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700 REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS CONCENTRATED IN FEW LI COMMUNITIES
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