US Second Circuit Court decides that it is OK for PFML to harass registered citizens

This is good news for vigilantes and other terrorist groups but bad news for people who have served their sentences and are trying to reintegrate into society. For now, at least, the enemy gets to gloat.

There are still other ways PFML can be sued for engaging in state-sponsored harassment.

https://www.courthousenews.com/second-circuit-backs-home-checks-for-sex-offenders/

Second Circuit Backs Home Checks for Sex Offenders
September 4, 2019AMANDA OTTAWAY

MANHATTAN (CN) – A Long Island sex offender who faced home visits from a private nonprofit contracted by his county did not endure an unconstitution al search, the Second Circuit affirmed Wednesday.

Writing for a three-judge panel, U.S. Circuit Judge Christopher Droney noted in the ruling that in this case, public-safety interests outweigh the offenders’ rights.

“In sum, the program advances the government’s substantial interest in reducing sex offender recidivism by improving the accuracy of the registry,” the 29-page opinion states. “Thus, the program serves a special need ‘beyond the normal need for law enforcement.’”

A man who served four years in prison on a 1992 rape and sodomy conviction brought the underlying lawsuit under the pseudonym John Jones. Because of his status as a level-one offender — a designation for those deemed to pose a moderate risk of reoffending — Jones faced a 20-year requirement to register annually with the state, visit his local police precinct to get photographed every three years, and tell authorities if he moves.

Because Jones lives in Suffolk County, however, he has also faced additional requirements since 2013 under the Community Protection Act, a local law that established a three-year contract with the nonprofit Parents of Megan’s Law to track and monitor registered sex offenders pursuant to a contract with police.

The group reported a 99% response rate from registrants at the end of the first year and found 13% of home addresses on the registry conflicted with the person’s actual address.

Jones sued after receiving two home visits from the field representative s, saying the threat of embarrassment from such visits made him stop going to his children’s school and athletic activities.

The Fourth Amendment only prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, but a federal judge ruled against Jones’ case at summary judgment. Affirming that result Wednesday, the Obama-appointed Droney found the visits constitutional under the special needs doctrine.

Pointing to the 1999 ruling Roe v. Marcotte, Droney noted that the same logic allowed the court to upheld a Connecticut law that required incarcerated sex offenders to submit DNA samples to a data bank.

“We held that program served the government’s significant interest in solving past and future crimes, and deterring sex offenders from reoffending in the future,” Droney wrote.

The ruling also says Megan’s Law visits did not significantly affect Jones’ freedom.

“The detention was brief and unobtrusive,” Droney wrote. “The address verification process lasted mere minutes, and the RVRs [Registry Verification Field Representative s] did not request information other than Jones’s address and did not touch him or treat him in a threatening or rude manner.”

Droney added that certain groups of people, such as registered sex offenders, “‘enjoy a diminished expectation of privacy’ in certain information.” Jones had also received advance notice he needed to provide his home address.

Jones was removed from the registry in 2016 after serving the required 20 years.

Link to full decision--

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/jones-ca2.pdf

Further down the rabbit hole with Laura Ahearn's most crooked allies Burke and Spota

Left, Suffolk Co DA Thomas Spota----------------------Right, Christopher McPartland

So apparently the Suffolk Co DA and his aide have a very deep connection to the disgraced former police chief and porn king James Burke, who just got out of prison.

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/spota-mcpartland-suffolk-burke-1.24819883

Court papers detail alleged efforts by Spota, McPartland to thwart federal Burke probe

The documents provide a fuller description of the alleged actions former Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota and aide Christopher McPartland took to shield Suffolk Chief of Police James Burke from a federal probe.

By Andrew Smith
andrew.smith@newsday.com
Updated December 26, 2018 11:30 AM

The meetings took place in a church parking lot, at an athletic field and in the Hauppauge office of then-Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota, court papers say.

The purpose was for top county law enforcement officials to plan how to keep federal investigators from finding out how they covered up the beating of a Smithtown man charged with stealing a duffel bag from then-Suffolk Chief of Police James Burke, federal prosecutors say in court papers.

The chronicle of events in the documents provides a fuller description of the alleged actions Spota and Christopher McPartland, chief of Spota’s governmental corruption bureau, took to shield Burke — Spota’s longtime protégé — from federal prosecutors investigating whether Burke and others had participated in the beating of Christopher Loeb and the cover-up.

“Initially, the efforts to obstruct the federal investigation were successful and, as of May 2015, the investigation had not resulted in any criminal charges,” an affidavit for a search warrant reads.

Ultimately, the papers say, the attempts to thwart the federal probe were unsuccessful. Burke pleaded guilty on Feb. 26, 2016, to depriving Loeb of his civil rights and conspiracy to obstruct justice by orchestrating a cover-up of the beating. Burke, 54, of St. James, went to prison and was released recently to a halfway house to serve the rest of a 46-month prison sentence.

Spota, 77, of Mount Sinai, and McPartland, 53, of Northport, were charged with conspiracy to tamper with witnesses and obstruct an official proceeding; witness tampering and obstruction of an official proceeding; obstruction of justice; and accessory after the fact to the deprivation of civil rights. They have pleaded not guilty and are each free on $500,000 bond. Their trial is scheduled to begin in May.

Spota’s attorney, Alan Vinegrad of Manhattan, insists his client is innocent. “Tom adamantly and unequivocally denies all charges of wrongdoing and looks forward to his trial,” Vinegrad said in an interview.

McPartland’s attorney, Lawrence Krantz, has said that his client “has always been an honest and dedicated public servant. He vehemently denies the charges and asserts his innocence. He looks forward to his day in court.”

The indictment accuses them of helping Burke cover up his crimes by pressuring witnesses not to discuss Burke’s actions and of undermining the federal investigation of him.

Burke’s crime led to the indictment and resignation of Spota. Current Suffolk District Attorney Timothy Sini did not keep McPartland on the staff when he took office in January.

In pretrial motions, defense attorneys said they have been inundated with evidence from the prosecution but have not received what they need the most — the names of other law enforcement officials who prosecutors said conspired with their clients and specific things Spota and McPartland did that amount to obstruction of justice.

Krantz, of Manhattan, wrote that prosecutors have “provided volumes of largely uninformative discovery,” including hundreds of thousands of phone records relating to calls involving Spota, McPartland and Burke.

However, Krantz continued, “These materials shed little or no light on what the defendants are alleged to have done.”

Prosecutors say that, since November 2017, the government has provided 40,000 pages of documents, 70,000 pages of telephone records, thousands of pages of bank records, hundreds of pages of state court hearing transcripts and hundreds of photographs.

In a recent interview, Krantz said, “We’re arguing that in order to properly defend the case, we need certain critical information, including who the co-conspirators are alleged to be.”

Prosecutors replied that the defense has most of what it needs already.

“While the obstruction continued for several years, this is a straightforward, uncomplicated case involving the cover-up of a civil rights violation and the obstruction of a grand jury investigation, not a complex white-collar matter,” Assistant U.S. Attorneys Lara Treinis Gatz, Justina Geraci and John Durham wrote in reply. They added that because Spota and McPartland already are accused of witness tampering, identifying witnesses publicly would risk both the “integrity of the trial and the government’s investigation, which continues.”

In an affidavit for a search warrant, FBI Special Agent Michael Weniger sought information on phones belonging to the defendants, Burke and several other members of the Suffolk police. In the affidavit, he described steps they took to avoid detection after the beating of Loeb in December 2012.

Those steps began as soon as June 25, 2013, the day after the FBI subpoenaed members of the Suffolk police department, according to the affidavit. Weniger wrote that Burke told an officer identified as Cooperating Defendant #1 “to gather the SCPD members who had been served to find out what they said to the FBI agents and make sure they were keeping quiet. Further, Burke reassured Cooperating Defendant #1 that he had Spota and McPartland on his side.”

The officer identified as Cooperating Defendant #1 has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice as part of a cooperation agreement with federal prosecutors, the affidavit says.

After the investigation seemed to be stalled, court papers say, prosecutors issued more subpoenas, including to an officer identified as SCPD Member #3, who participated in the beating of Loeb. That officer also has pleaded guilty as part of a cooperation agreement, according to the affidavit.

Weniger wrote in the affidavit that SCPD Member #3 and Cooperating Defendant #1 met at an athletic field next to police headquarters in Yaphank to discuss what SCPD Member #3’s attorney had told him after a meeting on June 3, 2015.

That evening, Cooperating Defendant #1 met Burke in the parking lot of St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Smithtown to relay what SCPD Member #3 had told him, the affidavit says. Phone records show Burke was in contact with Spota and McPartland before and after that meeting, according to the affidavit.

The next morning, Cooperating Defendant #1 met with Spota, Burke and McPartland in Spota’s Hauppauge office, the affidavit continues, and told them what he’d learned. Spota and Burke could not believe the federal investigation had been reactivated, and the affidavit says Spota called Burke’s attorney to see if it was true.

“McPartland stated that he thought SCPD Member #3 was a ‘rat,’ and Spota told Cooperating Defendant #1 that, if SCPD Member #3 was a rat, Cooperating Defendant #1 had better find out fast,” Weniger wrote. “Additionally, McPartland directed Cooperating Defendant #1 to ‘take his guys’ temperature’ and confront them one-on-one about whether they were a ‘rat.’ Spota reiterated that Cooperating Defendant #1 needed to ‘get his guys in order.’”

Burke then told Cooperating Defendant #1 to warn his officers about “what happens to people who ‘go against the administration,’” the affidavit says. At that point, McPartland raised the example of a former Suffolk detective whom McPartland had investigated for leaking information to reporters, according to the affidavit. That detective retired and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of official misconduct.

The affidavit identifies that detective as John Doe #2, but the description matches the case of former Suffolk Det. John Oliva, who had worked on a federal task force pursuing MS-13 street gang members until Burke withdrew Suffolk police from the task force.

As the investigation picked up speed, SCPD Member #3 and Cooperating Defendant #1 met at a high school in Smithtown on Aug. 17, 2015, the affidavit says.

At about 6 that evening, the affidavit says, Cooperating Defendant #1 returned to the St. Patrick’s parking lot to meet with Burke and McPartland.

McPartland warned his colleagues there that they were probably committing crimes, the affidavit says. McPartland said federal investigators “might be working on an obstruction case and ‘our actions fit within the statute.’ Further, McPartland reiterated that SCPD Member #3 was a ‘rat’ and it was Cooperating Defendant #1’s failure to control SCPD Member #3 that had created the current situation,” the affidavit says.

After that meeting, the affidavit says, phone records show McPartland called Spota at his home. The court papers don’t reveal what they said.

However, Spota and McPartland again discussed their concerns about the investigation at a Farmingdale bar after attending a wake on Oct. 15, 2015, court papers say.

Burke’s last day on the job was less than a month later, on Nov. 11, 2015. That night, the affidavit says, he and McPartland met with two other people at an Asian restaurant in St. James. Burke told them he expected to be arrested, and he was, on Dec. 9.  

Krantz and Vinegrad declined to address the account of the meetings and said their clients did nothing wrong.

In a separate affidavit for another search warrant as part of the investigation, Weniger described another series of meetings that he says resulted in Burke directing the delivery of $25,000 in cash from a safe-deposit box to McPartland to pay for McPartland’s legal expenses.

The first meeting on this topic was Feb. 18, 2016, when the affidavit says McPartland contacted someone identified as CS (for cooperating source) #1, a childhood friend of Burke’s, and asked to meet at a local Chinese restaurant. When they did a few days later, the affidavit says McPartland asked CS #1 to lend him $25,000 for legal fees. CS #1 balked.

“While he had socialized with McPartland through his friendship with Burke, he did not know McPartland that well and he did not feel comfortable loaning him the amount of money requested, so he declined,” the affidavit says. “Then McPartland began to cry, thus, CS #1 said he would think about loaning McPartland the money.”

On Feb. 25, 2016, CS #1 and three other people visited Burke at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Another man told Burke that McPartland had asked CS #1 for the loan, according to the affidavit. Burke told CS #1 he would get the cash to him to give to McPartland, the affidavit says.

Shortly afterward, another person whose name is redacted in the affidavit contacted CS #1 and asked to meet him at a TD Bank branch in Lake Grove. That other person opened safe deposit box 251, according to the affidavit. The person, whose name is redacted in the affidavit, counted out $25,000 in cash and handed it to CS #1.

“According to CS #1, it was never made clear to him why [this person], who knew McPartland very well, did not give McPartland the money himself,” the affidavit says.

CS #1 and McPartland met again in the parking lot of the same Chinese restaurant and CS #1 handed over the cash, the affidavit says. McPartland thanked him, but CS #1 replied he wasn’t the one to thank, according to the affidavit.

“McPartland then immediately put up his hands in a ‘stop’ motion indicating, according to CS #1, that he, McPartland, did not want to know where the money came from,” the affidavit says. “Then, McPartland promised to provide CS #1 with a promissory note indicating that he, McPartland, would pay back the $25,000. However, according to CS #1, to date, McPartland has never followed through with that promise.”

Weniger said a search of the safe deposit box could turn up evidence of a conspiracy to obstruct justice, but Krantz said the episode was meaningless to the case.

“We believe that these allegations are absolutely irrelevant, as they allege nothing unlawful,” Krantz said.

Defense attorneys have until Jan. 7 to file a response to the prosecution’s claim that it does not have to disclose yet the identities of co-conspirators or outline particular criminal acts they say Spota and McPartland committed. U.S. District Judge Joan Azrack will rule on those issues at a later date.

Dean Murray, who wrote the Ahearn-backed Assembly Bill 1651A, just lost his reelection campaign

Not sure if this changes much, but it looks like Ahearn is going to have to find another patsy to promote her  efforts to reinstate residence restrictions and expanding registration length for Tier 1s.

https://patch.com/new-york/shirley-mastic/winner-declared-new-yorks-3rd-senate-district-race

Monica Martinez Triumphs In New York's 3rd Senate District Race
Monica Martinez, a Democrat, has emerged victorious in New York's 3rd Senate District race.
By Lisa Finn | Nov 6, 2018 11:44 pm ET | Updated Nov 7, 2018 12:29 am ET
Monica Martinez Triumphs In New Yorks 3rd Senate District Race
   
LONG ISLAND, NY — The voters have spoken and in a dramatic win, Monica Martinez, a Democrat, has emerged victorious over opponent Dean Murray, a Republican, in New York's 3rd Senate District race.

Martinez, a Suffolk County legislator, took the lead over Murray by a margin of 46,265 to 43,737, according to an unofficial tally by the Suffolk County Board of Elections.

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The race was watched closely as the Dems seized the seat, open after Republican New York State Senator Thomas Croci opted not to run for re-election and instead return to active duty in the Naval Reserve.

New York State's 3rd Senate District is made up Mastic, Shirley, Sayville, Patchogue, Medford, Ronkonkoma and parts of Happauge and Brentwood.

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

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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.

Polishing a turd: PFML's new "Crime Victim's Center" is the same pile of crap with a new website

There is a bit of confusion since Parents For Megan's Law changed their website. The link [https://www.parentsformeganslaw.org/] is still active but now when you go there, you'll see they're calling themselves the "Crime Victims Center." To me, it is not a shock, as that is the official name of their organization for many years, they are simply "doing business as (d.b.a.) parents For Megan's Law. 

While things have been rather quiet on this blog as of late as Ahearn and company haven't been doing much (presumably due to Ahearn's new role as Suffolk County's crime victim ambulance chaser), I'm still monitoring these idiots in case they start spewing nonsense again.

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."

Suffolk County settles lawsuit for James Burke's porn stash beating

I hope Suffolk doesn't go bankrupt just yet, there are a couple more lawsuits they need to settle, like that one with Derek Logue versus Ahearn's group.

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/loeb-settlement-burke-assault-1.16478078

Suffolk agrees to settle Christopher Loeb’s lawsuit, officials say
The county admits no wrongdoing in connection with Christopher Loeb’s 2012 beating by former Chief James Burke.

By Nicole Fuller
nicole.fuller@newsday.com  @NicoleFuller
Updated February 1, 2018 7:48 PM

Suffolk County has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a federal lawsuit brought by Christopher Loeb, whose beating by Suffolk Police Chief James Burke led to the chief’s imprisonment and the indictment of District Attorney Thomas Spota, county officials said Thursday.

Under the terms of the agreement, the county admits no wrongdoing and is released from additional liability in connection with Loeb’s 2012 beating inside a police precinct, Suffolk County Attorney Dennis Brown said in an interview.

“In this particular case, we have an admission from the perpetrator of wrongdoing, so we don’t have a lot of defenses,” Brown said, adding that Burke is not covered under the settlement and could still be held liable.

“His acts, even though he was the chief of police at the time, were not something that the county condones nor is it something that occurred within the scope of his employment.”

The county legislature will have to vote to approve the settlement.

Loeb, 31, of Mount Sinai, could not immediately be reached for comment.

Bruce Barket, a Garden City-based attorney representing Loeb, said he would not comment on the settlement until the legislature gives its final approval.

“But I will note that there is no settlement with Burke and we intend to pursue our case against him vigorously,” Barket said. “He is separately liable for the damages he caused and punitive damages, which are certainly appropriate in this case.”

Barket said Loeb, who is a recovering heroin addict, is currently “doing well and working on his health.”

Burke’s attorney, John Meringolo of Manhattan, declined to comment.

The case began when Loeb was arrested on Dec. 14, 2012, after stealing a duffel bag containing a gun belt, ammunition, sex toys and pornography from Burke’s unmarked police SUV in St. James. In 2015, Loeb filed a lawsuit in federal court charging the county, Burke and six other officers with violating his civil rights after he accused the former chief of assaulting him.

Loeb’s beating allegations sparked a federal probe that led to Burke’s indictment and arrest in December 2015. Burke pleaded guilty to violating Loeb’s civil rights in February 2016 after admitting to assaulting Loeb and then orchestrating a departmental cover-up. He is currently serving a 46-month prison sentence.

Burke’s federal probe led to last year’s federal indictment of Spota and top aide Christopher McPartland on charges they were involved in the cover-up. Both Spota and McPartland pleaded not guilty and were released on bail. Spota retired days after he was indicted.

The county considered several factors in deciding to settle, Brown said, including attorneys’ fees and the unpredictability of a possible jury award.

“We’re looking at years of litigation, very significant litigation costs; there are multiple attorneys that the county is paying for various named defendants,” Brown said. “If we were not successful in the lawsuit, the plaintiff’s attorney would also be entitled to attorney’s fees, so we could be looking at attorneys’ fees of a million dollars or more.”

Loeb had pleaded guilty to criminal possession of a weapon in the original case involving the theft from Burke’s vehicle, but in light of Burke’s guilty plea, a state Supreme Court justice vacated the plea after the special prosecutor who was appointed in the case agreed with Loeb’s attorney that the plea was unjustly coerced and tainted by police perjury.

Loeb entered the plea after a pretrial hearing in which several Suffolk officers and detectives testified under oath that they didn’t see Burke beat Loeb.

But when the plea was vacated, the original indictment, which included stealing property and other charges, was reinstated. Loeb again pleaded not guilty to those charges, which included a count of breaking into Burke’s police vehicle and stealing a duffel bag.

A defense motion to dismiss the indictment was later granted.

DuWayne Gregory (D-Copiague), presiding officer of the Suffolk County Legislature, said he would vote for the settlement because going to trial could “run the risk” of a higher cash award.

“It’s frustrating that the taxpayers of Suffolk County have to pay for the egregious actions of any individual that works for the county,” Gregory said.

If approved, the settlement will be paid by floating a bond. The county’s 2 percent interest rate over five years on a $1.5 million bond will total $91,200, said county spokesman Jason Elan.

Since being released from prison on that case last January after being sentenced to three years, Loeb has gotten into trouble with the law, including a February 2016 argument with his mother, Jane Loeb, that resulted in a harassment charge after authorities said he hit her.

Loeb was arrested in August 2017 and charged with violating an order of protection against his former girlfriend, Suffolk police said.

And last November, Loeb was arrested on charges in connection with the break-in of a car, theft of a purse and credit cards and theft of his mother’s car, police said. He was charged with fourth-degree grand larceny, fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, possession of a hypodermic instrument and unauthorized use of a vehicle.

He was released on personal recognizance from the Suffolk jail in Riverhead on Jan. 8 after a judge reduced his bail. The charges are pending.

Legis. Robert Trotta (R-Fort Salogna) said County Executive Steve Bellone should pay the settlement. Trotta said he would “absolutely not” vote to float a bond to pay it.

“Steve Bellone violated the trust of every taxpayer by hiring and supporting Jim Burke despite his history of misconduct. Now the taxpayers of Suffolk County will pay yet again for another Bellone blunder.”

Newsday has reported that Bellone was warned in an anonymous letter about issues with Burke, but got assurances of his character from Spota.

Elan, in response, said: “It is the height of hypocrisy coming from a man who has been accused multiple times of workplace violence.”

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. 

Laura Ahearn reduced to ambulance chasing, cashing in on Predator Panic in a new, misleading way

There's nothing like being repreented by a inexperienced attorney posing as a longtime veteran of the courts. That's like a janitor posing as a CEO. True, Ahearn has a law degree, but she has no court experience aside from being sued, perhaps, but now she's taken her victim industry propaganda to the wonderful world of shady personal injury attorneys. I can't wait to see (and ridicule) the impending local ads this crazy woman will run. In the meantime, you have to love the fact that she glosses over the fact she was no actual experience representing anyone as an attorney. She's implying she has 20 years experience as a lawyer, and that's bullshit:

https://www.lauraahearn.com/

Ms. Ahearn is one of the country's most accomplished and respected crime victim and community advocates.  She has fought for tens of thousands of victims  for over 20 years in New York State criminal and family courts and has experience in the federal court system. 

(Being a witness in court and acting as an victim industry shill does not make you an attorney with 20 years experience. Ahearn, you need to put a notice up you have less than one year's experience a an actual attorney.)
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She is also the founder and executive director of a not-for-profit organization dedicated to victim's rights and crime prevention.  In addition to her roles as Executive Director, Ms. Ahearn holds leadership roles such as the Chairwoman of the Suffolk County Family Violence Task Force Legal Systems Subcommittee and the Victims Services Representative of the Suffolk County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. She was also the Victims Services Representative of the Suffolk County Hate Crimes Task Force.

(None of these are jobs that require a JD.)
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Ms. Ahearn has assisted in the drafting of and supported local, state, and federal legislation aimed at strengthening laws to protect our most vulnerable and broaden crime victim's and community rights. She is heavily relied upon to provide accurate, factual and pertinent information to educate the community, government officials and the media. Ms. Ahearn has been instrumental in developing and coordinating training for law enforcement on topics including crime victim compensation and community based Megan's Law Programs.  

(I have to laugh at the part about providing factual information. She couldn't find a fact with GPS.)

Ms. Ahearn has received many awards including the prestigious Martin Schwartz Award for Excellence in Civil Rights for her work with victims, the New York State Senate Woman of Distinction Award, the New York State Outstanding Victims Advocate Award, the Leadership in Establishing and Maintaining Social Justice Award, Woman of the Year awards, Leadership in Community Education Award, Newsday Everyday Hero, multiple legislative and citation recognition awards and has been recognized by the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Victims of Crime and the U.S. Congress for her many accomplishments in strengthening local, state and federal policies and laws to protect our most vulnerable and to give victims a voice.

(Again, none of these dubious awards is for work as an attorney. Maybe it is because the ink hasn't fried on her degree.)

Ms. Ahearn holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration, a Masters of Social Work (MSW) from SUNY Stony Brook she earned while on fellowship and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Touro Law where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and at the top of her class.  Laura is an avid angler and is often seen fresh or salt-water fishing in Suffolk County.

She may have gotten her JD, but it wasn't even a year ago. Most attorneys start off in a big office to gain experience, yet this woman jumps right in to private practice. Who'd hire this greenhorn to represent them?

And her specialty areas are intriguing. I guess because there are so few REAL sex abuse victims, especially in relation to the dubious "priest abuse" myth that she also needs to take "personal injury," "defective products," and "medical malpractice" on the side.

Plaintiff Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
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Negligence and Medical Malpractice

Defective Products Consumer Protection

Victims of Violent Crime

Adult Survivors of Clergy Abuse, Child Victims of Sexual Abuse and Child Pornography

Adult Victims of Sexual Assault, Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Domestic Violence & Sexual Harassment

You know what I should do? Hire Ahearn to sue Parents For Megan's Law. After all, PFML is a defective product, run by a defective executive director who consistently lies about sex crime statistics. Add that to your lawsuit, Ahearn, I dare you. I'd love to prove you wrong in a court of law.

Now that Laura Ahearn is being countersued for filing a bogus lawsuit, she's reduced to having relatives send nasty text messages

Sending harassing messages is illegal, even if you are a victim advocate, Laura:

Next time you send a harassing message, Laura's cousin," learn the difference between "your" and "you're." There is one E in harassment. But thanks for granting me yet more evidence that you are the aggressor here.

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!

Just think, Ahearn is trying hard to expand into Nassau County. Here's a good reason to reject that notion

I could almost see Laura Ahearn's masculine face cracking a smile over this disgusting act. It isn't far from certain other folks I've featured on this blog.

http://longisland.news12.com/story/35496357/sex-offenders-would-be-house-burns-down-in-merrick

Sex offender's would-be house burns down in Merrick
Posted: May 23, 2017 11:28 AM EDT
Updated: May 23, 2017 7:41 PM EDT

Sex offender's would-be house burns down in Merrick
MERRICK -

A Merrick home that was soon to be occupied by a registered Level 2 sex offender and his wife went up in flames early Tuesday morning and fire officials say it is considered suspicious. 

The fire broke out at the vacant home on Yale Road around 3:30 a.m. and left it gutted. 

Over the weekend, fliers were posted in the community alerting them about Daniel Reilly, who was supposed to move to the neighborhood. The fire marshal says they are investigating whether the house fire was linked to the sex offender's expected arrival on the block. 

Reilly was convicted in 2013 of rape after admitting to having sex with a 14-year-old student. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months in jail and 10 years of probation. 

Reilly, who lives nearby in North Merrick with his wife and young daughter, told News 12 that he could not speak on the matter. 

Developer John Miller says Reilly's wife, Ann Marie, was the sole purchaser of the home. He says he didn't realize that her husband was a registered sex offender until recently. 

Miller told News 12 that once he found out who the buyer was married to, he tried to buy her out of the contract. 

"We were offering all their money back and more," says Miller. 

More than 60 firefighters were called to extinguish the fire. The Nassau fire marshal has not yet said if an accelerant was found. Officials deemed the blaze suspicious based on the volume of the fire and the fact the home was still under construction. 

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/merrick-home-destroyed-by-fire-nassau-police-say-1.13657253

Sex offender fliers focus of Merrick house fire probe, officials say
Updated May 23, 2017 6:48 PM
By John Valenti and Michael O’Keeffe

Investigators are trying to determine if an overnight fire that destroyed a house under construction in Merrick is tied to fliers found near the scene alleging the incoming resident is a sex offender.

Those fliers, found attached to utility poles in the area, including ones directly in front of the home, claimed the incoming resident is a Level 2 sex offender whose victim was 13 years old, officials said. A Level 2 sex offender is considered a moderate risk to repeat the offense, according to the New York Department of Criminal Justice Services.

The man pictured on the fliers pleaded guilty to statutory rape in 2013 in Queens Criminal Court. Newsday is not identifying the man in the flyer because authorities could not confirm that he was the incoming resident.

Nassau County Fire Marshal’s Office Division Supervisor James Hickman said the sex offender fliers were being considered as a potential motive. He said the home did not have an active utility service, but declined to say if a preliminary investigation found evidence of any accelerants.

“Standing in front of the house,” Hickman said, “there wasn’t one place you could look where you couldn’t see one of the posters.”

Nassau County police confirmed they were aware of the fliers but did not immediately comment on the investigation by arson-bomb squad detectives.

Police said a Seventh Precinct officer, on routine patrol, spotted the blaze at the house on Yale Road, near Lindenmere Drive, and reported it at 3:33 a.m. Firefighters from Merrick, Bellmore, North Bellmore, North Merrick, Wantagh and Freeport responded to the scene to find it “fully engulfed in flames,” Merrick Fire Department spokesman Ron Luparello said.

He said that at least 60 firefighters battled the blaze for more than two hours before the scene was fully extinguished.

No one was injured.

Richard Watkins, 74, who has lived in neighborhood since 1952, said he had not seen the fliers. He said he understands why people would be upset about the possibility of a sex offender moving in but arson, if that was the case, was not justified.


“I think it is sad. It is tragic for a lot of reasons,” Watkins said. “It seems like any other solution would have been better.”

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Long-Island-Sex-Offender-Home-Fire-Raises-Questions-Arson-423916484.html

Marshals Investigate Whether Fire at Long Island Sex Offender's Home Was Intentionally Set 
By Greg Cergol

A house fire in Merrick is raising suspicions over whether it was intentionally set amid resistance to a sex offender's planned move there.

The Nassau fire marshal is investigating whether the early-morning blaze at the house in Merrick was set. A fire marshal supervisor says flyers were posted around the home as it was being built, warning the community that a convicted sex offender was planning to move in there. 

"Everyone was very on edge, scared," said neighbor Lindsay Granat. "People in the community were organizing to prevent him from moving here." 

"I have two teenaged daughters and no one wants to hear you will have a predator living on the street," said Carrie Burlock. 

The sex offender, ******, is a former New York City teacher convicted almost four years ago of having sex with a 14-year-old student. State records indicate he served six months in jail and is now on probation. 

No one answered at Reilly's North Merrick home Tuesday.

It remains unclear if he will try to rebuild in Merrick. While many neighbors hope he doesn't, several expressed outrage that someone might see setting a dangerous fire as the answer to the problem. 
"It's disgusting!" said Granat. "I mean, my house started lighting on fire, too." 


"It says there are people who live here with intolerance and insensitivity to do this, to solve a problem," said Watkins. 

Legislators are calling for two of Ahearn's cronies to resign

http://longisland.news12.com/multimedia/gop-lawmakers-call-for-suffolk-da-county-exec-to-resign-1.11783461

This video is about three Republian legislators calling for the resignation of current DA Tom Spota and Suffolk Co. Exeutive Steve Bellone. (You'll have to click the link to see the video since they don't offer embedding for their videos.)

They should resign, and they should take Laura Ahole with them.

ADDENDUM: Newsday reports on 5/13/17 that Spota won't be seeking reelection. I hope this doesn't open up the path for Ahearn to take over.

Add druggie to list of PFML supporter and current convict James Burke's list of credentials

Is this a perpwalk or a PERVwalk? In James the Porn King's case, maybe both. 

How the mighty have fallen! He got as cushy of a place as a corrupt ex-Suffolk County cop can get and he already blew it. James, you're a cop, you should know better than use the old "It's not mine' line. So Ahearn's ex-head cheerleader has been reduced to prison pill popper.

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/sources-drugs-found-in-ex-suffolk-police-chief-james-burke-s-prison-cell-1.13583616

Sources: Drugs found in ex-Suffolk police chief James Burke’s prison cell
Updated May 9, 2017 8:50 AM
By Nicole Fuller and Robert E. Kessler  nicole.fuller@newsday.com, robert.kessler@newsday.com

Drugs were found in the prison cell of former Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke at the federal detention center in Pennsylvania where he’s serving a 46-month sentence for beating a prisoner and orchestrating a cover-up of the assault, sources said on Monday.

Multiple sources said prison officials discovered oxycodone — a controlled substance prescribed by doctors for pain management — taped under a shelf inside the personal locker of Burke, who has been housed at a low-security federal prison in Allenwood, Pennsylvania, since late December.

Burke, 52, who was Suffolk’s highest-ranking uniformed officer for four years until his resignation in November 2015, was segregated from other inmates after the oxycodone was found recently and is undergoing drug testing, the sources said. The FBI in Pennsylvania is investigating the source of the drugs, sources said.

The FBI declined to comment.

In a statement Tuesday morning, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said that “for privacy reasons” the department “does not discuss whether a particular inmate is or has been the subject of allegations, investigations, or sanctions for misconduct in prison.”

Burke’s lawyer, John Meringolo of Manhattan, denied that drugs were found in Burke’s locker but said: “My client denies all allegations. He’ll be vindicated.”

Prison officials initially thought the drugs could have been synthetic marijuana, sold under the names K2 or Spice, but determined through laboratory testing that the drug was oxycodone, the sources said.

“That is utterly false,” Meringolo said. “That is so far from the truth.”

Burke pleaded guilty in February 2016 to obstruction of justice and violating the civil rights of prisoner Christopher Loeb, a self-admitted drug addict and petty thief.

In December 2012, Loeb broke into Burke’s departmental sport utility vehicle and stole the chief’s duffel bag, finding a gun belt, magazines of ammunition, a box of cigars, sex toys and pornography, prosecutors said.

Burke, a resident of St. James, acted “as a dictator” as he sought to cover up his crime, a conspiracy that impacted the entire police department, according to U.S. Judge Leonard Wexler, who sentenced Burke.

Federal prosecutors said in a pre-sentencing memorandum that Burke’s cover-up scheme included “the recruiting of high-ranking officials from other county agencies to assist him in the obstruction and to give teeth to his threats.”

“SCPD members who witnessed the assault came under direct and extreme pressure from the defendants and others to conceal it,” prosecutors said.

Burke apologized to Loeb at his sentencing. Loeb, 30, of Smithtown, was freed from prison in January after a Suffolk judge set aside his guilty plea in the Burke theft as a result of perjured testimony given by police officers at Burke’s direction.

Burke was held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn before being transferred to the Pennsylvania prison in late December. He did not request any special housing or security arrangements to keep him from potential harm or harassment by other inmates in Allenwood because of his former status as a high-ranking police officer, sources have said.

In the Brooklyn detention center, however, he lived in a unit that did not house violent offenders such as street gang members.

At the Pennsylvania prison, he was housed in a three-man cubicle — each prisoner has a bed and a locker — before he was moved to a special housing unit after the drugs were found, a source said.

Long Island man was acquitted by a jury of sex crimes. You can guess Ahearn's reaction to the news

A high profile sex crime case in Suffolk County ends in acquittal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/nyregion/long-island-foster-father-not-guilty-abuse.html

His eyes wet, Cesar Gonzales-Mugaburu, a foster father who opened his Long Island home to scores of children with intellectual disabilities and mental illnesses, walked out of court here a free man on Tuesday after he was acquitted of endangering or sexually abusing boys in his care.

The verdict followed an emotional five-week trial in State Supreme Court that included testimony from eight accusers who had lived with Mr. Gonzales-Mugaburu, 60. It represented a stunning turnaround for him after more than a year in jail. And it dealt a blow to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, which prosecuted the high-profile case that had raised questions about the child welfare system.

Donald Mates, Mr. Gonzales-Mugaburu’s lawyer, had argued that his client — so trusted that New York City’s child welfare agency had placed 95 boys in his care over two decades, many of whom he adopted — was a strict but not abusive foster parent who had looked after troubled boys. Mr. Mates raised doubt about the credibility of the accusers, arguing that they were coached, and questioned why a detective who had interviewed some of the boys did not testify — a point some jury members mentioned after delivering the verdict.

Mr. Mates said his client looked forward to getting “his good name back after it’s been smeared over the past year and a half.” Mr. Gonzales-Mugaburu stood beside him and nodded his head.

An ‘Exemplary’ Foster Father, a String of Suspicions and Sexual-Abuse Charges APRIL 1, 2016
“Cesar’s just, obviously, very happy, very emotional,” Mr. Mates said.

The jurors, who spent more than a week deliberating the 16 charges, said they struggled to stay impartial as they fought through the strong emotions stirred by the case. They used a white board to painstakingly account for the many details they were given and built a timeline. They debated the definition of “reasonable doubt” and had the judge redefine it for them.

Jury members fainted, experienced dizziness and stomach problems, and lost sleep, said Louise Corcoran, a juror who is a teacher from West Islip.

But in the end, they decided that Mr. Gonzales-Mugaburu was not guilty of any of the charges.

“We were, you know, waiting for the rest of the story,” Ms. Corcoran said. “It never came.”

Jurors had “to try to finish the story in your head, which you really can’t do,” she said.

Tim Carney, the jury foreman, who is a firefighter from Islip, also pointed to gaps in the case against Mr. Gonzales-Mugaburu. The prosecutors “just never built that bridge, in our eyes,” Mr. Carney said.

“We can’t ask for evidence to come in,” he said.

Laura Ahearn's reaction is as expected-- "The system failed us, and by the way we have a new stat we pulled out of our asses and we have a new program just for this type of case so bring money."

Where does this dubious claim of foster kids being 10 times more likely to be sexually abused originate? And if this was actually true, then why even have a foster care system?

Of course, Ahearn is already prepared to take MORE of your taxpayer money to fund another of her dubious programs. Who would have guessed?

This is now slander, Ahearn. Looks like you should be worried about getting sued yet again.

Irony: Ahearn skips screening for her potential DA run

Irony, in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.

I think it is ironic that Laura Ahearn cites ethics concerns given her penchant for cronyism with some of Suffolk County's worst criminals, like Dean Skelos and James Burke.

Laura Ahearn passed on Conservative screening for Suffolk DA

Updated March 3, 2017 5:44 PM
By Rick Brand  rick.brand@newsday.com 

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/columnists/rick-brand/laura-ahearn-passed-on-conservative-screening-for-suffolk-da-1.13206202

Possible Suffolk district attorney hopeful Laura Ahearn declined to appear before the Suffolk Conservative committee Sunday, saying the event posed a “potential ethical conflict,” even though the minor party tried to allay her qualms.

On the eve of candidate screening, Ahearn issued a statement criticizing the minor party for allowing party secretary Michael Torres to arrange the screening appointments for DA contenders while facing criminal charges himself.

Frank Tinari, Suffolk Conservative chair, said he learned of Ahearn’s concerns when a Newsday reporter sought a reaction to her statement on the eve of the screening. Encouraging her participation, Tinari said Torres had “graciously agreed” not to take part in the meeting. “We’d be happy to have her come,” he said. “We want to give everyone a chance to make their case.”

Tinari conveyed his offer to Suffolk Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer, who relayed it to Ahearn. She still declined to attend, saying the offer did “not inspire confidence that anything has changed under the current leadership.”

Laura Ahearn, potential Suffolk Co. District Attorney candidate? Really?

If we can elect a person with no experience and who is a complete asshat to the office of President of the USA, Sofucked County can elect this complete moron to the office of persecutor. After all, why let that Tuoro law school diploma that she just received LAST DECEMBER go to waste? (That's right, folks, she has NEVER tried a case.)

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/spin-cycle/patrick-o-connell-surfaces-as-suffolk-da-contender-1.13072491

Other potential Democratic contenders include David Calone, a former federal prosecutor; James Chalifoux, an assistant district attorney; Mark Lesko, former Brookhaven supervisor; William Wexler, Suffolk Industrial Development Agency counsel, Police Commissioner Timothy Sini; and Laura Ahearn, executive director of Parents for Megan’s Law.

There are 63 registry-related bills. Ahearn's bill is one of them.

A1651 is Laura Ahearn's bad bill increasing registration of Level 1s to 30 years as well as allowing municipalities to pass local residency restriction ordinances. The bill was referred to the Correction Subcommittee. Now is the time to fight this bad piece of legislation.

http://nyassembly.gov/comm/?sec=mem&id=10

We need to find out when this A1651 is coming up for discussion. As soon as I have my answer I will post it.

Assemblyman David I. Weprin heads the Correction committee. Write, call, and most of all, find out when the public hearing is for A1651 so we can fight this bill.

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Below are all the bills currently in the NY state legislature. Those starting with a A are in Assembly and those starting with S are in the Senate.

The NY legislature begins on February 28, folks. We have one week to come up with a game plan to stop this crap.

This link is to the legislature bill lookup page: http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/navigate.cgi

Search Results Count = 63          Run Date: 2017/02/20   12:22 PM

Bill No.
A419 Perry (MS) --Provides for monitoring persons who are pedophiles and both level 3 sex offenders and sexual predators or predicate sex offenders with global positioning system
A540 Gunther (MS) --Provides for employment limits for level three sex offenders to outside a five hundred feet radius of a daycare or school
A570 Miller MG --Relates to level three designation for certain sex offenders under the sex offender registration act
A762 Miller MG --Requires sex offenders, regardless of their classification, to annually register with the division of criminal justice services for life
A805 Crouch (MS) --Prohibits registered sex offenders from using or being within five hundred feet of any state or municipal-owned park
A848 Gunther (MS) --Prohibits certain sex offenders from entering a school bus or within one thousand feet of a school bus stop
A860 Braunstein (MS) --Relates to sex offender residence limitation
A937 Thiele --Requires school districts, upon notification from law enforcement agencies, to notify residents of sex offenders living in the district
A1187 Simanowitz --Relates to the use of youthful offender adjudications in making recommendations for the supervision of sex offenders
A1188 Simanowitz --Provides for a sex offender public awareness outreach program to provide educational outreach to schools, community groups and clergy on issues related to sex offenders
A1193 Simanowitz --Relates to the timing of risk level determination hearings for certain convicted sex offenders
A1237 Zebrowski (MS) --Prohibits sex offenders who are on parole or probation, or conditionally discharged from being upon the premises of any facility providing child day care
A1360 Braunstein (MS) --Prohibits sex offenders from being entitled to licenses as state certified and licensed real estate appraisers
A1637 Hawley (MS) --Requires the employment address of certain sex offenders to be reported to the division of criminal justice services
A1651 Murray (MS) --Relates to sex offender registration and residency restrictions
A1712 Murray --Relates to facilitating compliance with the sex offender registry for offenders without a registerable residence
A1784 Hawley (MS) --Prevents level two or three sex offenders from working in amusement parks
A2430 Ortiz --Requires sex offenders who fail to register or verify twice or more to wear a location-tracking device
A2605 Sepulveda (MS) --Prohibits sex offenders whose victim was a child and level 3 sex offenders from knowingly being within 1,000 feet of a facility where pre-kindergarten or kindergarten instruction is provided
A2950 Simotas (MS) --Requires registered sex offenders to personally appear at the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction for purpose of having a photograph taken; repealer
A3006A Budget --Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the education, labor and family assistance budget for the 2017-2018 state fiscal year
A3259 Ortiz --Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish standards for the distance from school grounds of the residence of certain sex offenders on probation or parole
A4035 Weprin --Establishes sex offender residency restrictions
A4082 Simotas (MS) --Requires sex offenders to annually return a verification form to the division of criminal justice services
A4458 Ortiz --Requires registered sex offenders to wear an electronic tagging device
A4686 Giglio --Creates the crime of reckless endangerment of the public health for recklessly transmitting HIV/AIDS
A4762 Kearns (MS) --Relates to prohibiting sex offenders from residing in community residences
A4788 Norris --Prohibits level two or three sex offenders from voting at a school or facility for children
A5026 McDonough (MS) --Requires electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders
A5113 Simotas (MS) --Expands the amount of information available about registered sex offenders on the division of criminal justice services website
A5129 McDonough (MS) --Requires providers of non-emergency, clinical outpatient treatment to patients on a continuing basis to determine whether they are sex offenders
A5613 Norris --Relates to residency and verification requirements for certain sex offenders
S249 ORTT --Requires the employment address of certain sex offenders to be reported to the division of criminal justice services
S602 BOYLE --Creates "Robin's law"; relates to mental health and chemical dependence outpatient treatment of sex offenders
S705 ORTT --Prohibits level two or three sex offenders from voting at a school or facility for children
S844 YOUNG --Creates the crime of reckless endangerment of the public health for recklessly transmitting HIV/AIDS
S962 FUNKE --Expands the amount of information available about registered sex offenders on the division of criminal justice services website
S968 MURPHY --Relates to sex offender residence limitation
S1006 ROBACH --Relates to sex offender registration of change of address and internet accounts
S1009 ROBACH --Prohibits level three sex offenders from living in college housing
S1014 ROBACH --Provides for a sex offender public awareness outreach program to provide educational outreach to schools, community groups and clergy on issues related to sex offenders
S1271 AVELLA --Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish standards for the distance from school grounds of the residence of certain sex offenders on probation or parole
S1511 AVELLA --Relates to the timing of risk level determination hearings for certain convicted sex offenders
S1599 LAVALLE --Requires school districts, upon notification from law enforcement agencies, to notify residents of sex offenders living in the district
S1635 GOLDEN --Prohibits registered sex offenders from working with children
S1763 GOLDEN --Provides residency requirements for sex offenders
S1784 KLEIN --Prohibits placing of level 2 or 3 sex offenders in any temporary emergency housing or homeless shelters used to house families with children
S1787 KLEIN --Prohibits sex offenders whose victim was a child and level 3 sex offenders from knowingly being within 1,000 feet of a facility where pre-kindergarten or kindergarten instruction is provided
S2006A BUDGET --Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the education, labor and family assistance budget for the 2017-2018 state fiscal year
S2170 SERINO --Relates to permissible employment, employment related activities, and volunteer activities that may be performed by convicted sex offenders
S2173 SERINO --Requires sex offenders to verify their residence and registration on a biannual basis
S2178 FUNKE --Authorizes municipalities to establish residency restrictions for sex offenders required to register with the division of criminal justice services
S2408 GOLDEN --Prohibits sex offenders from being entitled to licenses as state certified and licensed real estate appraisers
S2477 GIANARIS --Requires registered sex offenders to personally appear at the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction for purpose of having a photograph taken; repealer
S2509 HELMING --Prohibits certain sex offenders from residing near school grounds
S2600 LANZA --Prohibits sex offenders from operating automobiles participating in mobile application based transportation networks or being employed by such transportation networks
S2638 LANZA --Increases the in-person appearance requirements for level two sex offenders
S2652A KLEIN --Prohibits sex offenders from playing augmented reality games
S3027 RANZENHOFER --Relates to prohibiting sex offenders from residing in community residences
S3030 HELMING --Makes the failure of a sex offender to register or verify pursuant to sex offender registration act, or working on an ice cream truck a class D felony
S3127 GIANARIS --Expands the amount of information available about registered sex offenders on the division of criminal justice services website
S3907 GRIFFO --Requires sex offenders who fail to register or verify twice or more to wear a location-tracking device
S3957 SEWARD --Prohibits level 2 and 3 sex offenders from residing within 1,500 feet of their victim or school grounds; also prohibits such offenders from attending school activities

Chumps for Children: Exposing Laura Ahearn's bogus 'Champions for Children' Award winners Part 1: Brian Pascale

Over the next few weeks, I'll be exposing each of PFML's so-called "Champions for Children," awards PFML gives to those who suck up to them the most.

Brian Pascale: At first I thought this was Peewee Herman. Why does this two-bit attorney get a reward from Ahearn? His only service is helping Ahearn sue a disabled man from Ohio for having the balls to stand up to Ahearn and her fellow bullies. He is a right-wing nut who reads websites like Brietbart and while he claims to help the oppressed, he makes fun of disabled individuals and makes implicit racist statements to boot.

Peewee Pascale accepting his Chumps for Children Award.

Notice the source of the article, an Alt-Right propagandist. 

The irony of this post when you consider comments posted below. 

Ironically, he is suing a man on behalf of PFML because they need "safe spaces"

The hypocrisy is strong in this post.

What Alt-Right nut isn't also a gun sucking wacko?

No comment necessary. He's a sicko. 

So? I think he was on point. 

He calls Muslims savages. How quaint.

Another Alt-Right source. 

Maybe you should also grow the fuck up. 

Called out for believing Alt-Right FAKE news.

If I workd for Pascale I might need some of those pills, too.