Source: lostcoastoutpost.com 6/6/25
Between May 19th and May 30th, 2025, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office conducted a sex offender registration compliance sweep throughout the County of Humboldt. Representatives from the Arcata Police Department, Rio Dell Police Department, Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office and State Parole assisted during the operation.
During compliance sweeps, law enforcement attempts to contact registered sex offenders in Humboldt County to ensure each offender is following their registration requirements. Pursuant to California Penal Code 290, sex offender registrants are required to register in person with the law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction where they reside. The registrants must also comply with several registration requirements, such as updating their registration annually and informing law enforcement when any changes have been made to their address or registration information. Failure by a sex registrant to keep law enforcement notified of an address change or registration information is a crime and can be punished as a felony or misdemeanor.
As of June 6th, 2025, there are 375 registered sex offenders in Humboldt County. Of the 375 registered sex offenders in Humboldt County, 46 of those offenders are registered as transient. During the compliance sweep, 317 registrants were determined to be in compliance, 23 registrants were suspected of being out of compliance, 28 were unable to be contacted, 2 offenders were currently incarcerated and 4 were discovered to be deceased. Additionally, 7 arrests were made during the operation. Investigators are completing follow up investigations into those found to be out of compliance and anticipate additional arrest warrants to be submitted to the Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office. Please keep in mind, those that were unable to be contacted do not necessarily mean they are out of compliance. Often, the compliance sweep takes place on weekdays during work hours, and it is expected that some registrants may not be home during those times.
As per janice… REMEMBER if you arent on parole/prob, if the THUGS come to your address you are NOT REQUIRED to TALK to them or EVEN ANSWER your door. !! I followed janice’s advice and they finally quit coming to ‘check’ on me (now as to why im not sure because I dont cooperate, or maybe funding cuts, or I put up privacy screen so they cant even see onto my property, not sure. But I dont entertain thier visits and actually there is NOTHING in PC290 that says they have the ‘laws permission’ to VISIT you to make sure you are ‘compliant’ if you arent on prob/parole. The COPS that come out to ‘check’ on PFR’s are plain SCUM ‘looking’ to make someone a crime statistic. They will FISH etc… do NOT ENTERTAIN the GOON SQUAD by answering the door/talking to them if you arent ‘on paper’ (aka parole/prob in CALIFORNIA !!).
Suspected of being out of compliance.WOW! Is that like,” I pulled you over because I THINK you might have made an illegal right hand turn last week”? Since when did we start harassing folks because we think we knew their intentions.
See, the registry worked…right? /Sarc
” keep in mind that those who were unable to be contacted does not mean they are out of compliance. Most of these sweeps happen during weekdays, during work hours, and it is expected that some registrants may not be at home.”
No ship Sherlock, but massaging your bloated egos is more important than leaving registrants and their families the Hell alone.
Of course I posted this.
What a waste of money and time!!! The registry is so stupid!! 94 percent of registrants never reoffend. 95 percent of new crimes are committed by someone NOT on the registry! 85 percent of new offences are committed by someone the victim knows!!! The registry is a money making machine for the government!!!
But of course it got removed!
Of course I posted and got rejected
What a waste of money and time!!! The registry is so stupid!! 94 percent of registrants never reoffend. 95 percent of new crimes are committed by someone NOT on the registry! 85 percent of new offences are committed by someone the victim knows!!! The registry is a money making machine for the government!!!
Censorship at its finest
This online rag staff cannot even get it right in two straight sentences. First, they say “…are suspected to be out of compliance”. Then, they say they “…are out of compliance because investigations are happening to look into this”. Did the Public Affairs Office of the Sheriff put this out for them as is?
And seven additional arrests…for what?
What a waste of money.
Put a sign on your door, ” I may be home, I may be away, either way there’s no changes and I have nothing else to say.”
I guess my original post for this thread didn’t process.
If it is not under 290 and one is no longer “under custody”, then this extra burden called compliance check is a form of harassment. No other citizen is required to prove they live in their house, which makes compliance checks on registrants a form of harassment and a form racketeering, since those doing the compliance check are getting paid to harass registrants as well as curry public favor.
The local government cannot make up a new law targeting only registrants just because.
Probation/Parole (categorized as punishment)
Out of custody registrant penalties
Since the local PD’s are implementing compliance checks on registrants, then that act makes the registry punitive since it has all three components of probation/parole.
If registrants do have rights, then why isn’t combating against out-of-custody compliance checks one of the lawsuits of ACSOL?
Ain’t nobody trying go to prison for failure to register in 2025, especially when a failure to register charge not only sends you to prison. It adds a year or three years to your time on the registry nobody’s risking that.
When we were all lifers on the registry we had to do what we had to do BUT now there’s away off people are on there best behavior.
After I heard the new tier registry went into effect I made sure I didn’t even get a traffic violation or anything that would stop my petition because you can’t have any open cases or be on any type of probation.
Another reason is people are a lot smarter these days, back in the early 2000s we didn’t know how LE was coming but now we do, so PFR are moving way different.
They came to my house and knocked, and I ignored them but then they walked around to the front door where one of my roommates answered. I went upstairs and spoke with them so my roommate would not have to deal with them. I can’t remember how it came up but the one from the Humboldt county sheriff’s department tried to tell me that I was still on probation. I told her that according to a judge in San Francisco I wasn’t. We went back and forth for about 10 minutes. I was going to ignore the whole thing, but then I started to remember all the ways that supervision allows them to ignore ANY constitutional rights so I called the federal probation in Santa Rosa where they told me that I would have to talk about it with my former PO who was , looking at it positively, was very hands off when it came to work, and based on how things ended in court with me getting off almost 5 years early thanks to Janice, I knew he would be no help. Instead I called the Eureka police department with is my registering authority. They had a copy of the paper sent to me by probation and made some calls. I am not sure if it was BS or what but I was told that the DOJ had to also generate some form. I have no idea what their system says now but every time a police is behind me I get nervous.