Commissioners will be going to the county attorney with the concerns raised at the hearing about home and security issues.The space was being set up to hold Department of Social and Health Services clients, including Level 3 sex offenders—the so-called "worst of the worst"—being moved from the state’s secure treatment facility on McNeil Island.
Hundreds of people have signed an online petition against the program—set to be administered by Supreme Living, LLC. Dozens showed up in person to testify against it. "My husband and I actually were the original owners of the home that [Supreme Living] purchased," said Tenino resident Jennifer Wienes. "[They] told us that they were going to be fostering children… Later found out that their intent was not to do that."
"It makes me feel uneasy, I am home alone for 24 hours every third day, I don’t have the adequate resources when there’s an event of an emergency, our fire department just recently closed down the road," said resident Sarah Fox. "Knowing that five Level 3 sex offenders from McNeil Island are going to be in my backyard, scares me to death."
Keep them housed in downtown Olympia. Olympia says they are the center of tolerance. Prove it and keep all of them downtown.
Somethings you really can’t fight. Everyone wants to help felons but not in their back yards. But everyone also agrees no redemption for sex offenders
Seattle likes that type of shit, put em downtown