Disgusted

Do you give out the Mini Almond Joys? If so, I am coming over with a 5 gallon bucket LOL

I think Willy Wonka’s relatives may be running the registry and the reward sure as heck is not candy on Halloween. It seems to be compliance checks. I have never been told I cannot hand out candy but I choose not to anyway for obvious reasons.

More than likely. They also like to give them awards for implementation; sheriff’s often publicize their receiving “national awards.”

Many sheriffs also just farm out their registry to Offender Watch, which charges them by how many registrants they have, probably a little less than they receive from the state for registry maintenance.

Nor does OW do it particularly well. My own entry there is grossly out of date, but I doubt anyone there is very alarmed by that. Why should they be? It doesn’t accomplish anything anyway.

You bet your ass it’s compelled. That’s what happens when you’re serving a sentence.

The rest of your reply has nothing to do with my post. So, I guess my only other question is if you are really friends with Willy Wonka?

Door to door isn’t banned in my area, but for years most of the schools in the county have been hosting Halloween for the kids. There’s a few families near me who take their kids out because they know I pass out really good candy. Full size candy bars, not that candy corn crap. Word spread over the years so now I get 15-20 kids at my door, even the older teens who live across the street from me, and yeah, they know my status and none of them even bat an eye at me. Probably because I go all out on decorations and my girlfriend and daughter and I all dress up and wait outside for the kids to come. I probably wouldn’t do it if I was singe with no kids, but for my daughter’s enjoyment, I try to make it as much fun as possible.

Have any of you taken a look at the offender watch website and read how they are utilized by thousands and thousands of LE jurisdictions? Does offender watch make campaign contributions to any of these sheriffs, attorneys general, governors, etc?

Bea

Nothing is free. Someone, somewhere, somehow is pay for that. Going to school is free…………….but home owners pay for it with their taxes so it isn’t free.

Yeah, yeah I know, who is going to pay for all that.

I noticed the change in chairmanship and am glad that both Media and Education are now in good hands (though could always use more)!

Stephen H

Yes it is called Compelled speech. One county in Florida already won on that basis with the Halloween signs. (Forgot which one as there are 1000s of posts on FAC)

Just depends on the judge you get. Funny how one judge will say something is perfectly legally and an appeals judge will say it is not. Did they not both pass law school? I once saw an article that said “That is why they call it Practicing law, they have no idea what they are doing”. Also, mind you, judges hand down “opinions”. When have you ever heard a judge use the word “I am handing down the facts?”.
There are 67 counties in Florida and there are 67 different sets of rules, laws and ordinances for things, and yet we as citizens are supposed to know and obey everyone of them. And the courts cover their hind ends by stating “Ignorance of the law is no excuse”. The law is basically saying what my good friend Willy Wonka use to say, “You get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!”