7th Circuit case shows the lengths a law enforcement officer will go to mess with a registrant
A case out of the 7th Circuit Court of appeals shows just how far a member of law enforcement will go to mess with someone on the registry and just how impossible it is sometimes to comply with all the rules and restrictions that accompany registration as a sex offender.
The case, Frederickson v. Landeros, is an equal protection case. Frederickson, was a homeless registrant living in Joliet, Illinois. As a homeless registrant, he was required to report WEEKLY, IN PERSON. One of the registration officers developed a dislike of Frederickson because he questioned the constitutionality of the registry. He went out of his way to make the registration process difficult for Frederickson and when Frederickson decided to move to a neighboring county, Landeros went out of his way to make it impossible. He went as far as refusing to transfer his file so that he could not register!
Frederickson sued Landeros, arguing he was not being treated equally. He won. But the reason we are sharing it is: for those who have dealt with law enforcement officers or registration personnel who feel their jobs are to punish you, let this case remind you that right often prevails!
You can read the 7th Circuit’s decision here; http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2019/D11-26/C:18-1605:J:Easterbrook:dis:T:fnOp:N:2436411:S:0 or listen to oral arguments here: https://www.courtlistener.com/audio/59532/rex-frederickson-v-tizoc-landeros/
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yet he was still found guilty of failing to register wasnt he… do you even know his history? you know the history of rex allen frederickson scamming viewers on his youtube channel? claiming to be homeless when in fact the VA found him a home to live in and he then created a studio in a garage and claimed he slept in there in the cold, didnt have money, didnt have food and viewers donated to him… then one day he makes a live stream showing viewers that he lives in a house and eats from the table, soon after he lost most if not all of his viewers on his youtube channel, he also files frivalous lawsuits, claims to be in the special forces when he was in the army, yet we found he lied about that and he was only in for 1 yr 1 month 11 days before he was OTHER than honorablely discharged, do you also know that there was a incident in germany were he was stationed for a few months were there is rumor he assaulted a 13 yr old… which is why he was sent back home and then discharged.
since then he has created a website where you have to pay to listen to copyrighted content and audio books, he is scamming the audiobook company, for the last 4 years he has lied about almost every year of his life for the last 20 years, claiming the victim was a police plant, that the records were forged, that he never made a confession to an officer…
his victim since has committed suicide…
so i suggest before you defend a sex offender check out his/her history.
Alex Knight has the right not to be given a hard time by a law enforcement officer. He enjoys this right because people like Frederickson take the issue all the way to the court of appeals and make it binding case law on all officers in the circuit. It makes no difference what Frederickson’s criminal history is or what we think of his character. He won, and in doing so created good precedent.
yet he didnt win that lawsuit in full, he only won part because the officer was found guilty of personal animus against frederickson, yet now he is claiming in live streams the police falsified a police report for the sexual assault of a minor he plead guilty to which is why he is on the register, he is a compulsive liar, even when facts are shown he denies them, he is claiming three different handwriting and both hands used to write a false statement and it was zeroxed and added into record, yet he fails to understand anything presented into court he and his attorney get copies of it, so why didnt his attorneys notice the three handwrittings and both hands used on that report?
he also fails to understand attorneys and prosecutors get xerox copies of any wvidence presented to the court, as he signed that document after giving an interview why didnt they notice it was different when his attorneys read it, why didnt it appear to be different to the story he gave his attorney?
If you retaliate against a LE Officer for enforcing registry laws, the local news media (with LE’s assistance) will tarnish you; your family and friends will distance themselves from you; and the judge will castigate you.
On the plus side, though, as you sit in your cell, you’ll be able to congratulate yourself for doing what is just and right.
If LE misapplies the law, do what this petitioner did— go to court to have the officer’s qualified immunity removed so you can sue him.
That’s only if anyone knows about it. In this particular case, the guy really didn’t have the proper resources to fight back. For a person who does have ample resources, the first time that this LE officer committed an untenable crime or harassment, he could have been forced to either do the right thing or no longer be an LE officer any longer. 100% guaranteed and easily. Depending on the severity of measures that had to be taken, people might know why or they might not.
That is what could have happened if this LE officer would have harassed the wrong person. And I think nearly all criminal LE officers know that. They know who they can harass and who they cannot. They’ll harass people that they can. For the most part, of course. Some are too dumb to know any better and they suffer.
actually he did have attorneys, he had more than 3 during this case, try looking it up, he was at the time in jail, using the free public defenders to represent him, also the record states he is NOT homeless which was one of the issues in the case… he was still found guilty of not registering as a sex offender but won against the cop for personal animus
All million+ people who are listed on the Registries should be retaliating every day. Not every other day, but every day. That should be the goal and it should be made known to the media. By that, I mean that people who are listed on the Registries have been told that they do not have to be good, contributing citizens in America. So they should not be. They should look out for themselves, family, and friends. F everyone else. And that’s okay, because that is literally what ALMOST everyone else, hundreds of millions of people, have always been doing. Just take a casual look around. Look at all the hateful scumbags. They are only decent when it’s convenient and working out for them.
I’m talking about retaliation that is legal. But it matters. I have a very long list of actions that I have taken and will continue to take to retaliate. A key one is to keep LE broke and dysfunctional. LE struggles. They aren’t very good at it. They are extremely inefficient. I help that and I help them to have less resources. The less they have, the more they have to focus on actual problems.
What else? I used to give blood as often as I could. I haven’t for over 20 years now. If everyone did what I did, Amerika would have no blood and it would have to import it from China or something. I cancelled my organ donorships (who wants a “$EX offender” organ anyway?!). Cancelled AMBER, etc. alerts. Stopped giving to and helping charities decades ago. Today, I could give them a lot of money. But I’m not going to give them $1. I know people who are more deserving.
What else? I target people all the time. When it comes time to promote someone and make them rich, I first understand what they think about government. If they don’t properly hate them, I kick them to the curb. I own a lot of housing and I use it all the time to manipulate people. Just because of the Registries.
So that is the type of retaliation that I’m talking about. There isn’t going to be any sitting in a jail cell. If there is, very bad things will happen to individuals. But no one will know who did it. Or possibly even why. That is trivial to accomplish these days. There won’t be any media “tarnishing”. It will just be more terrible, random news.
Informed “people” who support Registries are monsters. They are nothing but harassing terrorists who cannot mind their own business or leave other families alone. There is no need to be nice to them or be concerned about their quality of life or their families’. Wage war on them.
Amerika is a very hateful place today. I don’t have the slightest doubt that Registries have created plenty of that.
The day might be coming when we will not feel alone in all of this. I believe it is in Wisconsin that someone is proposing a registry for all murderers. There are also talks somewhere about starting a registry for people who have abused animals. I am starting to wonder if this “registry” concept is about to explode in coming years. Once half this nation is on some sort of registry, maybe then the fruitlessness of it will be seen.
I have many friends through FAC. I have not personally met all of you but know that you are my friends. The best part of this group is that we do not pass judgment on others. My family members are good people, but there is no support from them. The night that my husband was arrested, all any of them would say is that he deserved what he got and I should divorce him. They could not relate to the knife I felt like had been stabbed through my heart and twisted. But it has been three years since the night of his arrest, and God has brought me a long way.
I was able to visit with my husband this past Thursday through Sunday. It was a blessed time for us both, particularly that we are down to two months until his release. Saturday evening, though, it appears that he had a mini stroke (TIA). His health has always been so good, particularly for a 78-year-old man. It was so hard yesterday to see him not speaking as clearly as he normally does, hearing a slight voice change, his slight difficulty in holding cards, and having so much trouble staying awake. I know that if it is a TIA, he most likely will have a full recovery, but it was so hard not being able to take care of him and watch him in his declined state. If he were at home, I could have taken him to excellent medical facilities, but the prison system does not have the money to have him tested to see if it could have been indicative of a bigger stroke to come. I was told that if he has a full blown stroke, 911 will be called to administer the necessary drug given to stroke patients.
Prisons are unhealthy places to be, as most of you can attest. The food is processed, even unrecognizable at times. He gets no exercise. At home, I have always fed him lots of fresh vegetables and fruits, plus seen to it that he exercised on a regular basis. Just two more months and maybe I can undo some of the damage that has been done.
I know I am way off topic. If the FAC censors allow my above comments, let me say thank you to all FAC members. From the day that I first started interacting with all of you last May, a major turning point in my life started, all for good.
He is truly blessed to have just two more months until you are together again full-time. I admit that my heart skipped a beat when I saw the word “stroke.”
And it’s true! There’s a white-collar registry in Utah, plus various other registries elsewhere. I thought these developments might increase the constituency for registry reform. I fear, though, that these developments may normalize the concept of registries.
I hope your fears about the normalization of registries does not come to fruition, but unfortunately it could. I am reading right now about Sheriff Russ Gibson from Osceola County who is meeting with local and state representatives, as well as a Florida Senator, to discuss initiating a task force which could lead to a statewide task force with a domestic violence registry for the state of Florida.
If these new types of registries continue to grow, I am assuming that there will eventually be new state laws and county ordinances these new registrants have to follow. Once all people on these different types of registries cannot live within 2500 feet of certain places, have buffer zones, have to register in person periodically, and so on, there could be a huge pushback from all registrants, or at least I hope so.
You’ve highlighted the main difference (so far) between sex registries and other registries. The latter don’t come with banishment laws. Not yet, so far. Did I mention that Indiana now has a general felon registry?
Re this new task force, maybe we need to start asking people, do you want to stop people from committing domestic violence, or do you just want a registry? Will the task force investigate, what have we learned so far about domestic violence reduction and prevention (what has worked), and why haven’t we tried those yet? And if LE maintains that a registry would “give them a tool,” we might ask, a tool to do what, and are we designing the registry in such a way to give them that tool. Ugh.
You just sound like an awesome person and great wife. If all people were as compassionate as you I think the world could be a decent place.
It is hard to watch people decline. It is easy to stick with someone when they are strong and doing good things for you. Not so easy when they start to decline and you are having to take care of them. But good people do.
And speaking of that, I’m not so sure your “family members are good people”. I had a friend that I knew for a very long time and he was convicted of child molestation over a decade ago. All of us who were supposedly very good friends, who hung out together, whose families vacationed together, etc., etc., abandoned him except for my family.
Who needs “friends” like that? What did their behavior show me? That they are “there for me” and “great friends” as long as I am the person they think I am? As long as it is working out for them? Or that there is some line that will end it if it is crossed, but I don’t really know what the line is? I guess I have lines for them as well.
My friend has always been a good person and hopefully always will be. He did some bad things but it didn’t make him a bad person. We can punish him and still be friends with him.
Personally, I think he’s already been imprisoned for about 5 years longer than he should have been. I think his punishment has far outweighed the damage that he has done, especially relative to other crimes that clearly cause more real damage. I hate any government or person who thinks the punishment that he received was just. I pray that people who think it is are exactly the people that we lock up for life.
And speaking of which, I hope that people who advocate abandoning other people are abandoned very often. A person who would abandon a friend in need, needs to be abandoned today. Family member or not.
SarahF, I hope your husband will make a full recovery soon. I know what you mean about the abandonment by family and “friends.” After my arrest, before my conviction, I was kicked out of my church. I can count on one hand the number of real friends I have left. I am enclosing a link to the master menu of FDOC. They feed just enough to keep you alive, if you could stomach it. I was spending about $50-$100 per month on commissary and still lost 20 lbs.
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/ci/menus/MasterMenu.pdf
The menu makes it sound better than it is. My husband says that most of the time their meat is a hotdog for supper and there is often not a bun to go with it. My husband has always liked hotdogs, but he said he never wants to eat one again after he leaves.
When he was put into the general population in closed security, he got down to 139 pounds. He only had 10 minutes to eat and he said he could not finish his food. Now that he is in a dementia unit where he is protected and taken care of, he looks like he is back to his normal weight.
Thank you Jacob, Will Allen, JZ, and everyone.
By the way, my project now is writing letters and emails to some churches in Suffolk, Virginia where a number of churches take turns providing a warm place for the homeless to sleep and eat on very cold nights. On the surface, it appears to be a very heart-warming ministry until you read close to the end that registrants are not allowed in. I have almost finished my 2-page letter to the churches listed in the article and to the lady heading up this group of churches. They have destroyed their witness — actions speak louder than words. I am asking them to reconsider their exclusion of registrants.
Is the church group’s position that if they shelter someone on the registry, they cannot provide for the safety of the others?
Prison menus are quite adequate. Problem is the implementation. Officers have a thousand mouths to feed and limited time in which to feed them. So they cut corners. There is no oversight, other than occasional scheduled inspections by their peers, with ample warning.
Ample warning is right.
The article did not say why registrants were excluded, but I read this everywhere — whether it is other warming centers up north, shelters of any kind, and programs to help released inmates get back on their feet. I think the assumption is always that registrants are just dying to sexually assault people. It is an ignorance that I will never understand.
So the purpose of excluding registrants from emergency shelters is security theater— giving the appearance of prudently maintaining safety so as not to alienate donors. Shelters would not feel compelled to do this, were the public better educated. Which they will be, thanks to the efforts of people such as yourself, but it will take a lot more time.
Did you know that in Virginia last year, when the legislature passed a bill making it difficult for registrants to access public emergency shelters, the governor there vetoed it! And that governor is still there, while the legislative majority that passed that bill has since been voted out. You’d think a Virginia church-run shelter network would take some peace of mind from this.
I read about the governor’s veto. It is incidents like this one that give me hope some day that things will change for the better.
Thank you, FL Action Committee, for your tireless efforts. They are a strong beginning. But I think we need a national-level organization to better deflect the heat and netork/ coordinate a national strategy in fixing these injustices, maybe the ACLU or NARDOL. Police have to be beyond prejudice, and they must be honest to the core. Black Lives Matter began this accountability. Our examples lately with Comey, Meuller, and the FBI and IC seniors are examples of this corrupt dishonesty with no accountability. When they are not, not only does the guilty party need censor, but their seniors need to take responsibility for allowing or not knowing about their poor judgement. As Americans we need to quit being a silent majority and begin making our leaders accountable. Letters of Admonition and firing are appropriate.
That is great news.. This is why I donate to FAC every month. A great group of people and the information is priceless.