Category Archive for : ‘RESIDENCY RESTRICTION LAWS’

Newsday/Sid Cassese 9/13/13 Nassau County has won a reversal of a state court ruling and can continue to ban convictedsex offenders from living near schools. Michael Diack, 36, a Level 1 registered sex offender, was convicted in 2001 of possessingchild pornography and served a 22 month sentence.  He was arrested in 2011 and charged withliving about 500 feet from the Lawrence-Woodmere Hebrew Academy in Woodmere, but challenged thecounty law and won.  He argued that state law, which did not include those not undersupervision, superseded the sterner county law.  The appellate

Newsday/Paul Larocco Last night the Suffolk Legislature passed an emergency bill that supporters said will end ayearslong debate about where to house homeless sex offenders while creating the toughestmonitoring and enforcement program in the nation.  The bill intensifies monitoring of thecounty’s 1,016 registered sex offenders and will close down trailers on the East End.  Thehomeless sex offenders will be dispersed to county homeless shelters throughout Suffolk but willnot be housed with families.  Upon enactment of this law, no one will have a strongerapproach than Suffolk County, said Laura Ahearn, executive

Newsday/Paul Larocco

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone is pressing lawmakers to act Tuesday on an emergencybill requiring more aggressive monitoring of the county’s 1,106 convicted sex offenders.  Heplans to seek a certificate of necessity, which bypasses the committee process and publichearings that require advance notice.  Suffolk police would contract with Parents for Megan’sLaw, a nonprofit that seeks to prevent child sexual abuse to step up enforcement of requirementsthat convicted sex offenders accurately register their current addresses with police.  Bellonealso will close trailers on the East End that house 38 homeless

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

Newsday/Paul Larocco

Thursday morning Suffolk police announced the county’s intention to close the controversialEast End trailers that house homeless sex offenders.  Officials call this part of a plan thetoughest monitoring and enforcement program in the nation for all registered sex offenders. The 38 homeless sex offenders now clustered nightly in the trailers in Riverside and Westhamptonwill be spread throughout the county’s existing shelter system, no more than one perfacility.  The county will team with the advocacy group Parents for Megan’s Law to betterproactively monitor registrants and offer more tools for residents

Newsday/Emily Ngo

Registered sex offenders may not live or loiter within a half-mile of a Farmingdale school,park, day care center or other place where children regularly congregate, according to a new lawpassed by the village.  The village did not previously have a sex offender law.  The lawalso prohibits offenders from living or loitering within 500 feet of a school bus stop and makes ita crime for someone to knowingly lease a home within the boundaries to an offender.  Violatorsface a fine of up to $2,500, with each additional day of