12.27.2013 News No. 6 Top News Story: Sex offender trailers leave 2013 was the year the homeless sex offender trailers went away. For six years, the Suffolk County Department of Social Services kept two trailers on the East End as...
08.15.2013 News Homeless sex offender trailer in Riverside removed Three months ago, the homeless sex offenders housed in a faded white and blue trailer in the Suffolk County Correctional Facility parking lot were moved out, marking the victorious...
05.30.2013 Editorials Editorial: Bellone made good on promises — we must too The fight against placing two trailers for homeless sex offenders on the East End in 2007 was never a NIMBY protest. It was a pure and good fight. With...
03.15.2013 News Newsday report: Not enough shelters to house sex offenders In February the Suffolk County Legislature unanimously approved a law to redistribute about 40 homeless sex offenders who were housed in trailers in Riverside and Westhampton. The plan was to...
01.30.2013 News New sex offender plan to be presented today Suffolk County’s new plan for dealing with sex offenders will be presented to the county Legislature’s public safety committee at 9:30 a.m. Thursday and it could be approved as...
01.02.2013 Police Deadline missed but trailers to still close County Executive Steve Bellone is urging Suffolk County Police Department officials to come up with a comprehensive plan to better protect residents from registered sex offenders. No matter what...
05.11.2011 News Source: Riverhead won’t get sex offender shelter Five sites across Suffolk County have been presented as potential spots for new, smaller regional shelters for homeless sex offenders, according to a county official, but their exact locations...
03.17.2011 Uncategorized Sex offender trailers could close this summer The locally despised trailers that have housed Suffolk County’s homeless sex offender population on the East End for the past four years will be closed in favor of an...