Posted on 02/07/2016 6:10:07 PM PST by doldrumsforgop
The names of thousands of New York State sex offenders are due to come off a public registry, prompting demands for a change in the law.
State law requiring Level 1 offenders to report their whereabouts to the registy for a 20-year period was up Jan. 1, News 12 Long Island reports. The law took effect in 1996.
Laura Ahearn of the Long Island advocacy group Parents of Megan’s Law told the station about 60 to 70 Level 1 sex offenders in Nassau and Suffolk alone will come off the registry this year.
“We have a stack of Level 1 offenders that have committed serious offenses against young children — as young as 2 years old — and they are going to be dropping off that registry,†Ahearn told CBS New York.
The Level 1 designation can include child molestation, rape in the first degree and sodomy, according to the station.
Level 2 and Level 3 sex offenders are required to register for life.
The registry is publicly accessible online.
Long Island Republican Dean Murray has introduced a bill in the Assembly that would extend the 20-year requirement to 30 years.
But he told News 12 that he needs a Democratic sponsor in the Democrat-controlled chamber to get the bill passed.
“I don't know if this is a leadership issue, or what it is, but I'm continuing to push very hard,†Ahearn told News
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where are you from that the values are so great?
I guess this makes Bill Clinton happy
Not NY.
Where I am from we keep tabs on those who wish harm to our kids and women.
It must not be too much of a priority in NY.
As far as “Tent Cities” go (as the city of Seassholes is so famous for shoving down the throats of middle class families) that if you are a sex offender but you claim “homeless” that you do not need to register as a sex offender?
Nice of those pseudo-Pastors (Marxists with a collar) bastards to cram sex offenders in the back yards of family homes.
Are you seriously trying to argue the moral relativism of this issue?
I did not realize Bill was registered, but a free-lancer.
i’m SERIOUSLY stated that there are a lot of pompous red staters out there that mooch like hell off the Feds then have the NEVER to publish things like this?
sucking federal funds is a horrific value and you guys do a good job, a lot of you
read my last comment you are probably from one of the states that complain about big gov but then suck up fed resources.
you states are a joke
NJ #1 NY #20. which means you take money from states whose values you dislike the most. WAY TO GO!!
what does that have to do with the registration of sex offenders?
You are on the wrong thread.
I was always under the impression that when someone was sentenced to a crime that it couldn’t be added onto later. Am I way off track with this? For good or for bad I thought that this was the law.
I get it that the law specified 20 years and they timed out.
You could argue that they did their time. This begets the questions: what about the victims? Have their memories timed out? Somehow, I don’t think they have.
I don’t quite have an answer here, for how to reconcile the hard core perverts w/ a plea deal, with the young man (under 18) who ran afoul of his (under 16) girlfriends’ parents.
That was my understanding, too.
I have heard the redivism rate for major sexual crimes is high, but why don’t we also care that murderers and other aren’t on a registry?
At some point, especially if they’ve been compliant with the law, we need to let someone who has served the penalty move on with life. They will still need to tell of their felony, if that is what it was.
my thought is that if they have reoffended they probably are not a danger and should be of the list, remember an 18 year old who has sex with a 15 year old would be on the list along with a drunk who urinated in public in front of a kid. the ones we want on the list are the ones that never should of gotten out in the first place.
my thought is that if they have reoffended they probably are not a danger and should be of the list, remember an 18 year old who has sex with a 15 year old would be on the list along with a drunk who urinated in public in front of a kid. the ones we want on the list are the ones that never should of gotten out in the first place.
Our legal sysem will mutate to make room for islam...right now 3 L.E.O.S......have told me “there are different arrest parameters for different groups”...here in Minnesota
“my thought is that if they have reoffended they probably are not a danger and should be of the list, “
Did you really mean that?
I don’t believe that those that are a danger should be out at all ..,.I don’t think it is possible for them to go 20 years with out screwing up... my concern is the kid that gets on the list because his girl friend is 3 years younger and he is 18 or the drunk that urinates in public and is arrested because it happens where a kid can see it... there are lot of people that get on that list just because it exists not because being on the list will protect society.
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