Sentences with phrase «homeless sex offenders»

Mr. Bellone has vowed to end the county's current policy regarding homeless sex offenders within the first year of his administration but missed his January 1 deadline to close the trailers.

The Suffolk County Legislature unanimously approved a law Tuesday evening that will redistribute the 38 homeless sex offenders currently housed in construction trailers in Riverside and Westhampton to shelters across the entire county.

When asked if the police department is taking another look at a voucher program in addition to de-clustering homeless sex offenders housing on the East End, Mr. Schneider said «everything is on the table.»

BARBARAELLEN KOCH FILE PHOTO The inside of the trailer for homeless sex offenders place outside the Suffolk County Jail in Riverside.

The county currently provides overnight housing for homeless sex offenders who receive Department of Social Services assistance in two construction trailers, one in the parking lot of the county jail in Riverside and one on county police property in Westhampton.

Mr. Schneiderman said he voted in favor of the voucher program, which involves providing homeless sex offenders $ 90 a night to stay in a motel, even though he didn't like it because he believed it was a better plan than the current trailer policy.

The reason for this is simple — Jay has been a political opportunist since he entered office and isn't viewed as trustworthy or dependable by his fellow legislators,» Mr. Kelly said, referring to Mr. Schneiderman's pet causes: ensuring that countywide sales tax revenue for public safety is distributed evenly to eastern Suffolk, and spreading the burden of housing homeless sex offenders to communities outside his district.

«Ed Romaine is going to be sorely missed by the Town of Riverhead,» said Mason Haas, a town assessor who has worked with Mr. Romaine on the issue of getting the homeless sex offender trailers removed from county property in Riverside and Westhampton.

Not exact matches

Lastly, I have never fed a homeless ex-minister living in tents during winter... even among all the released / paroled sex offenders deep within the woods, there has not been one ex-minister... they seem to all blend back in to the work force somehow.

This may be bad, because the most computer - literate of the homeless are the sex offenders on parole.

At 12:30 p.m., IDC Leader Jeff Klein, Assemblyman Michael Benedetto, NYC Councilman Jimmy Vacca and others hold a press conference to call on the NYC Department of Homeless Services to ban level two and three sex offenders from temporary emergency housing and homeless shelters used to house families with children, across from the Crystal Family Residence, 555 Hutchinson River Parkway, thHomeless Services to ban level two and three sex offenders from temporary emergency housing and homeless shelters used to house families with children, across from the Crystal Family Residence, 555 Hutchinson River Parkway, thhomeless shelters used to house families with children, across from the Crystal Family Residence, 555 Hutchinson River Parkway, the Bronx.

He stressed there has been «far too much focus» on how to deal with the four percent that are homeless and believes the new direction of the discussion is needed in order to come up with ways to track and monitor the majority of county sex offenders.

At 3 p.m., Sen. Tony Avella stands against sex offender placement in family homeless shelters, Pan-American Hotel, 79 - 00 Queens Blvd., Queens.

Also at 11:30 a.m., Sen. Jeff Klein and members of the IDC will release «Unsafe Shelters,» an investigative report detailing the number of Level 2 and 3 sex offenders living among NYC's nearly 23,000 homeless children in family shelters, 250 Broadway, Manhattan.

Senate lawmakers are pushing legislation that would block sex offenders from gaining access to homeless shelters.

The NYPD can't do much about the slew of sex offenders shacking up in homeless shelters across the city, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton insisted Friday.

Jonathan Stewart, a 25 - year - old registered sex offender who is homeless, was charged with rape, criminal sexual act, sexual abuse, assault and forcible touching, police said.

The rules relating to itinerants should affect relatively few sex offenders: it would be inappropriate to pass community sentences on them since it would be difficult, if not impossible, to supervise those offenders who are homeless; neither is it likely that anyone would be released directly from prison without a home to go to.