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A restrictive residency requirement for sex offenders approved by the Long Beach City Council might not pass the constitutionality test.  The council late Tuesday passed the measure, effective immediately, 5-0.  The ordinance prohibits registered sex offenders in Long Beach from living 1,000 feet from schools and 500 feet from playgrounds, bus stops and areas that might house or do business with vulnerable populations such as women and children.

(New York)

Lawmakers across Long Island are responding to heightened community concerns about sex offenders by proposing legislation that would more strictly govern where they live and how they are monitored.  In Suffolk, county legislators are considering four proposals that would increase restrictions on offenders and the landlords who house them and notify victims when an offender violates probation.  In Nassau, Long Beach and East Rockaway have moved to tighten prohibitions on where sex offenders reside.  East Rockaway voted to prohibit offenders from living within 1,000 feet of areas where children congregate.

Nassau police will step up their battle against child sex abuse by partnering with a private agency that will set up a toll-free help line.  The not-for-profit Parents for Megan’s Law Inc., of Stony Brook, will work with the police and the county, whose legislature Monday approved $100,000 for the nine-month trial initiative.  Besides the help line, it will help with education, advocacy, treatment and counseling referrals, policy and legislative support services.  Laura Ahearn, who heads the parents agency that previously worked for free with Nassau police, said the funding

Democratic legislators in Nassau today intend to propose a new law that would bar convicted sex offenders registered under Megan’s Law from establishing a residence within 600 feet of schools or playgrounds.  The proposal is sponsored by Legislator Kevan Abrahams (D-Hempstead) and it is an extension of the state Sex Offender Registration Act, which requires offenders to register on a database that tracks their whereabouts.  The new proposal would bar the most violent sex offenders, Levels 2 and 3, from permanently or temporarily living within 600 feet of public or

A plan that would make it illegal for registered sex offenders to live within 500 feet of a public park and within 1,000 feet of a school in the Town of Huntington goes before the town board tonight at 7.  The proposal, by Republican Councilman Mark Capodanno, is just the natural continuation of Megan’s Law, he said.  Megan’s Law requires convicted sex offenders to register their residence with the state and gives the state permission to make this information public.

(Huntington, New York)