03
February
EDITORIAL: SHELTER PLAN IS BETTER FOR SEX OFFENDERS
Newsday
Housing homeless sex offenders in Suffolk County’s shelter system — but away from homelessfamilies — and more intensely monitoring all registered sex offenders, is a plan that couldfinally solve a problem that has bedeviled the county for years. The Suffolk legislatureshould approve the proposal, which would allow Suffolk to close trailers in Westhampton andRiverside currently housing 38 homeless offenders, and avoid clustering the men in any othercommunities. Rather than continuing to lavish time, attention and resources on the fewoffenders who are homeless, the plan developed by Suffolk County police