Category Archive for : ‘HOMELESS SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS’

newsday.com/Stacey Altherr

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone joins Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holstand Legislator Jay Schneiderman at Southampton Town Hall at 3 pm Thursday to announce plans for thelocation of trailers that house sex offender.  The trailers, now sited in Riverhead on thegrounds of the county jail and in Westhampton, have been placed in the Town of Southampton since2007.  The trailers were supposed to be moved to other towns on a rotating basis but they havenever been moved.  The county is legally responsible to provide housing for homeless sexoffenders released

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Daniel Ostrander, a 45 year old convicted sex offender, was sentenced to 50 years in prisonfor failing to register.  He was released from prison in 2010 after serving most of a 25 yearsentence for the sexual assault of a child.  Just before he was scheduled to meet withauthorities and register as a sex offender, he cut off his GPS tracking device and left his halfwayhouse.  He turned himself in two months later because he said he was tired of beinghomeless.  He told jurors, If you give me anything else

tri-cityherald.com/Paula Horton

John D. Babcock, a 60 year old level 3 convicted sex offender who used his position as aGirl Scout leader to sexually assault young girls, now is living in Benton County.  He wasreleased Tuesday as an untreated transient sex offender and does not have a permanentaddress.    Babcock, who is required to check in weekly at the sheriff’s office,also identifies himself as a transgender and uses the name Sarah Babcock.  Babcock wasarrested in 1992 in King County after being accused of luring his victims into truth or dare,\strip poker

newsday.com/Reid J. Epstein

Suffolk legislators approved a plan Tuesday to place the county’s homeless sex offenders in places that would be kept secret during the site-selection process, though county Executive Steve Levy signaled he would veto the measure.  The legislation would create a network of mini-shelters throughout the county and effectively close the Southampton trailers where the homeless sex offenders have been living. The shelters would be located in industrial areas, and no town or legislative district would have more than one.  The shelters would also have 24-hour-a-day supervision and

Newsday/Reid J. Epstein

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy will veto legislation aimed at ending the county’svoucher program for homeless sex offenders, Levy’s office said Wednesday.  Levy said the bill,which puts an immediate stop to the $90-a-day vouchers for homeless sex offenders to stay in hotelrooms while giving the county’s Department of Social Services 30 days to develop a new housing planthat spreads them out across the county, would leave the county without the ability to house abouttwo dozen county homeless sex offenders.  Presiding officer William Lindsay (D-Holbrook), whowrote the legislation

South Shore Press

At the March 23 Meeting of the General Legislature, Legislator Jack Eddington, Chair ofPublic Safety, was joined by all of his fellow legislators to pass his bill to require homeless sexoffenders to wear GPS tracking devices.  The new law will ensure that all homeless registeredsex offenders who are placed into temporary housing by Suffolk County Department of Social Serviceswill wear a GPS ankle bracelet for the duration of their stay in temporary housing.
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