CA: From Absurd to Insanity: Fresno’s War on Registrants Involved in City Council
In what can only be described as a breathtaking leap from questionable policy to outright farce, Fresno is now considering banning registrants from attending city council meetings. Under the new measure, registered sex offenders would be prohibited from attending city council meetings in person. Not schools. Not playgrounds. Not parks. City council meetings! The kind held in echoing chambers with uncomfortable chairs, where the highlight of the evening is often a debate about zoning. And yet, this is now being treated as a space so fraught with danger that it must be off-limits to a particular class of people.
The justification, we are told, is that City Hall is a place where children may be present. Of course. Because nothing draws children in quite like municipal governance.
This would all be funny if it weren’t the foundation for a totally insane policy proposal. Once you set aside the absurd rationale, the real effect becomes clear: excluding a group of people from participating in their own government. Restricted based on status rather than conduct.
The right to show up—to stand in a public space, to speak, to be seen and heard—is not incidental. It is at the core of what the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects: the ability to petition the government for redress of grievances. Not from afar. Not through a filtered channel. But directly. In Fresno the First Amendment is conditional and we at FAC sincerely hope that if this passes ACSOL rips the city a new one in court!
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Please use person first language in your articles where you can.
If you mean replacing “s*x O**ender” with Registered Person, Registrant, or Person Forced to Register when referring to the label placed on us, I agree. It doesn’t take long for whoever makes posts to do this.
I wish they’d go a step further and always add reference data when they make a post because news media quickly deletes articles or buries them behind paywalls; this means at times, I’ve had to rely on an FAC article instead of the source material but I have to jump through extra hoops to try to track down the original source as it was moved or deleted.. I know it seems like a hassle but when I write a reference, I add author (if available), “article name”, source of article, date, and weblink.)
For this page, for example:
Source: “CA: From Absurd to Insanity: Fresno’s War on Registrants Involved in City Council”. FAC, 3/18/26. https://floridaactioncommittee.org/ca-from-absurd-to-insanity-fresnos-war-on-registrants-involved-in-city-council/
PUBLIC NOTICE: CIVIL RESTRICTIONS ARE NOT CIVIL — AND THEY THREATEN YOUR RIGHTS
Most people have never been taught how civil restrictions work or how they interact with constitutional protections. That is not your fault; it is simply not something schools or news outlets explain clearly.
Before forming an opinion, take a moment to look these things up for yourself. Search each one directly:
Federal and State Constitutional Amendments
1. First Amendment protections (federal and your state constitution)
2. Fourth Amendment protections
3. Fifth Amendment protections
4. Eighth Amendment protections
5. Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments (servitude, liberty, and equal protection)
Oaths of Office
1. Oath of office for police in your state
2. Oath of office for judges in your state
3. Oath of office for elected officials in your state
4. Oath of office for the President of the United States
Civil Law Concepts
1. “Civil intervention in law”
2. “Civil regulatory schemes”
3. “Civil versus criminal punishment”
You may be surprised by how different these protections and oaths look compared to how “civil” restrictions are being used today.
Civil restrictions now often apply:
• after a sentence is completed
• without a new victim
• without a new crime
• without a jury
• without evidence of current danger
These restrictions follow not only the individual, but their spouse, children, and entire family. They are labeled “civil,” but they function as:
• punishment
• banishment
• lifelong surveillance
This is not civil law. This is punishment disguised as regulation.
When a system can tell you where you may live, work, travel, speak, or take your children — without a victim and without due process — the Constitution is not being honored. It is being bypassed.
If you think this system only applies to “other people,” remember: civil mechanisms always expand. Rights always shrink quietly.
Safety matters. But safety comes from judges, evidence, and real threats — not from permanent civil punishments that outlive the sentence and destroy families.
Go to meetings. Read the bills. Watch the votes. Civil restrictions are not safety. They are the slow erosion of constitutional protections for everyone.
THE AMENDMENT THAT PROTECTS THIS FLIER
This flier is protected by the First Amendment, which guarantees:
• freedom of speech
• freedom of the press
• freedom to distribute information
• freedom to question government actions
• freedom to petition for change
These rights apply in every state and cannot be erased by civil rules or administrative policies.
A FINAL TEST FOR THE INFORMED CITIZEN
Dear Patron,
Now that you have explored the amendments, the oaths of office, and the meaning of civil intervention, here is a final step you can take — a simple public‑information test available to every citizen.
1. Search your constitutional rights (speech, movement, association, due process, equal protection).
2. Search the civil restrictions placed on individuals listed on a registry.
3. Compare the two searches side by side.
You will notice a striking difference:
• The constitutional search reflects rights guaranteed to all people.
• The registry search reflects restrictions imposed without a victim, without a new crime, and without a jury.
• The tone of the search results shifts — it begins to feel as if rights no longer apply.
This contrast reveals the quiet cover‑up: A system presented as “civil” is functioning as permanent punishment, enforced through local checks, housing denials, community bans, and administrative rules that bypass due process.
When you see the difference for yourself, the farce becomes clear. This test is yours to perform. This knowledge is yours to keep. And the Constitution belongs to the people — by the people.
May your search be a gallant one.
DISTRIBUTOR DISCLAIMER
The person handing out this flier is exercising their First Amendment right to share information on matters of public concern. They are not providing legal advice, not accusing any specific individual, and not representing any organization unless clearly stated. They are distributing constitutionally protected speech for public awareness and civic engagement.
If you choose to pass out this flier, you must comply with all local ordinances, time‑place‑manner rules, and lawful instructions from property owners or officials. You must respect all laws that apply to public distribution of materials, including rules for public spaces, private property, and community events.
This flier is intended to promote civic understanding, not to interfere with lawful activity or to encourage any form of noncompliance.
WRITER’S DISCLAIMER
This document is commentary and opinion on civil law, constitutional rights, and oaths of office. It is not legal advice, not a factual claim about any specific person, and not intended to defame any agency or official. Its purpose is to encourage public understanding, independent research, and constitutional literacy.
Claiming to be a living, breathing sovereign citizen doesn’t work.
The proposal is so absurd on its face that one has to wonder what other agenda is at play here. As to the instant case, it could be no plainer in the First Amendment.
“Congress shall make no laws respecting and establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; OR ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, OR OF THE PRESS; OR THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE, AND TO PETITION THE GOVERMENT FOR A REDRESS OF GREVIENCES. “(capital letters mine).
This is how governments lose millions of dollars in lawsuits and cost the taxpayers they are “trying to protect” absurd amounts of money. Aside from attending the meetings, perhaps some enterprising soul who is on the registry in Fresno could obtain a press pass and see if the council would let them into the meeting.
But the question remains, what is it that this council is afraid of or is this part of a ruse to further take away the rights of citizens. After all, persons on the registry are easy targets. Who will be next? How about easy targets, such as felons who commit violent crimes (bank robbery, assault etc.). It gets a bit more difficult after that but banning all felons would be next. Then perhaps those with multiple arrests….and then those who dare speak up against those in power.
Remember this poem
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
History has shown us where all this leads and it does not end up in a pretty place.
Fresno, funny to me! LOL
I did four of my prison years in the central California valley. There are several CDC (California Department of Corrections) prisons in the valley, and they all have a significant number of sex offenders. They got to put us somewhere, and we all end up everywhere inside the walls. Where I did that time the Correctional Officers were mostly from Fresno and Modesto. So were a lot of the inmates. They all knew each other from growing up in the same towns going to the same schools. Sex offenders in prison often earn our way up the ladder of jobs because we might have business experience and skills, some intelligence, proper social manners, and are not crack-heads, speed freaks and heroin addicts. We might be bankers, lawyers, professors, or whatever, but a lot of us are different from the typical inmates on the yard. In time we earn the respect of both sides; our neighbors inside the walls, and the staff who live outside the walls. I am sure whoever is running for a council seat in Fresno is known by both sides of the community, and in between as well. I suspect they would become a very powerful person, and everybody already knows it. LOL
While this is sad to even read, it is good because it puts the topic out front of everyone to understand the reality of things and the fear they are stoking.
LMMFAO
An absolutely perfect example of what the registry really is. A tool for the elite. Testing grounds. A means of division and control. Legislate a subclass of less-than-human then see what you can get away with doing to them. Once it’s established and becomes the norm, then widen the net to catch up more and more of the people you want silenced into it.
The Epstein Class is doing horrific things and are subject to no justice. None. If all of this registry stuff were built in sincerity, that kind of thing would not be happening decades later, in full view, with no accountability at all.
The registry is not just a farce, it’s THE farce of the century.