BAD VOTE: Why did Eric Schneiderman vote to protect sex-

offenders?

The Donovan Campaign for New York State Attorney General

today issued the following statement regarding State Senator
Schneiderman’s 12-year voting record in the State Legislature:

“In 2007, Eric Schneiderman was one of only eight State

Senators to vote against S.3318, a bi-partisan bill crafted by
former Attorney General and Governor Eliot Spitzer, mandating
civil confinement for dangerous convicted sex offenders –
individuals, whom after evaluation, were deemed at high-risk to
commit additional sex crimes.

“Despite Senator Schneiderman’s best efforts, the bill became

law, making New York the 20th state in the nation to detain
convicted sex offenders in psychiatric hospitals after they have
served their prison sentences. (The New York Times, click here).

“At that crucial juncture, State Senator Schneiderman once again

let politics get in the way of protecting the public from the worst
type of criminals."
At the time of the 2007 vote, former NYPD Police Officer and
current State Senator Martin J. Golden of Brooklyn told the
Times: "We don't want to see any more Etans, Adams or
Jessicas,'' referring to Etan Patz, who disappeared on the way
to the school bus in Manhattan in 1979; Adam Walsh, who was
abducted in Florida in 1981; and Jessica Lunsford, who was killed
in Florida in 2005.

“New Yorkers deserve an honest, direct and non-political answer

for why State Senator Schneiderman once again voted against
the interests of law enforcement. This sort of radical, ideological
legislating from a 12-year Albany insider clearly puts him out of
the mainstream of New York and disqualifies him from being the
people’s lawyer and the state’s top law enforcement official.”