Oh come on!!! School placed on “lock out” during compliance check.
After a person required to register as a sex offender registered a new address in Nebraska, a local school placed their students on a lockdown preventing them from leaving the building. The sheriff’s department checked the address and discovered it was inside the exclusion zone, the man agreed to immediately leave, end of story.
There are two completely absurd things that came out of the event. First, that a school was placed on “lock out” during this period while police were checking the address, and second, the headline from this Nebraska news station read “School placed on “lock out” during sex offender investigation. I don’t know about you, but if I was a parent of a child at that school, I’d be thinking they were investigating a sexual assault at the school and be stressing.
Another case of a news station trying to sensationalize nothing and unnecessarily frighten parents.
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Maybe the story could have been spun to read “Man required to register follows state laws, finds his new residence is not in compliance and moves without incident. Police and local school over-react causing school into Lock Out scenario, disrupting students and causing fear mongering among locals and parents”. News media pressing for answers as to how much this cost the taxpayers due to un-necessary increased police presence and school from lost learning opportunities.
I was hoping to have some fun with this at their expense since they love doing things at our expense.
This would be good to post on the actual article
I took your advice. Unable to directly link it to the story but I did email the following desks from the Nebraska.TV group:
Comments, News Desk, Webmaster, News Director and the General Manager.
I included FAC in a BCC of the email as well
Excellent work Al In Jax. Maybe you can send that in a letter to the editors and post it on website of whatever news station covered this.
Well, we all know SO’s are lazy and living only 237 feet from a school is WAY more likely to offend because it’s a MUCH shorter distance than 500 feet. I know personally if I was 501 feet away from a school I would think to myself “nahhh – it’s just to far to go”… but 237 feet – yeah… I’m all for it.
sigh…
Brian
Let me know if any homes come available near you. We can team up and taunt them and the 50 yard line.
You reminded me of a true story that I have told on here numerous times.
When I first moved to where I am, the parents got the bus stopped moved because it was right by our house. HOWEVER, as soon as the kids were out of school, they would play in the street right in front of our house.
You just cannot make this stuff up. As a famous comedian often says “You can’t fix stupid”!
There was another comedian years back, I forget who it was, who said, “you can’t make anything idiot-proof because nature keeps making better idiots.”
Sadly, most of them get elected.
Polk county would have arrested him and offered 4 months in jail min offer or goto trial and receive 5 years in prison and the guy would have lost his job all his money probably his wife and kids made fun of at school!
It’s all fear mongering regardless of the state or even the country nowadays. Unless and until SCOTUS finally states in a binding decision that the registry schemes are punishments assigned to criminal sentences and that the punishments of registration are based on the myth of “frighteningly high rates of recidivism” then the fear mongering will continue.
The news has near 100% impunity due to the “Freedom of the Press”. I have seen numerous lives destroyed and even some suicides when an innocent person was dragged through the mud and later when found innocent, the news could care less, or maybe put a small retraction on the back page of the news paper.
I talked to a reporter once off camera (They did not know I was on the registry and did not give my name) and asked her how she slepted at night knowing she and her crew were causing people to burn down people’s homes , attack people and cause riots because of some of the stories they do.
I said you seem to not care that each of those stories affect the lives and the families of the person they are reporting on. She went off on a tirade about the constitutional right of the press and that beating out a competing news station with a breaking story could boost and skyrocket their careers.
SICKENING!
That’s the click bait society we live in. Why do you think we get headlines like the following.
Man cought is sex trafficking sting was the 3rd cousin of the neighbor of (insert famous persons name here). Anything they can do to go you to click that link creates advertising dollars.