Category Archive for : ‘REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS GENERAL’

Ten years ago state sex offender registries were established to allow residents to locate sex offenders in the neighborhoods.  But some experts worry the registries also allow those who loathe the presence of sex offenders to take matters into their own hands.  In May, two registered sex offenders in a rural Main community were shot and killed by a 20 year old man who used the state’s online registry to track them.  In 2005, a man in Washington state shot and killed two Level 3 sex offenders after locating their

According to New York State Sex Offender Registry data, more than a dozen clusters of sex offenders have developed across the southern half of Long Island.  Of these, the eight largest clusters including the biggest in Coram/Gordon Heights, which was profiled in Newsday last month, have anywhere from 11 to 39 registered sex offenders within a one-mile radius.  These large clusters are in communities that are strikingly similar – populated with lower-income residents than the towns and hamlets of the pricey North Shore or eastern Suffolk County, where such clusters

Utah’s sex offender registry and registry requirements for offenders will change next year as the result of federal legislation designed to protect children from sexual predators.  Passed in July, the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, among other things, aims to crack down on sex offenders who elude the law.  It would incorporate all 50 states’ registries into the National Sex Offender Registry.

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Andrew Lubrano, a 39 year old Centereach man who is a registered Level 3 sex offender, was arrested for allegedly engaging in sexually explicit online chats with a person he thought was a teenage boy but was instead a detective. Lubrano, who lives with his five children at 120 Smithtown Polk Boulevard, was charged with attempted endangering the welfare of a child, a Class B misdemeanor, and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended registration, both misdemeanors. Police said they would have

Today, all adult sex offenders in Utah are required to register with the Utah State Department of Corrections as soon as they are released from prison or are on probation. Since July 2006, juveniles who were or are in the custody of Juvenile Justice Services 30 days prior to their 21st birthday must register as well. According to the National Incident-Based Reporting System, 40 percent of the offenders who victimized children under the age of 6 were juveniles. Once sex offenders are convicted, their photo date of birth, physical description,

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Concerned residents in Coram and Gordon Heights, after revelations about a cluster of sexoffenders, called Brookhaven Town and Suffolk County’s Department of Social Services yesterday toend the practice. This also gave renewed hope to local and state legislators that bills regardingsex offender housing might gain passage this fall. Suffolk Legislator Kate Browning (WFP-Shirley)called for passage of legislation she introduced last week that would ban county agencies providingservices to sex offenders from putting more than one offender in the same house. State Assemb.Patricia Eddington (D-Medford) pushed for legislation she introduced