Save Westchester's Kids from Sex Offenders
- Target: Citizens of Westchester County
- Sponsored by: Assemblyman Greg Ball
The Westchester County Board of Legislators owe it to the community to establish child safety zones by banning registered sex offenders from certain areas of town before an incident occurs and a child is forever injured.
Schools, child care centers, parks, playgrounds and town beaches should be off-limits to registered sex offenders under an ordinance established by the Board.
In late 2007, our neighbors to the north in Putnam County established one of the most strict ordinances in the state, which is now a model being adopted by a few other communities.
We take chances no more. The Board of Legislators should immediately establish and post child safety zones by banning registered sex offenders from certain areas of town.
The immediate safety of our communities children should be of paramount importance to the members of the Board of Legislators and we ask that you move on this with all due haste before something terrible happens to one of our own.
Unfortunately, parts of that legislation are currently hung up in the courts and therefore, our children are still not secure. Across the state, not willing to wait for the courts to move forward, municipalities and counties are taking proactive measures to protect their children from violent sexual predators.
Our legislators in the Westchester County Legislature have blatantly refused to follow suit. One of our county legislators, George Oros, has been working hard to finally get Westchester's Child Safety Zones legislation out of committee and up for a vote. As an organized group of parents in Westchester County, we are going to do everything we can this year, and next, to get this legislation passed immediately. The legislators standing against this proposal and those who are just sitting back should be equally ashamed.
Hoping to build a safe community where our children can play and learn without threat from sexual deviants, we are demanding action today! No longer will we allow legislators to play political games with our children's souls. Westchester's children should not be living in second class citizenship as compared to other counties where children are being protected against these malicious and sexually deviant criminals.
In fact, just to our north, Putnam County passed one of the most stringest Child Safety Laws in the nation to protect their children. Working alongside state legislators, local officials in Putnam County passed a law that made it very clear to sexual predators that they were not welcome in Putnam County. We are demanding that Westchester County immediately do the same.
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