SEX OFFENDERS TO GET CLOSE MONITORING

While communities across Long Island have been moving to sharply restrict where convicted sexual predators can live, the Village of Hempstead has taken a different approach: more intensive monitoring.  The village Board of Trustees approved a policy Tuesday night that will create an intelligence network fed by constant reports from patrol officers who will be required to keep tabs on offenders living in their patrol areas.

(Hempstead, New York)