The Newton County Sheriff’s Office and the Department of Community Supervision will host their 13th annual sex offender Halloween Shut-In from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31. Full Article
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“The goal of this event is to closely monitor sex offenders in a controlled environment while children are celebrating this festive occasion.”
Oh, I just love this: “Controlled environment”
Isn’t that what the registry DOES to begin with!?
“while children are celebrating this festive occasion.”
Why cherry pick just Halloween? Do children not celebrate "festively" during Christmas, Easter or New Years'?
Damn. The fear mongering idiocy in the red states is metastasizing.
“If you don’t have a computer, you can view a hard copy of all the SO’s in your area at specified locations.” Wow! So clearly this is very serious. I am guessing there have been quite a few cases of people on the registry offending people. It is strange they don’t post that info. I would think that would be important. I do know that three children were killed in a crosswalk by a drunk driver two Halloweens ago. So I’m quite certain the good and noble sheriff has created a controlled environment to keep kids safe form drunk drivers. Maybe he won’t let anybody leave the bar he is in on Halloween until after 10:00 PM.
Who is going to ask for a copy of the presentations whether on video, audio, the slides, or some combo of them all? Will it take a FOIA request to get them if they are unwilling to share? What are only legal professionals from the gov’t in attendance and no lawyers? This is a taxpayer funded event, so are outsiders allowed to attend with those that are supposed to attend? This is unlawful detention if you are not on paper, I believe. Who is going to file an injunction to stop this before it happens?
The sex offenders will hear presentations from guest speakers, which will include Newton County Sheriff Ezell Brown, Alcovy Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge Horace Johnson Jr., a speaker from the Newton County District Attorney’s Office, Deputy Veronica Williams and Probation/Parole Officers with the Department of Community Supervision.
from judges eh….
is it me or are things getting worse and worse for all of us?
Lol. They make it seem.like all sex offenders when it’s really either voluntary or just parolees.
Someone should point that out to a rival news agency.
So children are only at risk one day out of the year? What a crock of shit. I would encourage anyone who is forced to attend or volunteers to attend to make a silent protest there. Everyone should wear earplugs and sit or stand with their backs to the speakers.
Lord, so laughingly lame. This is a huge media and “public safety” fail. What this pathetic little article failed to mention, as is typical, is that the VAST majority of people who are listed on the $EX Offender Registry there will not participate in this “Shut-In” and will very likely be milling around in the community completely anonymously in completely unknown locations. How could they possibly fail to mention such a critical “public safety” issue?!! Shocking!
The community is now probably in a LOT more danger than if they had not read this article at all. Because anyone who thinks this is useful is probably so dumb that they now think everyone is safe and they can let their children run wild with no supervision at all.
This is a stupid, grandstanding PR stunt put on for stupid people.
And the awful “people” who wrote this article are scumbags. They say over and over again “the $EX offenders this” and “the $EX offenders that”. Anyone who says “$EX offender” gives everyone permission to call them any name that EVER fit them in their entire life. If you have ever lied in your life, people can call you “liar” every day. People who say “$EX offender” are part of the problem.
The article said, “Upon conclusion of the presentations, the sex offenders will have an opportunity to engage in a question and answer session.” Wow, I wish I could participate in that! They would probably make me leave.
The moral side is winning the War on Registry Nazis/Terrorists, despite dumb nonsense like this. They’ll have their little party and they’ll pay for it all year after. They are too dumb to even comprehend that and too arrogant to care.
This sounds like a HOSTAGE situation.
Forcefully detained for several hours and forced to listen to speeches and presentations by the sheriff, P.O.’s and others.
Is this even legal?
I believe NARSOL is having a Halloween Call-In to report state issues such as this.
I called the Newton County Sheriff Department to clarify that they enforce the order ONLY on those on probation and parole. However, they send letters to all registrants, including those not under jurisdiction of the court, and strongly (her words) recommend that all registrants attend. Otherwise, they send around deputies to make sure that registrants are at home or on the job. In addition, Newton County also requires all registrants off parole to file itineraries if they leave the county for any reason.
Halloween is to be a scary and evil night! What is more scary than a sex offender high on a candy suger buzz? A sheriff and his scammers with too much time on thier hands. Who is not out looking for drunk drivers that could run over a child! Or someone who might shoot people. No the eazy job is to call sex offenders to the so called meeting and talk. Now the only people who can feel safe in that town or city is the sex offenders! Cause we all know where those people will be. Not on the streets keeping the kids safe!!!! But sitting on their fat a$$ watching people like a babysitter and getting pay by taxpayers. Man you people are really really dumb. People in the USA have made your kids out to be sex toys! And you dont even see it! The cops use your kids to make money!!! Wake up!
😃😃Oh! Oh! ✈️ Can I fly to Georgia, visit this County, enjoy the Halloween amenities they’re hosting, offer a free presentation (slightly different from what the other presenters are likely providing), and hand out ACSOL information!? ✈️😃 Oh, oh, I wanna go!!! ✈️😃
Of course, the GA-ACLU will let this stuff pass
To my knowledge, in my state of California, there has never been a single incident of a child being accosted by a person on the registry while trick-or-treating, yet every Halloween, without exception, people, including children, are killed on the roads by drunk drivers. I bet this sheriff is having a few on Halloween himself.
“The goal of this event is to closely monitor sex offenders in a controlled environment while children are celebrating this festive occasion.”
Now just think how dangerous the area would be if the sheriff’s department did not do this in the name of public safety. So I guess this event is to instill in the minds of the public that the sheriff’s department is in fact doing their job! Thinking maybe using their time and resources better would be to monitor the traffic where the kiddies are trick or treating to prevent a child from being hit by a car. Yes, but that does not sell click thrus as much I guess then.
The article does not state if all offenders must appear there or just ones on supervision. And how nice you are forced to sit and listen to people (*Experts*) lecture you as to how dangerous you are to the public. Gee I wonder if they do that for ones charged with DUIs and drug dealers – nope, probably not!
Hello all,
As I was sitting here reading this insanity and exploring the comments, a thought came to mind.
This “event” strikes me as a perfect opportunity for anyone who is forced into involuntary DETENTION to do two things:
One: file for next year a class action lawsuit through the federal courts in what I would say may be an ex-post facto allegation. Involuntary detention.
Two: Anyone forced to go to this charade should be allowed to hand out NARSOL and ASCOL literature to all the lecturers and participants. If denied, then file a 1st Amendment claim along with part one class action.
Make these LEA spend money defending a winning suit(s). Oh, and another thought. I am sure as rain that each RSO and others that upon entry and “check-in” will have a NCIC Warrant Search done on them. Address verification and other types of stuff. Strikes me as a perfect way for these lazy Arse LEA to get a few of us and have a press conference indicating how many RSO’s were “arrested” for civil violations like FTA’s and traffic warrants, etc. But the lead will be *ex Offender(s) Arrested For XXYY” and then this department wil apply for grant money for the next year for new cars, vests, non-lethal, and maybe an MRAP or two.
Cheers
Apparently they didn’t get the memo. The ATSA has issued a position statement on this type of LE action, which is probably why they are not represented at the shut-in.
Concerned citizens of GA should write the county and voice their complaints. I wrote my state LE office to complain about a similar round up in our county. Here’s an edited copy of the letter for those who want to use it as a template:
As a registrant and person who was formerly subject to probation restrictions under your department, I would like to submit a complaint about the current practices of the [county] Probation office. [The department’s] policy requiring all persons to be rounded up for the evening at a designated location is offensive and humiliating, neither of which promote the goal of assisting former offenders with making better life choices.
All of this likely would fall on deaf ears if it were not for the fact that the association for the treatment of sex abusers has come out publicly against these types of Halloween operations, which neither advance public safety nor assist in community reintegration. Their position statement can be found here:
https://blog.atsa.com/2019/10/halloween-and-sexual-abuse-prevention.html
The continued focus on sex offender containment and management practices on Halloween only wastes law enforcement resources that can be better utilized advancing real public safety concerns. Hopefully this letter will help inform the discourse going forward on this matter.
Sincerely,
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