NY- Bill adds residency, GPS rules for sex offenders

Interesting, everything is specifically tied to the PAST crime, sounds like a clear ex post facto violation, the judge already entered the sentence, this modifies it?

9-22-2009 New York:

After listening to the tearful testimony of a mother whose 8-year-old daughter was molested by a neighbor, Nassau lawmakers Monday moved to expand restrictions on the activities of convicted sex offenders.

A law proposed by Legis. David Denenberg (D-Merrick) and Joseph Scannell (D-Baldwin) would require high-level sex offenders to wear a GPS monitor around their ankles while on probation.

It also would prohibit everyone convicted of a sex crime from living within 2,000 feet of their victim's home or workplace.

Nassau already bans sex offenders from living near schools or parks.

The new residency and monitoring restrictions passed unanimously through the legislature's committees and will be considered at an Oct. 5 public hearing.

Denenberg said he had developed the residency restriction after encountering a constituent who complained that her daughter's convicted molester returned to live in her neighborhood after serving less than five months in jail.

The mother, a pediatric nurse who identified herself only as "Rosemary," testified in favor of the new law - saying her once cheerful daughter refused to leave the house after her confessed molester - the father of her daughter's former best friend - returned to their neighborhood.

"My daughter was afraid to go anywhere in our community," Rosemary said. "She lived in constant fear of this family," which recently moved away. "We should err on the side of the victim."

Legislators thanked her for "putting a face" to a victim's story.

"I don't want another child to suffer," Rosemary said, turning to the cameras. "Here's my face. It's OK." ..Source.. by CELESTE HADRICK