The state Court of Appeals has invalidated Nassau County’s sex offender residency rules, finding local efforts to keep offenders away from places where children congregate were trumped by the state’s “comprehensive and detailed” laws.
Writing for the unanimous court, Judge Eugene Pigott (See Profile) said the state had already established laws for the registration, monitoring and placement of sex offenders so that local laws such as the one challenged in Nassau County “encroach[ed] upon the state’s occupation of the field.”
