Category Archive for : ‘IMPLEMENTATION OF NOTIFICATION’

Robert Howard is accused of killing 12-year-old Naomi Jones in Pensacola. Howard, a convictedrapist, was a registered sex offender in Escambia County, Alabama, but investigators say he wasstaying at the apartment complex in Florida where Naomi lived. In this Reality Check, Local 15’sAndrea Ramey uncovers a loophole that allows sex offenders to travel freely and finds out howinvestigators keep track of them all.

It’s a hot muggy Thursday morning in June, and these volunteers are checking out this shack inIrvington to make sure the 53 year old sex offender who molested

In a national survey analyzing the performance of sex-offender registries and community-notification programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, New York State earned a grade of D.  Wisconsin got an A and Florida aced all with A-plus.  

The survey was released by Stony Brook-based parents for Megan’s Law.  It offers a bleak outlook on how well states are protecting potential and past victims of sex crimes.  it concluded that 25 states scored F’s, eight got D’s, 13 received C’s, three scored B’s and two got A’s.

Thousands of convicted sex fiends will vanish from the Megan’s Law-mandated registry beginning next January.  That’s because the law, which went into effect in January 1996, requires only the most dangerous offenders to sign on for life.  All other predators have to stay registered for just 10 years.  By the end of 2006, a total of 3,288 convicted fiends will be able to roam New York State with no obligation to periodically check in with cops.  On April 26, Governor Pataki said the names of New York sex offenders should

Three City Council members proposed broadcasting information on the city’s cable channel about the more than 4,000 registered sex offenders living in Los Angeles.  The proposal, to be introduced during Friday’s council meeting, seeks to make information from the California Department of Justice’s Megan’s Law database more readily available to residents.  Megan’s Law is a terribly important state law, but it won’t do any of us any good if the data stays on a mainframe in Sacramento and doesn’t get out into our communities, said Councilman Jack Weiss, who chairs

The Longwood school district is the first to adopt an e-mail alert system that notifies subscribers when a sex offender moves to any Long Island community.  The postcard mailing service, which the district discarded last week, only advised residents when sex offenders moved into the district.  The Parents for Megan’s Law sponsored e-mail program increases the information parents can access about convicted sex offenders because the no-cost method informs subscribers when a registered offender moves into the school district or any other community.  It is estimated that the district spent

In 2004 it was discovered by Dave and Laura Cincotta, the parents of six children under age 8, that in recent months, as many as 17 homeless paroled sex offenders had been placed by Suffolk County in emergency housing at the Brook Motel on Sunrise Highway in West Babylon.  According to the state’s online registry, four currently listed as residents there are Level Three offenders, those considered most likely to commit such crimes again.  They’re being warehoused in my neighborhood and there’s too many temptations, said Dave Cincotta, adding that