Just when you thought you’d heard the last of saga involving the impending relocation of the Federal probation office on top of the Saint Ann’s campus, along comes this letter dated July 21 from Councilman David Yassky to Judge Dearie. Check it:

I have recently been made aware of plans to consolidate and relocate the Federal Probation Offices and Federal Defenders offices in my district into a new facility 147 Pierrepont. As you know, the proposed new facility at 147 Pierrepont is located on the same block as St. Ann’s School and, in fact, is directly situated between the upper and lower schools. As no notification was provided to either to local elected officials, the community, or to the parents of St. Ann’s School, it is not surprising that much concern and frustration has been expressed over this proposed move. While I recognize that adequate probation facilities are an important resource that offers critical services to criminals attempting to reenter society and certainly understand the need for these facilities to be close to the courts, I am nonetheless concerned with the close proximity of this new facility to the school. The facility will service all types of federal probation parolees, including convicted sex offenders, and it is this group that it is of particular concern for St. Ann’s parents. It seems both unusual and ill considered to compel convicted sex offenders to come so close to a school in the process of their efforts to rehabilitate themselves. As there are currently federal and state laws in place that restrict how close convicted sex offenders can live to a school, it seems fair to expect that similar considerations be taken for probation facilities that service this particular type of criminal. I urge you to take these issues under careful consideration as you consider this new probation facility and ask that you work with the community in order to find an appropriate solution that will mitigate these concerns.

Think this will have any muscle with the Feds?
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