Solution: Put R.S.O.'s in trailers to be moved regularly around the county

Suffolk County to Keep Sex Offenders on the Move
By COREY KILGANNON, New York Times

Suffolk County officials have long searched for ways to provide temporary housing for homeless sex offenders... Now officials of this county on Long Island say they have a solution: putting sex offenders in trailers to be moved regularly around the county, parked for several weeks at a time on public land away from residential areas and enforcing stiff curfews.

The trailers will be moved from one undisclosed spot to the next “every one to two weeks, three at the most,” Mr. Blass said. Officials will select sites on county-owned land, often bordering commercial and industrial-zoned areas. Under county law, offenders must not live within 1,000 feet of schools, churches, day care centers or nursing homes.

“They will be located in large, undeveloped areas away from communities,” Mr. Blass said, adding that by law he could not reveal the locations. ... By switching spots frequently, county officials hope to avoid offenders’ getting too accustomed to one area and settling there in numbers. ...It’s an attempt to prevent saturation.” ... Kate Browning, a county legislator from Shirley, who has been an outspoken critic of clustering sex offenders, said the plan would “spread them around so that every area has their fair share of the burden.” Full Story [Ed: The scary thing is, these people are serious!]

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