Category Archive for : ‘RESIDENCY RESTRICTION LAWS’

Local communities are still fighting attempts to place convicted sex offenders who currently have no place to live in unmarked trailers on county property.  The most recent move to put one of these trailers on the jail property in Riverhead has raised the ire of some government officials.  Suffolk County is obliged under New York State law to house the homeless.  According to state law, sex offenders have 10 days to report a change of residency to local authorities, so that the neighborhood can be informed.  Some community leaders and

In the face of community protests, Suffolk County plans to move homeless sex offenders living temporarily in a trailer parked in Westhampton to another one at the Riverhead jail next month.  The trailer in Westhampton will remain and will be used to house additional homeless sex offenders if the other one reaches its capacity of eight tenants.

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Five men, all registered sex offenders convicted of abusing children, live along Miami’s JuliaTuttle Causeway because there is a housing shortage for Miami’s least welcome residents. TheFlorida Department of Corrections says there are fewer and fewer places in Miami-Dade County wheresex offenders can live because the county has some of the strongest restrictions against this kindof criminal in the country. Florida’s solution is, house the convicted felons under a bridge thatforms one part of the causeway. Nearly every day a state probation officer makes a predawn

The Glen Cove City council unanimously approved an ordinance that would prohibit convicted sex offenders from living near day care centers, a ban that would take the proposed law one step further than the county’s.  Lawmakers in Glen cove and Long Beach have chosen to significantly expand on restrictions passed by county legislators last April that prohibited offenders from living near schools and parks.  By banning sex offenders from living within a 1,000 feet of day care centers as well as schools, the city’s law is one of the more

Putnam County legislators have approved a bill to limit where convicted sex offenders can go.  The measure, passed Tuesday night, still must be signed by the county executive.  It would bar offenders from living, working or spending time within 2,500 feet of places where children congregate, including schools, bus stops, child-care facilities, nature preserves, parks, playgrounds and recreational facilities.  Also off limits would be multifamily residences and housing developments with 10 or more homes on less than a third of an acre.

After many towns, including most recently Algoma, Wisconsin, passed laws barring sex offenders from moving within 2,000 feet of a church, school playground, day care or walking trail, some states are trying to craft their own solutions to the problem that has no prison sentence.  New York is proposing to keep some sex offenders in civil confinement, that is, locked up beyond their prison sentences in psychiatric hospitals.  New York is joining more than a dozen states which allow targeted sex offenders to be held beyond their prison terms.  A