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NY - Clean-up from sex offender panic goes on

Original Article 02/27/2011 By Carl Strock In the past few years the sex-offender residency restrictions passed by Albany County, Schenectady County, Rensselaer County and Rockland County have all been overturned by courts on the grounds that they infringe on the prerogatives of the state, which is the level of government that properly regulates the lives of sex offenders. Nevertheless, we now have another lawsuit, this one challenging the very similar residency restrictions of Saratoga County. Why is this necessary? Why, if virtually the same restrictions have already been found invalid three, four, five times, does someone have to go to the trouble of filing yet another lawsuit? Because the counties that have lost these cases, despite all their bluster, have prudently refrained from appealing the decisions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 28, 2011 (boomark / email).