The lawsuit, filed Dec. 30 by 18 Wayside residents against the city of Aurora and Kane County State’s Attorney Joe McMahon, comes weeks after an Aurora police officer delivered letters to the men informing them, for the second time in 2019, that they live too close to the park and must move within 30 days or face the possibility that the state’s attorney might authorize felony charges against them.
The city’s dispute with the registered child sex offenders at Wayside came into focus in June, when the men first received notices they were in violation of the residency law and would have to move or face the possibility of felony charges.The residents filed a federal lawsuit against Aurora in mid-July, and action on those first notices was halted pending the outcome of the lawsuit. The lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed at the end of October, and the men received a second round of notification letters in mid-December.
I still find it ironic that this whole situation in Illinois began because a high-profile convicted murderer had moved into that particular ministry when he was paroled, prompting intervention (read: political pandering) from the DAs office down there. All the hell he raised affected only the registrants there, not the convicted murderer that started the whole affair, which was slapped down shortly after it began and likely will be again.
Gotta love election year politics.
Cherokee while one can understand much of this confusion and about telling these SO’s to move it is a shame for any government to do that. Sure a lot of people quit Corrections or law enforcement as it is to much pressure at times. I would even hate to be the one to pose as a teen and set someone up. That in itself is very unbiblical.
Even seeing these homeless people battling for living quarters is very stressfull. One has to wonder who bears false wittness today or breaks commendments. Authority is authority if done right but who is covering up in this act to instill much of this injustice. But just remember something good always comes out of something bad and yes we all have hope things will change
Good! Keep sueing the bastards. Illinois is a crap state anyway. Why don’t they worry about how to stop the gun violence in Chicago before worrying about RSOs?
There will eventually be nowhere to live if every state keeps this crap up, all they are trying to do time after time is keep finding ways to lock us all up permanently. It’s going to eventually come down to registered people taking up arms against other’s.
If that happens they will send in the National guard and take everyone out who revolted. Until a new round of offenders are released to start the cycle all over again.
One bad act by any offender seems to change laws for the worse for us but something bad done to us never seems to result in any relief for us. Rather, the law makers say things like “The greater good of safety for the majority of non offenders out weighs the slaying of people on the registry”.
We can make change happen in our own way collectively via organizations like FAC. We need to put into action where we individually are at by using our own talents, abilities and passions in partnership with groups like F.A.C and ACSOL. I am just one person but where I am at I make a difference. By inventing an in salon scissor sharpening machine and training others to do in salon campaigning we have removed people from office. To sue the blasters is one way to make change happen but to fire the basters is another! F.A.C. cost money to run so DONATE if you can’t ACTIVATE. We ALL have something to offer in this fight.
Residency restrictions only if you commit a sex type crime. Brilliant.
Yep, which is 100% proof that none of it is REALLY for public safety or protecting children.
Only corrupt, criminal regimes have $EX Offender Registries.
Do they not realize they are making these people more dangerous by forcing them to move time after time? Some people will only be pushed around so many times until they snap. Why not do things on a case by case basis. People who have not caused any problems for years should be given a chance.
When everyone tells you, you will fail, many will. When you tell someone ” You can make it ” and encourage them to be better people,and help them, you would be surprised how many people become good citizens again.
Stop throwing all offenders into a glass bowl of profiling and stereotyping.
In 2007, the criminal legislators of Georgia murdered 6 year old Christopher Barrios this same way. Then, insanely, they claimed that their crimes were “proof” that “residency restrictions” (apartheid) was needed!!!! They actually claimed that their law that just murdered a child was proof it was needed! So either they are dumber than shit or they think that most other people (i.e. YOU!) are. Maybe both.
Christopher is not the only child that Georgia’s apartheid has murdered. I expect that most state’s apartheid laws have murdered some children. Registry Nazis (RNs) don’t care of course. They only care about how they feel.
Registries do very little but one thing they do very well is kill empathy, compassion, and remorse. Registries create monsters. No one with a brain thinks it is a good idea to take people who THEY claim are unstable and dangerous and then back those people into an ever-shrinking corner and continually poke them with restrictions/punishment/harassment over and over, especially that which EVERYONE knows is useless and stupid. No one with a brain thinks that is a good idea. But dipshit RNs do.
Only corrupt, criminal regimes have $EX Offender Registries.
When I was in counseling, they had to end the class. 2 of the guys committed suicide, 3 requested to go back to prison and when told no, did something to go back. That left me and 2 other guys. I was signed off as completed by the counselor as I was being honest about what I did. That left two guys who were denying they did anything wrong so were kicked out of the class.
CherokeeJack
want honest opinion exposing Epstein’s book of name and shame how long will the registry last? I’m waiting for a Gulited congressman or Speaker of the house LOL to get pissed and they to expose there most hated to get what they want Just sayin
whats your thoughts if this book came to lite (which we know is long gone)
Well I know there are good and bad people in EVERY walk of life. In law enforcement, in Religion, in Schools, everywhere. I left the Police force because the corruption was so bad, most days I would go home and cry asking God how someone can go home and sleep well knowing they kicked a homeless man in the head just for sleeping in a park. If I had made complaints against the officers, I would be labeled a snitch. I finally quit.
Now more into what you are talking about. I am sure judges, Prosecutors, general of the military, high profile preachers, some , NOT all, have some secrets that would ruin their careers.
The problem is, like you said, they have high profile friends who are just as guilty by helping them cover their tracks.
Look at the recent example here in Florida of the Black inmate that was almost beaten to death by 7 correctional officers. Even though their was video evidence of what happened, the officers still lied about it. From first hand experience, I know how that goes, I was also beaten almost to death by the guards. When the chaplain came to check on me, I asked him to call my parents and have them call a lawyer.
He said he could call them but that is it. Not sure what he said but it made and impact on my parents and they had two lawyers on the phone with Tallahassee and 6 hours later I was being interviewed by D.O.C investigators with a lawyer present. After that I was on 24 hour guard until I was transferred. Even though I had no say in where I was sent, I ended up 2 hours closer to my parents.
I might say it was extra scary for me in D.O.C than most. Not only was I in for a Sex offense, but also a former cop.