Marion Co IN Sheriff Kerry Forestal is up for reelection so guess what he is doing?

The IN registry clearly states: "Information in this registry may not be used to harass or threaten offenders or their families. Harassment, stalking, or threats may violate Indiana law."

Kerry ForestGUMP is clearly admitting to breaking the law. Trying to modernize sundown towns is not a good look for ForestGUMP except if his down is to win the Shiitake Awards TWO years in a row. 

https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/crime/there-are-1-800-sex-offenders-living-in-marion-county-more-than-half-of-them-arent-from-here

'We don't want you here': Sheriff says over 1,800 sex offenders live in Marion Co., 52% aren't from here

As part of the office's efforts to drive down the number of sex offenders in the community, the sheriff's office conducted a sweep Wednesday morning near Brookside Park.

By: Lucas Gonzalez , Katie CoxPosted at 4:15 PM, Aug 24, 2022 and last updated 10:10 PM, Aug 24, 2022

INDIANAPOLIS — There are more than 1,800 sexual or violent offenders living in Marion County, more than half of which were convicted and sentenced from out-of-area, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office.

As part of the office's efforts to drive down the number of sex offenders in the community, the sheriff's office conducted a sweep Wednesday morning near Brookside Park.

The Sheriff's Office says 34 registered sex offenders live within a half mile of there.

"That is a ridiculous number to be in that neighborhood," said Sheriff Kerry Forestal.

Two suspected sex offenders were arrested during the sweep which took place in the neighborhood on the city's Near Eastside.

"The sweep was necessitated by the fact that thirty-four sexual or violent offenders reside within a half-mile radius of Brookside Park, sixteen of whom were convicted outside of Marion County," the Sheriff's Office said in a news release provided after the sweep was completed.

Marion County Sheriff's Capt. Mitch Gore told WRTV that the sweep was pre-planned and took several hours to complete. The sweep was given the name "Operation Watchful Eye."

The operation was conducted close to where a woman was fatally shot early Wednesday — but that investigation was handled by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and was unrelated to the sheriff's office's sweep.

More than 40 members of the sheriff's office, including its sexual and violent offender registry, K-9, warrant, intelligence and criminal investigations units; reserve division; and executive staff.

The two people arrested included one who was wanted on a warrant of juvenile rape and molestation charges and another who was arrested on suspicion of failing to register as a sex offender.

In addition to the arrests, the sheriff's office completed 34 compliance checks. Of those checks, 20 people were verified to be compliant with registration requirements and three are suspected to be non-compliant.

The sheriff's office also attempted to serve five warrants for sexual offenses.

There are currently 1,825 sexual or violent offenders living in Marion County, 52% of which were convicted and sentenced from another state or another county, according to the Sheriff's Office. That figure is up from 42% a year ago.

"We had two people here from Idaho. Why did somebody from Idaho decide to relocate and come here. Put our wives, daughters, grandchildren in danger," Forestal said.

"The MCSO has been successful in driving down the number of sex offenders in our community, but they are being backfilled by those sentenced from out-of-county. One of our goals remains to figure out why," the sheriff's office said in its release.

Sheriff Forestal said he believes part of the reason is because of the number of residents in Marion County.

"It's easier to hide here. If you live in Tipton they're going to know you. If you come and mix among 900,000 to one million people you may not," Forestal said.

He also says he believes there are too many programs conveniently located by the State government within Marion County saying they can use the bus lines.

"Hoosier hospitality is important, but not at the expense of the safety of Marion County residents,” Marion County Sheriff Kerry Forestal said in a written statement. “Operation Watchful Eye should serve as reminder to the public that they must be vigilant about who is in their neighborhood. But it should also serve as a warning to Marion County’s sex offender population: We are watching like a hawk and if you are not compliant, you will be found and arrested.”

Sheriff Forestal spoke candidly with WRTV about operation "Watchful Eye."

"I am not really there for their convince, they need to go back there and serve their county or their state," Forestal said.

When asked what Forestal would say to sex offenders he said, "We do not want you here."

The Sheriff says they will continue to follow up on this, adding they will be in Pike Township next week.

"If some of the people, especially the sex offenders, we will be up there. If you're not following the law go ahead and leave. We are giving you a weeks head start. Move out go back to wherever you came from. We should only be responsible for the people who committed crimes in Marion County."

Marion County residents can search for registered sex offenders living in their neighborhoods on the sheriff's office's website.

Santa Rosa Co FL Sheriff Bob Johnson promotes the worst kind of fearmongering after entrapment operation

 “If you have kids out there, under the age of 18, this should scare you to death,” Johnson said. It only goes downhill from here in the interview about his entrapment sting. 

https://www.wkrg.com/northwest-florida/santa-rosa-county/12-arrests-in-florida-child-sex-investigation/

“You should monitor what websites they go to and stay on them,” Johnson said. “They don’t have privacy in your home, they belong to you and if you don’t keep track of what they’re doing, this is what’s coming for them. Scumbags like this. This is all they do. They are looking for little girls and little boys to have sex with and they will travel to do it. You can incarcerate them forever, they can die, or you can cut off a certain appendage. That’s the only way it’s going to get fixed. These guys are predators, and they are coming for your children.”

Atlanta GA resident Ali Abdulrab is promoting Nazi-era State ID marks for Registered Persons

Anyone who tries passing a named law, especially when it attempts to place marks of infamy on Registered Persons, deserves a Shiitake Award in my book. Ali can take his Nazi marks and shove. 

https://www.wrdw.com/2022/06/21/mariams-law-georgia-loophole-frees-convicted-sex-offender-now-accused-murder/

Mariam’s Law: Georgia loophole frees convicted sex offender now accused of murder

By Rachel Polansky

Published: Jun. 20, 2022 at 10:59 AM CDT|Updated: Jun. 21, 2022 at 9:44 AM CDT

ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) - A brother whose sister was brutally murdered last summer is urging the state to take legislative action to better identify sex offenders, including closing a loophole he believes may have prevented his sister’s attack.

Mariam Abdulrab, 27, was kidnapped, shot and killed last August, prosecutors said, by a stranger who abducted her from her boyfriend’s driveway.

Police arrested DeMarcus Brinkley soon after. He has since been indicted on nine felony counts including murder, kidnapping and attempted rape; his final plea hearing is set for June 23 and a trial is scheduled for October.

Brinkley is a repeat offender in Georgia, with a lengthy rap sheet, including child molestation.

From judges in the court system to mental health counselors, Brinkley has encountered many state officials throughout his life. Had any of them handled his prior convictions differently, Ali Abdulrab believes his sister might still be alive today.

That’s why Ali, along with some family and friends, created Mariam Forever, an organization advocating for substantial change in legislation to protect the community from preventable violent crimes. The group also created a document with a number of initiatives, including one that would require sex offenders carry identification cards which disclose their sex offender status. They’re calling the document “Mariam’s Law” and they’re looking for a state legislator to sponsor it...

CBS46 investigates took these findings to Tracy Alvord, Executive Director of the Georgia Sex Offender Registration Review Board (SORRB), who blamed a backlog for offenders not getting leveled.

“SORRB does have a backlog, which is due to understaffing and difficult hiring/keeping experts in this field, which is due to lack of funds. This is one possible reason Brinkley was not classified prior to his release,” Alvord said in a statement. “We are so glad Ms. Abdulrab’s family and friends are speaking out. We all need to listen. We want them to know SORRB is listening.”

Unlike some states where sex offenders are leveled on the day of their sentencing, Georgia levels sex offenders when they are released from prison.

Mariam’s Law

The family’s proposed Mariam’s Law is comprised mainly of two policies.

Requiring sex offenders who have not received a risk level assessment to be fitted with an ankle monitor. Once they are assigned, Level 3 offenders would be required to wear the monitor for the duration of their sentence, while Level 1 and 2 sex offenders could have them removed.

Requiring sex offenders to carry an identification card with a specific symbol that is recognizable to law enforcement. A sex offender assigned Level 1 would have a red hexagon on the right side of their ID card. A sex offender assigned Level 2 would have two red hexagons on the right side of their ID card. And, a sexual offender assigned Level 3 would have three red hexagons on the right side of their ID card.

“There might be more DeMarcus Brinkley’s out there,” Ali said. “We don’t want this to happen to anybody else.”

Should it get sponsored, it’s likely Mariam’s Law will face some legal challenges. In 2019, the Georgia Supreme Court struck down a law requiring lifetime ankle monitoring of high-risk sex offenders.

Also, critics in other states call ID cards disclosing sex-offender status as modern-day scarlet letters. Nonetheless, CBS46 Investigates found at least eight states have such cards: Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Florida, West Virginia, Delaware, and Alabama.

The family has also received support from Keisha Waites, a former state legislator and now a Post-3-At-large Atlanta city councilor.

“I am very sensitive to an individual’s privacy,” Waites said. “I understand that. However, when it comes to a Level 3 and only a Level 3 sex offender, the dynamics are different. It’s about the greater public good. And in this particular case, had we had something like that in place, we could have tracked this individual, monitored him and perhaps saved her life.”

Waites is helping the family to get Mariam’s Law in front of the right people, and has sent the policy initiatives to her old colleagues in the General Assembly. “There is no cost that is too high to protect human life,” she said.

State Rep. Mesha Mainor, D-Atlanta, is a supporter.

“If you’re a Level 3 sexual assault criminal, people need to know that,” said Mainor, who does have concerns regarding identification cards.

“Everyone in the adult beverage store doesn’t need to know what your past is, but there are some people who need to know where you are,” Mainor said. “That’s why an ankle monitor is more important.”

Ali Abdulrab hopes Mariam’s legacy will go beyond murals and sketches, and into Georgia state law.

https://www.cbs46.com/2022/08/14/family-celebrates-life-mariam-abdulrab-push-continues-mariams-law/

Family celebrates life of Mariam Abdulrab as push continues for Mariam’s Law

By Jasmina Alston

Published: Aug. 13, 2022 at 10:18 PM CDT

ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) - Friends and family of Mariam Abdulrab, who was kidnapped and killed in Atlanta, gathered to celebrate her life on Saturday night.

It has been a year since the 27-year-old bartender was kidnapped near her home and later killed after returning from work.

The celebration of life event was a time to remember Abdulrab, but also to continue to push for a change in the law to help prevent what happened to her from happening to anyone else.

“Even though she’s not here with us, her overwhelming love is felt here, “ Ali Abdulrab, Mariam’s brother, said. “She still brings all these people here.”

The man charged with the crime, Demarcus Brinkley, is a repeat offender, including a child molestation conviction in 2015.

He was ordered to register as a sex offender after getting out of prison in 2020.

CBS46 found that he never received a risk level assessment due to backlog.

Abdulrab’s family is pushing for lawmakers to pass ‘Mariam’s Law’, which would require sex offenders who haven’t received a risk level assessment to wear an ankle monitor until they do.

It would also require sex offenders to carry an ID card with a specific symbol, recognizable to law enforcement.

Last month, Atlanta City Council approved a resolution urging state lawmakers to adopt ‘Mariam’s Law’.

“It can happen to anybody, so if this law goes through it will definitely prevent any situation that could happen, that happened to my sister,” Ali Abdulrab said.

Mike McDonnell, SNAP Communications Manager, says hearing the term "Minor Attracted Person" is a "slap in the face"

People like Mike McConnell is why I have no respect for professional victim advocates, but it seems many in the anti-registry movement believe she should kiss up to these people. 

SNAP has a history of exploitation it needs to address. Maybe Mikey didn't get the memo because he was apparently too busy getting "gut punched" and "face slapped" by words he does not like. 

It is obvious he thinks everyone who uses the term MAP is a child abuser. 

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/08/prison-sex-therapist-defends-pedophiles-as-minor-attracted-persons-outraging-victim-advocates.html

Advocates for victims of childhood sexual abuse are excoriating a licensed sex therapist with the Commonwealth who is advocating that pedophiles be referred to as “minor-attracted persons.”

Miranda Galbreath, a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections sex therapist and counselor, this week engendered pushback after posting a video on social media seeming to defend pedophiles and calling on them to be referred to as “minor-attracted persons.”

“She is helping to minimize the problem,” said Mike McDonnell, survivor of clergy sexual abuse and a leader of the state Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. “She’s helping to minimize the truth, the depth and the scope and gravity of the crime itself.”

In a YouTube video titled “Let’s talk about minor-attracted persons”, Galbreath said pedophiles were “probably the most vilified population of folks in our culture.”

“The term pedophile has moved from being a diagnostic label to being a judgmental, hurtful insult that we hurl at people in order to harm them or slander them,” Galbreath said. “I also like to use person-first language that recognizes that any label we apply to a person is only part of who they are and doesn’t represent everything that they are.”

PennLive reached out to the Department of Corrections for comment. Press Secretary Maria Bevins indicated she would respond to the inquiry, but had not done so by Friday afternoon.

McDonnell, who was abused by two priests when he was between the ages of 11 and 12 and who has for years advocated for victims of clergy sex abuse, pushed back on Galbreath’s suggestion.

“When I hear the term pedophilia I get a punch in the gut and I have to pay attention because I want to know more about that individual,” said, McDonnell, who testified in the investigation into clergy sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

“I want to know if the community is going to be safe where he or she is going to be allowed to return to after serving time. Minor attracted individual absolutely is a slap in the face to sexual abuse victims globally. We were victimized. We were targeted by predators who had groomed us and who had used us as their bait and as their play. That is the crime and it needs to remain named a crime.”

Galbreath claimed that “many minor-attracted persons never act on their attraction”. She pointed to incorrect assumptions about child sex offenders and referred to them as an “already marginalized population.”

Kristine Zonka of the Brevard Co FL Commission proves ill intent of law by expressing hatred of Registered Persons

The Brevard County Commission in FloriDUH have made their intentions clear with promoting a local ordinance. It is a law based upon pure hatred. 

But since we are in the subject of calling people what they really are, I think "Karen" would be a fitting name. Maybe Kunty. 

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2022/08/08/sex-offender-restrictions-reaffirmed-brevard-county-commission/10235575002/

“I think I have spoken pretty passionately on this item,” Commission Chair Kristine Zonka said. “I just wish people would stop calling themselves registered citizens and call themselves registered sex offenders or registered predators, which is really what they are. They are so proud to be here and demand rights.”

Ciearria Cookson and Carissa Kohne of Nashville TN wants to pass a law forcing RCs to show ID for medical services

Carissa Kohne is a law clerk at ForTheMilitary.com, a legal group that purports to help veterans sue hospitals for discrimination. 

Ciearria Cookson works at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. 

Wouldn't it be ironic if Ciearria's stupid proposal becomes law and the legal team at ForTheMilitary takes up the case to sue for discrimination?

(I must also note the case Ciearria pointed out was also dismissed/nolle prosequi)

https://wreg.com/news/mid-south/tennessee-nurses-push-for-new-law-to-add-protection-from-sex-offenders/

Tennessee nurses push for new law to add protection from sex offenders

by: Mye Owens

Posted: Aug 4, 2022 / 10:14 AM CDT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Nurses in Nashville are hoping to put a new bill on the books that would add another layer of protection against registered sex offenders.

“We face anything from any gross sexual comments, people have been threatened, and unfortunately, they have been trapped in a room where the patient has been a wall between the door and the nurse themselves, so it’s scary,” said nurse Ciearria. She asked News 2, not to reveal where she works but says sexual harassment has become a constant.

We asked her what she endures the most, Ciearria explained, “comments, sexual comments, and people who come in and they are able to do things for themselves […] and not anything basic, but regarding to any sexual parts and stuff like that.”

Now, she along with others are pushing for change on a state level. The hope is to have legislators take up a bill that would require sex offenders to present their offender identification card once inside the hospital.

“You would go register at the front desk, like any other patient, the only difference is that you would hand them your sexual offender identification card, and let them know,” explained Carissa Kohne, co-writer of the bill.

Kohne pointed to an incident back in 2020 where a registered sex offender was arrested after assaulting his nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The nurse told police she was later adjusting the 46-year-old’s pillow when he grabbed her breast. She said she told him to stop, but he did it again.

Carissa explained if the bill passes, it wouldn’t stall medical services being given to patients. Instead, she explained that at the time a patient would give their name either upon entering the hospital or once conscious, then they would disclose their sex offender card information.

“It would allow us to plan how we would do patient care, not that it would change the care itself any, but we would be able to maybe go in with another nurse, let the charge nurse know hey I’m going in this room, and let them know when we are leaving,” explained Ciearria.

“I think it’s terrible that we don’t already have something in place in order to help nurses, and in order to help physicians […] there have been so many stories about patients and providers getting assaulted by patients just because their sex offender status wasn’t revealed,” explained Kohne.

They hope to have the bill presented during the next legislative session.

Mark Glaeser of Gainesville FL wants to prevent Registered Persons from voting

For a guy who doesbn't want his face out there due to fear, Mark Glaeser was pretty easy to find. He's been getting his jollies trying to get Registered Persons arrested for a while now. 

It appears to me he does have some animus towards Registered Persons. 

FloriDUH had changed vioting laws but there has been a lot of confusion regarding who can vote and who cannot. Maybe the solution is to just allow everyone to vote and be done with it. 

https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/2022/03/30/4-alachua-county-inmates-charged-voter-fraud-investigation/7215975001/

Mark Glaeser, who has a history of filing complaints against government officials, identified the group of voters and notified prosecutors last year. He says he has identified nearly 2,000 sex offenders in Florida who illegally registered to vote in the 2020 election, roughly 25% of whom voted.

https://www.dailycommercial.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/03/31/voter-fraud-investigation-underway-lake-sumter-counties/7194052001/

This investigation comes after Gainesville-based database researcher Mark Glaeser cross-checked Florida voter lists against the FDLE's public Florida Sexual Offenders database. Through his research, he found that six registered sex offenders in Lake County and three in Sumter County cast ballots. 

Their votes would not have changed the outcome in any race and, so far, no charges have been filed...

Glaeser first looked into Alachua County, then expanded his search across the state of Florida, including in Lake and Sumter.

He said that locating the names of these ineligible voters is not a difficult process and something that the state should already be doing.

“This is what I call low hanging fruit. Easily detected, undetected by the state or the supervisors," Glaeser said. “They’ve really dropped the ball.” ...

So far Glaeser has researched 11 counties and filed complaints on 75 sex offenders. The highest percentage he's seen so far has been in Gadsden County. Of the 23,000 people who cast ballots in 2020, 23 of them were sex offenders. 

"So they had 0.1% of their total voting populous was illegal votes from sex offenders and sexual predators," he said.

https://www.wesh.com/article/sex-offenders-illegal-voting-seminole/40711774

Yes, I'm very angry about it,” Glaeser said.

Glaeser is a data researcher who is not only angry about illegal voting, but he’s also afraid some felons might come after him.

He’s the one who tipped off the state last year that ten inmates in Alachua County, "ineligible felons... voted illegally in the 2020 General Election."

He claims he's found 100 sex offenders like Moye who have allegedly illegally voted, and he suspects there were more than 500 statewide.

“I don't want people who are ineligible to vote in any elections,” Glaeser said. “Whether they are non-U.S. citizens or voting from another state or are convicted sex offenders or murderers in our state or are felons who have not had their rights restored.”

Cumberland County Arkansas Sheriff Ennis Wright should change his last name to WRONG

Generally, anything NARSOL writes is useless as tits on a bull but even a blind squirrel finds a nut on occasion. In this case they reeled in a big nut. 

https://www.fayobserver.com/story/opinion/2022/07/29/cumberland-sheriff-release-had-no-public-safety-value-may-have-caused-harm/10171445002/

Cumberland sheriff announcement had no public safety value, may have caused harm

Sandy Rozek

In Fayetteville last week, what could and should have been a warm, human-interest story about homelessness was re-shaped by law enforcement into something entirely different.

The real story is about those who take very literally the Biblical admonitions to serve the least of those in society, to help our neighbors and to do unto others as we would want done to us. Additionally, the members of Fayetteville Urban Ministry who visit and take food and other essentials to the men living in tents along Martin Luther King Freeway and Gillespie Street Bridge in Fayetteville are training their children in selfless service to others.

The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, however, saw something different. They shifted the focus away from the real story and turned it into a “public service announcement.”

“Cumberland County Sheriff Ennis W. Wright and the deputies assigned to the Sheriff's Office Sex Offender Registration Enforcement Unit (SOREU) have increased concern for the public's safety,” the Sheriff’s Office news release stated. Registered Sex Offenders live under and around the MLK and Gillespie Street Bridge, it said.

People on the sex offender registry are homeless due to restrictions about where they may live. These restrictions are shown by all studies to be of no public safety value whatsoever.

They have even been denounced by the U.S. Justice Dept. in the summary of its chapter on sex offender management strategies: “Finally, the evidence is fairly clear that residence restrictions are not effective. In fact, the research suggests that residence restrictions may actually increase offender risk by undermining offender stability and the ability of the offender to obtain housing, work and family support. There is nothing to suggest this policy should be used at this time.”

s action by the sheriff’s department begs the question, “What has this accomplished?” Not “Why did they do this?” for that is known only by those involved, but: “What has been accomplished? Who has been helped?”

Without this “public-service announcement,” were children at risk? There is no evidence of that. Even if there were any risk from the occupants of the tents — and there is also no evidence whatsoever that there is — any children visiting there were part of the Urban Ministry group, supervised by parents and other adults.

Without this announcement, would hordes of Fayetteville citizens have rushed to the tents, putting themselves at risk, again a risk that no evidence supports even existed? Why did the sheriff’s office have “increased concern for the public’s safety?”

So what has been accomplished? Further vilification of a segment of society. Further portraying of people with past sexual crime convictions as “the other.” Further ostracization and isolation of everyone on the registry.

In other words, what the sheriff sees as “a public safety announcement” is, in reality, further reinforcement of the conditions which science shows lead to sexual offending in the first place, conditions that create further barriers to integration of those with past sexual crimes into the community, integration which science deems necessary to maximize rehabilitation and reduce even further the already very low rate of re-offense.

So what has the Cumberland Sheriff’s Office accomplished?

Quite possibly the exact opposite of what will actually increase public safety.

I think Butts Co GA Sheriff Gary Long is still "Butts"-hurt over losing the yard sign case

He's no stranger to the Shiitake Awards, and I think he's still smarting over getting rebuked by the courts over his blatantly unconstitutional yard signs. 

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/ga-sheriff-says-sex-offender-should-spend-rest-his-natural-born-life-caged/5MFB5OODIJATVCQWBGB6ZEJ3VA/

“I am a firm believer in rehabilitation, but a person convicted of committing the act of child molestation, in my opinion, can not, and will not be rehabilitated,” (Sheriff Gary) Long said.

The sheriff showed his disdain for those who victimize children, saying that he believed drug addicts, alcoholics and thieves could be rehabilitated, but not those “capable of victimizing a child.”

Charlie Specht with The Buffalo News seems to dislike the idea of a Registered Person holding a job

I don't vote Republican but people are free to support whatever political party they like. The issue here is a yellow journalist who has a problem with a Registered Person working an office job. 

Charlie Specht has been featured on this blog before.

If you have Twitter you can slam this shiity reporter HERE.  

https://buffalonews.com/news/local/government-and-politics/convicted-sex-offender-linked-to-paladino-campaign-for-congress/article_203da88c-02b8-11ed-81f8-13dcf76e059e.html

Convicted sex offender linked to Paladino campaign for Congress

Charlie Specht Jul 13, 2022 Updated 15 hrs ago

n a campaign document, Buffalo developer Carl P. Paladino's congressional campaign identified as its assistant treasurer a man who is a registered sex offender and who was convicted in 2017 of possessing child pornography.

A spokesperson for the Paladino campaign on Wednesday denied that Joel J. Sartori is a part of Paladino's bid for Congress in New York’s newly redrawn 23rd Congressional District, calling the filing "a simple oversight."  

Sartori, a 63-year-old Lancaster resident whom law enforcement considers a “moderate risk” to the public, was listed as the assistant treasurer of the Paladino for Congress campaign in documents the campaign filed last month with the Federal Election Commission.

Sartori, who was listed as the campaign’s “custodian of records” on a federal campaign document filed June 14, is also the part owner of two limited liability companies Paladino has used to make political donations as recently as last year. He contributed more than $11,000 to one of Paladino’s prior runs for office and was paid more than $6,000 by Paladino’s campaign for office expenses in 2010, according to state campaign finance records reviewed by The Buffalo News.

"This individual is one of over 600 employees, who works in the billing department” of Ellicott Development Co., a company Paladino founded, campaign spokesperson Vish Burra said in a written statement. “He has no affiliation with Mr. Paladino's campaign for Congress. He has been removed from the campaign document. Mr. Paladino strongly condemns the atrocity of child pornography."

Sartori did not respond to messages left at his home and downtown office seeking comment. 

He pleaded guilty in State Supreme Court to one count of promotion of a sexual performance by a child and four counts of possession of a sexual performance by a child – all felonies – in April 2017.

“The defendant knowingly had in his possession images and videos of a child engaged in a sexual performance,” a spokesperson for Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn Jr. said in a statement. “A search warrant was executed at the defendant’s home in March 2013. Investigators seized several digital storage devices from the defendant’s residence that contained the images and videos.”

Sartori in 2017 was sentenced to 10 years of probation, the spokesperson said, and as part of his sentence was required to register as a sex offender on the state's sex offender registry. The state Division of Criminal Justice Services considers Level 2 sex offenders like Sartori to be a “medium risk of re-offense.”

In Sartori’s case, the female victim was less than 16 and did not know him, according to information posted online by the state agency that administers New York’s sex offender registry. The DA’s spokesperson clarified that the offense related to the possession of – not the production of – CP.

Campaign officials said Sartori works in the billing department of Ellicott Development, the company Paladino founded and which his son, William, now runs.

When Paladino ran as the Republican candidate for governor in 2010, Sartori made four donations totaling $11,525 to Paladino’s campaign committee, according to records filed with the state Board of Elections.

Also that year – which was prior to Sartori’s child porn conviction – state campaign finance records indicate the Paladino for the People campaign paid more than $7,200 to Sartori for what the campaign described as office expenses.

Burra did not immediately respond to questions about whether Sartori had a campaign role in 2010. 

State law requires limited liability companies, also known as LLCs, to disclose their ownership interests when the companies make political contributions.

In 2019, Sartori contributed $50 to the Erie County Republican Committee on behalf of 1093 Group LLC, which records show was created by Paladino in 2004.

Last year, Sartori contributed $128 to the re-election campaign of Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown, records show. The contribution was part of a $5,000 campaign donation made by 224 Group LLC, which is also affiliated with Paladino, according to state records.

Federal Election Commission records show Paladino's campaign amended its original campaign filing to include Sartori. On June 6, the campaign listed a national political consultant as its records custodian. On June 14, the campaign filed an amended statement listing Sartori in that role.  

Last month, Paladino told The News that he planned to spend $1.5 million of his own funds on the campaign for the seat, which will soon be vacated by Republican Chris Jacobs. Paladino is preparing for a primary matchup against Nicholas A. Langworthy, the state Republican chairman making his first run for elective office.

Sartori's link to the campaign is the latest controversy to beset Paladino's campaign.

In June, he first denied, and then admitted, he had posted material on his Facebook page linking recent mass killings in Buffalo and Texas to "false flag" ideas that claim government involvement in similar tragedies. 

Also last month, Media Matters, a left-leaning nonprofit group, reported on its website that Paladino told a WBEN Radio program last year that Adolf Hitler was "the kind of leader we need today." He later walked back those remarks.

Paladino and Langworthy  are well-known conservatives and allies of former President Donald Trump running in an overwhelmingly Republican and pro-Trump district

Pastor Dillon Awes of Stedfast Baptist Church in Watauga, Texas problaims "all gays are pedophiles" and "should be executed" to protect children

Just in time for "Pride Month," we have another false prophet proclaiming every gay person is a "pedophile" who should be "put to death."

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/texas-pastor-says-gay-people-shot-back-head-shocking-sermon-rcna32748

A Texas baptist church — labeled an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center — has caused outrage after a pastor said gay people should be "lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head."

Pastor Dillon Awes of Stedfast Baptist Church in Watauga, a suburb of Fort Worth, made the comment and other controversial remarks during a Sunday morning sermon titled "Why We Won’t Shut Up."

"I’m angry this morning because our entire country is celebrating the worse sin in the Bible," Awes said during the sermon referring to Pride Month, which commemorates the LGBTQ+ community every June.

"You know a lot of pastors have this stupid idea where it’s just like, 'oh you know God loves everyone. And God hates the sin but loves the sinner.' But people have taken this to such an extreme where they’re saying celebrate the sin, not just tolerate it, celebrate it," he continued. "Let me show what the Bible says about these people."

Awes read several passages from the Bible and condemned homosexuality as a sin. 

At one point, he told the congregation that gay people "are dangerous to society" and said that "all homosexuals are pedophiles." "I’m not saying that every single homosexual that’s alive right now has committed that act with a child already because it could be they haven’t had the opportunity yet and they will at some point later in their life," he said. "This is why we need to put these people to death through the proper channels of the government. ... These people are not normal. They’re not your average everyday sinners. ... They have no hope of salvation."

At certain times during the sermon people from the crowd could be heard cheering in agreement. Awes told the room that he thinks the "solution for the homosexual in 2022" is the death penalty.

"These people should be put to death. Every single homosexual in our country should be charged with a crime. The abomination of homosexuality that they have, they should be convicted in a lawful trial. They should be sentenced with death. They should be lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head," he said.

Joliet Mayor Bob O'Dekirk "slams" transitional home for Returning Citizens

It seems Bob O'DeJERK has no problem aggressively tackling human rights issues, literally. In fact, he recently settled a lawsuit in which he bodyslsammed two peaceful protesters.

According to the lawyers for one of the men who sued O'DeJERK in the 2020 assault, "Defendant Mayor O'Dekirk grabbed plaintiff in and around the neck area and about the body and forcefully drove him backwards and subsequently threw him to the ground. "Defendant O'Dekirk used inappropriate, unwarranted and unjustifiable force against plaintiff," the lawsuit argues. "Defendant officers assaulted, battered and restrained plaintiff without lawful cause or justification. Following the beating, the defendant officers falsely accused plaintiff of engaging in conduct which justified their actions."

So Adele Nicholas should be commended for facing physical danger for taking on a mayor who is known to physically assault people when he does not get his way. 

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/joliet-mayor-demands-answers-over-building-that-houses-multiple-sex-offenders/2846589/

Joliet’s mayor is promising to take action against an apartment building that he says is housing at least five convicted sex offenders.

According to Joliet Mayor Bob O'Dekirk, the building is located at 1000 Cora Street, and city officials were not informed that such an arrangement had been made.

“We were never notified by anyone that this was coming or in place,” the mayor said. “It took the city by surprise and the neighborhood.”

The City of Joliet believes that the owner of the property has entered into a contract with the Illinois Department of Corrections, which exempts him from a state law that prohibits the housing of more than one sex offender at any specific location. 

“It is absurd that anyone at any level of government would think this is a good idea” O’Dekirk said. “The City’s Legal Department has been instructed to take all appropriate action to shut this down. I believe placing five sex offenders at one location in any city poses an imminent threat to the people inside that neighborhood..."

O’Dekirk says he has reached out to Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker seeking his help in addressing the situation.

https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/news/2022/06/02/neighbors-search-for-answers-on-sex-offender-house-near-their-joliet-homes/

Mayor Bob O’Dekirk told the crowd of about 100 people that the city’s efforts to shut down the apartment house have become more complicated after learning that the residence for sex offenders is protected by a federal judge’s ruling.

“I’m going to talk to the Department of Corrections tomorrow,” O’Dekirk said, emphasizing that the city would not give up. “We’re going to do whatever we have to do to get this out of your neighborhood.”

AL Supreme Court candidate Debra Jones claims "liberals" prevented her from shooting accused SO from the bench in political ad

ADDENDUM: Jones lost the primary by ten percentage points LOL

There is no impartiality here. Debra Jones's entire court history should be reviewed. I'm so glad to be free from the cesspool of conservatism that is Alabama. 

https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Offices-including-secretary-of-state-contested-in-17190348.php

Offices including secretary of state contested in Alabama

JAY REEVES, Associated Press

May 22, 2022, Updated: May 22, 2022 8:56 a.m

SUPREME COURT

One Republican candidate for the Alabama Supreme Court is trying to woo voters with a mix that includes his devotion to God and former President Donald Trump. The other is emphasizing her experience in the courtroom — and her gun.

Greg Cook, an attorney from metro Birmingham, and Debra Jones, a circuit judge who hears cases in Calhoun and Cleburne, are seeking the Republican nomination for the Place 5 Supreme Court seat held by Justice Mike Bolin, who is retiring.

Cook is portraying himself as a “Trump-tough” Republican who was a Trump delegate and represented conservative interests in the 2000 presidential recount contest in Florida between Al Gore and President George W. Bush. Aside from partisan and legal qualifications, Cook's campaign resume features his longtime church membership and leadership.

Jones released a commercial late in the campaign boasting of her support for Trump, her short stature — “She's 5 feet of concrete” — and a case in which she sentenced a person convicted of child molestation to more than 1,000 years in prison. The spot shows her firing a handgun and saying the only reason she didn't put the person “under the jail” was “the liberals" wouldn't let her.

All nine members of the court are Republicans, and the winner of the Place 5 race will be a heavy favorite over Democrat Anita L. Kelly, a judge in Montgomery, in the general election.

Brevard County FL Commission admits they are out to harm Persons Forced to Register

Brevard County Commissioners John Tobia, Kristine Zonka, and Rita Pritchett walked in goosestep... er, "lockstep" with each other in condemning anti-registry activists at a county commission meeting held on May 17th, 2022. 

To see the offensive part, start listening at 23:45 (from 40:00 to 45:25 was some old fart blathering on about trees, then goes back to the topic at hand) but listen in particular from 48:25 to 54:10--

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2022/05/18/sex-offenders-want-brevard-change-rules-restricting-their-presence/9800708002/

Registered sex offenders address county commission after rule changed to allow them

Ralph Chapoco

Florida Today

Registered sex offenders had their day to be heard before Brevard County commissioners and explain how an ordinance banning them from certain locations in the county has negatively affected them.

In their statements to commissioners on Tuesday, petitioners pleaded with the commission to reverse an amendment to an ordinance passed in 2020, barring them from entering within 1,000 feet of businesses where children typically congregate.

Their comments included examples of barriers they face because of the county regulation, and the negative impact that is having for their families and other loved ones.

But, after hearing the three speakers, county commissioners took to action to change the rules.

The attendance of the registered sex offenders at Tuesday's meeting was made possible because commissioners modified a section of the county code in March that prohibited those on the sex offender registry list from entering the Brevard County Government Center in Viera. The regulation, passed in 2006, bars someone on the list from occupying a space within 1,000 feet of a school or a recreation area.

Because the Government Center is near Brevard Public Schools' district offices and Viera High School, people on the registry had been prohibited from entering the Government Center to attend meetings or conduct business.

Registered offenders, with the Florida Justice Institute acting on their behalf, filed a lawsuit, claiming the 2006 rule violated their freedom of speech rights and hindered them from seeking redress from their government.

That lawsuit continues, despite the changes that commissioners enacted that now allows them to attend County Commission meetings.

The plaintiffs are challenging an amendment they made to the ordinance passed in 2006.

In the fall of 2020, commissioners passed an ordinance that expanded restrictions already in place because of the 2006 rule. It allows business owners to certify their establishments as places where youngsters congregate. This would prohibit registered offenders from entering a 1,000-foot buffer zone around their businesses.  

Their comments included examples of barriers they confront as they go about their lives.

“As an American citizen, I can only hope that more care goes into our lawmaking,” Charles Violi said during public comment. He is on the offender list and is subject to the restrictions passed by the county.

“Do they meet our constitutional requirements, or will they violate a person’s human or civil rights before they are enacted?” he said. “Are we using the correct data to make all these decisions? Are these laws actually producing safety or excessive punishment, as well as wasting police time or our taxpayer dollars, keeping in mind that all lives matter?”

The speakers made a point to explain that they repaid their debt to society for the crimes they committed.

“I am a registered citizen from an offense in Virginia,” Charles Munsey Jr. said during public comment. “I have never had a sexual offense in Florida, yet I am designated as a predator in Florida, not in Virginia.”

“My daughter, the victim, long ago resolved this situation, and we get along fine just now,” Munsey said. “I have been active in community affairs, both here and in Virginia. I was released from probation 11 years early.”

The speakers also explained how the ordinance is negatively affecting their lives.

Vincent Rinaldi wanted to place his house in a trust to plan his estate. He needed to obtain a notary to complete the transaction, but couldn’t obtain one because his bank was located within 1,000 feet of a park, prohibiting him from entering the establishment.

“I cannot conduct normal business that any other citizen of this county is permitted to do,” Rinaldi said. “This is one example of many that I can offer that proves this ordinance hurts and punishes other individuals.”

The speakers also claim the ordinance is having a negative impact on their families.

Rinaldi said he cares for his partner, who is ill, and helping her could place him in custody should he need to take her to the hospital for medical care.

County commissioners, however, took no action to change the restrictions on registered sex offenders. 

“People go in and they serve their time,” Commissioner Rita Pritchett said. “They can come back out and live. There are some things you do you can never gain trust back. I will always err on the side of kids, so if there is ever an opportunity to protect children, I am with Commissioner (John) Tobia and Commissioner (Kristine) Zonka on that.”

Tobia proposed the amendment because he said he wanted to protect children in the community.

“I think children are precious and innocent, and anyone that takes that away is absolutely horrific at the time they take that innocence away,” Tobia said. “Yes, there are people with much more forgiveness than me, but that is something that I don’t have that level of compassion.”

Ralph Chapoco is government and politics watchdog reporter. You can reach Chapoco at rchapoco@floridatoday.com and follow him on Twitter @rchapoco.

Don't like being called Nazis? Then don't do Nazi things

Pauline Hanson from Australia's extremist right-wing "One Nation" party promotes chemical castration and public registries

 Unfortunately, this right-wing extremism is becoming a blobal issue, not solely an American issue. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10811811/amp/Pauline-Hanson-demands-chemical-castration-paedophiles.html

EXCLUSIVE: Pauline Hanson demands chemical castration for paedophiles and a national child sex offender register so Aussies can find out if they're living next door to a pervert

By Cameron Carpenter and Daniel Piotrowski for Daily Mail Australia

01:57 13 May 2022, updated 05:53 13 May 2022

Pauline Hanson has called for pedophiles to be chemically castrated along with tougher penalties for sex offenders.

The One Nation leader also called for the establishment of a national database of paedophiles, after responding to questions on the issue from Daily Mail Australia. 

'I support chemical castration and tougher penalties for paedophiles, and the establishment of a national database of paedophiles,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 

'People are very concerned about their children’s safety and they want strong laws and penalties for those convicted of paedophilia,' Ms Hanson said. 

'For sex offences not involving children, I consider it appropriate for the presiding magistrate or judge to determine the appropriate penalty under the relevant law.'

However, despite Ms Hanson supporting a national paedophile register, if she does decide to introduce legislation into parliament to make it happen, she may face opposition, with state politicians opposing a similar idea backed by the coalition in 2020.

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton announced the federal government was putting $7.8million toward a public register of convicted sex offenders in January 2019 - just before the 2019 election in May. 

Under the policy, the names, aliases, photos and nature of sex offenders' crimes would be made publicly accessible, as would their general location. 

Despite the federal government making the funds available for the project to happen, it was up to state governments to introduce it in their jurisdictions.  

Queensland Premier Annastasia Palasczcuk's government voted down a motion supporting such a register, in a move Mr Dutton's spokeswoman slammed as 'very frustrating'. 

Queensland state Labor MP Scott Stewart rubbished the idea, telling Parliament the Australian Institute of Criminology had found 'public sex offender registers do not reduce recidivism.' 

Richard and Evelyn Creighton of Fairfield CA create website and engage in targeted harassment of Registered Persons in halfway house

I'm currently looking for a picture of these two nitwits so they can be properly shamed. In addition to the protest, they are livestreaming the house on YouTube and have created a website that doxed those at the house along with the owner. 

Other things to point out:

1. It may actually be illegal to post registry flier data on their "Stop ELDA House" website. 
2. The erroneously claim that there is a statewide residency law (there is not though restrictions can be made as a condition of supervised release). This is a moot point since they admit their targeted house meets the legal standards.

https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/solano-news/fairfield/families-protest-halfway-house-for-sexual-offenders-in-fairfield/

Families protest halfway house for sexual offenders in Fairfield

By Susan Hiland

FAIRFIELD — Parents and residents near B. Gale Wilson Elementary School and K.I. Jones Elementary School are outraged to find a halfway house for sexual offenders is right in the middle of the neighborhood where their children go to school.

About 25 parents came out Saturday to B. Gale Wilson to march to the halfway house, protesting all the way.

Richard Creighton and his wife Evelyn have two little boys and they were stunned to find out about the halfway house.

“We live right across the street from the house,” Richard Creighton said.

The house is located on the 2900 block of Waterman Boulevard, less than a mile from both schools.

The state’s Megan’s Law website shows four convicted sex offenders live at the home: a 42-year-old man convicted in 2002 of rape of a drugged or intoxicated victim and released from prison in 2018; a 29-year-old man convicted in 2013 of sodomy by force, violence or fear of a victim who was younger than 14 and released from prison in 2018; a 71-year-old man convicted in 1983 of rape in concert with force or violence and oral copulation in concert, and released from prison in 1989; and an 81-year-old man convicted in 1986 of committing lewd and lascivious acts with a minor younger than 14 and released from prison the same year.

The Megan’s Law entry for the 81-year-old man also lists an allegation of continuous sexual abuse of a child but does not include conviction or release dates.

Creighton said he “had no idea” about the halfway house until he saw the information on social media from City Councilwoman Catherine Moy.

Creighton has since started a website called Stop ELDA House, which includes information that he and others have gathered on the situation.

ELDA House is an organization that provides services that include reentry housing and substance use services.

The company has taken down its website but archived pages are available to view with a lot of searching. Those archives pages show ELDA House also partners with additional community reentry partners that may assist with employment and vocational needs.

Creighton said his research shows a resident of the Bay Area purchased the house on Waterman Boulevard on Oct. 29, 2021. The owner used funding provided by the state to turn this home into a transitional house for sex offenders, including pedophiles, without notifying the county, the city or the local residents, Creighton said.

Creighton said the home has six bedrooms and can therefore accommodate six parolees. Online records from the Solano County Assessor’s Office list the house as having four bedrooms. A listing of real estate transactions shows the 4,299-square-foot home, built in 2008, has four bedrooms and sold that day for $899,000.

Similar facilities are run in Winters, Antioch and Pittsburg.

An individual can purchase a house and provide a “halfway house” for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation under the 2015 Reentry Program. These programs are intended to assist prisoners in developing solid relapse prevention plans, along with a plan for reentry and various skills training from social to work assistance.

Evelyn Creighton said the police have been called to the house several times.

“The entire Fairfield government should be ashamed that they let this happen, that they allowed the permits to go through,” said neighbor Walt Phillip, who also has two children living near the house.

“This is stressful always walking around on guard,” he said.

Moy came out with the protestors. She said the state can allow these halfway houses for parolees to be located anywhere.

“This one is in a bad spot because not only is it in between two elementary schools but there is also a day care center within a few blocks of the house,” Moy said.

Moy said the City Council took a look at the business application that was filed and it said the building was going to be used for a day care/adult care center.

“This is not really adult care,” she said. “We are going to be changing the business license application to be very specific about what business is coming in.”

Because this is a state program for parolees, the owner did not have to get permission to have a halfway house for sex offender parolees, Moy said. The parolees do have GPS monitors on their ankles and are limited to attending work and shopping at the nearest stores, she said.

“The city attorney is looking into what legal avenues we can take,” Moy said. “This is really new and so it will take time to look into.”

In the meantime, Moy has contacted state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, requesting a town hall meeting, which she said he is happy to do. She said they are working to fix a date.

The city plans to have some answers to this situation sometime in May but a date is not set because the legal team needs to do the research, Moy said.

“We may do it during a regular meeting but I think there is going to be too much to cover in a regular meeting and we will do it in a town hall meeting, but that is not for sure yet,” Moy said.

Creighton has placed cameras on his front porch to face the street where children walk by and has a live YouTube feed so parents can watch the children coming and going to school.

Moy said the Police Department is aware of the situation and has added patrol cars during the opening of school and ending of school days.

“They can’t stay all day but they are also adding patrol driving by during the day,” Moy said.

One thing was clear Saturday: People support parolees getting a second chance but putting sexual offenders near schools is not the way to do it, Moy said.

For more information on this issue, go to https://stopeldahouse.org.

Hayley Wilton of Roxana, IL harasses local ice cream stand because loved one of owner is a Person Forced to Register

This gun-sucking Karen Convoy supporter has nothing better to do than engage in a harassment campaign, but this one may backfire. 

https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Dozens-gather-in-protest-of-new-Cone-Barn-17069793.php

Roxana rally targets Cone Barn

Billy Woods, April 10, 2022

ROXANA — Since 2006, Tanea Berry and her husband, Josh, have been neighbors to the Cone Barn at 323 N. Central Ave. in Roxana.

They have memories of both of their children walking next door and grabbing ice cream.

But recently the Berrys, along with other community members, don’t have that same sense of comfort in letting their children near the ice cream shop.

The Cone Barn was recently bought by Terry Hogan whose husband ...  is on the Illinois State Police Sex Offender Registry.

“I don’t want to live next door to this,” Tanea Berry said.

That’s why on Saturday she and dozens of others held a rally in protest of the new ownership at the Cone Barn.

The Berrys have two kids, 13 and 23; the oldest has two kids of their own and always has them by the Berry's home, which makes Tanea Berry uncomfortable.

“I loved having the Cone Barn here because my kids could walk next door and get ice cream,” Tanea Berry said. "But now they can’t.”

Saturday's rally also focused on a former Cone Barn employee ... who no longer works there. Hobbs is on the state’s violent offender database....

Rally organizer Hayley Wilton is concerned about the Cone Barn's location: 505 feet from the high school and across the street from the Burbank Park, the Roxana Church of the Nazarene (which offers a Sunday school service for kids) and the Nazarene Community Theater owned by the church which offers free movies for families and kids.

“This is the center of town,” Wilton said. “This is a community that’s always surrounded with kids. As the seasons change, there are lots of kids and sports teams hanging out in this area.”

Wilton said she learned about Heltsley and Hobbs when she saw a post advertising jobs at the Cone Barn and she researched the names she recognized.

“Offenders reoffend,” Wilton said. “It’s bound to happen again.”

Wilton has four kids: 18, 16, 13 and 11. She said she grew up on Elm Street in Roxana and was a childhood victim herself. She said moved back to Roxana a few years ago specifically for the school that is just blocks from the Cone Barn.

Wilton wants to make people aware of the business. She and Tanea Berry also want it sold to new owners.

Tanea Berry also wants Roxana officials to pass an ordinance prohibiting a sex offender list member to own something so close to schools and parks, especially if that business caters to children. Heltsley does not own the Cone Barn; Hogan does.

“I loved the community feeling we had here,” Tanea Berry said. “But this isn’t what I want.”

A petition seeking to have someone else buy the Cone Barn is on the Cone Barn Awareness Facebook group page.

Ex-Hull City (UK) Council worker Chloe Carr gave personal info on a Registered Person to a vigilante group for purposes of harassment

Her address should be published, in the interest of fairness. The vigilante group should also be rounded up and jailed. 

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/hull-city-council-worker-leaked-6926947

Council worker leaked sex offender's address to paedophile hunter's group

Mark Naylor

A heavily pregnant Hull City Council worker leaked the highly sensitive address of a sex offender to an anti-paedophile group. This lead to a 30-strong angry mob turning up outside his new home and threatening to kill him and burn down the house.

Customer services assistant Chloe Carr told the paedophile hunters that the sex offender "deserves all he gets" and was "bloody awful" and "disgusting" but she asked them not to reveal that she had passed on the explosive confidential information about him. The sex offender had to be hurriedly moved to a new address and Carr's unprofessional actions helped to "whip up a frenzy" and were "not a public service at all" because they "destabilised" convicted criminals and risked making them "unpredictable", Hull Crown Court heard.

Carr, 23, of Taylor Avenue, Cottingham, admitted unlawfully disclosing private data to an online website without consent. She denied misconduct in public office as a customer service advisor for Hull City Council by abusing the public's trust and disclosing confidential and personal data between June 4 and July 2, 2020 and that charge was dropped.

Charlotte Baines, prosecuting, said that Carr was employed at the time by an agency to work for the city council and to help direct members of the public to assistance that might be available. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, she was working from home in Anlaby and there was a work chat group in which she could have contact with colleagues.

Another worker sent a message to the group saying that a call had been received from a convicted sex offender, who had contacted the council's customer services team asking for a food parcel to be sent to him as he had been placed into emergency accommodation because his details had been put on Facebook. The address of where he would be living was shared by the chat group but Carr sent details of it to a Hull-based anti-paedophile group..

She told the online paedophile hunters that she had details on the sex offender but asked to be kept anonymous. She said in messages that it was "disgusting" that the sex offender was still in Hull and would be living near a school.

Carr was asked by the anti-paedophile group if she had proof of the man's details and replied: "Yes, everything is 100 per cent" and confirmed that she had his street address. She said that she worked for Hull City Council and there was a reply from the online group asking if she could share that address with them.

Carr sent a screenshot of the sex offender's address and said: "This can't come back to me due to my work." The paedophile hunters asked her for the number of the house. She told the online group that it was "so wrong" to put the man there and added: "I don't believe in it. I will look now."

Carr was thanked by the anti-paedophile group and she was told: "Thank you so much" and that details would be going online shortly. She replied: "Please don't mention it's come from the council" because records were kept and it might "come back to me" because of the disclosure. "The defendant made it abundantly clear that she worked for Hull City Council and the information needed to be kept anonymous," said Miss Baines.

At 6.40pm, the sex offender contacted the police to say that he had received a food parcel from Hull City Council but that people were at his door trying to break into the property and he had been warned to "get out now or they would kill him and burn down the property" There were 30 people in the mob outside the house.

At 7.19pm, the anti-paedophile group contacted Carr on Facebook Messenger to thank her for her information and to say that the sex offender had been moved from the house. Carr replied: "I am so happy. He is bloody awful. Happy to have helped everyone."

The paedophile hunters thanked her. There was further contact during the following days, with further messages about the sex offender.

The police later identified Carr as being involved in the chats after they realised that there was a problem. They went to her then home in Anlaby and seized two laptops.

She told police that, when a colleague shared details of the sex offender, she was "quite angry because she was pregnant" and that after someone in her chat group said that something needed to be done, she took it upon herself to contact the anti-paedophile group and to supply further details. "She said that she knew it was wrong," said Miss Baines. "She was kicked out of the works chat. She wasn't allowed to return to work, one assumes."

Helen Chapman, mitigating, said that the sex offenders that Carr had been referring to were people who had been before the courts, had been found guilty or sentenced and had "done their time and come out" of prison. "These groups exist on Facebook in order to whip up a frenzy," said Miss Chapman.

Carr was heavily pregnant at the time and the messages were exchanged just a fortnight before her son was born in July 2020. He was now aged nearly two. Miss Chapman also stated that the offence was "short-lived but persistent" and Carr was in "something of a vulnerable position" at the time because the boy's father had left her after she told him that she was pregnant.

"It didn't help that she was working from home," said Miss Chapman. Carr was now on Universal Credit and child benefit. "She is just beginning to look for work," said Miss Chapman. Carr had no previous convictions.

Judge Mark Bury said that the offence might not have happened if there had been a "little bit more supervision" of Carr and she had not been working from home. The decision not to proceed with a prosecution under the more serious misconduct in public office offence had been taken after a "thorough review by a number of different people" for the prosecution but it meant that the maximum penalty for the lesser offence that Carr now faced was a fine and not prison.

"You are very lucky about that," said Judge Bury. "The offence that you have committed is, in my view, a very serious one that would have carried a sentence of imprisonment." He told the court: "I would have locked her up."

Judge Bury said that it was not for Carr or anyone else to pass comment and say that the man involved "deserves all he gets and he's bloody awful". The person had to be rehoused again and it led to problems in rehabilitating such people and "destabilising" them, risking them becoming "more unpredictable" and committing offences.

"This is not a public service at all," said Judge Bury. "They had done their punishment. It wasn't for you to give their details out."

It did "not take much imagination" to work out what the anti-paedophile group were planning to do. "The problem that this causes is that it destabilises offenders," said Judge Bury. "It makes them unpredictable and more likely to commit offences that everyone else is trying their hardest to prevent them from doing. It's not doing a public service at all. It's a huge disservice.

"I am quite satisfied that you knew what you were doing because you said you didn't want your name to be mentioned because you would be sacked, which, of course, you were. I hope this has been a lesson. If you work in the public sector again, you just have to remember that you have a grave responsibility with public details. You thought you were helping. You were not."

Carr was fined £500, to be paid at £50 a month. After the hearing, she left the court building giggling and joking loudly with two female supporters and headed straight across the road and into the pub opposite the court.

Sabrina Mellerson, now EX-Clarendon Co SC Sheriff's deputy, arrested for embezzling Registered Persons

Registry fees are a scam and should be eliminated. 

https://wach.com/news/local/former-deputy-and-victims-advocate-arrested-faces-embezzlement-charges

CLARENDON COUNTY, S.C. (WACH) — On Friday, a former Clarendon County deputy and victims advocate was arrested by South Carolina Law Enforcement Division agents.

Sabrina Mellerson, 34, has been arrested and faces charges of misconduct in office and embezzlement.

SLED conducted the investigation at the request of Clarendon County Sheriff Tim Baxley.

According to reports, Mellerson is accused of taking money from sex offender registrants in her role as a deputy at the Clarendon County Sheriff's Office.

On April 7, Mellerson confessed to SLED Agents that she took cash from payments made to the sheriff's office and used the money for her personal use.

SLED said they will not be providing further details on the specific case but for general context and understanding included a proviso that allows Sheriff’s Offices in South Carolina to collect a yearly fee from registered sex offenders to be put on the list.

Proviso 62.10. (SLED: Sex Offender Registry Fee) Each Sheriff is authorized to charge and collect an annual amount of one hundred fifty dollars from each sex offender required to register by law. If such sex offender has been declared indigent by the Sheriff of the county in which the offender must register and provides proof of the declaration at the time of registration, the fee will automatically be waived. If an offender is not declared indigent and fails to pay the fee, he is officially declared unregistered. This fee shall be divided between the Sheriffs and the State Law Enforcement Division with one hundred dollars of the fee retained by the Sheriffs and the remaining fifty dollars remitted by the Sheriffs to SLED on a quarterly basis. These funds must be used to support the Statewide Sex Offender Registry.

Mellerson was booked at the Clarendon County Detention Center.

Marjorie Taylor Green's Twitter meltdown includes claim Republican Senators voting to confirm SCOTUS pick are "pro-pedophile"

 

Marjorie Taylor Green's comptriots include Matt Gaetz (under investigation for sex trafficking with minors) and Lauren Boebert (whose husband was busted for flashing minors but dodged the SOR). So her bold claims just make her look even dumber than she already appears. 

https://news.yahoo.com/susan-collins-says-marjorie-taylor-171053483.html

Susan Collins says Marjorie Taylor Greene calling GOP senators 'pro-pedophile is 'obviously ludicrous' and 'typical’

Nicole Gaudiano

Tue, April 5, 2022, 12:10 PM

Sen. Susan Collins laughed when asked about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene calling her and other Republican senators "pro-pedophile" for supporting Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court.

"Frankly, this is what we've come to expect from her," the Maine Republican told Insider as she left the Senate chamber on Tuesday. "So it doesn't trouble me. It's obviously ludicrous and typical."

Greene's comments came after Republican Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Murkowski of Alaska announced Monday that they would join fellow Collins in voting to approve Jackson's nomination, President Joe Biden's nominee for the vacancy on the court.

"Murkowski, Collins, and Romney are pro-pedophile," the Georgia Republican tweeted. "They just voted for #KBJ."

Greene appears to be referencing criticism from Republican senators during Jackson's confirmation hearing that she was lenient in sentencing for those guilty of possessing child abuse images, but legal experts said the attack is misleading and false.

Critics have interpreted Greene's attack on Twitter as an appeal to the far-right QAnon conspiracy theorist movement, which believes without evidence that Democratic elites run child-trafficking networks. She has been accused of having ties to the movement.

Greene's closest ally in Congress is Rep. Matt Gaetz who is being investigated by federal authorities for whether he engaged in sex trafficking and had a sexual relationship with a minor, which he denies.

Greene also has owned stock in Walt Disney Co., which she has called "pro-child predator" because the company criticized a Florida education law that critics have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

With Collins, Murkowski and Romney joining Democrats in support of Jackson, it means she'll likely get confirmed by the end of this week and become the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.