Intercourse offender working for Massachusetts Registry of Motor Automobiles has been fired

A intercourse offender who was employed by the state to work for the RMV has been fired, the Herald has realized.

Leonard Shuster, a registered intercourse offender in Florida who moved as much as Massachusetts after serving greater than a decade behind bars, was employed by the Massachusetts Division of Transportation company earlier this yr.

The 64-year-old customer support rep on the Registry of Motor Automobiles — who had an annual wage of $53,445 — began with the company in March. Then just a few months later, Shuster was positioned on paid administrative go away earlier than being fired.

“Leonard Shuster was hired in March 2025 by the RMV to process truck company applications for the Truck Safety Devices program,” MassDOT stated in an announcement to the Herald. “He didn’t work together with most people on this function.

“MassDOT placed him on administrative leave, and he has since been terminated,” the state company added.

A earlier itemizing for a customer support rep job with the RMV listed that an applicant should move a felony background verify and a driver’s license verify.

Shuster was paid via Oct. 18, based on state payroll information. He had taken residence $32,526 this yr.

Shuster has a number of convictions on his file, based on the Florida Division of Regulation Enforcement’s intercourse offender flyer.

His convictions embody: touring to satisfy a minor to commit an illegal sexual offense; utilizing the web to solicit/try solicit and so on. a baby for intercourse/lewdness; sending little one pornography; and soliciting, possessing, controlling, or deliberately viewing little one pornography.

In 2009, he obtained a 15-year jail sentence after pleading responsible in reference to touring to Florida to have intercourse with a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, based on The Danbury Information-Occasions.

Police pretended to be the girl on-line, and detectives busted him within the intercourse sting.

His most up-to-date deal with is in Stoughton, based on the Florida intercourse offender database.

Shuster isn’t listed on the Massachusetts intercourse offender registry web site.

The Massachusetts Intercourse Offender Registry Board declined to touch upon Shuster, however the company offered details about SORB’s course of.

In Massachusetts, intercourse offenders are labeled as Degree 1 (low danger or hazard), Degree 2 (average danger or hazard), or Degree 3 (excessive danger and hazard) following an evaluation and listening to course of.

Data on Degree 3 offenders, and Degree 2 offenders (labeled after July 12, 2013), is offered to the general public via SORB’s web site.

“When an offender intends to move from another state into Massachusetts, the offender is required to notify their local sex offender registry,” SORB stated in an announcement. “That intercourse offender registry would then ship discover to the Massachusetts Intercourse Offender Registry Board.

“An offender must register within two days of moving into the state,” the company added. “At that time, SORB will determine if the sex offender’s out-of-state conviction is one that would require registration in the Commonwealth. If so, the sex offender is subject to the registration and classification process at that point.”

If a intercourse offender doesn’t register, punishments for first-time violations embody: between six months and a couple of.5 years in jail, and a max of 5 years in state jail.