Dear Island Trees Community,
Last week I was again notified about a registered sex offender that had moved into the Island Trees community. To verify the information, I went to the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services website to search the public registry of sex offenders.
It was fairly easy to find this particular sex offender and all of the details of his crimes, including offenses and charges. I encourage all parents and concerned community members to use the website regularly to protect your children.
Please remember the Island Trees community is comprised of several towns; therefore, using the Levittown zip code in your search may not provide all of the information needed to protect your children and/or to keep you informed of all of the registered sex offenders in our area. I suggest using several zip codes within the Island Trees community (11756, 11714 and 11783), as well as those of neighboring towns.
At this date, there are six sex offenders living in Levittown and more in the other towns within our community. Therefore, I strongly encourage parents to use this site periodically in order to be informed of the sex offenders living in the neighborhood.
I believe the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services listed above may be the most up-to-date website tool for searching for New York State sex offenders. I would, however, encourage parents to use Parent’s for Megan’s Law for its other resources. The Megan’s Law website has a great deal of information to help protect your children against child predators. The “District Information” link on the Island Trees School District website has both websites connected to our homepage.
In closing, please be assured that Island Trees is dedicated to the safety of our students. I have made it a practice to send out the information to the community through our IT-gram email system. Community members can sign up to receive all of our school messages, including sex offender notification, on our email list. We will continue to work with parents and the school community to ensure a safe school community for our children.
However, there is lots of evidence, borne out of decades of research that shows that by isolating people from the community, making them the focal point of their frustrations of the community and destabilizing their living and social arrangements makes for a more dangerous community. This being FACT, it is self-evident that NOBODY has to follow a registry (or any law for that matter) whose only outcome is their loss of safety and/or security. If you want to regulate someone beyond a sentence passed by a court of law, you take a person to court and use established standards of proof (not legislatively made up standards) and then regulate according to a particular person's circumstances. The registry does NOT protect. It is all theory, based upon NOTHING except a fantasy. And while you think about sex offenders and the danger to school children? Think about this: The most dangerous and prolific danger to students, is other students. But who cares? It is the feeling of safety that allowed you to set up a police state. That feeling is what will destroy any pretence you are a free country.
OH, Hammer? Because they give you the information on a registry and you erroneously believe that the registry is a punishment, and that they should be treated horribly, it then becomes a RIGHT NOT to register. This is done in order to make the community safer, of which you make very clearly, that you getting registry information is a dangerous proposition. And Gina? Amazingly your registry FAILS in society's pursuit in total isolation. That means people do over-look a stupid registry and actually look at people who are human beings. That is how they get money and jobs.
The convicted deviants usually get jobs and places to live, because landlords & employers are too lazy, and or too cheap, to get the background checks. The registry is a tool for people (especially parents) who want to know if someone who has been convicted of these vile crimes, is living in their neighborhood. I'm fairly liberal when it comes to social issues, but sexual offenders should be placed in general population, not in protective custody while doing time and decent people have the RIGHT to know where these despicable lowlifes are when released. Those are the RIGHTS that should be protected! - Rudy, you've been posting on Patch for a year, on ONE subject - Sex Offenders, and defending them. http://levittown-ny.patch.com/users/rudy101 The only people I've observed putting that much effort toward defending sexual offenders, are usually sleazy lawyers collecting big bucks, or a CONVICTED DEVIANT
You say, sexual offences are heinous in every way. Are you sure? There are LOTS of kids or young adults on the list for having consensual sex. Are they also heinous? If a judge passes a sentence and that sentence is completed and then decades later the public decides a person is NOW a deviant and NOW has to be put on a registry and now everyone has to know, does that lend to public safety in any way? If the prison system doesn't protect the inmates and it is reasonable that a person will suffer harm in prison, should that be part of the sentence? If it is, would that constitute, "cruel and unusual" punishment if a person is then killed? In your society that wants to harm others violently and which uses proxies, such as other prisoners to do so, would you really want those people back out in society amongst you? Can you actually point to any right in the U.S. Constitution or any registry law that gives a recourse or an injury for someone who doesn't know a sex offender is in their community? And how do you know I only comment on one subject? Many people have many names, depending upon the subject they are commenting on. Do you think I do the same? The problem with the registry is that it is controlled exclusively by a legislature, rules can be changed at whim and there is no due process. Those things NEED to be fixed.
As a parent, I find these offfenses unforgivable and people who defend them, to be just as low as the offenders. Type away all you want Rudy, I won't waste any more time reading your deviant nonsense
Spending so much hostility on this subject makes us wonder why the.fixation exists.