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NY - Suffolk lawmakers OK sex-offender shelters

Original Article 12/21/2010 By REID J. EPSTEIN Suffolk legislators approved a plan Tuesday to place the county's homeless sex offenders in places that would be kept secret during the site-selection process, though County Executive Steve Levy signaled he would veto the measure. The legislation would create a network of mini-shelters throughout the county and effectively close the Southampton trailers where the homeless sex offenders have been living. Instead, White Plains-based Community Housing Innovations Inc. would house the offenders at a handful of sites that it would not disclose to the public until after the offenders are placed in them. "Securing and occupying this site without advising the local community until after it is established is a critical component of this proposal," CHI wrote in its pitch to the county this summer...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on December 21, 2010 (boomark / email).