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February
THE MISSING SEX OFFENDERS (State loses track of 467, including at least 15 who had lived on LI)
Newsday/Kevin Deutsch 11/24/13 New York State has lost track of 467 convicted sex offenders, including rapists and childmolesters, despite a law requiring them to register annually for inclusion in the Megan’s Lawdatabase. At least 15 sex offenders whose whereabouts are listed as unknown by the state’sDivision of Criminal Justice Services, which is responsible for maintaining the Sex Offender Registry, had their last known addresses on Long Island, where a total of 1,523 offendersare registered. We’ve established a law that requires society’s most cunning of criminals to register on anhonor system,