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NY - Nassau Residents Urge Passage of Sex Offender Bill

Original Article 12/30/2010 By Geoffrey Walter Proposed legislation would change how predator-free zones are measured. While no community wishes to house sex offenders, it has increasingly become an issue on Long Island of if not here, then where? Many communities have incurred the spotlight after passing predator-free zones with such wide radiuses where offenders may not live that they are forced within a tiny area, often in camps. Many more live homeless on the streets. While Suffolk County has dealt with the issue by building trailer homes for the offenders?each of these trailer park facilities reportedly cost in the millions?Nassau does not have the space on which to build, thus causing more offenders to live where they can, unmonitored and unchecked...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on December 30, 2010 (boomark / email).