GONZALES — The Gonzales City Council approved an ordinance at Tuesday night’s regular monthly meeting requiring registered sex offenders within the city limits to post signs in their yard alerting everyone to their crime. Though councilmen were quick to move forward with the motion, it took several more minutes to explain what the law could actually do.
City Manager Allen Barnes started by stating that several cities in the area have passed similar ordinances and said the law has been upheld by the courts. The ordinance would require registered sex offenders to place a permanent sign in their yard, measuring two feet tall and two feet wide, with black lettering stating, “A REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER LIVES HERE.” Full Article 12/4
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The Gonzales City Council will meet tonight at the City Municipal Building to discuss six resolutions and two ordinances. Of the ordinances to be considered, one would require registered sex offenders to post a sign in their yard alerting city residents to their presence. Full Article
This both a disturbing and rather hateful proposal. What’s next?
Amazing all the innovative ways some scumbags come up with to violate the Constitution.
Yes I would like to know why these law makers want to pull ordinances out of their asses beens they are not showing any need or justification for these types of laws. I thought they were supposed to make laws to solve problems and address issues that have evidence of a need to address. Am i missing some statistics that show that there is some kind of epidemic of sex offenders committing crimes again after their initial incident. Something really better change at these levels of gov or were are going to end up like one of these third world countries where the constitution doesn’t mean shit. Oh wait I think we are already there
I thought the courts have already established (at least in CA) that you cannot “compel speech.”
The article states the city “is charged with protecting the health and safety of all it citizens”. “All” still means ALL!!
If the city wants signs, then rso’s should start placing signs everywhere about everyone. and they should be 4×4 in size.
Hello all.
Rob Huling is Texas here. An update on Gonzalez. I called the person who wrote the article and he said the city passed the ordinance. (His name is Erik McGowan. Real nice guy. We talked at great length. I asked him what he knew about the ordinance, as well as what he knew about sex offenders. He said very little. I asked him about the myths,and if he would be interested in learning facts. He is VERY open minded. I told him about the 96%. I told him about the 1%. I told him about studies, facts, documents, national organizations, law suits, CA, TX, ME..we talked about Josh Gravens……
I told him I would forward him lots of FACTS.. he is interested in learning. Said he would see where this takes him
Also, Gonzalez has 33 offenders, 11 low, 13 moderates, 3 high and 6 with no ranking.
I am going to contact all of them. City council is 5 guys in dickie shirts and the mayor. Population is just at 7000.
Followup article tomorrow in the inquirer.
Will keep you posted.
See you at next RSOL.. hello to BEAR.
Rob 972-800-1769
Man these lawmakers keep it up they are going to see rso turning radicalized like the jihadies. I hate to say it but maybe they’ll wake up and start focusing on real issues like terrorism and how to refocus police resources from pursuing prosecuting drug offenders or monitoring and registaring people to getting after gangs and illegal guns off the streets. Not that that will stop these mass shootings since they were all legal gun owners. But it would be a start and actually a productive way to use their resources.
I agree with Mike R. and Craig. I find that youtube has some good Science experiments on it. Perhaps some pictures of Registered Slaves standing on a Politicians front step might make them think twice. Working around these slime balls I’ve learned 4 things about them. 1. They hate to be laughed at in public for their Policies. 2. They hate to have their home addresses Published. 3. It looks bad for them to buy campaign supplies from a different state even though they still do it. They must publish where they spent the campaign money, but they know the General public never look at those pages. 4. It looks bad for them to have a registered slave working for their campaigns.
Political grandstanding at best…accessory to murder at worse.
Forcing people who the police are quite aware of to put a target on their backs for every religious wacko and every other mentally unstable nutjob with a gun not only the address (if they are capable of using a computer) but also a sign in the yard for those who are not and still want to get in on the “fun” of tormenting (and often killing) those that the government have chosen to be a scapegoat and thrown away as trash.
This segregation attitude needs to die as it is not effective in doing anything except breeding hate. Anyone in government with this hate filled mentality should be fired immediately.
Of course, that would pretty much mean anyone in the government and/or law enforcement.
Silver lining here…
But if the ordinance is passed, and it has since there’s added information that it’s been “updated with approval”, then this is factual evidence of blatant shaming due to being on the registry. This contradicts what the Supreme Court has said the registry does not do. So, in essence, this stupidity along with Florida’s presence restrictions are more evidence compiling for Janice and Chance to bring up back to the Supreme Court as they can now go line by line on the contradictions of original Supreme Court ruling – thus making it a cruel and unusual punishment. Not to mention the equal protection of classes have become even more divergent and obvious.
What on earth is in the water in Texas???
Here is the official CC Agenda, complete with official ordinance text:
http://gonzalescitytx.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1093&Inline=True (p 38-40)
From the Introduction (p 38, emphasis added)
BACKGROUND:
From the Ordinance (p 39-40, emphasis added)
Come again??? Apparently the City Attorney explained in the meeting that this ordinance would not be retroactive, contrary to the verbiage in the agenda packet. In this case it becomes quite obvious that there is no public safety aspect but that this is a blatant attempt to discourage future residents from the city. A dandy banishment tool, in other words.
As far as the actual sign is concerned, this is what the official ordinance has to say about it (p 39, emphasis added):
I copied and pasted. You cannot make this stuff up. Long live Texas.
Let this be a warning to all of you afraid to speak out publicly at these meetings, keep in mind what goes around comes around. Your next!
Id be go to hell if I would post a sign in front of were I live………….. I would go ballistic first and end up back in prison for killing someone or turning radicalized.. Not in the sense of being jihadi or in the name of Allah but in the name of protecting the constitution of the US against the domestic terrorist controlling this country. Man I feel for those guys living under those regimes in Florida and Texas and all the other radicalized states that have waged war against their own people…………..They talk about how Assad is Waring against its people but they are doing close to the same thing here and the only reason they aren’t killing citizens here is because so many Americans own guns and would fight back with much more effect then they have in other countries…….
Great job RSOs of GONZALES for sitting on your butt while this passed, this is how you lose.
They should post a public picture of a city Council member on the same sign post.
I wonder how many of the previous commenters on this thread were present at the protest CARSOL held in Carson….?? How many of you regularly attend meetings? Travel to Sacramento to stand up with Janice and/or Chance against a bill that will impact registrants and families? Write to lawmakers to express support or opposition to a proposed law? Donate money to cover expenses? (If everyone donated a little it would add up to a lot).
Sitting at home waiting for someone else to fight this battle isn’t the way to win the war!
Margaret Moon,
I live in a different state too. I’ve sent Emails allover the country, And publicly Addressed our General Assembly twice and Went to the DC Adam Walsh refunding hearing. Likely I’ll be at The GA this winter again.
I 100 percent agree with you, Why should the Government Change if no one shows up to speak.
Here’s a thought …What about those citizens comply by putting a sign briefly in their front yard take a picture of the sign then place that picture on a non-related PUBLIC website by link only. It’s publically displayed right?