What we see here is, a thousand registrants get haircuts, or let it grow, gain weight, or lose it, get married or divorced, get sick and go to hospital, visit grandma or grandpa, end up homeless, dress like a hippie, or any other thing affecting visual appearance and the whole darm system falls apart. Clearly this shows what a waste of taxpayer money this is, which ultimately shows no more than where folks sleep for a few hours of the day/night. Society has gone nuts electing fools to design these systems.9-18-2014 New York:
Some local police agencies failed to take immediate action to obtain updated photographs and enforce address verification requirements for sex offenders, an audit released Thursday found.
ALBANY – Some local police agencies failed to take immediate action to obtain updated photographs and enforce address verification requirements for sex offenders, an audit released Thursday found.
The audit, conducted by Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s office, evaluated compliance with the Sex Offender Registry Act for more than 3,600 moderate and high-risk sex offenders over a four-year period in 15 local police departments.
The departments reviewed included the cities of Rochester, Buffalo and Mount Vernon, Westchester County, as well as Broome and Ontario counties.
No Tompkins County law enforcement agencies were audited for the comptroller’s report.
In Tompkins County, 152 offenders are listed on the state registry. Those include 67 at level one, considered at low risk of repeat offense, 48 at moderate level, and 37 at a high level. ... ...
The audit contended that the departments did not immediately respond to the Division of Criminal Justice Services’ notifications to update records.
In 53 percent of the 322 cases reviews, 10 departments, including in Broome, Buffalo and Rochester, didn’t arrest offenders who failed to update their photos for the registry, DiNapoli said.
“The sex offender registry is designed to warn residents and local officials of possible threats in their community, but it only works if it is kept current,” DiNapoli said in a statement. “The failure to monitor even one sex offender could lead to serious consequences.”
In responses to the audit, conducted between January 2008 and January 2014, the departments said they’ve taken steps to improve their reporting methods and policies.
The audit said that the Rochester Police Department had one failure to respond to an annual address verification form for a level-2 sex offender for two years. It also had 42 outdated sexual offender photographs, the audit said.
“The Rochester Police Department accepts the audit findings,” Lt. Frank Umbrin, commanding officer of the department’s Major Crimes Unit, said in a letter to the comptroller’s office in response to the findings.
But he added that, “Without knowing specifics on the one failure to respond to annual address verification form and the 42 outdated sexual offender photographs, no explanations can be provided.”
Rochester Police Chief Michael Ciminelli said in a statement Thursday: “We have received the report. Once we review it, we will comment on it.”
Ontario County Sheriff Philip Povero responded to the comptroller that the department had two retirements in 2013 and the list wasn’t updated regularly.
“When these retirements took place this list was overlooked in the assigning of responsibilities. This issue has been corrected,” Povero wrote.
Broome County Sheriff David Harder said the department has improved its reporting policy.
“Due to constant changes in technology and trends, our written policy has not been made current to coincide with the manner in which we were managing our sex offender registry,” he wrote. “Those changes have since been made, and we can now continue to successfully manage our sex offender program.”
Auditors said Mount Vernon did not investigate why a level 3-sex offender, the highest-risk level, failed to verify his address for three consecutive years. Mount Vernon police did not respond to the audit, DiNapoli’s office said.
Departments had varying policies on reporting sex offenders whereabouts, and some didn’t met all the standards of the law, DiNapoli said.
Each year, the state mails non-forwarding address verification forms to each sex offender’s last reported address. The offender must sign and return the form within 10 days.
If the offender fails to report his address, the state Department of Correctional Services must notify local police.
Also, level 2 (moderate-risk) offenders must report to their local police department every three years to have a new photo taken. For level 3 (high-risk) offenders, it’s every year.
Because police agencies didn’t always follow up with those who flouted the law, the state’s registry is not accurate and up-to-date, DiNapoli sad.
The other sheriff’s offices audited included: Cayuga, Oneida, Saratoga, St. Lawrence, Steuben, Suffolk and Warren, and city police departments in Ogdensburg, Syracuse and Utica. ..Source.. by Denise Nickerson
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