Source: shreveportbossieradvocate.com 8/7/25
Sex offender’s offer of lollipops to children at school bus stop leads to Louisiana new state law
When law enforcement officers with the Bossier Sheriff’s Office and the Shreveport District Office of Probation and Parole brought attention to a convicted sex offender’s offer of candy to children at a school bus stop in Bossier Parish, it led to an addition to state law.
House Bill 111, passed by the legislature and signed by the governor, went into effect Friday and prohibits convicted sex offenders from coming within 500 feet of a school bus stop from 6 a.m. until 9 a.m. and from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. It passed the Louisiana Senate by a 38-0 vote and the House by 96-0.
No such restrictions had been written into the law previously.
Louisiana Probation and Parole Specialist James Holoubek documented an incident of a sex offender offering lollipops to children at a school bus stop, and Capt. Adam Johnson of the Bossier Sheriff’s Office offered testimony before the House committee considering the bill.
so, In response to a documented incident wherein a person convicted of a sex offense offered candy to children at a school bus stop, Louisiana enacted House Bill 111, prohibiting People Forced to Register (PFR) from being within 500 feet of school bus stops during designated pickup and drop-off hours. While the intent of the law is to enhance child safety, its narrow application raises constitutional and ethical concerns. Specifically, the statute targets a single class of individuals based on status rather than conduct, thereby creating a disparate legal standard. The presence of any non-parent adult at a school bus stop—regardless of criminal history—may warrant scrutiny; however, crafting legislation that applies exclusively to one group undermines principles of equal protection and due process. A more equitable approach would regulate behavior uniformly, ensuring that all individuals are subject to the same standards of proximity and conduct around children, thereby promoting public safety without sacrificing legal fairness.
While House Bill 111 aims to enhance child safety by prohibiting people convicted of a sex offense from being within 500 feet of school bus stops during designated hours, the statute fails to account for People Forced to Register (PFR) who are also parents or legal guardians. By barring all PFRs from proximity to bus stops, regardless of intent or parental status, the law may inadvertently expose their children to increased risk. In cases where no alternative caregiver is available, a PFR parent may be legally prohibited from escorting their child to or from the bus stop, thereby leaving the child unsupervised and vulnerable to potential harm or abduction. This blanket restriction, devoid of individualized assessment, undermines both parental rights and child welfare. A narrowly tailored exception for PFR parents acting in a custodial capacity would better balance public safety with constitutional protections and the best interests of the child.
Now LA PFR’s have a new restriction placed on them because of this dummy. No way in Hell I’d offer a kid anything unless it’s my niece or nephews.
Yet in this state, you have people offering other people beads to show them their intimates, which is entirely crazy because you never know who you’re actually offering and who is going to actually take you up on that offer, whether they’re a minor or not.
I find the “report” and the inability of officers to do anything about the “situation” highly suspect.
I think it much more likely that Karen found out that a PFR lived next to their kids busstop, and fabricated the candy story to the police. Who couldn’t do anything about it, because it never happened.
Almost every person on the registry in Lowsyanna lives within 500 feet of a bus stop. This means that they will be in violation of the law twice per day. Let’s see them enforce this law.
This is the kind of news that sends shivers up my spine. I moved into a rough neighborhood years ago, because it was more than 2000 ft away from schools. I was a no-post, (wasn’t on the registry at the time) and I worked very hard with my neighbors to clean up the streets. Recently they built half-million dollar homes across the street. In the meantime CA bumped me into Tier 3, and — wait for it — the local school district designated an informal bus stop right in front of my condo! Really??? I frantically called the school district and told them that the idling busses were blocking people’s exit from the condo complex. They moved it.
Lolly Pops to kids? If this is true, really????
Do we really expect EVERY PFR to be on the same level of awareness as we here are in regards to offenses committed and the restrictive laws enacted due to our mistakes. This moron is part of a subset that just doesn’t care and will continue to commit offenses if allowed. A true mental midget. We can’t get angry at a legislature that acts in response to turds like this. They are paid to “protect” their constituents. We are the people that get swept up with the garbage they see as dangerous.
Hey! think how many law abiding LEGAL citizens are being detained by ICE tonight because of they language they speak or the shade of their skin. At least we are able to work around these restrictions enacted because of DSs like this guy, and live to fight another day. Many of our lives suck right now, but we aren’t alone in the current environment.
The Sex Registries are the wet dream of truly stupid people. Just reading about these Registry A**holes/Supporters/Terrorists is nauseating. Reading their dumb quotes and idiotic proclamations should make everyone feel dumber.
I have something for the dumba**es to think about. What if just any random person is going around to bus stops and offering lollipops? What if the person is not a PFR? Then what? I guess the children are just going to be kidnapped. Oh well.
Perhaps the dumba**es should consider not trying to grow big government every time their tiny brains get a whim? They’ve written yet another worthless law that will never do anything useful. Not once in a thousand years. Well, except that it will make dumb people feel better. And give dumb people and reporters something to talk about a few times every single year.
A guy on probation violating any number of probation rules, but they can’t do anything except tie up almost 140 overpaid politicians to write up and pass a joke of a law. Wow, that’s about as idiotic as it gets! (Unless their goal is to slip a noose around the necks of every PFR in the state, in which case it appears to be well thought through). People in LA watch out!
At first, I thought they were going to ban us from possessing lollypops!!! But this to me is interesting.
Because school bus pickup sites are not as permanent as those for general public transportation and typically are not marked by signs, the law specifically addresses loitering in an area where People Forced to Register (PFR) should have “reasonable grounds to believe that a child or children are awaiting pickup or drop off from school or a school-related activity.”
So, if a child is just standing outside, is there a possibility of the police just harassing a pfr? Reasonable ground is too vague!
They’re attempting to legitimize correlation and link child enticement and grooming with giving out candy. This is the same misguided line of reasoning for the Halloween restrictions and signs.
Someone wake me up when they find a path out of this swamp.
The good news is that these southern bible belt red states that are going ape sh*t with these laws are not places that I ever wanted, or ever plan to live in the future 😁
Greetings from Louisiana.
This law applies only to those people designated as sexually violent.
I am not in that category. But, I wonder how those people designated as sexually violent know where the school bus stops actually are.
If I were them, I would contact the cops, school districts, etc., and ask for the physical locations of every single place that a school bus picks up or drops off students. After all, how can a law tell a person they cannot be somewhere unless that person is told the exact location they cannot be?
Then I would make sure, somehow, that all the parents of students that ride school buses know that every person designated sexually violent in the state now knows exactly where the students will be when waiting for a school bus.
Do you think the parents would then be upset that this law exists?
A few years ago, a Louisiana legislator proposed that people Forced to Register (PFR) cannot live within a certain distance of a homeschool location. I contacted that legislator and told him that he would need to provide a list of the addresses of homeschool homes in order for the PFR to be in compliance with his proposed bill. He never responded.
So, I then contacted the state’s largest homeschool organization and pretended to be a concerned homeschool parent. I told them that if the bill were passed, then every single PFR in the state would be required to have a list of every single homeschool location.
The homeschool organization contacted the useless legislator and basically forced him to withdraw the bill based on “privacy concerns” of the homeschool families. He withdrew the bill within 48 hours of me contacting the homeschool organization.
So… if they want to keep people designated sexually violent from being in certain locations, then tell those people designated sexually violent the exact and specific locations where they cannot be.
Then ask the parents if they feel safer knowing that every person designated sexually violent now has a list of every single school bus stop in the state of Louisiana.