Review: Suffolk lacks enough sex-offender shelters
Photo credit: Randee Daddona | A sex offender trailer is located on the property of the county sheriff's impound and police academy in Westhampton. (March 11, 2013)
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Suffolk doesn't have enough shelters to comply with a new county law intended to relocate about 40 homeless male sex offenders who are living in trailers on the East End, according to a review of the county's shelter capacity.
An emergency law passed Feb. 5 calls for no more than one offender to be placed at each shelter for single residents.
However, the county only has four shelters...
