Several individuals filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against Paco County Sheriff, Chris Nocco for repeatedly harassing them, not because of what they did, but what they “predicted” a family member might do.
Essentially, what the Pasco Sheriff did was create a “list” and then send his deputies out to their homes to surveil them at all hours of the day and night looking for petty offenses to fine or arrest them for.
When you read through the lawsuit (which is linked below), you might get a tinge of PTSD from your own experience being monitored as a person required to register as a sex offender. No individual should be subjected to harassment like this.
An update:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-sheriff-office-letter-prolific-offenders-accountability-crime
Just like the Judge that sentences a Sex Offender and reads them the Jimmy Ryce Act (even though the judge is not a mental health practitioner/professional) to the ‘Boss Hogg’ Nocco who also wants to Predict the Future!
This changes the fundamental Legal Treatise of ‘Beyond a Reasonable Doubt” to ‘Mere Suspicion’….
So, therefore, We have a bunch of ‘Ms Cleos’ running the Jurisprudence System!
‘Toto, Glad I do not live in FLORI-DUH, back to Kansas’
Hmm, seems this worthless Sheriff should have paid attention to SCOTUS’ ruling in Florida v. Jardines (https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/569/1/). Both he and his subordinate deputies actively and repeatedly violated established constitutional law. Oops! That’s almost certainly going to cost them a bit. They will probably claim “open fields” (which may be the case for scaling the fence) but Jardines gives exactly matching examples as what these yahoos did.
I hope PCSO and the County itself get bled dry.
A tinge of Minority Report here it appears by the “good” (cough) sheriff. Jardines is settled law, but, unfortunately, SCOTUS has also said LE does not have to know the law either when interacting with the citizenry and can blow sunshine of what the law is in their mind vs reality. Ignorance may be bliss in LE’s minds, but will come with a $$ price they will pay which will ultimately cost the taxpayer in the end. Easier to ask for forgiveness in their minds than permission. Way to go there Sheriff Buford T. Justice!
We do not want to see Nocco removed from office. We have to hope that the civil suit that was filed progresses through the federal court system.
A victory for the plaintiffs in the 11th Federal circuit would apply to all of us here in Florida. Here in Florida, a victory even at the DCA level only applies in THAT district.
If the sheriff is removed from office and the suit is dismissed then there’s no legal precedent set that we could use in OUR fight against the myriad of RSO laws and lists here in Florida.
That’s potentially the thing that Gaetz and all the cronies like him are after.
He likely won’t be removed from office.
If removed and subsequently dismissed, then look at amending the complaint and refile against his employer, the county, who is responsible for his actions as an employee of the county. They can’t really believe they are unaware of his actions. This could follow the same path through the courts for what would be possibly the same positive results if found as such.
This sheriff is subject to removal from his job because of these illegal tactics, according to Rep. Gaetz.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-rep-gaetz-calls-on-gov-desantis-to-remove-sheriff-for-using-intelligence-program-to-predict-crime
Pascos’ finest!
hiding evidence and sexual battery
Exactly what happen to me in Portrichey FLORIDA January 2019 entire month,
i lived in Pasco county 20 yrs I was not on a registry, was released in July 2005 when the 10yr registered citizens term was up and back then they followed the law yes put on that registry from another state.
anyway
there was an estate fraud on my fathers estate,
in another state and I was working on exposing them the executor (STEPSISTER AND A NURSE AT TGI)
went to Tallahassee demanding i be put on registry? to keep me in Florida so I couldn’t expose her for what she is,
well for over a month I was watched day and night then I finally came up on them in the middle of the nite behind his car out of the woods jumped his ass yea Pasco county sheriff,
told them they got a fking problem come to me don’t be a chickenshit MFER he told me it was the executor of the estate that tip them off and I really am crazy jumping them
so yea this shit does go on they dont use official cars they used there POVs
Another Knuckle-Head with a Target on Their Back!
Sounds like somebody is striving to be like old Grady Judd in Polk county….lol
This is WORSE than being a Pasco RSO.
I’d rather be subject to residence checks. Damn.
Here’s the article in which the Tampa Bay Times posted:
https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/police-pasco-sheriff-targeted/intelligence-led-policing/
That’s quite a stunning article against Sheriff Nocco’s questionable practices and policies.
Why only 4 plaintiffs?
I’m sure their “list” included many many more.
It’s called law and order. The sheriff just happens to be the at the bottom of the totem pole bringing in the meat with stupied laws…No meat, no checks for the the college grads on the top. Why you think they came out with all these petty rules at the same time marijuana became legal? I’ve registered over 20 years my kids are grown and either in college or moved out I am retiring and want to travel for a few years in a motor home it has always been my wife and I dream. This is impossible. This is punishment. I’d have to Register almost every state, couldn’t stay in most parks have to humiliate myself hundreds of times every state is different, every county is different. They should just let us opt to have a tracker put inside you and turn you loose I’ve broke my back for my family my whole life and now I’m a burden on my wife. I know no one gives a fuck. Hella punishment I’m under. What’s messed up is we took deals then they go back on those deals adding more and more. Why can’t we sue the state for breach of contract regardless what the federal level says? Really we are so depressed Together anymore wake up everyday to research how to do something no one else has to worry about as simple as loading up and going on a road trip which may well result in an arrest my wife and I have recently separated so she can be free and she can use her passport finally and travel to England, etc. I forced her to leave self destructing our marriage so she would leave which resulted in a year to fully separate due to her legitimate suicide attempts. We are still close friends she is living with a guy that is successful and she is happy again which is all I wanted. State has gone way too far. I wake up everyday wondering why I’m even here this life sucks
@Jack
– Yep. I am a few years away from retirement an plan on traveling the country with the mrs. for about a year. I have an attorney. Told him my plans and that I’ll do my absolute best to properly register wherever we may and up for a day or two or 10. wherever the wind may take us. but registering everywhere going to be impossible, I just know it.
I could cut and paste my comment from the article concerning clemency laws….. this type of behavior, that’s accepted, and I’m willing to bet even applauded, by a large number of Pasco county residents stems from the “Law and Order” “Lock em’ up” social/political atmosphere that has kept Sheriff Nocco in office this long.
We face the same issue here in Brevard county with Sheriff Ivey and his “Wheel of Fugitive” YouTube video he regularly posts. Recent articles in the local paper have shown that some people on the wheel are already in jail or LEGALLY out of detention.
Hopefully by this case being filed at the federal level it will be beyond the reach of the typical courts that dominate the Florida judiciary.
As stated in this , it is a common practice of police to do this harassment procedure. I even had one officer admit that he had informed the codes violations officer to keep on me . I would get citations for things like I had a low tire on my car , or Ild pulled off the driveway on to the grass , or go with a tape measure and measure my grass to see if it met codes.
I hope they sue enough to make an impact. This stuff has got to be stopped.
Ahhh – “pre-crime” at it’s finest.
This so called Predictive Policing Program is reminiscent of the movie titled “Minority Report”
Floriduh “law enforcement” hasn’t changed since the Reconstruction Era [1865-1877]. Draconian punishments for petty offenses, harassment, illegal searches and seizures, verbal threats, etc. All “enforcement” is solely to keep the jails and prisons full so the state and federal dollars keep rolling in and the size of the police state continues to bloat.
I watched a video of an alleged bank robbery in Jacksonville recently. I counted no fewer than 50 JSO, FDLE, ATF, FBI, and even DHS vehicles. The divided highway was filled with officers on foot with guns drawn.
I don’t think things will ever change in Floriduh. 90% of the local sheriffs and deputies have a herd mentality. Not to “serve and protect, but to “harass and arrest.”
I agree, when I was arrested there was multiple agencies from different counties. My whole street was blocked off. All for someone down loading a few video clips. What a waste of resources. It’s amazing the amount of money spent to arrest me the put me in prison for a year. Where that money could be better spent. I imagine 10’s of thousands of dollars