Source: chronogram.com 8/22/25
During the public comment period near the end of a Woodstock town board meeting on July 8, resident Michael Veitch stood to speak. “One of the main failings of the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts and others was the failure to disclose the presence of known pedophiles to the parents of the children who came in contact with them,” he said. He’d drafted an email for the town board to send to parents letting them know that a “registered violent sex offender” was working for the town.
The town employee is Michael Innello, 32, hired in March for a job doing outdoor maintenance and picking up trash. Town supervisor Bill McKenna had recommended Innello be offered the job, which the town board voted to approve. McKenna hadn’t told the board that Innello’s name appeared on the New York State sex-offense registry but contends he wasn’t required to.
Five months after Innello started, there’s no indication of problems with his work performance. But Woodstock has erupted. For McKenna’s opponents the conflict has everything to do with a supervisor whose leadership they see as verging on autocratic. But it’s been catalyzed by a system that deputizes citizens to monitor people coming out of prison who’ve served time for sexual crimes and the state’s use of a risk tool that experts have long said is defective to tell them who’s dangerous.
McKenna is in his fifth …
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place This in the dust bin where it belongs. – A man picks up trash. The town picks up torches. Children roam unsupervised. Parents demand notification. Civic neglect masquerades as moral vigilance. The registry becomes ritual. The worker becomes warning. When fear is deputized and bins overflow, the real hazard is not who picks up the trash— but who refuses to see what they’ve thrown away.
When a registrant can’t even pick up trash for a living proves just how messed up this whole registry scheme is. Maybe they would rather have him selling crack to their kids. I think the concert in ’69 has fried everyone’s brains in Woodstock. It’s time for them to stop hunting mushrooms in cow dung and sober up.
” The people stand. Woodstock isn’t the 2nd chance destination for sex offenses.” on a homemade sign. What about this, ” But it’s been catalyzed by a system that deputizes citizens to monitor people coming out of prison for sex crimes and state’s use of a risk tool that experts have long said is defective to tell them who is dangerous.” Hysteria and fear that is caused by the registry, which doesn’t do any good for any community. The registry needs to see the Grim Reaper and those who enabled it need see pitchforks for promoting bs since President Slick Willy Clinton of Hope, Arkansas. Bill you should have kept your cigar in your humidifier box instead of other places.
I wonder how many sex assaults of incapacitated individuals happened at Woodstock in 1969?
Guess Woodstock doesn’t symbolize “peace love dope” anymore.