FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE . . . (October 1, 2019)
CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS TO MONITOR POLICE ON HALLOWEEN
“Cop-watch” hotline to be open for six hours
Albuquerque, NM | Sacramento, CA—The National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL) and the Alliance for Constitutional Sexual Offense Laws (ACSOL) denounce what they believe are unconstitutional laws and blanket restrictions imposed by some state statutory schemes and supervising authorities across the country each Halloween.
The organizations join together in demanding to know why every year at this time newspapers and TV news programs are full of reports about police activities to curb this so-called menace that supposedly sprouts up around Halloween when there is no evidence to support the myth.
The two groups have assembled a team of volunteer attorneys and plan to hold a third annual Halloween Marathon. This year’s call-in program will last for six continuous hours with the primary purpose of receiving reports and monitoring law enforcement’s actions nationwide.
Janice Bellucci, ACSOL’s executive director, points to the research showing that there is no increased threat of sexual harm to children on Halloween and to the fact that no report has been found of a child being harmed on Halloween by someone on the registry. “We deplore the hysteria created by sensational reporting of what is no more than grandstanding and a total waste of public resources expended year after year,” she says.
NARSOL’s executive director Brenda Jones emphasizes, “We want it to be clear to everyone that we are putting law enforcement and policymakers on notice that we are: (1) monitoring them; (2) winning legal challenges all over the country; and (3) have sufficient momentum to continue chipping away at their unconstitutional creations. The most unconscionable aspect of this,” she continued, “is that children are at an increased risk on Halloween of being killed or injured in an auto-pedestrian accident, and yet law enforcement chooses to assign its officers to checking that registered sex offenders are not handing out candy rather than putting them on traffic patrol and intoxicated-driver
checkpoints in high trick-or-treat areas.”
Bellucci fully agreed and praised the recent journalistic efforts to frame this issue around facts, not myths, as presented at Reason, the Appeal, and the Washington Post.
Details about how to sign up for attending the marathon, the numbers to call, etc. will be posted soon.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!! You are all great people. I live with my wife and 3 children, I’m not on paper and I fear harassment from LE on Halloween in NY. Thank You all!!
You all have put together powerful statements and actions for this. It will be impossible for people with a brain to ignore. Great job as usual.
I kind of hate to try to curb their Halloween stupidity though. Simply because it does expose them for just the true, true idiots that they are. I do think that most intelligent people already see the Registries as dumb and useless and that MOST of the “people” who actually support the Registries aren’t that bright AND don’t particularly care about facts anyway. So perhaps these actions won’t sway opinions much. I think the vast majority of people living in the U.S. are lazy and dumb and they are very resistant to facts and reality. They will not change their opinions of Registries much UNLESS it becomes unpopular to support Registries. That is the key for them. Popularity, opinions, and feelings.
The funny thing about this Halloween nonsense is because of their PR stunts, I will have to go out on the roads and drive around all of the children who are out and about. I’ll be out driving around to keep an eye on the law enforcement criminals. Make sure they aren’t breaking a bunch of laws and endangering the public with their recklessness and machismo. It is much more likely that they will get into a high speed pursuit among trick-or-treaters than it is that anyone will get molested on a doorstep. How many times do we have to see LECs murder people on Halloween to believe it?
The vast majority of Registered Persons (RPs) are not on probation or parole. Because of the Halloween stupidity of the criminal regimes, those RPs should leave their homes on Halloween days and go mingle anonymously among everyone. That is the proper, moral, American response.
https://710keel.com/should-caddo-bossier-put-halloween-signs-in-sex-offender-yards/
Butts County Sheriff Gary Long told CBS News last year: “I’m not trying to humiliate ’em or anything like that. Let’s face reality: We have a greater chance of children getting run over by a car [on Halloween] than being a victim of sexual assault by a repeat offender. But at the end of the day if, in fact, we had a child that fell victim to a sexual assault, especially by a convicted sex offender, I don’t think I could sleep at night.”
Translation: “But at the end of the day if, in fact, I let this opportunity to make myself look good go to waste, I don’t think I could sleep at night.”
“There are only 54 sex offenders living in Butts County, Georgia, which makes it relatively affordable to execute this Halloween operation. In the city of Shreveport alone, there are over 800 registered sex offenders. Which means that this type of operation in Caddo or Bossier Parish would likely be costly.”
Translation: “We are really into child safety when the cost is the mere violation of civil rights. Having to go to Kinkos and spend some time on it – naaaah…..”
I remember my first few Halloweens after my release from custody. I had to turn my porch lite and my living room lights off and hide in the back room lest I be accused of allowing a trick-or-treater to knock on my door. I had to stay home just incase there was a random check to see if I was home and keeping my lights off and not out doing unimaginable terrible things of which I had never done before anyway. Thanks to Janice and Co. I can live an almost normal life on Halloween as a person with most of their civil rights restored. Thank you ACSOL.
Hi everyone,
Hope all is well with every single one of you and your families. Question,
My wife and I spoke last night about Halloween along with me being a registrant. She thinks that we will not be able to celebrate halloween after my discharge of my probation in a few years, hopefully less. She thinks that for the rest of our lives us and our children won’t be able to celebrate together. I informed her that, that is not true. That only while I am on probation/parole you cannot, you must go by the guidelines that the department says. Am I correct or wrong?
Rialto, California still has Halloween restrictions on the books every year when I register I have to sign saying I will not pass out candy I will not have lights on etc. and I’ve been off parole for 20 years .
Does anyone have links to the news articles referenced at the end of this story? I would very much appreciate the chance to read them.
They keep getting their chances to back away and if they’re smart they would. Way too many Americans have had enough and those numbers increased and keep growing. They will realize it’s not registrants alone they’ve affected. America can thank us later for stopping this.
– Title V, United States Code, Section 556(d); 557; Sec. 706 – No due process, no jurisdiction over body or property. “They may have had jurisdiction at one time, Judge. But they lost it once they denied me due process.”
– You know your case better than anybody. You’re the best person to present the facts about your case, because you’re the only person who knows your case.
– The Constitution is a contract. Learn your contract.
– American Jurisprudence, Vol. 16, “Constitutional Law”, Sec. 97 – How judges interpret The Constitution.
– Is a contract in writing, enforceable in the court of law pursuant to the statute
I’m asking for specific performance, Your Honor, in favor of me. I am the BENEFICIARY of the contract.
– The contract must be enforced most favorably in favor of the non-preparer. And that’s me. I didn’t prepare it.
Contract must be enforced in YOUR favor. Not some injured STATE OF CALIFORNIA or SO & SO STATE.
https://youtu.be/1s-zHrNPfkQ
Know Your Constitution
by Carl Miller
Can anyone state how a supervision department such as the DCS (Department of Community Supervision) can just ADD whatever restriction they want to a group of people (such as making those under supervision report to the Sheriff/jail/courthouse and be detained on Halloween)?
You would think that everyone in my neighborhood is a sex offender. There has not been a porch light visible on Halloween since 2004. Those people got the message and never turned their lights on again! We have new people across the street, so it should be funny to see if they have their lights on.
So PATCH just today (Oct 10th) released their usual annual “awareness” article on where registered citizens live in your specific town/city, with their strong cautions to avoid these specific residences on Halloween. Different from last year (and all prior years) however, is that this year’s article provides a link to the Megan’s Law Website, where one must go through the various steps, in order to see names, addresses, etc. Prior years (at least for my city) had names and addresses already listed in the news article itself (without having to go through the Megan’s Law Website) I thought this was interesting.