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NY - Senate Majority Leader Malcolm A Smith & Senator Graig Johnson Announce Major Statewide Legislation Amined to Protect Children from Sex Offenders

View the article here Like usual, get elected, ride the backs of sex offenders to get brownie points from the sheeple! 01/30/2009 New York - In his first visit to Long Island since being elected State Senate Majority Leader earlier this month, Senator Malcolm A. Smith met today with Senator Craig Johnson to announce the introduction of a major piece of statewide legislation that will protect children from predators. The bill, S.1300, is a direct response to a recent State Supreme Court decision that invalidated Rockland County?s sex offender residency law. That ruling nullified the local law asserting that under state law, the express authority to determine housing residency for sex offenders lies only with local probation offices. Using that standard some 80 local ?child safety zone? laws across the state risk invalidation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on January 30, 2009 (boomark / email).