Not a joke...and this is disheartening

Hi all:
This morning on my way to work I was listening to WBAB and was shocked by what I heard. With sex offenders being released back in to society, there has been much controversy. Please take a look at this site, and pass it along to all those you know: www.familywatchdog.us
If you search via your street address, the site alerts you to how many sex offenders are in your immediate area. Not only that, but it tells you what their convictions are. I just searched my address and found out I have 41 sick perverts living in the surrounding area. Please pass along!

I have to say that this worries me. More and more sexual preditors seem to be 'popping up' in what was once considered safe neighborhoods. But no one is safe. I just wish we could keep children safe. This was an article printed in yesterday's Newday (news paper.)


Anger at sex offender clusterBY JENNIFER MALONEYSTAFF WRITER; Staff writer Erik German contributed to this story.September 27, 2006
Revelations about a cluster of sex offenders in Coram and Gordon Heights yesterday generated calls from concerned residents to Brookhaven Town and Suffolk County's Department of Social Services to end the practice, and gave renewed hope to local and state legislators that bills regarding sex offender housing might gain passage this fall.A Newsday analysis published yesterday examined how 39 convicted sex offenders came to live within a half-square-mile area.
"It's unfair to burden working-class communities with these sex offenders," said Suffolk Legis. Kate Browning (WFP-Shirley). "We're not saying that none of them can live here; we're just saying we don't want more than our fair share."Browning called for passage of legislation she introduced last week that would ban county agencies providing services to sex offenders from putting more than one offender in the same house.State Assemb. Patricia Eddington (D-Medford) pushed for legislation she introduced that would require DSS and parole and probation officers to consider the number of registered offenders in a neighborhood and in a residence before placing a sex offender there. It recently was passed by the Assembly and will be taken up by the Senate next session.Legislation requiring confinement or close monitoring of Level 3 offenders, the most dangerous classification, is in conference in the Senate and Assembly.Gordon Heights residents called on Brookhaven to enforce code violations its inspectors find at properties owned by Mary Dodson, a landlord renting to 27 registered sex offenders in 11 of her Gordon Heights houses."These look like single-family dwellings and why would multiple people be living in them?" said Rosalie Hanson, who lives on Caroline Avenue.Brookhaven is seeking a ruling from Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on the constitutionality of its proposal to limit the number of offenders in one area. Councilwoman Connie Kepert, whose district includes Gordon Heights, said her office also is drafting a resolution to require professional counselors to live in residences with two or more offenders."If the government wants to cluster them in one area, they need to cluster them in non-residential neighborhoods and have in-house supervision," said Laura Ahearn, executive director of the advocacy group Parents for Megan's Law.Staff writer Erik German contributed to this story.