Pearl -clutching OpEd by Zach Husted of Victoria, MN claims kids are pissing themselves over Registrant placement

If you want to see the dumbest example of Chicken Little writing, read the last paragraph. If I had to take a guess, he ate every oyster he could find until he got enough pearls to make a necklace so that he may clutch them. 

https://www.swnewsmedia.com/chanhassen_villager/news/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter-work-toward-a-better-minnesota/article_bd0aacdd-4259-5def-b449-edceb26aa7ee.html

Letter: Work toward a better Minnesota

Mark Olson Jul 22, 2021 

Editor’s note: The author submitted the following letter on behalf of Wassermann neighbors in response to: “Victoria neighborhood protests level 3 sex offender.”

Minnesota uses a determinate sentencing model, whereby a level 3 child predator is serving his last one-third of his sentence among 700-plus children within a 1.5-mile radius of his residence.

The DOC informed our community they have a “density of victim” factor when reviewing placements, and determined on July 2 that this factor will remain arbitrary. In other words, the DOC does not have any legal responsibility to review the location of a level 3 child predator when it comes to the density of children living near his residence.

This community was given two business days of notice, that a level three child predator, who has a history of “sexualiz[ing] 90% of minor females” and “after three years of treatment is scoring at high risk to reoffend” (according to public court record, county attorney’s summation letter) will be living among their children.

Moreover, the Department of Corrections is minimizing the fact that he was leveled just prior to release — as the highest risk of reoffending — when it states, “… we have an extremely successful record working with this type of clientele.”

Our community appreciates the difficult position the DOC is in when it comes to lack of funding and limited resources for placing level 3 child predators, yet the DOC seems to be villainizing a community when claiming people are not giving him “the opportunity to succeed.” Our community wants nothing more than for the DOC’s “clientele” to be rehabilitated, and that is just the point. Approve a placement that will foster his rehabilitation.

How can the DOC find it ‘acceptable’ to approve a level 3 child predator’s residence surrounded by a high density of children resembling his previous victims, and when the sentencing judge states in a previous publication “The bottom line is this, [y]ou are not allowed to have contact with children period.”

Last week’s article includes a statement to our community, wanting the level 3 child predator to have an “unobstructed opportunity to succeed or fail on his own.”

How can failure be observed and reported without 1:1 supervision of potential non-contact sexual probation violations, or when the residence is allowed to record our children playing in their own backyards? Or, does failure come at the expense of another innocent child? There is no “fail on his own” with those horrifying circumstances, and failure is perpetuated in the lives of his victims indefinitely.

Lastly, our community is aware that only more level 3 child predators will be released this year, the next, and the following. It is our commitment to work with legislators such as Rep. Jim Nash, Rep. Greg Boe, and Sen. Julia Coleman to provide a framework for the DOC when placing level 3 child predators in the future.

As we watch our neighborhood children have night terrors, pee themselves in their own home, start antidepressants, see therapists, are unable to have use, enjoyment, tranquility in their own backyards, we will continue to work towards a better Minnesota that can find a more acceptable process than tormenting our children.

Zach Husted

Victoria

Removing the veil of stupidity from the Mount Pleasant PD with Detective Kenny Clark

The last thing we need is fearmongering in the media, but local level police agencies are frequently cited as authoritites on crime statistics even when most beat cops and detectives need little more than a high school diploma to be employed. Thus, local police are prone to say the dumbest thinfs, like Kenny Clark of the Mount Pleasant PD in SC. 

There's more to the article that is bad, especially ICAC using junk science like polygraphs to intimidate suspects, but this quote is especially noteworthy for 

https://www.postandcourier.com/moultrie-news/news/removing-the-veil-of-secrecy-from-sexual-crimes-against-children/article_0059c3f8-3c9d-11eb-893e-a7376a7bfc31.html

“Anywhere a child is, there’s a predator. If there’s a child (internet) platform where children are known to be, then you can bet someone is hunting them,” said Detective Kenny Clark of the Mount Pleasant Police Department.

“None of us want to think our neighbor would do anything to harm our kids or anything like that, but in all actuality it happens,” Clark said. “If we put something in the media, of an arrest this week, next week nobody’s thinking about it until the next one.”

It is 2020 and Paula Stitz, ex-cop fired for corruption, still runs the Arkansas Sex Offense Registry

"Once upon a time there was a Police Chief in the tiny backwater village of Eureka Springs named PaulaStitz(kin). Paulastitzkin was fired from her police chief job and she sued to get her job back, claiming of all things, "sexual discrimination." PaulaStitzKin failed in her lawsuit. What kind of job could a disgraced crooked cop do? That is when the kingdom of Arkansas offered PaulaStitzKin a new job working on the state sex offender registry. After all, the kingdom could care less about their peasants and figured a crooked cop made a perfect fit."

I told this fairy tale way back in 2012, and yet here we are in 2020 and Paula Stitz, disgraced corrupt ex-cop, STILL has a job. I guess Arkansas just has no standards whatsoever. 

https://katv.com/news/local/homeless-sex-offenders-sometimes-hard-to-manage-in-arkansas

Paula Stitz has been the sex offender registry manager at the Arkansas Crime Information Center for 20 years.

“There are groups of people that say that sex offenders don’t re-offend any more than any other group I disagree,” Stitz said. She said the biggest issues facing law enforcement right now are homeless sex offenders or those who are truck drivers and cross state lines.

“A sex offender person who declares himself homeless is a very difficult person to manage,” Stitz said.

There are over 300 local law enforcement agencies and 75 county sheriff's department in Arkansas. Stitz said she talks with dozens of them a day.

“When I’m talking to law enforcement there are more that declare they are homeless when they really are not because they don’t want you to know where they are living,” Stitz said. “They will come out from prison or come from another state and say ‘I don’t have any place to live I’m sleeping on this particular bench,’ when they’re actually living with mama and mama doesn’t want that community notification done in her neighborhood so he’s not going to tell anyone that he’s living there.”

Stitz said there are over 17,000 sex offenders on the registry. About 10,000 actually live among us in Arkansas. Records show that 166 sex offenders have declared they are homeless and 115 of them live in Arkansas. Out of those 115, 29 of them are not in compliance.

https://www.lovelycitizen.com/story/1206194.html

Stitz case against city dismissed

Thursday, January 17, 2002

By Bill King

The federal sexual discrimination lawsuit against the city of Eureka Springs, first filed more than five years ago by former police chief Paula Stitz, is over. Paul Bogas, administrative law judge for the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC), ruled in favor of the city and dismissed all complaints in a 20-page decision dated Jan. 4, and received by city officials Monday.

Stitz's suit alleged she was terminated Aug. 13, 1996, after eight years as police chief, because of her gender. It further claimed that after the firing, when she first filed a gender-bias suit, the city retaliated by not sending her an employment application for the police chief job; reopening an unsolved homicide investigation; and opening an investigation into missing parking meter money that occurred under her administration.

At the time she was fired, Stitz was the only female city department head. She was fired by a woman, former Mayor Barbara O'Harris, who became her boss when she took office in January, '96.

"I'm very pleased," O'Harris told the Citizen after hearing of the ruling. "They [the court] saw it wasn't sexual discrimination."

O'Harris testified Stitz was fired because of poor job performance, low morale and lax discipline in the police department, and fallout from the department's handling of the 1994 Blues Fest "riot." She made the decision to terminate on her own after discussing Stitz's job deficiencies with her on several occasions, the former mayor testified.

Stitz pointed to her employment file where she had been evaluated as "exceptional" and "outstanding" just a month before her termination by O'Harris's administrative assistant, Don Young. Young had only been on the job two months at the time of the favorable review.

Stitz's attorney, Steven Wood of Rogers, contended "all roads in this case lead back to Don Young - the sexist administrative assistant who could not abide to work for a city which had a female chief of police, and who quickly became the power behind O'Harris' throne."

The judge acknowledged that Young, whom O'Harris fired in 1997, may have been a sexist, but he didn't believe O'Harris' decision was influenced by Young. "By all accounts, Young proved to be a poor selection for the position," the judge wrote. "He had a confrontational, opinionated, impatient style that others found off-putting... he was known to make inappropriate remarks." Several instances of such remarks were referenced.

O'Harris, however, was her own woman and fired Stitz in spite of Young's glowing review, the judge found. "I found O'Harris a credible witness... During questioning she conveyed a forceful, confident, even willful personality that was inconsistent with the portrait the Complainant attempted to paint of a weak female mayor controlled by her male administrative assistant. This was no shrinking violet who did not know her own mind."

"They tried to portray me as a wimp," O'Harris told the Citizen. "I couldn't have survived four years in that office as a wimp."

According to the judge, the only evidence presented which would rebut O'Harris' testimony that Young wasn't involved in the firing was given by former police secretary Anna Epperly, who testified she heard O'Harris tell an officer, the late Bobby Weber, and an unidentified person at Holiday Island, that Young could not work with Stitz and she was forced to choose between the two. The judge listed several reasons for finding Epperly's testimony uncredible and biased.

The judge also dismissed the retaliation charges Stitz alleged. While acknowledging the advertisement for applications for police chief was vague and confusing, he noted that five other applicants who responded as Stitz had were treated exactly the same. Further, he wrote, "The notion that the mayor would have considered the Complainant to succeed herself as chief, had she not filed a complaint of discrimination, borders on fanciful."

He also wrote there was nothing unusual or retaliatory in calling in the state police on an unsolved homicide or conducting an investigation into missing meter money.

While dismissing the charges, the judge did find fault with Stitz being fired without explanation. O'Harris had testified she gave no reason on the "advice of counsel. I had given warnings and didn't feel I owed her anything more."

Bogas acknowledged the mayor was under no legal obligation to state a reason, but "In my view, the Complainant was shabbily treated. Common courtesy would dictate that a 16-year veteran of the police department with eight years as chief was entitled to be formally presented with the reasons why discharge was being contemplated and [given] a chance to respond." He blamed the counsel's advice to withhold reason as being partly responsible for the protracted litigation. "However, shabby treatment is not necessarily discriminatory treatment."

Former Alderman Sheila Seratt, who was the lone council member to attempt to override O'Harris' decision and who testified for the former chief, agreed Stitz was treated shabbily, " My whole objection was the way it was done," she said, "and the way it continues to be done today."

"Personally, I think Paula is a wonderful person," O'Harris said Monday, "I just didn't think she was doing her job. We tried to be as fair as we could and help her. We gave her two or three months severance and vacation pay - we didn't have to do that.

"It's wonderful that righteousness came through. I'm glad the city won't have to pay a lot of money." No monetary damages were stated in the suit.

Stitz now works for the Arkansas Crime Information Center in Little Rock. She said she just learned of the decision and had not had time to absorb it or talk with her attorney about possible recourse.

Stitz speculated two factors lead to her dismissal: that she arrested O'Harris' son on an alcohol related charge, and "the fact that Don Young hated women in any shape or form." She said last week's firing of the fire chief without explanation shows that people will continue to lose their jobs without cause as long as Arkansas remains an "at will employer" state.

"It's like anti-climactic now," said the former police chief. "I always say the best revenge is living well, and I'm doing that."

Just in time for October: FloriDUH Rep. Alcee Hastings claims sex dolls violate children's privacy rights

It is October, so it is time to start with the scary movies. I'm sure Alcee Hastings could write a script that'd make Freddy Krueger do a double take.  

I would like to hear an explanation as to how an inanimate object violates the privacy rights of children. I think this FloriDUH rep has seen one too many "Child's Play" or maybe "Puppet Master" movies. I guess Annabelle and those clown dolls from the Saw franchise can rest easy, too, huh?

This comment is so dumb, even the idiots posting in the Faux News comment section is scratching their heads. 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/epstein-victims-group-endorse-florida-legislation-to-ban-lifelike-sex-dolls-used-by-child

Experts say pedophiles use the lifelike dolls to "normalize" sex acts against children and prey on minors.

"These dolls not only violate children mentally and emotionally but also deny their privacy rights. We cannot permit these products to make their way into Americans’ homes, potentially enabling a first step to even more heinous crimes against our children,” co-chair of the Florida congressional delegation, Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fort Lauderdale, said in a statement.

Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter spouts multiple lies about registrants after 10th Circuit's bad decision

The 10th Circuit made a bad ruling in last week's ruling in Millard v. Rankin (10th Cir. 2020), and this idiotic comment from Mike Hunter just makes the ruling's bias against Registered Persons that much more obvious. Oklahoma is also a very bad state for Registered Persons, and with folks like Mike Hunter in office, it is easy to see why. 

https://lawweekcolorado.com/2020/09/10th-circuit-colorados-sex-offender-registry-is-not-punishment/

Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter called the decision “a major victory for public safety advocates.” Hunter led the amicus brief joined by the attorneys general from the other 10th Circuit states.

“Sex offenders are violent, and are statistically speaking, some of the most likely to reoffend. Online sex offender registries allow the public to know who among them is a child predator or has been convicted of rape,” Hunter said in a news release. “To hide this information in order to make individuals convicted of these crimes feel more comfortable is utterly irresponsible.”

The full statement from the Press Release is even nuttier:

http://www.oag.ok.gov/attorney-general-hunter-comments-on-10th-circuit-ruling-colorado-sex-offender-registry-must-remain-available-to-public

“Today’s ruling is a major victory for public safety advocates,” Attorney General Hunter said. “Sex offenders are violent, and are statistically speaking, some of the most likely to reoffend. Online sex offender registries allow the public to know who among them is a child predator or has been convicted of rape. To hide this information in order to make individuals convicted of these crimes feel more comfortable is utterly irresponsible. Anyone advocating for this position should talk to victims and survivors of these types of crimes, who will forever remain scarred by these horrific acts, to find out why the registry systems are important.

“My 10th Circuit colleagues and I applaud the court’s decision that will arm citizens with this important public safety tool.”

“The Colorado General Assembly did not intend for CSORA to inflict a “punishment.” The legislature expressly indicated through the statutory text that CSORA was not intended to “be used to inflict retribution or additional punishment on any person,” but was rather intended to address “the public’s need to adequately protect themselves and their children” from those with prior sexual convictions,” the judges wrote.

Utah US Attorney John Huber uses Predator Panic as argument against defunding the police

"Who will protect the childrenz" if you don't fund these jackboots? 

If anything, Huber the Goober (and the others in this article) is making a good argument for defunding the registry. 

https://www.abc4.com/news/law-enforcement-speaks-out-about-defunding-the-police/

Who will protect our children?’: Top law enforcement officials react to calls to ‘defund the police’

by: Brittany Johnson

Posted: Aug 20, 2020 / 10:58 PM MDT / Updated: Aug 21, 2020 / 08:11 AM MDT

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4 News) – For weeks now, we’ve heard cries to ‘defund the police’ and reallocate money. Protesters have called for a new era of policing.

ABC4 News spoke with high-ranking members of law enforcement to get their thoughts on the demands.

“This extensive, expensive operation brings into focus how ludicrous the demands and chants of the activists are,” U.S. Attorney John Huber said. “This type of operation shows how ridiculous the demands are to defund the police — to defund law enforcement. Who will protect our children in such a bizarre counter universe?”

The U.S. attorney was referring to “Operation Reboot” in which law enforcement from across the state, cracked down on sex offenders who were “not abiding by sex offense registry laws,” and “trying to evade law enforcement.”

Law enforcement said if police departments were defunded, these perpetrators could be left wandering the streets and pose a risk to the community.

“If we were defunded I don’t know who would be doing these checks or who would be registering the local registrants,” Detective Tammy Thacker, with the Heber City Police Department, told ABC4’s, Brittany Johnson.

Heber City Police Department was one of 11 agencies to participate in “Operation Reboot.” Thacker said her police department is like many others, in that they do not have ample funding to perform sex offender crackdowns on a regular basis.

The operation was made possible with funding from the U.S. Marshals.

“Nights, weekends, overtime, long hours. “Those things are often cut when you talk about police budgets being cut right now. And that’s what this type of operation requires; nights, weekends door to door,” explained Matt Harris, U.S. Marshal for the District of Utah.

Taking away money from child sex crimes, which is an area of already tight for cash, is something that doesn’t bode well with U.S. Attorney John Huber.

“This operation is a classic example of why that argument to defund the police is outrageous,” Huber said.

“We try not to get involved in the political cells that are going on in the winds. We just try to stay focused on what we need to do when it comes to keeping our citizens safe,” said Thacker.

“Despite the noise that’s going on in our communities, cops are the good guys, and this is the type of work that good guys do,” Harris said.

The "Reverend" Ashley Easter apparently traded one cult for another

Rev. Ashley Easter sporting the Feminist cult's official hairdo. 

After reading the story this so-called "Reverend", I'm convinced Ashley Easter simply traded one cult for another. She says "And, while homeschooling can be a good choice for some students in my experience it was a tool used to socially isolate me from much of the outside world and to indoctrinate me with authoritarian, patriarchal ideals." But then she met a Feminist man who "rescued" her and her marriage to this emasculated man "physically removed me from the cult" and now she's a Feminist preacher.

Among other things, she is among those who believe everyone forced to register should be banned from attending church services, which makes her Shiitake-worthy. I've seen better representations of Christianity for The Jerry Springer Show's Reverend Schnorr than from this false prophet.

https://www.theoaklandpress.com/lifestyles/southern-baptist-presidents-church-abuse-policies-under-fire/article_d1b97d26-a689-11ea-a826-6f72c145db49.html

Summers and the Rev. Ashley Easter, a spokeswoman for the group of abuse survivor advocates, also criticized a policy within the SBC's Caring Well resources. That document, they say, is based on a document from Greear's church.

 The document outlines how registered sex offenders can be incorporated into worship services if they are monitored by "shepherding individuals" and kept away from children and any person or family member of a person they have harmed.

"Abusers should NOT be allowed on church property during services and certainly not in serving/leadership positions," Easter said.

Brad Hambrick, Summit Church's pastor of counseling, confirmed that Summit has a policy for registered sex offenders.

"Yes, our policy is still to require perpetual supervision and full awareness by the campus security team, elders, and children/student ministry leaders for an individual under RSO status to attend a weekend service," he said. "All involvement or attendance in children or student ministry is prohibited, even if the RSO's children are involved. Any involvement in an adult discipleship setting (i.e., a small group) requires the full awareness of their offense and consent of the adults in that setting."

Abuse advocates held a virtual rally on Tuesday. That same day, denominational leaders held an online " SBC Advance " to update members of the denomination. The denomination's annual meeting was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Rally organizers say they are continuing their call for an official Southern Baptist database of clergy who are convicted or credibly accused sex offenders, as well as more training, a request they say has been "partially fulfilled by the Caring Well curriculum."

Looks like the Orange County, Cali. DA's office hasn't improved much without Tony Rackauckas

I was hoping the Orange County DA's office would be better off without crooked Tony Rackauckas (Rawcarcass), but it seems his replacement is just as ignorant.

https://www.fox7austin.com/news/sex-offender-arrested-days-after-being-released-from-jail-over-coronavirus-fears

“They are giving a get out of jail free card," said an outraged Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer. He’s angry over the recent court-ordered release of these seven inmates he calls “high risk” sex offenders.

They were let go on April 7 citing concerns over COVID-19.

“We do not want these people out on the streets because we all know registered sex offenders have the highest propensity to commit additional offenses,” Spitzer said.

https://www.ocregister.com/2020/05/11/six-sex-offenders-whose-early-release-was-criticized-by-orange-county-da-are-arrested-again/

Spitzer in earlier interviews on local and national news outlets and a statement to the public sharply criticized the decision by a court commissioner to release seven “high-risk” sex offenders for time served. The DA’s office now says that six of those seven offenders have already been re-arrested.

The district attorney has alleged that the release of the sex offenders was part of a larger effort by court officials to do “everything in their power to” reduce the jail population. Public Defender Sharon Petrosino countered by accusing Spitzer of “fear-mongering” and distorting the facts of the cases to scare the public.

According to the DA’s office, most of the six accused of violating parole after their release either failed to adhere to their supervision or rendered their GPS units inoperable. As of Monday they remained behind bars, local jail records show.

“It comes as no surprise that these high-risk sex offenders continue to violate the law and do everything they can to avoid being tracked by law enforcement,” Spitzer said in a statement. “There is a concerted effort here in California and across the nation to open up the jailhouse doors and let dangerous criminals back into our streets without regard for the safety of the public which we are sworn to protect.”

The public defenders office has noted that the more recent recent offenses by the individuals spotlighted by Spitzer were not sex crimes, but instead crimes such as drug possession or making criminal threats. The public defenders office also noted that many parolees charge their GPS devices at county facilities that are now closed.

Todd Spitzer seen here showing how big a lie he just told

If "Wild Bill" Stanton is trying to teach us protecting us from about "pedophiles," he's failing his students

I don't usually care about celebrity gossip and trash TV but celebrity Nicki Minaj is married to a registered person whose offense was 25 years ago. So some trash TV talk show host Wendy Williams decided to do a show bashing Minaj's husband and registrants ion general. While that may be Shiitake-worthy in itself, it was her guest, "Wild Bill" Stanton, a celebrity safety huckster peddling a book. that is truly worthy of a Shiitake Award nod.

On the show (starting at 3:59 on the Youtube clip), Stanton says,

"Every parent or someone who has a child in their life needs to get on their phone... and get a PEDOPHILE APP and ... highlight where everyone is in your neighborhood... We go through life living in a bubble... I'm going to take that bubble and turn it into a forcefield."

Ironically, he advises people to "educate themselves" but if this asshat is the teacher, the students are doomed to fail.

His email to me was equally stupid:

wildbillstanton <wildbillstanton@gmail.com>
To: Derek Logue <iamthefallen1@yahoo.com>
Derek

I've read your email looked at the site and actually took a look a  few of your video's. I had no idea "sex offenders" could be so offended?
That wasn't my intention as much as addressing the issue of pedophiles and how parents, relatives and friends of children should best be aware and how to address the issues of one's child being potentially groomed by the aforementioned sex offender who's actually a pedophile.
I appreciate your perspective hope you now understand mine.
Thanks for reaching out.

Unprepared and Scared seems to be a better title is his Wendy Williams Show appearance
 is any indication of his book's advice

Daryl Chansuthus of WRAP seems okay with "extreme measures"

We have already nominated the controversial Tennessee Castration bill; this nomination is for the quote by Daryl Chansuthus, who runs a victim advocacy group. While she also stated some skepticism over the castration proposal, she also seems to support it while hinting that feminist perspectives should be included in the discussion.

https://www.wbbjtv.com/2020/02/11/chemical-castration-bill-proposed-in-tenn-house-of-representatives/

Chemical Castration bill proposed in Tenn. House of Representatives
February 11, 2020  Teri Jelks

“Extreme actions sometimes require extreme measures,” Wo/Men’s Resource and Rape Assistance Program executive director Daryl Chansuthus said... "Any punitive approach needs to also have an approach that looks at our culture."

Dumb quote from airheaded blonde FloriDUH State Senator but not from the airhead we're thinking of

Sometimes it is easy to forget that Lauren Book is not the only dumb blond on the FloriDUH Senate. FloriDUH State Senator Linda Stewart is proof older doesn't mean wiser.

https://www.wftv.com/news/local/seminole-county/man-accused-exposing-himself-girl-winter-springs-facing-charges/CZTDQYSD7NAHBOI7RAGDOBBXCQ/


Exerpt from: Man accused of exposing himself to girl in Winter Springs facing charges
Jeff Levkulich and Adam Poulisse
Updated: January 7, 2020

...Sen. Linda Stewart plans to introduce two bills to make lewd acts against children a felony.

One of the bills, if passed, would make committing lewd and lascivious behavior a third-degree felony, with penalties of up to five years in prison and thousands of dollars in fined.

The other bill would close a loophole regarding lewd and lascivious behavior that 9 Investigates first brought to Stewart’s attention last year.

“It’s a no-brainer, the State’s Attorney’s Office and the Sheriff’s Office and the city officers all are in favor of that because we are very limited to what we can and cannot do with this behavior," Stewart said.

She said “The problem that we have with the offenders is that they are going to offend again.

“We already know they need medical help. They need mental help and they are not going to get it if it’s a revolving door,” she said.