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NY - Albany judge says sex offender law usurps state

View the article here So here, we have the country making federal laws on sex offenders, and the states make their own.  Now the counties are wanting their own laws.  This is just pure madness! 02/19/2009 By JORDAN CARLEO-EVANGELIST, Staff writer ALBANY -- A City Court judge has dismissed a charge against a convicted sex offender accused of violating a county law that limits where sex offenders can live, ruling the county's law usurps state authority. The decision this week by Judge Thomas K. Keefe runs counter to one by his colleague, Judge Rachel Kretser, last summer and would seem to deepen the legal uncertainty surrounding more than 80 similar laws that have popped up across the state. A constitutional challenge to the Local Law No...continue to full post

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