ACSOL: GA: Palmer Sheriff Puts ‘No Trick-Or-Treat’ Signs in Yards of Sex Offenders
[1065.iheart.com – 10/17/19]
A Sheriff in Georgia is not messing around when it comes to Halloween. He put up “No Trick-Or-Treat at This Address” signs in the yards of sex offenders in order to keep children out of harms way.
“I’m not trying to humiliate ’em or anything like that. Let’s face reality: We have a greater chance of children getting run over by a car [on Halloween] than being a victim of sexual assault by a repeat offender,” says Sheriff Gary Long. “But at the end of the day if, in fact, we had a child that fell victim to a sexual assault, especially by a convicted sex offender, I don’t think I could sleep at night.”
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This is now posted on the today show Instagram account. I would recommend people comment on it. I’ve been commenting and tagging them because they have been doing a segment “Justice for All.” How is this Justice for All??
You did not read the fine print
Justice for all, except those with a felony
** Even if you served your time and have not committed another crime, we the people will never forgive you and punish you forever but call it civil and not punitive and you will like it
Justice for all included in the group they choose
Heck my people ( Native Americans ) got sent to reservations AND put on a registry. My Great grandmother escaped and refused to go on the registry. Good for her as she married my great Grandfather, a German Immigrant but bad for me because I cannot register with the Cherokee Nation since she never registered. Not saying they owe me anything but would have liked to have my lineage recorded.
Petitioning the court is a better idea than organizing a “nude bike ride,” as someone suggested below. Can we please refrain from using FAC’s forum to advocate for the latter?
I respecfully decline your request to hide the truth of the upcoming political free speech demonstration planned for Butts County GA in 2020. This has been in the works for a year already and you are attempting to silence free speech. Action can take many forms.
They can have all the ‘free speech’ they want, it’s just not my thing to ride a bike with no clothes on. It might be feeding the opposition.
I think its time to be proactive! We need to work on passing laws that state: It’s a crime of child neglect and child endangerment for a parent(s) to let a child (children)ages 0-18 trick or treat unsupervised by a competent adult.
Would this law protect children from registered and unregistered offenders?
We all see and hear on the news that children and teens are running the streets committing adult crimes as young as 10 (even younger) carrying guns robbing people,stores,breaking into houses and vehicles, stealing vehicles, ect.
This law should even go as far as its a crime of child neglect and child endangerment for a parent(s) to let their child or children run the streets unsupervised at any time!
Its time we hold parents responsible for their children!
Please would like to hear your comments!
First of all, there is no law preventing a sign posted in front of the ‘no trick or treat’ sign. If there are churches in Butts County where the true gospel is taught, they could post signs encouraging the community to be forgiving. Perhaps church leaders could look for the signs and with parental supervision, bring their own children to these homes to show God that they can be forgiving. Perhaps members of the community may use their right to free speech and move the signs. High School students in my community one year rounded up all of the real estate signs and placed them in front of the school as a prank. If Butts county has a list of addresses posted where the signs are to be placed, some people may interpret this as a cry for help for residents to pick up the signs to avoid a federal suit against the community. I hope the folks in Butts County will see things clearly in 20/20. I believe those signs make those folks vulnerable. What better way to demonstrate vulnerability than a nude bike ride through Butts County, GA, October 31st, 2020! Some jurisdictions have ordinances against an RSO wearing a Halloween costume on October 31st. I would encourage folks to have a Halloween costume available to put on in case law enforcement asks you to wear one. Riding your bicycle nude in public has been deemed protected free speech! Therefore a safer alternative than wearing your pagan winter solstice garb when bicycling through Butts County on October 31st, 2020 would be to show your vulnerability.
Not sure who you are but you are giving BAD advice. Riding your bike in public in the nude will not only get you on the SO list but if you are already one, you are done.
Sounds like to me you are trying to get people locked up or you just have no clue what you are talking about. In WHAT Universe in these days and times do you think it would be ok to pass by a bunch of kids on a bike in the nude?
I was thinking the same thing!
!000% Cherokee Jack! This is very bad advice which could lead someone on the Blacklist Any type of nudity in front of kids is felony conviction.
Boston, MA (July 20)
Chicago, IL (June 8)
Madison, WI (June 15)
Montpelier, VT (June 8)
New Orleans, LA (June 9)
Los Angeles, CA (June 22)
Philadelphia, PA (August 24)
Portland, OR (June 29)
St. Louis, MO (June 16)
San Francisco, CA (Apr. 20)
The dates of naked bike rides from 2019 are posted below. The idea of inviting kids into the mix comes from CherokeeJack.
You are a DAMN liar and a coward. Go spread you hate somewhere else. Telling people to ride nude will get you arrested and all I said was if kids see you doing that ( if they are in the area where you are riding ) you are done for.
Unlike you, I am trying to protect people both on and off the registry. Your comments will get someone taken from their family
Please go take your medication
There is nothing cowardly about me! If you recall I have the courage of Rosa Parks and am brave enough to stand behind a legal demonstration while you preach of being afraid of being arrested. I bravely attended the Sex Offender national symposium and spoke up for those on the registry 4 times and even earned my certificate. I speak the truth! Do not fear men who can put you to death and do no more. Instead fear the one who can choose to or not to let you burn in hell for eternity! Rosa Parks did not live in fear of being arrested for doing the right thing. If they didn’t want people to ride with their bare butts hanging out, they shouldn’t have named it “Butts County”. Oh and about being a liar: YOU said, “In WHAT Universe in these days and times do you think it would be ok to pass by a bunch of kids on a bike in the nude?” YOU are the first person to suggest “riding nude near kids”. The dates and cities I posted of nude bike rides is actually a lie. The St. Louis ride was in July, not June. My bad!
Do I fear going back to prison because I want to be here for my family? Well if that makes me afraid then I am guilty. But I believe that makes me a “Smart” person. No individual who is on the registry , which you must not be, would put their family in risk of losing you by riding their bike in public in the nude.
And what the Hell does Rosa parks have to do with the offender registry? This is not a black and white issue this is a issue that affects people of all ages, races, religions etc.
Rosa Parks did not ride the bus without clothes.
Have fun on your bike ride. For your families sake, hope you are ok.
I will leave you alone and just pray for you, you will need it.
I’m not particularly interested in riding in a nude bike demonstration, but if it is legal, it is legal. If it is legal, then as a Registered Person, I would not have any trouble at all with riding in it, if I felt like it. And frankly, it is fun to shove their Registry BS in their face in as many ways as possible. Personally, I purposely go out of my way to do all kinds of things, as long as they are legal, that I know “people” who support Registries would like to fantasize can’t happen.
I am around children ALL the time. Literally. And very often it is 100% anonymously. I do that mostly simply because I live a normal life. And it’s the proper, moral, American response to the Registries.
I’m going to commend anyone who suggests fighting these criminal regimes in any way possible. There is no need to be polite or nice to Registry Supporters. They abused their Registries toy and destroyed ANY CHANCE that the Registries could have had to do anything good.
So good for these nude bike riders! I’m thinking protests along the lines of Westboro Baptist Church would be nice. More needs to be done to get attention. One of the main criminal scumbags who helped pass some of these “$EX offender” laws should be dying soon. I need to show up at the scumbags funeral with some good signs. I still want to earn a living though so I’m not sure I’m up for it.
Funny. I don’t know if it is illegal to be nude in public in Georgia and specifically Butts County. I’m assuming it is but I truly have no idea. If it is not, I think a nude Halloween bike ride would be a perfect way to protest all of this Halloween stupidity. It seems like it would be a great way in general to protest the overall “$EX offender” witch hunt, year round. We need protests that attract attention (perhaps the Westboro Baptist Church methods would be good also?!). Meh, I can’t care about that for now.
Anyway, the criminal sheriff Gary Long is being sued for this (https://all4consolaws.org/2019/10/ga-sex-offenders-sue-butts-county-sheriffs-office-over-no-trick-or-treat-signs/). I mean, this has always been a PR stunt for him that is designed to put his name out in public as much as possible. That is why his name is on the signs, instead of the name of the sheriff’s department itself. So the criminal is going to get even more publicly with the lawsuit.
I do love the idea of creating a bigger and better sign and just putting it directly in front of their stupid sign. How about a big sign that reads “Sheriff Gary Long is a criminal. Let’s vote the criminals out of office.”? Criminal sheriff’s departments are always involved in something illegal. So probably could reference their latest crimes and list a web site where readers can get more information. You know dipshits like Gary Long having been doing something illegal. People always need to watch for it, 24/7.
I also love the idea of making a political statement by building a huge gallows that completely hides the sign. A person would want to create effigies of Gary Long and other criminals and hang them high. Would be perfect.
If any Registered Person (RP) feels like it, they ought to travel to Butts County on Halloween and meet the RPs who filed the lawsuit. You could certainly mail them right now and try to arrange a meeting. Or even call. Easy peasy.
I guess the sheriff owns holloween and owns anyone that got in trouble to dictate what they cannot do as a free man. Seems to me if its not part of the original sentence (Bargain) its unconstitutional only their will be a few people that will get busted and likely do time due to the fact SOs are similar to passed out candy for defense attorneys and the court to make a buck off from the sheriff. These souls will not receive proper defense. I have faced retroactive technical violation and wasn’t able to find an attorney that cared dumping thousands basically you just take the jail time nothing else can be done, no-one cares. Word of advise the names of attorneys on FAC are simply a name for their district and may only see you as $$$ and not about to fight for who you are but what you are. Be very careful hiring them and read between the lines. If they don’t get it your sentence ended years ago and this is unconditional keep shopping. These new laws make new business which we can’t find true defense for which is harmless techs based off the original conviction. This really needs to be fought double jeopardy as the points carry forward to re convict. The gun stipulation is a charge in its own no? Mandatory. These are point based charges worse than probation violations. Who’s going to ruin their carrier and small network of friends and be oust of us? Who?
Conversation between two guys in Prison in the same cell
First prisoner “Hey buddy what are you in for, I killed an entire family and got 20 years”
Second prisoner ” Oh I handed out Halloween candy when I wasn’t supposed to and got life in prison “
I just read your comment….I am currently going through this process now, I made the mistake of contacting a Lawyer that is On the FAC web page, paid thousand of dollars, and just got a conference call from him stating, first he thanked me for my thousand dollar payment, then he proceeds to tell me, State Pros wanted to give me 6 Years and he negotiated it down to 22 Months in Prison. And because it being my “second” Technical Violation, my first being 14 years ago, when Florida refused to allow me to obtain a Drivers ID or License, because I didn’t have my birth certificate, I did have a Valid DL from the state of Ill. and its what I would use to register with every time I went in.
So because I had a Sheriff Officer that didn’t like me, and as luck has it, she was who I would have to go in and register with. Every Registration I would tell her, the same thing, “I’m waiting on Ill, to send me a copy of my Birth Certificate so I can obtain a Florida ID”, and this was fine with her…
The Moons aligned Perfectly! and she was able to attest me for NOT having a Florida ID, I was placed on One Year Court Supervision, I’ve since, Obtained my Florida License a few months after I was sentenced to Probation for a year, Now 15 Years Later, my Facebook page is what has me back in court, and because I already had a Technical Violation 15 years ago, this Prosecutor is saying 22 months based on my prior Technical Violation.
They confiscated my Phone, found NOTHING, dissected my fb account, FOUND NOTHING, Tried Charging me with running a Business and Not reporting it as Work and Having a car that isn’t registered, The just dropped those two and are just charging me with having a fb page I didn’t register it… 22 months, and Get this, my Lawyer ask me, “Tell me what you want to do? Do you want to waive speedy trail, that will give you a little more time to get your affairs in order?” that tells me right there, he doesn’t care about a defense, He got his last Payment and that’s all that matters to him…
When is someone going to realize, That they cant just do this to people, I was sentenced to 3 years Probation and limited to 10 Years Registration in Ill. I moved to Florida in 2003 and was told, I had to register for LIFE?? Because my charges in ILL. is equivalent to a specific charge in Florida that requires Life Registration.
Instead of basing it on a “Charge” why don’t they base it on the “Sentence Received”
I’m going to Fight for myself, do all the research myself, that my Lawyer doesn’t want to do, If I’m being convicted based on having a prior technical violation, I want this Prosecutor to know a little more about that Violation, and base his determination on that, and NOT just looking at my arrest record..
So yeah, Find a GOOD Lawyer, FAC check out the Lawyers, you allow to put their names on your web site, because they are NOT all fighting for Us…. And Most don’t even get back to you……
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My Question is, if you found out you had to register here and not in illinois, why and the heck didn’t you go back there? I would move to the desert and eat scorpions if it was a place I did not have to register.
And as far as a good vs. bad lawyer. Yes some do not do their job or stay in contact with you. But having said that, even the best lawyer in the World cannot say what a judge may or may not do. I have one who said he could get some of my charges from the past dropped because he saw they were bogus. I asked if there was a refund if he could not be successful if the judge tells him he is wrong and he said ” I am NOT wrong but even if told I am by a judge, no refunds”. I was pretty sure we would not win so didn’t pay him a dime. The people he was able to help were perfect case scenarios. With a sex offense the ball is usually in the prosecutor’s court. A 10 times murderer gets more sympathy from the courts than we do.
Sheriff Long what happen to the other 364 days of the year?I guess u can sleep if there were murders,carcackers and drug house in your town
And the fact of the matter is, the registry has been in existence long enough that if someone was worried about their kids A) go with them, and B) Check the registry yourself and just avoid that house.
AND here is the kicker. Every year I see a story of a kid getting candy with a razor blade or even laced with drugs or a needle. Who is doing that? Clearly not registrants.
The other 364 days you can go door to door with your daughter and sell Girl Scout cookies. The rules are actually that freaking stupid.
It is like they moved the bus stop from in front of my house ( Which I agree I didn’t want all those kids camping in my driveway anyway ) but then the same kids come home after school and play in front of my house anyway.