Archive for January, 2008
Council Member Dan Ward’s Efforts to Protect Our Children is Coming to Fruition
January 31, 2008 12:14 pmFor years Dan Ward, the war horse on the Amherst Town Board, has 
been suggesting progressive changes be put in place to protect our children. Changes included limiting the use of the Internet for convicted sex offenders to go on any chat sights or social gathering web sites for the intended purpose of meet under age children for sexual purposes. Ward is realizing the beginning of his long time dream. Yesterday in Albany Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and other legislative leaders put forth such a law which again proves out Councilman Ward’s ideas has merit.
The two largest social gathering websites, Face Book and MySpace, back New York’s Attorney General and fellow legislative leaders moves to make it a parole violation for registered sex offenders to sign on to such sites. The legislators have created a new penalty for the most serious sex offenders.
Attorney General Cuomo said, “This is an evolution of Megan’s Law.”
The law still must be approved by both Houses of the Legislature and Governor Eliot L. Spitzer.
When Council member Ward first put forth this thoughts years ago he didn’t have much support, but of late Council member Schratz has help aid this cause.
