{"id":1657,"date":"2010-02-25T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/25\/post-star-finds-cluster-of-sex-offenders-in-local-hotel\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:31:00","slug":"post-star-finds-cluster-of-sex-offenders-in-local-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/25\/post-star-finds-cluster-of-sex-offenders-in-local-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Star finds cluster of sex-offenders in local hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A probe by the <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/article_532b0c36-21ce-11df-a08e-001cc4c03286.html\">Glens Falls Post-Star<\/a> discovered something remarkable:  <\/p>\n<p>Warren County social services officials were parking sexual offenders under their supervision in a single hotel in the community &#8212; a total of 14 at one time.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, county officials were also using that same hotel as a temporary shelter for families with kids.  This from the Post-Star editorial this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are a thousand ways to be ticked off at yesterday&#8217;s front page story about 14 sex offenders living at a local motel.<\/p>\n<p>Where do we start?<\/p>\n<p>How about the fact that there are 14 sex offenders living at a local motel? That&#8217;s a good one.<\/p>\n<p>How about the fact that the sex offenders staying there say the county Social Services department regularly places families with kids in the motel &#8211; the one with the 14 sex offenders living there.<\/p>\n<p>Not mad enough yet?<\/p>\n<p>How about the fact that the motel manager flat-out lied about knowing there were sex offenders living in his motel, as evidenced by the fact that the county sheriff&#8217;s department regularly checks in to make sure the sex offenders are still living where they say they are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NCPR has reported repeatedly on the difficulties that face convicted sex offenders who are trying to find housing and rebuild their lives.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a complicated issue.  But surely there are better answers than this, right?  <\/p>\n<p>The Post-Star&#8217;s editorial demands that local officials provide more information about the decisions that led to this situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A probe by the Glens Falls Post-Star discovered something remarkable: Warren County social services officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}