[T]he State of New York, and particularly New York City, pushes its poor, disabled sex-offender registrants into homelessness, and then prolongs registrants’ detention because of their homeless status. This detention regime continues unabated, despite studies showing that sex-offender recidivism rates are actually relatively low and that residency restrictions do not demonstrably prevent sex offenses. Rather, such laws consign registrants to homelessness, joblessness, and social isolation. It does not have to be this way. This Essay suggests litigation strategies to challenge the prolonged detention of homeless registrants on statutory and constitutional grounds. The Essay also offers policy solutions to improve New York City registrants’ access to housing and to untether an individual’s housing status from their access to liberty. New York simply cannot and should not continue both to restrict registrants’ housing options and to detain individuals because they are homeless.
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Well it DID NOT FOR EPSTEIN, HE just came and went as the LEO’s let him do what he wanted to do as to molest so many little girls in NYC…it is FAC’s responsibilities to discuss the EPSTEIN case that surrounds many of like situations…..in which LEO’s did nothing….It is the size of one’s wallet that creates this disgusting situation!
FAC has no association with Epstein. Nor do the experiences and viewpoints of its members resemble those of Epstein.
Yet if you bothered to even type “Epstein” in the search bar below, you would see how much space FAC has taken up discussing this terrible episode.
YOU may have more to say about the Epstein case, and that’s fine. FAC has no such responsibility.
Oh, and in case you hadn’t noticed, Epstein is dead.
“The Truth Hurts,” indeed.
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Check out an article in a Kansas City newspaper about a Unitarian Church that is suing the City of Lenexa Kansas for trying to shutdown there homeless shelter. Also covered by 41 KSHB Kansas City.
The grounds are religious freedom.
Gee, sounds a lot like Floriduh… a great essay based on empirical evidence and rational thought which lawmakers will continue to ignore…..just like Floriduh!
Why do you think that the states and Feds have started calling it a civil matter of law, and not anymore a criminal law. Thus allowing them to supercede the Constitution, and ultimately imprison people beyond their constitutional rights and limits. Our country has literally turned into one giant cesspool of corruption and hate.