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Farmingdale approves sex offender law
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Registered sex offenders may not live or loiter within a half-mile of a Farmingdale school, park, day-care center or “other place where children regularly congregate,” according to a new law passed by the village.
Farmingdale officials last week voted, 5-0, to approve the residency restrictions. The village did not previously have a sex offender law.
The measure aims “to limit the accessibility...
