Parents For Megan's Law/"Crime Victims Center" took out more than $600k in student leans and didn't pay back a dime

Laura Ahearn double dips into the federal Payment Protection Program and did not pay a dime. I want to see those tax returns for PFML/CVC. 

https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/loans/crime-victims-center-inc-6139267200

https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/loans/crime-victims-center-inc-6704158300

Laura Ahearn's latest dubious campaign has an unoriginal name -- "Voices For Victims"

Laura Ahearn has been keep a relatively low profile since failing to become the latest professional victim turned politician. But now it seems Ahole has come up with a new idiotic campaign to keep her ugly mug in the spotlight, the "Voices For Victims." It seems Ahole is terrible with coming up with names. Voices For Victims. Crime Victims Center. it seems that Ahole can't come up with a clever acronym because she's a complete moron. 

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/long-island-victims-parole-reform-1.50416606

Violent crime victims rally for parole reform

By Michael O'Keeffe

michael.okeeffe@newsday.com 

Updated November 9, 2021 7:01 PM

Survivors of violent crimes and victim advocates voiced opposition on Tuesday to a New York State bill that would give older inmates who have served at least 15 years of their sentence an interview with a parole board.

The elder parole bill would give offenders age 55 and older who have served at least 15 years of their sentence an interview with the parole board, which would then determine if they should be released to community supervision. The bill was introduced in January by State Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan), who plans to reintroduce it in January after it failed on a first attempt.

The survivors and victim advocates who attended a news conference in Ronkonkoma to protest the proposal and call for parole reform included two victims of the South Shore rapist, the family of a 13-year-old girl murdered by her neighbor and the brother of an Ecuadorian man stabbed to death in a 2008 Patchogue hate crime.

Appearing before parole boards forces victims and their families to relive violent experiences, physical injuries and emotional trauma, said Laura Ahearn, the executive director of the Ronkonkoma-based Crime Victims Center, which provides support services to victims and their families. Ahearn used the news conference to kick off "Voices for Victims," a call for reforms to New York State’s parole system.

"I don’t understand why just because somebody is 55 years old, they suddenly turn them into a good person," said Jenna Glatzer, who was 10 years old when she was assaulted by Scott Carroll, the South Shore rapist who committed a four-year string of sexual assaults and burglaries during the 1980s. "It does not mean that the crimes they had done are somehow lessened because they are a little bit older."

Hoylman said reforms are necessary because corrections costs the state hundreds of millions of dollars, and that allowing inmates who parole boards have determined are not a threat to return to their families is the right thing to do.

Victims and advocates also called for allowing parole boards to require violent offenders denied parole for the first time to wait four or five years — not the current two years — to reapply. The want officials to inform victims of parole hearings and provide a written summary of rights to victims. They also called for victims to receive transcripts of parole hearings at no cost, and preservation of violent crime sentencing records.

More bad reviews of PFML from Glassdoor.com, and Ahearn "allegedly" poses as "anonymous employee" to give good reviews

 Laura Ahearn has been very quiet and low key, but PFML is still out harassing Registered Persons during a pandemic. In the meantime, the bad reviews on glassdoor.com still pile up. Keep in mind there are only two kinds of people that would work for a company like Parents For Megan's Law-- former or moonlighting cops, and victim advocates. 

Anonymous sources have reported some recent "positive reviews" have been written by Ahearn herself. Here's one such glowing revieew and counterargument. If this is true, then she admits to the bad reviews written by numerous ex-employees:

Multimillion dollar corporation Parents For Megan's Law took at least $150k from the SBA Payment Protection Program loan during COVID 19

This info was released from the Small Business Association. PFML received a COVID-19 loan between $150k-$350k, so while REAL small business could not get loans, the crooked cunt took at least $150k in loans from the SBA during the COVID-19 crisis.

Per the PFML Form 990, the organization raked in nearly $1.9 million in 2017.

 $150,000-350,000 CRIME VICTIMS CENTER INC 100 Comac St RONKONKOMA NY 11779 624110 Non-Profit Organization Unanswered Unanswered Unanswered Y 25 4/27/2020 HSBC Bank USA, National Association NY - 01

If you want to see the data for yourself, just download the data here:

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/cares-act/assistance-for-small-businesses/sba-paycheck-protection-program-loan-level-data

Anyone care to know why PFML needed a loan when it raken in millions annually and has a staff of only a couple dozen at best?

Laura Ahearn misleads people into believing Cuomo endorses her for senate, and what is her connection to big Real Estate?

It has been a while since Laura Ahearn has done anything worth mentioning, but while COVID-19 has shut so much down, Ahearn's bid for a state Senate seat is still going.

One survey found Ahearn in 4th place among Democratic contenders:

"The Johnson poll, conducted by the Honan Strategy Group on landlines and via robocall, found Johnson, a 19-year-old who graduated from Suffolk County Community College in May, with 14% of the vote, followed by Brookhaven Town councilwoman Valerie Cartright with 10%, Southampton Town board member Tommy John Schiavoni with 8%, attorney Laura Ahearn with 6%, and nurse and union organizer Nora Higgins with 2%. The survey included 541 interviews of likely Democratic primary voters with a margin of error of 4.19%."

But there are two issues that should raise concern to NY Senate District 1 voters.

Issue one, why is Laura Ahearn misleading voters by implying that she received an endorsement from Andrew Cuomo?

Second, Ahearn is now connected with a company that is not without a little controversy? Seems Ahearn sure can't pick them?

Voting begins tomorrow. If Suffolk County residents were smart, they'd reject Laura Ahearn's bid for State Senate. She's had her hand in way too many crooked pots. 

PS: Not that anything will happen to the idiot, but it seems what Ahearn's shitty campaign did was ILLEGAL:

Completing her plan to be the Lauren Book of the North, Laura Ahearn announces she is running for Senate

Why corrupt the Senate from the outside when you can corrupt it from within?

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/laura-ahearn-kenneth-lavalle-senate-1.37066459?fbclid=IwAR3uP7qRJO_BdllwpIzc5Qv9FCuvi_Boic8Y9MtN57aZxd59KW_7nyIFALo

Democrat Laura Ahearn challenges GOP State Sen. Kenneth LaValle
By Michael Gormley
Updated October 1, 2019 7:07 PM

ALBANY — Democratic attorney and crime-victims advocate Laura Ahearn on Tuesday announced her campaign to take on State Sen. Kenneth LaValle (R-Port Jefferson), who has held his seat since 1977.

Ahearn's candidacy represents the first major effort by Democrats to pick up another Long Island Senate seat in 2020. Democrats won the Senate majority in the last legislative elections in 2018, and have a 40-22 seat majority, with one vacancy.

“I’m an attorney, a social worker and a mom,” said Ahearn, executive director of Ronkonkoma-based Parents for Megan's Law and the Crime Victim’s Center, a nonprofit victim's rights organization.

“For 25 years, I have fought to keep Suffolk County residents and children safe from sexual predators," she said in her announcement. She said she founded the Crime Victims Center "from a room in my home and built it to become a nationally recognized, powerful force with nearly 30 full-time staffers who protect and educate our most vulnerable and provide help to children and adults who were victimized.”

LaValle was the longtime chairman of the Senate Higher Education Committee before Democrats won the Senate majority.

LaValle, who represents the 1st District, said he approaches "every election the same way; I stand on my continuous record of accomplishments and years of service to our communities.”

In his latest financial filings with state Board of Elections, LaValle had $114,050 on hand as of July.

Ahearn hasn’t yet had to disclose her fundraising and spending.

In 2018, LaValle got 71,015 votes to Democrat Greg Fisher's 53,790. LaValle had beaten Fisher by a wider margin in 2016.

The 1st District may be one of the battleground races in 2020.

The district has 75,470 enrolled Democratic voters and 76,907 Republicans, although the GOP’s strength is boosted by 5,315 enrolled Conservative Party voters.

Republican President Donald Trump won Suffolk County in 2016 over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Since the November 2018 legislative elections, the 1st District has gained 1,623 Democratic voters, 210 Republicans and 51 Conservatives, according to state records.

Senate Democrats this year passed the Child Victims Act that allows victims of childhood sexual assault to sue abusers for acts committed as long as decades ago.

The former Senate Republican majority had blocked the measure for years, arguing it could bankrupt religious organizations and schools found to have protected or shielded abusers.

Ahearn the Ambulance Chaser is now proclaiming that the abolishment of residency restriction laws cause clustering

We all know it is just the opposite, of course, but leave it to Suffolk County's most notorious ambulance chaser to intentionally mislead the pubic, while her favorite media News 12 Long Island, gives Ahearn's insane ramblings more air time.

http://longisland.news12.com/story/38813057/couple-raises-concerns-about-5-sex-offenders-living-in-nearby-home

Couple raises concerns about 5 sex offenders living in nearby home
Posted: Aug 04, 2018 5:13 PM EDT
Updated: Aug 04, 2018 5:13 PM EDT

SHIRLEY -
A Shirley couple says five sex offenders are living together in their community nearly 80 feet from their home.

Jennifer and Thomas Gritz, who have lived in their home for the past 14 years, say they no longer allow their 10-year-old son to play outside.

“I want my son to go outside and be a kid – play in the backyard, ride his bike up and down the street. He doesn't even do that unless one of us is with him,” says Jennifer Gritz.

Laura Ahearn, from Parents for Megan's Law, says the problem exists because the state Court of Appeals in 2015 shot down all laws restricting where sex offenders could live.

Since then, she and others have been advocating to give individual counties the power to make those decisions.

“It's the Assembly [Democrats] that will not allow suburban counties to have the power to be able to restrict where a sex offender can or cannot reside,” said Ahern. “Now, there could be 25 in one dwelling. It's an outrage.”

News 12 reported on the issue in February, and spoke with Assemblyman Dean Murray who says that Corrections Law 203 orders the state Division of Parole to come up with guidelines to avoid placing too many sex offenders in one neighborhood. He says nothing has been done to fix the problem since.

Assemblyman Dean Murray spoke with Murray on the phone Saturday, who said he's waited too long for a decision from the state corrections commissioner on the number of sex offenders living at one particular property. He is calling on the commissioner to either do his job or step down.

News 12 reached out to the state corrections commissioner for a comment.

News story from 2005 reminds us that the bill that increased time level 1s were forced to register was penned by corrupt criminal politician Dean Skelos

Don't ever forget that Laura Ahearn's biggest allies over the years later fell from grace for corruption, like Dean Skelos did.

http://liherald.com/stories/Reforming-Megans-LawHearing-held-to-determine-how-landmark-legislation-can-be-strengthened,10348

Reforming Megan's LawHearing held to determine how landmark legislation can be strengthened
Posted June 2, 2005
By Nicole Falco

Ten years old, when Russillo became his neighbor, the boy and his family never could have known that Russillo had been convicted on sexual abuse charges in 1980, because Megan's Law, which requires convicted sex offenders to register with law enforcement, didn't exist. So they never could have known that Russillo was "grooming" the boy to be his next victim.
      In 2003, Russillo was convicted on two counts of second-degree sexual abuse and one count of endangering the welfare of a child. After a four-week trial, during which the boy testified for two days, Russillo was not found guilty of the more serious charges he faced, including sodomy, that would have carried a harsher sentence. On Tuesday, Russillo was released from jail and expected to return to his Suffolk County home, just two doors down from the boy he molested.
      "I don't understand why [he] has so many rights, and kids like me don't," the boy said at a hearing last Thursday at Valley Stream North High School to solicit the community's input on possible ways to bolster Megan's Law. "I don't wish what happened to me to happen to any other kid. ... Try hard to get these laws passed."
      Coming up on the 10-year anniversary of Megan's Law - named for 7-year-old Megan Kanka, a New Jersey girl who was sexually assaulted and murdered by her neighbor in July 1994 - the state Senate Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction is holding a series of public hearings to gather information, and a bill to strengthen the current law is expected to be introduced in the Senate this month. Sen. Dean G. Skelos (R-Rockville Centre), the author of the current law, and Sen. Michael Nozzolio (R-Fayette), the committee chairman, presided over the most recent hearings in Valley Stream. The first hearings were held in Albany earlier this month, and a third session will take place in Brooklyn.
      "This is, in my opinion, the most critical reform that we can pass," Skelos said. "The passing of a law to protect you, protect our community - that's the principal responsibility of government."
      The Megan's Law Reform Act of 2005 will encompass a variety of issues, including lifetime registration of all convicted sex offenders (low- and mid-level offenders currently register for 10 years), mandatory community notification, civil confinement of sexually violent predators, global-positioning-system tracking and the posting of information for all three levels of registered sex offenders on the Department of Criminal Justice Services Web site.
      "Even if [Russillo] had been registered 20 years prior, he would have only been registered for 10 years," the boy's mother testified. "A day doesn't go by that I don't think to myself, How could I let this happen? Why didn't I see it?"
      Of the 21,000 registered sex offenders in New York state, more than 400 live in Nassau County, and nearly 800 in Suffolk County. By year's end, 3,300 statewide will no longer be included on the registry, having fulfilled their 10-year obligation. Russillo is not automatically a high- or third-level offender. He is entitled to a hearing under the current law.
      The boy and his mother were two of the 10 people who testified before the committee, which was joined by other local politicians. A second victim testified, as did Laura Ahearn, executive director of Parents for Megan's Law; Dr. Marc Bernstein, Valley Stream high school superintendent; Cynthia Scott, executive director of the Coalition on Child Abuse and Neglect; and various law enforcement officials.
      The second victim, a young woman, said she was just 15 when she and three others were sexually abused by a youth counselor at her church. Matthew Maiello, now 31, who worked at East Meadow's St. Raphael Roman Catholic Church, pleaded guilty to third-degree rape and three counts of second-degree sodomy. He spent two years in jail, and is now living in upstate New York after being released in March.
      "It's ridiculous how a person who sexually abuses children can earn good time in jail," the young woman said. "I think it's the job of [lawmakers] to put forth these laws to be proactive instead of reactive."
      Ahearn called Megan's Law an effective tool, and hopes that it can be strengthened to include lifetime registration and stricter probation, and to require sex offenders who plead to the lesser charge of endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, to register. She also called for the statute of limitations to be abolished.
      "A society can be measured by how well we protect our children," Ahearn said. "Protecting even one child is all it takes to ensure that a law is effective."
      Kenneth Rau, chief of detectives in Suffolk County, raised many of the same points as Ahearn. "It's very difficult to sit down with a parent and say what happened to your child is not important enough," he said of those instances where offenders are convicted of lesser crimes or serve minimal time.
      Bernstein called for a uniform system of notification for school districts, and added that sex offenders shouldn't be allowed to live within 1,000 feet of schools and other places where kids congregate.
      Scott and Nassau County Police Department Lt. John Allen called for educational programs in schools and communities. John Fowle, supervisor of the Special Victims Unit of the Nassau County Department of Probation, suggested lifetime parole and requiring offenders to register with the Department of Motor Vehicles. And Joy Watson, Sex Offense and Domestic Violence Bureau chief for the Nassau County district attorney's office, asked that youthful offenders not be exempt from the law.
      After hearing all of the testimony, Skelos said, "Obviously, changing some of the penal sections, like endangering the welfare of a child, came up repeatedly. Also, the theme of education - giving parents and kids the tools to protect themselves - that came out really clear."

Is Laura Ahearn and PFML operating outside the law? Registrants are reporting PFML goons still conducting compliance checks without a contract

As far as I know, the controversial contract between Parents For Megan's Law and Suffolk County expired at the end of last year, unless they renewed it in a backroom deal. I have seen no evidence anywhere online, be it on the PFML website, the Suffolk Co. Legislature site, or anywhere else, like social media. 

However, I've heard from a couple of people that they received visits from folks who might be from PFML, and one supposedly got a message on his cell phone notifying him that his caller info was being monitored. Could it be that PFML is indeed conducting these compliance checks? There isn't any definitive proof yet (merely the claims of a couple of readers), but if you are a resident of Suffolk County and you've had a visit from PFML this year, contact Derek Logue at 513-238-2873 or email iamthefallen1@yahoo.com. 

We'd like to have definitive proof, and we hope that a major media outlet picks up on this. 

At least we won't have to worry about Laura Ahearn running for DA anymore... for now.

It seems that Laura Ahearn didn't get the endorsement she wanted and dropped out of any consideration for Suffolk County DA. As far as being a registered blank, I'm sure we could fill in that blank for you. Ha!

Bellone and Ahearn are taking this dog and pony show on the road via local media

Bellone and Ahearn are taking their dog and pony show to the Suffolk County media in order to drum up support for their previously failed campaign to extend registration periods of registered citizens as well as allowing municipalities to create and enforce local residency restrictions.

Bellone and Ahearn are both misleading the public, as evidenced by the articles previously posted here. This program costs the county nearly a million dollars just in the main contract between the county and PFML, not counting the lawsuits. By their own admission, recidivism was so rare in Suffolk County BEFORE the implementation of this CONTROVERSIAL contract that the alleged reduction in recidivism could easily be explained as the law of averages or simply their program is actually driving people to report less.

PFML is costing taxpayers even more by the number of lawsuits that they are involved in, and with the county attorneys now involved in defending Ahearn from the lawsuits her harassment campaign has initiated, the taxpayers are footing the bill for far more than that initial $900k contract. (Your taxpayer dollars are going to sue a man living in Ohio on a fixed income and no assets, for protesting PFML and their controversial contract. Your tax dollars at work.)

They're also paying more for that liability insurance that went from $4500 annually to $25k annually, and the county was more than happy to dip into the actual fund for crime victims to pay for that, meaning less money for crime victims and more money for the criminals.

Speaking of criminals, were you folks aware that disgraced politician Dean Skelos was one of Ahearn's "Champion for Children" award winners? Lets not forget Laura Ahearn's connection to that disgraced convicted criminal James Burke. These two folks were once proudly listed at the top of PFML's list of contributors.

Phoney Belloney and PFML makes the dubious claim that this contract saves taxpayers lots of money because they say a detective for Suffolk County costs $200k annually. That would be only if the county sent the officers with the highest seniority to conduct these compliance checks, and no police department in the USA does that. Starting pay for a Suffolk Co detective far lower than that (maybe $50k or so) and it takes decades to each that cap, and that includes overtime hours. PFML claims they only hire those with decades of Law Enforcement experience. They hired six ex-cops to do this job. How much do they really make, do they work the amount of overtime a police detective can, and would the Suffolk Co PD even need six dedicated officers for a task they are supposed to be doing themselves? For comparison, here in Cincinnati, where I live, the Hamilton Co. Sheriff's Office handles more registrants than Suffolk Co. NY, yet has only three dedicated officers and can boast a compliance rate equal to, or possibly better, than the Suffolk County contract, with half the personnel. (Just an FYI, compliance is rarely an issue even where registration laws are allegedly lax.)

In regards to s*x crime rates, both of recidivism and of arrests of those with no prior record, read the NY study by Sandler entitled "Does a Watched Pot Boil" (it is easy to find online). It found about 95% of s*x crime arrests are of first time offenders and Megan's Flaw has NO impact on arrest rates or recidivism rates. What a waste of YOUR taxpayer dollars!

The solution here is not to give in to Phoney Belloney's fearmongering to justify giving more tax money to his political cronies at PFML. Instead, PFML should be defunded and this controversial contract should come to an end. Bellone and Ahearn should be investigated AND CONVICTED for human rights violations and share a cell with Burke and Skelos.

Below is Phoney Bellonne's propaganda:

https://www.suffolkcountynews.net/3963/We-must-protect-our-children-from-sex-offenders

https://www.islipbulletin.net/3958/We-must-protect-our-children-from-sex-offenders

We must protect our children from sex offenders
Story By: STAFF WRITER
12/15/2016

By SUFFOLK COUNTY EXECUTIVE STEVE BELLONE

I am writing to you not only as Suffolk County Executive but also as a parent of three young children to discuss an issue of the utmost importance: protecting our kids and families from sex offenders. 

During my time as Babylon Town Supervisor, we took a leadership position on the sex offender issue. We sued to end the terrible practice of housing more than a dozen unsupervised sex offenders at the former Brook Motel in North Babylon. We created the first GIS mapping system in New York State to track sex offenders living in the Town of Babylon. We also became the first municipality to utilize town code enforcement officers to verify whether sex offenders were living where they reported on the Megan’s Law Sex Offender Registry. In advancing these protective measures, we worked closely with one of the leading advocacy organizations in our state and nation on this issue, Parents for Megan’s Law and its longtime director Laura Ahearn. 

When I took office as Suffolk County Executive in 2012, I took all of my experiences in Babylon and all the lessons learned and worked with Suffolk County Police Department and Parents for Megan’s Law to develop the Community Protection Act (CPA), the toughest sex offender enforcement, monitoring and verification program in the nation. Adopted in 2013, the CPA created a public-private partnership with Parents for Megan’s Law, who utilize retired law enforcement officers to ensure the sex offender registry is up to date by verifying home address registration information for sex offenders living in Suffolk County and enforce laws to prevent sex offenders from preying on our children online. 

Since passing the Community Protection Act: 

• Nearly 300 social media accounts belonging to sex offenders (over 200 of them Suffolk County registrants) have been removed by Facebook

• Over 10,000 in-person home verification visits for Level 1, 2 and 3 registrants have been executed

• Nearly 95 percent of Level 2 and Level 3 offenders were brought into compliance through home address registration

• Recidivism has been reduced by 81 percent for Suffolk County eligible sex offender registrants against Suffolk County residents.

The Community Protection Act is working! 

That’s why I’m so alarmed that the Community Protection Act is currently under assault by sex offenders unhappy with the level of monitoring that we do in Suffolk County. Multiple lawsuits have been filed by sex offenders and organizations supporting them in an effort to strike down the Community Protection Act. 

We need New York State to enact legislation that will give the authority back to Suffolk County to enact reasonable residency restriction laws, prevent certain dangerous registrants from dropping off the registry, and protect critical sex offender management programs such as the Community Protection Act to allow Suffolk County to continue our work protecting kids and families from sex offenders. 

Please go to www.facebook.com/SteveBellone to sign our online petition urging New York State to protect the Community Protection Act and close the sex offender loophole by prioritizing passage of sex offender legislation in the next legislative session.

We want to arm our state representatives with the grassroots support they need to fight for this important legislation in Albany.

Under the Community Protection Act, Suffolk County funds the coordination of educational presentations offered by Parents for Megan’s Law in schools across our county in an effort to arm parents with the tools and knowledge they need to help protect their families and children, and awareness they need to help prevent victimization. We strongly support the delivery of these programs to help protect our most vulnerable. To learn more about this important work, please go to www.parentsformeganslaw.org. 

We owe it to our children to do everything we can under the law to keep them safe. Please join me in calling for the strengthening of our sex offender laws in New York State by signing our online petition at www.facebook.com/SteveBellone. If you are interested in collecting signatures for our petition, please contact my office at 631-853-5027.

Thank you for your support.

If it is on the internet it MUST be true, right? Laura Ahearn tells us to Google her critics and cite the first bad thing that pops up

Ah, the Internet, where anyone can say anything and people can believe it without fact checking. Nowhere does this seem more true than in the victim industry. Victim industry blowhards like Laura Ahearn feel they can say anything they want and no one will bother to fact check. 

Lets look back to the following article from early 2013, when USA Fair issued a challenge to Ahearn and her bogus statistics. Ahearn's response was not to argue facts (because PFML lacks the facts). Instead, Ahearn cited an attack website called "Evil-Unveiled," which is part of the troll website Encyclopedia Dramatica. But hey, if it is on the internet it must be true, right?

http://riverheadlocal.com/2013/02/15/new-sex-offender-bill-signed-but-questions-persist/

Shana Rowan, a USAFair founder, said she wrote to Ahearn in December seeking changes to statistics on the PFML website that she says misrepresent the results of a study on repeat offenders. Ahearn never replied to the letter.

“As executive director of Parents for Megan’s Law, Laura Ahearn has shown herself to be a zealot who has built a career demonizing the very people she is now to be charged with monitoring. She has perpetuated the myth of high sex offender recidivism, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, to enrich her organization,” Rowan said.

Ahearn dismissed Rowan’s criticism, pointing to Rowan’s engagement to a registered offender who she said “raped a six year old child.” Ahearn also said Rowan is “part of NAMBLA,” the North American Man/Boy Love Association. Asked for documentation, Ahearn said, “Just search her name on the Internet.”

Rowan categorically denies that she has ever in any way been associated with NAMBLA. A website called evil-unveiled.com has a page about her with her name in the URL, and it’s the top hit in a Google search of her name. The page says she is a member of “the new NAMBLA” a name the website gives to “activists” seeking reform of registry laws, allegedly so that they can have sex with children.

“I think it’s very telling that she [Ahearn] would resort to personal attacks instead of discussing the issues on the merits,” Rowan said this week.

Rowan said as the recipient of signifcant public funding — Parents for Megan’s Law’s 2011 federal tax return reports the group received more than $946,000 in government grants in 2011, the lion’s share of its total revenue of just under $1.1 million — the group should be held accountable for providing accurat information to the public. “That was really all we were seeking,” Rowan said. “The new deal with Suffolk County is a whole other subject,” she said. 

“Parents for Megan’s Law has no experience in sex offender management – none,” Rowan said, questioning how the county could “sole-source such an important and costly contract without even considering truly qualified parties – such as the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, who are mental health professionals and sex-offender policy researchers. Rowan said the vote by the legislature was “a political attempt to purchase Laura Ahearn’s support for the controversial proposal at great cost to the taxpayer.”

Asked to respond to the criticism of USAFair, Baird-Streeter, the county executive’s spokesperson said, “No comment.”

__________________________________

Who cites a source like Encyclopedia Dramatica as a valid source of information? (Seriously, if you've never heard of the website, Google it and jyst read the front page. I'm not linking to that foul site.) Laura Ahearn does, that's who. Well, there's a lot on Laura Ahearn here, but I don't cite ED as a source. Each post here is a link to actual information, such as public records or even PFML's own crapsite. Here is a woman who is contracted by the government to handle the duties of law enforcement agents relying on a troll website as a valid source. Who will she cite next? The Onion? Does Laura Ahearn believe in Raptor Jesus and does she hold her breath for 10 seconds while reposting random Facebook chain letters that say share with 10 friends or be haunted by a ghost? Just how gullible is Laura Ahearn, anyways? What an idiot!

Just in case you still think ED is a valid website, THIS is from ED's own website page "About Encyclopedia Dramatica":

Purpose

Done in the spirit of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary, Encyclopædia Dramatica's purpose is to provide a central catalog for the e-public to view parody and satire of drama, memes, e-pals and other interesting happenings on the internets. The goal is to provide comprehensive, reference-style parody, to poke fun at everyone and everything on the internet, as well as an archive for online communities to document and reference deviant users.

While the articles themselves are mostly satirical jabs at Internet users (both individually and in groups,) sites, and phenomena, bear in mind that the Encyclopædia Dramatica itself is a parody of a much less funny online encyclopedia. As such, ED articles tend to make fun of the supposed objectivity and accuracy, elitism, and stupid edit wars of such sites. In other words, expect blatant, biased lies, and expect boring truths to get deleted quickly.

ED's third purpose is to catalogue Internets phenomena. In this role, it's actually a fairly good reference for dramatic events and things like memes and netspeak, provided you bear in mind the first two purposes and take what you learn with a Girlmecha-sized grain of salt.

FYI: Home Addresses for corrupt Suffolk County legislators can be found on FEC website

It is interesting to find Suffolk County legislators listed in paperwork for state level politicians. On the Tim Bishop for Congress campaign, we find Kara Hahn contributing to the campaign:

http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?13960791048

Kara Hahn

41 Thompson Hay Path

Setauket NY 11733

In another area of the Tim Bishop for Congress paperwork we find Steve Bellone's address: 

http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?20035570072

Steven Bellone

195 Marcy St.

North Babylon, NY 11703

And here is Laura Ahearn contributing to Zeldin for Congress: 

http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?14962156871

Laura Ahearn

18 Balfour Ln.

Stony Brook, NY 11790

Before anyone gives me grief about publishing home addresses, let me make a couple of things clear. First, these folks support publishing the addresses of those forced onto the registry and were determined not to be a risk to the public, in addition to pushing to extend their registration period. Second, these addresses are on a publicly accessible website, so what is good for the goose is good for the gander. I'm merely republishing the information that is already available online. Surely they can't have a problem with that! 

Besides publishing addresses, it is interesting to note how many of these politicians are "donating" to other politicians. Just follow the money. I think you all know where this is heading.

Speaking of following the money...

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/long-island-law-enforcement-foundation-spends-big-in-suffolk-1.11646917

"A super PAC run by Suffolk County police unions has built a multimillion-dollar campaign operation, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to help elect local candidates and boost its clout on law enforcement issues.

Funded with $1-a-day mandatory fees from approximately 2,500 police department members, the Long Island Law Enforcement Foundation regularly outspent candidates it targeted."

Here are Laura Ahearn's political contributions for 2016:

https://www.elections.ny.gov/ContributionSearchB_Name.html (Go here and searh "Ahearn" in name and fill in the rest of the form, specifically date, and for contrubutions, I added 0 minimum and 100000000 maximum)

Here are Ahearn's contributions from the FEC:

http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/norindsea.shtml (Go here and fill out the name section):

As an added bonus, here is the address of the prosecutor present at all Suffolk Co legislature meetings and who gave Ahearn protection of the county as an agent of the state:

NOLAN, PHIL
130 ST. MARKS LANE
ISLIP, NY 11751

Retired NY Supreme Court Justice SLAMS Laura Ahearn, PFML, and Steve Bellone

This brought a HUGE smile to my face. I'd like to see PFML's reaction to THIS letter from a retired state supreme court justice.

http://www.newsday.com/opinion/letters/letter-why-a-new-deal-for-megan-s-law-group-1.11769142

Letter: Why a new deal for Megan’s Law group?
Updated May 6, 2016 11:52 AM
By Newsday Readers

In this Thursday, March 3, 2016 photo, Laura Ahearn, center, executive director of Parents for Megan's Law, poses with retired New York City police detectives who work for her organization verifying the accuracy of the state's sex offender registry, in Ronkonkoma, N.Y. Ahearn's organization is completing a three-year, $2.7 million contract with Suffolk County, N.Y., to verify the registry. In the front row from left are Joe Grimm, Paul Alonzo, and Edwin Rivera. In the back row are from left are Harry Zakian, Robert Carboine and Alex Ramos. (AP Photo/Frank Eltman) Photo Credit: AP

The story “Group sues sex offender” [News, April 24] refers to a private organization, Parents for Megan’s Law, founded by Laura Ahearn. The group has brought a defamation lawsuit against a registered sex offender, Derek W. Logue, who runs a civil rights organization for sex offenders, on account of his public and critical comments about Parents for Megan’s Law. Several revelations in the article are deeply disturbing.

First is the fact that Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone is about to renew the contract with Ahearn’s organization. And for what? To carry out an exclusively public, governmental legal responsibility, which is seeing that New York’s Sex Offender Registration Act is obeyed.

Parents for Megan’s Law is not the Suffolk County Police Department. As Newsday’s article points out, the group is already a defendant in a federal civil rights lawsuit for a home interrogation of another man, and now you report that it is hauling into court yet another of its critics.

Is anybody minding the store?

William M. Erlbaum, Forest Hills

Editor’s note: The writer is a retired justice of the New York State Supreme Court and an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School.

Wait, did Laura Ahearn just state it is better to have an untrained goon knock at the door than a trained investigator?

It certainly sounds that way.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/track-sex-offenders-ny-county-hires-cops-37557231

PFML's registrant Keystone Kompliance Kops

How Do You Track Sex Offenders? NY County Hires Ex-Cops
By FRANK ELTMAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS RONKONKOMA, N.Y. — Mar 10, 2016, 6:24 PM 

The "registry verification representatives" wear street clothes and travel in nondescript Toyota sedans. They work in pairs, knocking on doors at run-down trailers and waterfront mansions to find out if registered sex offenders are actually living where they say they are.

But this is not some elite police unit. It is part of an unusual public-private partnership in Long Island's Suffolk County that uses six retired New York City police officers to hold ex-cons accountable to sex-offender registry laws.

Since 2013, Suffolk County has paid the nonprofit group Parents for Megan's Law about $780,000 a year to run the program, resulting in 8,700 home checks and 104 people charged with violating the registry law. Detectives found some offenders on the registry were deceased or deported; others listed addresses that ended up being vacant lots or abandoned homes.

County officials have deemed the program, which also includes counseling services for crime victims, a success and want the nonprofit's three-year contract renewed, but some are questioning whether the checks amount to harassment and whether a private entity should be performing duties that traditionally have been the purview of law enforcement.

A registered sex offender claimed in a federal lawsuit filed last year that he was "the target of two harassing investigations" by Parents For Megan's Law. The offender, who was only identified in court papers as John Jones because of concerns about retribution, said retired officers came to his home "without a warrant and absent any suspicion."

The lawsuit is pending. A judge ruled last month that despite its status as a private organization, Parents for Megan's Law could be sued for civil rights violations in its role as a "state actor."

There are also questions about whether the effort is achieving the main goal of sex registries, which is to prevent habitual rapists and molesters from striking again.

The laws, which require sex offenders to tell authorities where they are living, are named for Megan Kanka, a 7-year-old New Jersey girl who was raped and killed in 1994 by a twice-convicted sex offender who lived near her.

Dr. Bill O'Leary, a forensic psychologist and longtime critic of the program, said intense scrutiny of convicts is a poor use of resources because 95 percent of sexual abuse occurs between a victim and a known acquaintance, not a stranger living down the street.

"One of the most unethical pieces of the situation has been saying that we need to do this to prevent sexual abuse when we know statistically that this has nothing to do with preventing sexual abuse," he said.

Laura Ahearn, executive director of Parents for Meghan's Law, declined to comment on the lawsuit, but said she is confident the program helps deter crime.

"We can't allow state and federal lawmakers to say you have a great sex offender registry law, and then walk away from it," Ahearn said. "If you're going to have a registry, that registry needs to be up-to-date and accurate."

She also said her group is saving taxpayers money in a county where active-duty detectives can earn as much as $200,000 annually, including benefits.

"Do you really want that detective who is highly skilled at doing an investigation knocking on the door of a registrant? No, you don't," she said.

The Suffolk County Police Department maintains oversight over the program and approves all home visits in advance.

The visits are unannounced. On a recent morning, retired detectives carrying IDs, but not badges, checked on the status of three offenders, but no one answered at any of the homes. They return as many as five times before contacting the police department to suggest an investigation of an offender's whereabouts.

Jack Rinchich, president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police/American Police Hall of Fame, said he knew of no similar program in the country.

It's not clear whether Suffolk's efforts since 2013 have been more successful than in years past. The department could not immediately provide such statistics.

In neighboring Nassau County, the police department makes random compliance checks of offenders and has a 99-percent compliance rate, said Detective Lt. Richard LeBrun.

The program hasn't been operating long enough to draw conclusions about its impact on recidivism. According to Suffolk police, two people on the registry who would have been subject to the checks have been arrested for new sex crimes since 2013.

Statewide, at least 2,230 arrests have been reported to the Department of Criminal Justice Services for offenders who failed to register since 2013. As of early March, there were 39,313 registered offenders in the state, with the whereabouts of 463 unknown.