Court rules on yard signs in Butts County
“We are thankful and gratified that the 11th circuit saw the case in the same way that we did,” said Mark Yurachek, the attorney representing the three plaintiffs who sued the sheriff’s office in 2019.
“Our clients are members of a particularly vulnerable group of people politically because frankly, no one really cares what happens to them,” Yurachek said.
Parents already have access to the registry. Posting signs in front of people’s houses on a day historically known to be a day of teen-age pranks and a day adults over indulge with alcohol is irresponsible! What would prevent teen-agers from moving the sign as a joke to one of their classmate’s houses who ends up murdered by a vigilante!
Oh, come on! You can’t expect responsible, educated parents who say they supervise their children to actual supervise their children while they are trick-or-treating OR to just look at a map on a website themselves! It is much better to just let the children run around by themselves without supervision and hope that they will look for signs telling them what to do.
Because obviously the signs are not for parents, right? They are for children to read. Why would a sign be needed if a parent is right there actually supervising?
I certainly don’t expect parents who were once kids themselves to look back and remember the time BEFORE any registry and try to come up with any incidents that they feel, 25 yrs later, require signs or over protection on Halloween.
The “parents” of today were the kids of the 80’s/90’s. Tail end Gen X and the start of the Milennials.
Funny how no one back then was worried about ANY type of crime a resident may have had on their record. All we wanted was CANDY!!
Well said. Back when I was a kid, the biggest concern was whether or not my candy had been tampered with, i.e. needles stuck in candy bars, poison, etc. As time went on we soon realized how unfounded those fears were, so the greatest danger became drivers who were not paying attention to the kids running across the street, and I remember several incidents over the years of kids getting hit by cars. The term “sex offender” had not yet been invented so no one was concerned about that. We were ALWAYS accompanied by a parent and were not allowed to approach a house without our parents right there with us. For people to to think that registrants are lurking inside their homes waiting to snatch up a kid is not only unfounded, its just plain idiotic thinking, especially in these times when many citizens are carrying guns. I’m sure no parent is going to allow their preteen kid to go out alone, so this nonsense needs to stop and more focus be placed on the real dangers which are idiot drivers and kids getting sick from eating way too much candy.
My siblings, our friends and I as kids walked the streets in our small neighborhood for Halloween candy while our parents stayed home handing out candy. The same was true for many other kids in the neighborhood.
Most of the people in the neighborhood knew each other. Only two houses did not give out candy.
No traffic because only two ways into the neighborhood and both were from the same direction so the neighborhood was a street dead end neighborhood. Only two houses had sidewalks.
There were no safety issues in my neighborhood. Even when not Halloween, most of us kids in the neighborhood played outside and in the streets unsupervised until well after dark.
If my parents were aware of a “sex offender” raping kids, I can promise my mother would have made us stay home vs out obtaining candy.
These LEs need to get a life and instead look for drunk drivers on Halloween.
That’s just it disgusted in Michigan, there’s most likely more incidents involving tampered treats, than any offending over the lifespan of the registry.
My great grandparents, grandparents, and parents didn’t have a registry with red dots. Kids were fine and safe because parents were responsible. When I was kid in the 80’s my friends and I were with two parents holding flashlights. Worst thing were the plastic mask with the cheap string on the back. If parents need government to help them to be responsible they are lost and not the brightest.
That’s exactly right. Parents who think they need the Hit Lists do not understand how to protect children and they nearly certainly are not. Responsible parents don’t have any need for the Hit Lists. Irresponsible ones will never be helped by it.
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I heard there’s a rubber ducky not for kids to play with, but for parents to use making sure the water isn’t hot or cold. Have they never heard of parental instincts and use their hands? All they are doing is harming their children from being overly cautious. People learn from their mistakes, but not if your cuddled for 18-23 years because your parents can’t remember their own upbringing and mimic their experiences.
That’s a VERY good point.
If the sheriff wants to cause registrants and their families more harm than hell be seeing more lawsuits. Is he a Constitutional sheriff? Sounds like a egotistical person with a gun and badge.
I doubt that this defeat will deter this sheriff. I can imagine that he might force registrants to appear at a “seminar ” on Halloween at the local armory. Or maybe he’ll have fliers mailed, or print the addresses of registrants in the paper. We won this battle, but the war isn’t over yet.
Or…maybe he could man up and go on TV to tell everyone how there’s never been an issue on Halloween but his fear mongering worked on everyone. I mean…. police are HONEST people, right?
A neighborhood I lived in Volusia county was one of the Oasis areas that registered people could live. There was a Facebook group and my wife was in it. The “neighborhood watch” would print a map of houses that said they would hand out candy and marked houses that had registered people. So really don’t need sheriff’s doing it. There information is public so the public can. Doesn’t make what they do right but they aren’t breaking any laws I’m aware of.
The Sheriff Should Be Policing Real Crime…Thus Far This Year, 18 LEO’s Have Been Killed By Illegal Gun Fire
Gun Violence Should Be His Number One Priority….He Should Not BE Wasting Taxpayer Dollars at the Office Max Etc Printing Toilet Papers!
Once Again, Fleecing The American Tax Payer….These Bureaucrats Have A LICENSE TO SPEND TAXPAYER MONIES AT THEIR OWN WHIMS!
Meanwhile,
Florida senator extorted over nude photos is taking legislative action to protect others
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-senator-extorted-nude-photos-protect-others
This story about Ms. Book may need its own thread. When the story first broke, Ms. Book said that the photos were indeed her breasts. There wasn’t anything that I can find now that says when the photos were taken before today. The source material says that these photos are twenty-two years old. Which means that if the Senator is now 37, she was fifteen years old when she shared these photos with her close friend. Something is rotten in Denmark