Category Archive for : ‘ABOUT SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS’

For the past decade, Laura Ahearn, executive director of Parents for Megan’s Law and the CrimeVictim’s Center, has been painstakingly compiling information about sex offenders and distributingit – first by hand, then by e-mail – to their neighbors, including updates like a new car or newscar. Last week, her nonprofit advocacy group received a $593,000 federal grant to take theirproject national, using the sharp new mapping program that enables a computerized tour. After aquick aerial survey of Long Island and the sites where its 1,200 registered sex offenders reside,Ms. Ahearn

A groundbreaking new e-mail system that will provide people with automatic alerts of sexual predators who move into neighborhoods should be up and running on Long Island by March 24.  Laura Ahearn, executive director of Parents for Megan’s Law and the Crime Victims Center, said the system, funded with a $593,000 federal grant announced yesterday, should be in operation statewide in April and nationally by May 1.  She said she expects hundreds of thousands of parents nationwide to sign up to get alerts.  Sex offenders are getting better at what

Federal funding for a Long Island-based computer mapping and e-mail alert system will provide people nationwide with updates when a registered sex offender moves into their neighborhood, a New York congressional delegation is set to announce today.  Parents for Megan’s Law, the Stony Brook-based nonprofit advocacy group, will get a $593,000 grant to build an e-mail alert system that allows users to receive alerts when a sex offender moves into a specific zip code.  The federal money will also be used to expand the National Megan’s law Helpline, which is

Ethiopian Review

Jill Campbell, a 45 year old British teacher faces jail in Ethiopia after being convicted ofdefamation for her role in exposing paedophiles working in Swiss charity Terre Des Hommes-Lausanne(TdH), a children’s charity.  Campbell and her husband Gary complied a dossier of evidencethat helped to convict a British sex offender who admitted having a sexual relationship with achild in his care.  A second suspect committed suicide.  The charity admitted that abusehad taken place at its care facilities in the village of Jari, but denied the Campbells’accusations that senior staff

Brookhaven Third District Councilwoman Kathy Walsh is working with Parents for Megan’s law to draft a law in an attempt to restrict the number of sex offenders who can live in a residential home.  Walsh is aiming to create a resolution that would change Brookhaven Town’s zoning laws so that only one convicted registered sex offender would be allowed to live in a residential house.  Every one of us has an expectation as to our quality of life and the safety of our kids, yet we’re being confronted with landlords

Suffolk officials announced Friday a plan they say will create an omnipresence of police officers in the Mastic-Shirley area to shield students from attacks and discourage registered sex offenders from approaching children.  The plan, drafted at the request of Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy after a series of disturbing incidents near schools, includes more cops on foot around schools, increased use of surveillance cameras, and police visits to registered sex offenders.  There is no proof that sex offenders are responsible for any of the crimes but Levy said the county’s