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New York State Senator Proposes Residency Restrictions

By Corey Rayburnyung

One week after a New York court struck down Rockland County's sex offender banishment law (opinion available here), State Senate Majority Leader Malcolm A. Smith has proposed a new bill entitled ?Major Statewide Legislation Aimed to Protect Children from Sex Offenders,? (available here) which prohibits a sex offender from living anywhere in New York within 1,000 feet of any park, daycare center or school building for at least ten years after release.  From f/k/a:Only one week after NYS Supreme Court Justice William Kelly struck down Rockland County?s sex offender residency law in the case of Peo. v. Oberlander, and in ?direct response? to the decision, Senate Majority Leader Malcolm A. Smith proposed S.01300, calling the bill ?Major Statewide Legislation Aimed to Protect Children from Sex Offenders?...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on February 02, 2009 (boomark / email).