Update: I spoke to John Crawford about looking into creating a local ordinance and he’s agreed to have his research assistant look into the matter and get back with me.
I heard this on the news this morning:
From USA Today
Signs that say “No Candy at This Residence” will be posted on Halloween outside the homes of more than 2,000 registered sex offenders in Maryland, according to the Associated Press.
Elizabeth Bartholomew, a spokeswoman for the state parole office, tells USA TODAY that the offenders received a letter last month that outlines what is expected of them around the Oct. 31 holiday. In addition to posting a sign, offenders who are still under supervision must avoid all Halloween-related contact with children.
“They’ll be home, their lights will be off, no candy signs will be posted,” she says of those who are still on parole or probation.
What a great idea. Far too many parents let their kids run wild on Halloween without actually going with them. How many sex offenders in Allen County will be gleefully handing out candy to unsuspecting kids this year?
From ABCnews.com
Virginia and Texas, ban registered sex offenders from handing out candy on Halloween, going to kids’ parties, or being on the streets.
Indiana is not one of them. Fort Wayne however could pass an ordinance requiring something similar to the Maryland law.
Doc, you listening? Sam, this might be one thing you and Mr. Hayhurst could initiate on your way out of office.
Speaking of Halloween, I’ve been invited to a Halloween party. I’m taking suggestions on my costume.
Trick or treat! – AWB
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Great idea! Perhaps Tom Henry’s Safe House signs can have this on the other side.
Aw man…someone stole my “thunder” and for the WRONG reason.
Damn shame…I hate those beggars that show up for candy dressed in STREET clothes saying “trick or treat”.
I wanted the sign to keep THOSE “kids” away only. I don’t mind my wife and I handing out freebie candy to CHILDREN dressed appropriately for the venue.
No “free-ride” at MY house….go back to your welfare-financed baby-maker and gripe all you want!
As to a costume for YOU…how about going as Sammy the Bull? Or you could just NOT show up and be there as Pape anyway.
You could go as a “taxpayer” (but you’re gonna need some huge honkin’ screw to place strategically you-know-where).
B.G.
(who is packing every Halloween…just in case of a home invasion like on Bowser St.)
Perhaps someone can enlighten me. As I understand it, not all registered sex offenders are child molesters …for example, possesion of pornography is not even a violent crime and rape cases usually involve adults.
Perhaps we need “leper colonies” or “sanitariums” or “internment camps” to permanently isolate and house these never forgiven, never rehabilitated criminals. With encouragement from and an accumulation of new laws by liberal politicians, we are headed toward making sex offenders into wards of the state.
gadfly
If a person is a registered sex offender I do not want him
anywere close to my son.
I think all registered sex offenders should be locked up or shot
Gadfly:
Leper colonies – still have a few.
Sanitariums – don’t know of any still open.
Internment camps – not since WW2.
We’re a kinder, gentler world there days…and those things are bad for our psyche.
(he said sarcastically)
These offenders/molesters need to be sequestered SOMEwhere other than mainstream America, that’s for sure.
How about MEXICO???
(after all, they owe US for all the illegals that came over…tit-for-tat)
B.G.
Bob G. …
We do have somewhere else to keep them …our prisons, but to use them we need to make punishment for sex crimes as life in prison.
JG …
I understand your concern for your child, but what did you do before these laws and national data banks suddenly appeared? What are the odds that your child would be affected?
I have not seen national (or local for that matter) statistics on the frequency of sex crimes by convicted sex offenders. I suspect that it happens relatively infrequently, although your local cable news and tree-killer news sources will report each incident with bold headlines as if it happens every 10 minutes.
Our national paranoia on this subject is much the same as the daycare scandals of 25 years ago when dogooders coaxed false testimony from preschoolers about sexual abuse at the hands of the daycare center staffs. No one in authority has ever apologized to the falsely-accused victims.
When we discriminate against specific groups of people, the law of unintended consequences kicks in and we all suffer by having our freedoms restricted.
JG –
This is not national paranoia – it is national need to protect our children without regard to offending or pissing off a convicted sex offender or those that believe they are entitled to a second chance.
I believe the laws should be tighter and you can visit my site to see what I think, but on this matter you are wrong.
We are not talking about discriminating against specific groups of people, we are talking about controlling the rights of a specific group of convicts that are known to be harmful and dangerous to our children.
If restricting the rights of a few convicts to protect the masses then so be it!
Dan – Don’t you still have the costume you wore at Snider the other night?
Or did you lose yer balls. . .hehehehe