Protecting Tenants Against Sex Offenders Working in Their Buildings
I was horrified to learn of a situation here in Manhattan where a building superintendent who was sexually harassing tenants was discovered to be a level three sex offender. It is disgusting and unfathomable that someone who abused three children in Long Island was given the keys to 50 apartments in two buildings.
It should also be illegal.
As the New York Post reported today (”Pol: Bar Sex-Fiend Supers“). I have introduced a bill to ban the hiring of dangerous sex offenders as building superintendent or other building agents. The bill will also allow tenants to bring action against landlords if they are being sexually harassed by a landlord or their employees under the Warrant of Habitability.
This is critical legislation because the law requires tenants to allow building owners and their employees access to their apartments–and landlords can seek eviction of tenants who refuse access. Also, while current law forbids landlords from harassing tenants, it does not specifically protect tenants from sexual harassment. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors (as was the case in the two Upper West Side buildings), and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature should have specific recourse under the law.
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