This Law has been in the Assembly hands for years and they have never acted upon it. Now apparently they have, I can only wonder what Silver demanded for it to pass…. We will have to look into the details of it because most likely Trial Lawyers are just about guaranteed to benefit from just about any Law that come out of the assembly.

We can already see patronage jobs in the making with a “New Office of Sex Offender Management”

The Press Republican - Spitzer, lawmakers agree on civil confinement sex offender bill

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The state’s most dangerous sex offenders will be locked up after their prison terms end under an agreement announced Thursday by Gov. Eliot Spitzer and legislative leaders.

Spitzer and lawmakers had for months been negotiating a new ”civil confinement” law after the state’s highest court struck down former Gov. George Pataki’s order preventing such offenders from being released.

The bill would create an Office of Sex Offender Management that would work with corrections and mental health department officials to keep convicts who sexually abused children — and are judged likely to offend again _ in state facilities well after their sentences end.

In November, the Court of Appeals ruled that the state wrongly confined convicted sex offenders in psychiatric facilities under Pataki’s order.

Pataki said he acted out of frustration over the state Legislature’s failure to enact a law preventing the convicts from returning to communities where they could repeat their crimes.