A private group hired by Suffolk County to increase monitoring of registered sex offenders is a state actor and can be sued for civil rights violations, a federal judge has ruled.
Eastern District Judge Joanna Seybert said representatives of Parents for Megan’s Law were acting under color of state law in 2013 when they went to the home of a man convicted of sex offenses, questioned him about his addresses and the car he drives, demanded to see his driver’s license, and threatened to show up at his job with no notice.
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