Category Archive for : ‘LAURA AHEARN AND PARENTS FOR MEGANS LAW’

Newsday/Robert Brodsky 2/15/14 Nassau County is moving to hire a private consultant, Stony-Brook based Parents for Megan’sLaw, to intensify monitoring of registered sex offenders, including tracking their posts on socialmedia and creating a smartphone app the public can use to report potential violations such as newallegations of abuse.  The program, similar to one established last year in Suffolk County,calls for stepped-up enforcement of requirements that convicted sex offenders accurately registertheir current address with the state.  Parents for Megan’s Law would be charged with ensuringthat offenders’ addresses, work information and photographs

Newsday/Denise M. Bonilla and Emily Ngo 11/26/13

Nearly 700 registered sex offenders considered moderate or high risk to repeatthe crime are concentrated in just a handful of low-income and working-class communities acrossLong Island.  The problem is especially acute in Suffolk, which as of yesterday had abouttwice the number of Level 2 and 3 offenders as Nassau, there were 36,442 sex offenders on the stateregistry, a number that includes 11,617 who have been deported, are out of the state or areincarcerated.  The registry publicly identifies only Level 2 and 3 offenders.  Level

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,

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  He argued that state law, which did not include those not undersupervision, superseded the sterner county law.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 5/19/13 Troy Wallace and Carlos Perez, both registered sex offenders, are challenging a new SuffolkCounty law that intensifies monitoring of sex offenders by teaming police with a private advocacygroup.  They recently filed a complaint in US District Court in Central Islip against CountyExecutive Steve Bellone, police Chief of Department James Burke and Laura Ahearn, who heads Parentsfor Megan’s Law, the nonprofit that will receive $2.3 million over the next three years underSuffolk’s new law.  Wallace and Perez allege that the Community Protection Act, whichwas passed unanimously by the

The Southampton Press/Carol Moran
5/25/13
Suffolk County Legislator Jay Schneiderman said on Tuesday that the two trailers have beenpermanently closed and are padlocked, although they have not been physically removed from theirlocations in Riverside and Westhampton.  The county relocated approximately 26 homelessconvicted sex offenders from the trailers as of Monday, May 27.  The individuals were placedin shelters across Suffolk County away from families and children and with no more than one persite. 
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