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"Ban pervs as supers: Schumer"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the (pitch-perfect?) headline from this story in today's New York Post, which documents the latest concern about the working habits of sex offenders. Here are the basics: There ought to be a law against giving convicted rapists the keys to tenants' apartments, Sen. Charles Schumer said yesterday.  "The fact that these sex offenders have access to apartments where there are children present is beyond scary," Schumer said.  "We must take immediate action to stop it." Schumer was reacting to a Post story about William Barnason, a registered, high-risk sex offender who works as a super at several Upper West Side buildings where tenants have said he tried to shake them down for sex in exchange for help with their rent...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 22, 2010 (boomark / email).