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NY - Local Leaders Fill in County Exec Hopeful on Homeless Sex Offenders

Original Article 03/14/2011 By Joseph Pinciaro Suffolk County Executive hopeful and current Babylon Supervisor Steve Bellone said he knew a little bit about how the county currently holds homeless sex offenders. But some things he heard on Monday afternoon, on the first day of his Suffolk County "listening tour," caught him off guard. "The conditions you describe in these facilities come as a surprise to me," said Bellone, Babylon's Democrat supervisor since 2001, to a group of local legislators and a few civic advocates. "I was not sure those were the conditions." Bellone further elaborated after the discussion, which lasted for about 75 minutes, that such conditions - not only the lack of permanent housing, but a lack of personal space and even a shower - play a bigger role beyond the face value fact that the ex-criminals don't have several basic needs met...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on March 16, 2011 (boomark / email).