Acadia Parish Sheriff’s deputies have identified seven sex offenders who have been in violation of sex offender social media laws, Sheriff KP Gibson says.
Between March of 2020 and July of 2020, the sheriff’s sex offender registry unit conducted an investigation of all registered sex offenders in the parish, to ensure they were following the law regarding use of social media.
They found seven registered sex offenders were using social media illegally, but not posting on their profile that they were convicted sex offenders, conviction information, address, and other information required by the Louisiana sex offender registry laws concerning social media use.
Strictly regulatory, of course. Absolutely nothing punitive about it.
Wow the chains and shackles might be long gone; yet the slavery of citizens is alive and well in corrupt Louisiana. Every non registrant needs to put on their social media that they are hateful people. Thank God I don’t live there that’s part of the Bible Belt; which obviously doesn’t believe in forgiveness nor redemption.
Two words, compelled speech.
How is this not compelled speech?
Talk about ostracizing yourself from society. So LA forces you to reveal you are a past SO before someone even has a chance to meet you. That was the same when I was on supervised release fresh out of being incarcerated. I was required to get a job, but I was also required at each interview to reveal that I was an SO even if I wasn’t asked about any past criminal history. Needless to say I didn’t have a lot of calls to come back for a second interview. It is well known that one of the biggest preventative… Read more »
A Felony? Seriously? Were they targeting kids or posting a photo of their meal at a restaurant?
“We take the safety of our community and our families seriously”
No mention that they did anything that threatened anyone’s safety, yet they could spend years in prison.
“So Mac, what are you in for?”
“I posted a photo of my garden on Facebook…”
@ Mike G and you know darn well they didn’t do anything inappropriate online or that wold have been in the headlines.
Compelled speech?
@KM:
My thought, too. There is no difference between this and LA requiring me to voice it to anyone I encounter. (Rightfully, companies are “people” too in the eyes of the law.) Both are the government compelling me to speak a message with which I disagree.
Janice says it best in an interview on ABC10 in 2016 when she talks about the First Amendment and compelled Speech. https://youtu.be/K7OWomQGa-U?t=104 “So when most people think about the First Amendment, all they think about is the right to say something but you also have a right to be silent and the fact is with this law you cannot remain silent about whether or not you have been convicted of a registered sex offense and whether or not you are likely to engage in child sex tourism. So the government is basically sending notices to our government, to foreign countries… Read more »
I can’t imagine being in a southern state with being an RSO these days. Trump has given L.E. So much backing to basically be the Gestapo. Not that they needed any new reasons. Ironic how the south, the area most responsible for evangelism and promoting christian values, can treat others like crap.
If this isn’t compelled speech, then what the actual f–k is?
Aside from that, I personally wouldn’t even bother having a fb account if doing so required outing myself (which I’d expect would result in account deletion anyway, per Facebook’s TOS).
I dunno how my fellow RCs in those southern states deal with living there. I’d rather eat glass.
Wow one of the guys arrested was 60 years old I’m pretty sure the only person this guy was hurting online was himself. Can you imagine your at home geting ready to cook for you family so you Google one of Gorden Ramsay chicken recipes 40 minutes later there’s a bang on your door and you hear “SEXOFENDER COMPLIANCE CHECK “!! deputies bust in and confiscate your phone and arrest you on the spot for watching YouTube. I can’t believe this old ass man is going back to prison for at lese 3-5 years just for having a smart phone… Read more »
I don’t know where you got that particular story regarding a compliance check and Youtube in regards to this article but this makes me wonder something. I’m sure this has been brought up on here somewhere at some point but if you are not on probation what gives you an obligation to even answer your door for a compliance check? “When law enforcement officers who are not armed with a warrant knock on a door, they do no more than any private citizen might do. And whether the person who knocks on the door and requests the opportunity to speak… Read more »
@M C: You’re spot on with one’s rights as detailed in KY v. King. Also see FL v. Jardines. One merely needs to take the examples Scalia used in Jardines and reverse them. If TBLs have equal rights as UPS, Girl Scouts, and Trick-or-treaters to knock on one’s door, one has the right to equally ignore whomever is knocking. There’s another cas,e whose title escapes me, where SCOTUS said that even if you have started talking, you still retain the right to retreat from conversation. In other words, if they manage to trick you into answering the door, you’re always… Read more »
M C – I have posted many times before regarding compliance checks. If you are not on probation or parole, you do NOT have to open the door for anyone, including LE. You never have to speak to them, and they can knock, but if nobody answers, they have to leave! If there is no reason that a person is out of compliance (like they do their annual), there is no reason to harass that person. I want to re-emphasize that I told LE on both our compliance checks that we are under no obligation to answer the door or… Read more »
Personally, I don’t really mind much if law enforcement (LE) comes around, but I don’t let them. It is just the principle of it. Registries (Hit Lists) aren’t acceptable and that’s the end of the story. I will do what I’m forced to do at the point of a gun, but BS if I’m going to allow one thing past that. F*ck anyone who supports Registries, AND their families, every day. Those “people” are enemy combatants. I’ve always recommended to People Forced to Register (PFRs) that they should start from day one to ensure that the Hit Lists are worse… Read more »
The declaration of independence clearly states or unalienable rights of life liberty ave the pursuit of happiness.no state can take those away.so since the state wants to put sanctions on people by requiring them to register and live where the state wants you to live that hinders your liberty.which in turn affects your life and will ultimately deny you your opportunity to pursue happiness.once you’ve paid your debt to society you no longer owe the state anymore time from your life.think about this every year you have to enter into a contract with the state.why?your term has been served ave… Read more »