Category Archive for : ‘ABOUT SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS’

Newsday/Robert Kessler

Salvatore Zimmardi, a 60 year old who has served 3 years in prison for molesting a preteengirl, was charged Friday with illegally selling two handguns to an FBI informant for $100.  itis illegal for a felon to possess or sell firearms.  Zimmardi was also taped asking theinformant to find a hit man who could somebody for $10,000.  The intended victim was theperson whose police report led to the arrest on molestation charges, Zimmardi’s former girlfriend,the girl’s mother.  He pleaded not guilty to the gun charges and his public

Newsday/Mitchell Freedman

Up to 18 homeless registered sex offenders have been living in a trailer on the grounds of theSuffolk County Jail in Riverhead for more than a year.  Residents complain the trailer iswithin walking distance, less than a mile, of schools, parks and the Riverhead Library.  Themen living in the trailer are there because the county must legally accept and provide housing forhomeless sex offenders released from prison.  The offenders, generally medium and high risk,have served their prison sentences and are there voluntarily, but the trailer is not a securefacility. 

The Long Island Advance

Assemblywoman Patricia Eddington (WF-Medford) announced New York state will once again becontinuing Operation Halloween: Zero Tolerance, a program that will keep sex offenders under strictsupervision and limit their activities on Halloween.  The statewide operation requires all sexoffender parolees remain in their homes beginning at 3 p.m. on Halloween, or immediately followingdismissal from work or other approved community program, until 6 a.m. the following morning. Parolees are banned from participating in all Halloween activities: they are prohibited fromwearing costumes, masks or disguises; and they may not answer their

The Long Island Advance

Assemblywoman Patricia Eddington (WFP-Medford) announced recently that Governor Patersonsigned legislation she authored preventing the clustering of sex predators into law. Eddington’s measure requires the NYS Division of Parole to consider various factors before placingLevel 2 and Level 3 offenders into the community, including: – Location of other sex predators required to register under the Sex Offender RegistrationAct – The number of registered offenders residing at a particular property – Proximity to vulnerable populations – Availability of permanent, stable housing in order to reduce likelihood that suchoffenders will be

New York Times/Catrin Einhorn

A federal judge in Missouri on Monday temporarily blocked parts of a new state law thatrequires sexual offenders to remain in their homes on Halloween evening and to avoid any contactwith children related to the holiday.

Newsday/Ellen Yan

Misdemeanor sex offenders will now be barred from getting real estate agent and brokerlicenses under a new state law. Felons have almost always been barred from getting state licenses -unless they won administrative  hearings or got pardoned – but when it came to misdemeanors,including sex related offenses, the New York State Department of State, which oversees licensing,had more flexibility in licensing.
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