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June
SEX OFFENDER HEARINGS TO BEGIN (Court restrictions that barred officials from posting information about some offenders are to be lifted as risk-assessments are made)
As many as 7,200 sex offenders in New York, for years, have eluded the scrutiny of Megan’s Law, the measure that makes the whereabouts of sex offenders public. They have lived in relative anonymity because a court order prevented law enforcement from releasing information about them. The injunction also barred officials from posting information about the offenders on the state Internet-based Sex Offender Registry which is designed to help the public take steps for their own safety. But in the coming months that court restriction will be lifted as offenders