Category Archive for : ‘LOCAL SUFFOLK COUNTY’

Flanked by Suffolk County Police Commissioner John Gallagher and representatives of local radio stations, Rep. Felix Grucci yesterday proposed that Long Island adopt a system used in some other states in which radio and television stations broadcast emergency alerts about children who have been abducted.  He detailed a system that could help law enforcement agencies move quickly to recover abducted children.  In those areas where the plan is implemented, local radio and television stations agree to interrupt their programming when notified by police that a child has been abducted and

A bill requiring agencies doing business with the county to report suspicions of child sexual abuse to Child Protective Services, despite objections from Parents for Megan’s Law advocates who called the legislation toothless, was passed by Suffolk lawmakers yesterday.  The version passed orders managers at contracting agencies to report suspected abuse by any of their employees to the New York State Child Protective Services Child Abuse Registry or face escalating penalties and mandated child sex abuse prevention education.  Legis. Jon Cooper sponsored the initiative, which originally would have denied county

Ronald Stores, a convicted rapist, was placed in temporary housing in Centereach in February by Suffolk County.  Police were required to go door-to-door to tell neighbors that a sex offender was in their area but police and angry neighbors could do nothing about where the county had found him housing, across the street from North Coleman Road Elementary School.  Legislator Joseph Caracappa (R-Selden) announced yesterday a resolution designed to prevent the scene in Centereach from repeating itself.  It would prevent the county from providing housing to sex offenders within 1,000