Press release:
The Batavia Police Department has launched a proactive sex offender house check campaign that will have officers checking registered residences for sex offenders that live in our community. The check is to encourage compliance with NYS sex offender registration laws and to bring offenders who are in violation into compliance. These checks will be random and unscheduled.
The Batavia Police Department has also launched its new Local Sex Offender Web page on the City of Batavia Web site. Citizens can view information pertaining to all the sex offenders that are registered in the City Of Batavia. The page can be found by clicking on “Click for the list of Sex Offenders in the City of Batavia” located at http://www.batavianewyork.com/police-department/pages/sex-offenders.
After some review of the
After some review of the registry, it looks like we may not know where some of the offenders are residing. Good luck, BPD, and hopefully we will have some new
addresses in the registry soon.
We have twenty-two (LEVEL-3)
We have twenty-two (LEVEL-3) sex offenders living in the City of Batavia; (high risk of repeat offense and a threat to public safety exists).
We have twenty-seven (LEVEL-2) sex offenders living in the City of Batavia; Level 2 (moderate risk of repeat offense).
We have twenty-nine (LEVEL-1) sex offenders living in the City of Batavia; Level 1 (low risk of repeat offense).
Disgustingly this amounts to a total of 78 predators.
Level-1 sex offender’s addresses are not published. In other words we have little information to protect our children until they commit another atrocity and move up numerically.
I examined the list to find these predators live near the Middle School, St Joe’s School, St Paul School on Washington and in groups in homes up and down Main Street to name a few.
There is no cure for these predators short of locking them up or “other” and unfortunately “other” is not an option.
The county sends me emails
The county sends me emails anytime one changes their address. It's useful. Most of the address changes are prison transfers or from a home to prison.
Level one sex offenders are
Level one sex offenders are often statutory rape cases when there may be an age difference of just a few years. They don't belong on the Registry and should be able to eventually get their names removed if they pass certain requirements and don't get into any more trouble. Does anyone know if there is a process for that and if so, how hard it is? Convicted felons can get a Relief from Disabilities Certificate. There should be something similar for level one offenders.
Beth, They can petition the
Beth,
They can petition the sentencing court, or the court that determined their risk level and designation for relief.
Correction Law §168-o(1) and §168-o cover this.
The difficulty of doing it is merely convincing the court(s) that relief is warranted.
A CERTIFICATE OF RELIEF FROM
A CERTIFICATE OF RELIEF FROM DISABILITIES is issued to people who have committed a felony or misdemeanor and then were convicted in a court of law. It may be issued if that convicted individual can prove that he or she has been rehabilitated.
It would be interesting to know the actual statistics across New York State regarding Level 2 and Level 3 sex offenders who filed for and were been granted A CERTIFICATE OF RELIEF FROM DISABILITIES on their first offense including those convicted of statutory rape.
True rehabilitation is an arbitrary concept given the high recidivism rate of criminals in general and sexual predators in particular. How does a sexual predator prove he or she is rehabilitated?
Myths and facts about sex
Myths and facts about sex offenders
http://www.csom.org/pubs/mythsfacts.html
Interesting Howard except
Interesting Howard except many of the statics and findings are 20 or more years old.
In the 37 years I've been working in Attica, I've seen an increase in the past 25 years rather than a decrease. Many of the mentioned convicted felons had or are offered the treatments spelled out in your linked article.
What bother me most are the crimes not reported and the victims who suffer in silence? Who speaks for them or does studies on their suffering,
Of all the sex offenders I
Of all the sex offenders I dealt with at Attica, the pedophiles were the ones who just kept coming back and back. And the mental health staff would tell you there is no real "cure" or treatment that really works. The only way to keep kids safe from a convicted pedophiles is not to let them out again.