Officials seek more cash to house sex offenders
Photo credit: Handout, 2007 | One of the sex-offender trailers owned by Suffolk County
Suffolk scraps proposed shelter for sex offenders
Suffolk Social Services officials Thursday asked county lawmakers to nearly triple the department's emergency cash fund to $25,000, saying the money is crucial to plans to shut trailers used by homeless sex offenders by Feb. 11.
However, department officials came under fire at a legislative committee when they initially testified that only a part of the increase would go for sex offenders.
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