12
February
LEADERS NEGOTIATE SEX OFFENDER BILL
While supported by victims’ rights advocates and Governor George Pataki, civil confinement measures have failed to pass in the Democrat-led Assembly, in part because of concerns about the civil rights of sex offenders who already have served their time. But this year the Assembly has introduced its own civil commitment bill to rival the one proposed by Senate Republicans. Both are part of a slew of sex offender-related legislation introduced against a backdrop of recent high profile sex crimes. Significant differences between the bills remained after both sides met last