Corps searching for sex offenders on bases

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Corps searching for sex offenders on bases
By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Mar 15, 2009 10:56:57 EDT

SAN DIEGO — The Corps is screening all base housing residents for registered sex offenders, who will be forced to move out as part of a massive crackdown across the service.

On Oct. 7, Navy Secretary Donald C. 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 facilities,” Winter wrote in a memo to Commandant Gen. James Conway and Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations.

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.

The Corps issued its policy in a memo signed Dec. 31 by its top installations official, said Capt. Amy Malugani, a Marine spokeswoman at the Pentagon.


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