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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If one of those signs landed in my yard, it would be in the burn pile.
I wonder how they would feel if people placed signs “This cop murders and kidnaps people” on the yards of cops who have done so for the “system”.
I wonder if he would find such a sign in front of his own home to be humiliating? I always accompanied my kids when they went trick-or-treating. Only real way to keep them safe, ESPECIALLY from the real danger of getting hit by a car in the dark.
Gosh, don’t be sensible. It is so much easier and more satisfying to just believe the lies of nanny big government that they are doing something to protect and raise your children.
I posted my comments through Facebook on this article since this is one that we cannot let go by. My comments did not get posted, though. Occasionally this has happened to me on other articles. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I might be doing wrong? (I type in my comments, select “add a comment”, I add my comments, select “log in to post”, log in to my Facebook account, but nothing shows up when I pull up the article again. When I use my google account, I have always been successful, but this article requires Facebook, as far as I can tell. By the way, on some articles, I have been able to successfully post my comments through Facebook)
Let me also mention to the Clay County registrants, I did receive a reply from Commissioner Bolla stating that he read my entire email. It was 4.5 pages long. I spent all week on it, making many revisions. I had to pull out all the stops on this one as it is probably my only opportunity to educate our commissioners on the facts. Most would say that it was too lengthy, but there was so much misinformation given out at the last meeting that had to be corrected with adequate documentation. At the end of the email, I thanked any commissioner that would actually take the time to read it, so it is a big deal to me that Mr. Bolla let me know that he read it in its entirety. Mr. Bolla is the commissioner who “gets it”.
I tried it again by logging on through Facebook first, choosing “Share to News Feed or Story”, typing in my comments, selecting “Post to Facebook”. Still nothing was posted to the article?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are doing great stuff. The harassers who think Registries are acceptable just want to be able to have their Registries sitting around doing nothing except harassing people. And they don’t want to be bothered by it. They just want to be able to harass in peace! So we should disrupt their peace and lives every single day.
Regarding your problems posting with Facecrook, it usually works for me. I don’t particularly trust how well it works overall though just in the sense that it seems to have a lot of odd rules about what comments are shown (e.g. can choose “Relevant”, etc.). It’s like Facecrook created a dumb interface for dumb people. One thing I can tell you is that for certain if you reply to someone and then that person blocks you, you will not see your comment (unless you log out). And I know you can be blocked from entire pages. I would think that the people behind this news article could block (just you) from commenting. So if you put a comment there, it would disappear. And also when/if Facecrook suspends your account, your content will disappear. I’ve had that happen a lot.
Anyway, I need to do some actual useful work today so I’m not going to be wasting as much time on these Nazi harassers as I’d like. I’m just going to post a full comment here that I made yesterday regarding a truly idiotic new Android application that the scumbags at OffenderWatch are trying to sell to idiots. Law enforcement criminals are helping them (and surely getting $$$$$ from it). It has relevant comments about Facecrook. This is it:
So pathetic. What kind of moron would think this would be useful? Truly?
If I were a Registered Person and I wanted to contact children for nefarious reasons, I promise that I would never use a phone, e-mail, or anything else that the big government criminal regimes knew about. How hard is that for people to understand? Registry Nazis are idiots.
The simple fact is that scumbags that support this kind of trash don’t care that they are harassing over 1 million families just for the f*ck of it. They don’t care. Hell, probably 80% of those scumbags just like this kind of stuff ONLY because it harasses people. They don’t care if it does nothing useful. And of course plenty of people are just trying to scab $$$ for anything, even if immoral.
It is a sad, sad day in Amerika when “people” think it is acceptable that big government forces people to tell them their phone #s, e-mail addresses, etc. so that they can PRETEND that they are doing ANYTHING to protect anybody. Sad and pathetic.
This article takes comments but it seems you need a Facecrook account. All of my Facecrook accounts are currently suspended. I need to go create about 100 more. These criminal regimes want to silence dissent and critics. But they aren’t going to silence me.
The crazy thing about Facecrook is that they are apparently suspending accounts simply if you don’t have any photos associated with them!! I will have an account and make some relatively tame comments with it, doing nothing more than expressing a tame opinion that is not PC. Then someone apparently reports that to Facecrook. I have a feeling that it is often law enforcement criminals that are doing it, which is beyond outrageous.
A sheriff’s department will have a Facecrook page where the public is discussing issues. If you post something there that is anti-Registry, someone will report your account to Facecrook. I’ve had it happen at least 5 times. I suspect it is the criminal sheriff’s department itself. I have directly accused some of them of doing that. They are ALWAYS too weak to even respond. They are too weak to even say how they operate. THAT is a criminal operation in action. Governments that are criminal hide their actions and make you FORCE them to disclose them (e.g. FOIA). Legitimate governments operate transparently. But there is nothing legitimate about Registries so they have to hide what they can get away with.
Anyway, make no mistake – the attempts by these criminal regimes to prevent Facecrook access is to silence dissent and critics. That is the reason. They will lie all day that it is for “public safety” or “protecting children”. But only a real idiot would believe that. They are liars. Always.
Sarah, sounds like you provided a pretty ‘meaty’ e-mail if you could get a county commissioner to read it. I have sent several to Brevard County Commissioners and have no idea as to whether they have been read or not. If you can, I surely would appreciate a copy of the e-mail you wrote.
Thank you Sarah, glad to hear he read your email.
Clay County citizens, the Chairman of our County Commissioners also replied that he read the WHOLE email. He does feel that one commissioner is wanting the ordinance to go through quickly, but he wants to see the process slowed down some so that there is more time to study the issue.
I feel that with what I sent them, there is no way that any of our commissioners could now say that resisdency restrictions are needed to keep children safe, but unfortunately, I have to accept the fact that tougher residency restrictions will have the end result of keeping new registrants from moving to our county. Clay County has always been a “safe” county for registrants. It was mentioned by one of the commissioners that he simply wants all registrants out of our county. That is the one thing that I do not know how to defend against. I know he is wrong, but how does one defend against it? With surrounding counties passing stricter ordinances, I know it is only a matter of time before our county does, too.
It was disheartening to read in the “Sex Offender Registration and Monitoring Triennial Review — 2018” put out by the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) in the state of Florida that some of the counties with the harshest ordinances had the lowest rate (per 100,000) of registrants living in the county . Miami/Dade with its 2,500-foot restriction had a rate of 63.66 and Seminole, where you cannot even travel within 1,000 feet of a school, daycare, etc., had a rate of 69.27. Clay is up at 180.16. Many counties are higher than Clay, but the numbers tell it all. Eventually political leaders will not be able to say that their ordinances keep the recidivism rates down — it is all going to be about keeping registrants out. That is what I do not know how to fight.
Thanks for your work Sarah
Keep up the fight. It is one worth winning. You are doing great work for the cause. We can change the minds of some commissioners by showing them that in reality registrants are an asset to the county…
I just wonder how many of them if it were their Son or Daughter who had been put on the registry if they would be more willing to listen.
On the flip side, how many of us would be bashing people on the registry if we were not on it.
I myself have always attempted to have an open mind and live by the mantra of ” Walk a mile in my shoes “.
I see people make fun of people with disabilities, people with skin disorders, people who are overweight. If those people were their family member they would be the same ones to curse out the person making fun of them.
The word for this is hypocrite
Funny, a place I worked, some people found me on the registry and spread it all around. A guy I worked with who I didn’t think liked me, came over to me and said ” I got your back”. We became friends ( At work only ) after that.
I agree, but how do I obtain the data? I know about some of the good things you have done for your community, but how do I find out about others? I know that taken collectively, the info out there for so many of our FAC members would be tremendous, whether it be always providing a smile and a “so good to see you” to a pesky deputy, always keeping your yard well groomed to volunteering in a group that ministers to the homeless? How do I get this information?
At the Volusia County Meet & Greet last Sunday, I met a lady who is working on making a video highlighting this very thing so that when people like Chitwood show the videos he does, she wants to show one with the many good things that registrants have done.
Encourage them to articulate HOW the community would be better off by the elimination of registrants and their families. Their responses can then be open to a reality check.
Because the number of registrants is NOT AT ALL the same as keeping the community safe. If that’s their answer to keeping the community safe from sexual abuse, they are likely to find that the problem will NOT go away. What is the underlying problem they say they are trying to address?
You have already started to educate them on who is at risk to commit these crimes, who is not, and the impacts of exclusion laws on children (including children of registrants). Do they need a reminder?
If I have not mentioned already, Sarah, you are an asset to NE FL. Just getting the chairman to have the sense to slow the process down is something you should consider an accomplishment in itself, and a sign of your effectiveness. Thank you.
Jacob, I will keep your suggestions in mind.
That’s the whole purpose and intent. Not in my County.
The cities with the harshest restrictions perhaps are home to people claiming to live in another city.
“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] …” Common sense approach and one that is repeated over and over again. Then he got stupid.
I suppose that this sheriff would have no trouble sleeping if the child was hit by a drunk driver, but he must avoid those ‘evil’ sex offenders who have a likelihood of harming no one. As far as I am concerned, he can take his signs and place them where the ‘sun don’t shine’. If he came on to my property I would have him arrested for trespassing and he would leave with the sign stuck in a most appropriate location. Enough is enough.
I agree and I don’t know the legality of what he is doing either.
May as well paint a target on their house…..another well intentioned idiot