Senator Saland Introduces Legislation Barring Convicted Sex Offenders from Working As Building Superintendents or Managers
February 23, 2010
(New York,N.Y,)-State Senator Stephen M. Saland today introduced legislation prohibiting convicted sex offenders from holding jobs as building superintendents or any other positions that give them unfettered access to people’s living quarters. The proposed law comes after news reports revealed that a Level 3 sex offender who had raped three girls was working as a superintendent and rent collector at three Manhattan apartment buildings.
Senator Saland (R-Poughkeepsie) said, “While current state law requires convicted sex offenders to register with the state and make information about where they live public, it is shocking that rapists are still permitted to work as superintendents or maintenance workers, holding the keys and having access to our homes and our loved ones without our knowledge. This appalling loophole in the law must be closed immediately.”
Recent media reports disclosed that William Barnason, a Level-3 sex offender, was the superintendent for three Upper West Side Manhattan apartment buildings, holding the keys to more than 50 apartments. Barnason, 57, served more than 14 years in prison for sexual abuse, sodomy and rape of three Long Island girls aged between 5 and 7 years old and one girl over the age of 17. He was released from prison in 2001.
Senator Saland’s legislation (S. 6857) would prohibit convicted sex offenders from working or volunteering at any facility where the employment gives the offender unsupervised access to residential living quarters. Under the measure, convicted sex offenders would not be able to work as building superintendents, managers or maintenance workers, home health aides or as aides in assisted living facilities or in other professions that provide unsupervised access to living quarters.
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Many people say sex offenders cannot be rehabilitated. However, the Texas State Auditor in 2007 released a report showing that sex offenders who completed the Texas Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP) were 61% LESS LIKELY to commit a new crime. (See “An Audit Report on Selected Rehabilitation Programs at the Department of Criminal Justice.” Texas State Auditor. March 2007. Report No. 07-026. Retrieved Oct 20, 2009. http://www.sao.state.tx.us/reports/main/07-026.html.)
In 2002, US Dept. of Justice reported only 5% of sex offenders released in 1994 returned to prison for a new sex crime. (See “US Dept of Justice Report on Sex Offender Recidivism” http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/rsorp94.pdf)
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