New policy bars sex offenders from Navy housing

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New policy bars sex offenders from Navy housing
By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Mar 8, 2009 10:08:44 EDT

SAN DIEGO — Registered sex offenders are prohibited from living in base housing and barred from Navy Department facilities, according to an October memo from the Navy secretary. But five months after the order, the Navy has not yet put it in place.

The Marine Corps, meanwhile, already has begun screening all its base housing residents for registered sex offenders, who will be forced to move out as part of a massive servicewide crackdown.

On Oct. 7, Navy Secretary Donald Winter issued a far-reaching policy prohibiting convicted sex offenders from accessing Navy and Marine Corps installations, living in military or private-public venture housing, and enlisting or being commissioned into the Navy or Marine Corps.

“To the maximum extent permitted by law or otherwise waived by competent authority, sex offenders are to be identified and prohibited from access to (Navy Department) facilities,” Winter wrote in a memo to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead and Commandant Gen. James Conway.

So far, implementation of the policy is mixed, as officials sort out the details. The Navy has not yet issued specific guidance to its installations.


Rest of aticle at: http://navytimes.com/news/2009/03/navy_sex_offenders_030809w/%2e

[MADem]

1. Good. Let's hope they get off their asses and IMPLEMENT. nt

[rocktivity]

2. I sure hope that the Navy also has a policy of banning sex offenders

from the Navy.

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rocktivity

[Captain Hilts]

3. With the Navy under so much pressure to cut personnel, how do they stay in?

Captain Hilts was a Capehart kid.