Source: spectrumlocalnews.com 4/7/26
As New York increasingly relies on hotels to house families experiencing homelessness, a Spectrum News 1 review found in some counties those families may live next door to registered level two and level three sex offenders.
Broome County, in the Southern Tier, was found to have three hotels in such a situation.
Through a Freedom of Information Law request, Spectrum News 1 used payment records from the state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance to confirm which hotels Broome County uses as temporary housing for families. In comparing the hotel address with publicly available addresses of registered sex offenders, as of March 31, four registered sex offenders are living at the Knights Inn in Endicott.
New York state Sen. Rob Rolison, a Hudson Valley-based Republican and retired police officer, said in an interview level two and three offenders are more than likely predatory and could be a cause for concern if they are living near families.
“They should not be under any circumstances,” Rolison said.
He serves on the Children and Family Committee and the Crime and Crime Victims Committee. Ultimately, Rolison believes it comes down to the availability of housing.
“[It is] the inability to find permanent housing, which I’ll also say is very important to the management of individuals who have challenges whether it is a sex offender, someone battle an addiction issue. Stability is so important,” Rolison said.
Only level two and three sex offenders…
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“We all know that the rate of recidivism for sex offenders is very high, so to place someone like that particularly in a hotel without the knowledge of that person’s background for the property owner, the hotel owner, the local law enforcement officials, I think is a problem,” Borrello said. “We need to wrap arms around the fact that this is an issue of public safety.”
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Again…..high recidivism rate!!! I am so sick and tired of it. And from people that should know better!!!!
Did anyone catch in the news about a specific PFR violation??? I heard about the druggie problems. Drug paraphernalia and needles everywhere. Sounds like they need the police better for drug charges?!?! And we know the rate of recidivism for druggies is well over 50%!
Did America run out of crime? Cuz there seems to be no evidence that any sexual assaults have been committed by any PFRs against any homeless families at any of these hotels in the US, for the several years these policies have been in place, so I can only conclude we’re obsessed with potential crime because all actual crime has been stopped?
Oh, yeah… the homeless people without a criminal record are the “good” homeless ones, right?
At least that’s what the media would have you believe.
High recidivism rates are frightening and high rates of misconduct and crimes by LE. Registrants rarely re-offend, but the retired pig still likes his narrative to make himself look superior. Once a pig, always a porker. Oink, Porky back to your pigpen and play in the mud.
NY already lost this fight before… Residency restrictions were found unconstitutional if the person was not on probation or parole…..