that preempts restrictions on where convicted sex offenders can reside. Lesko was joined by New York State Senator Brian X. Foley, New York State Assemblyman Marc Alessi,and Suffolk county Legislators Kate Browning and Brian Beedenbender to voice opposition to New YorkState Supreme Court Justice William Kelly’s decision overturning a Rockland County law placingrestrictions on where sex

Newsday/Erik German

A judge’s decision overturning a Rockland County law restricting where sex offenders livecould affect dozens of similar laws statewide, including many on Long Island, where municipalitieshave rushed to enact tough residency legislation over the last few years.  In a decisionFriday, State Supreme court Justice William Kelly said local residency rules are superseded by NewYork State law, which specifically empowers local probation officers to decide where to place sexoffenders in communities.  While the Rockland court holds no sway over other counties, legalexperts said the ruling’s impact could spread if