Sex Offender Halloween Meeting Ordered
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From WRAL.com
Gaston Sex Offenders To Spend Part Of Halloween At Courthouse
POSTED: 11:47 am EDT October 23, 2006
UPDATED: 11:47 am EDT October 23, 2006
GASTONIA, N.C. -- Sex offenders on probation and living in Gaston County are under orders to spend part of Halloween at the county courthouse.
More than 60 offenders are expected to file into the county commissioners' room at 6 p.m. For the next three hours, they'll watch an informational video, register any address changes and listen to authorities talk about new sex-offender laws.
Those who don't show up will be arrested and charged with violating probation.
"You just don't want to endanger any of our young children on this night," said Gaston County Sheriff Alan Cloninger.
Neither Mecklenburg County nor other surrounding North Carolina counties have such plans for Halloween.
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I think this is a perfect way to keep the sickos off the streets, however it seems civil rights activists have already chimed in....go figure...
Gaston Sex Offenders To Spend Part Of Halloween At Courthouse
POSTED: 11:47 am EDT October 23, 2006
UPDATED: 11:47 am EDT October 23, 2006
GASTONIA, N.C. -- Sex offenders on probation and living in Gaston County are under orders to spend part of Halloween at the county courthouse.
More than 60 offenders are expected to file into the county commissioners' room at 6 p.m. For the next three hours, they'll watch an informational video, register any address changes and listen to authorities talk about new sex-offender laws.
Those who don't show up will be arrested and charged with violating probation.
"You just don't want to endanger any of our young children on this night," said Gaston County Sheriff Alan Cloninger.
Neither Mecklenburg County nor other surrounding North Carolina counties have such plans for Halloween.
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I think this is a perfect way to keep the sickos off the streets, however it seems civil rights activists have already chimed in....go figure...
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
- Benjamin Franklin
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This would be similar to rounding up all potential looters in a city and forcing them to stay somewhere if a hurricane were coming.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
- Benjamin Franklin
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went.
-Will Rogers
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I'm speaking in general terms. I've heard of laws being passed nearby where convicted offenders were not allowed to live within 1000 yards of a school, park or daycare. They were given 90 days to move if they did so, and essentially this meant they couldn't live ANYWHERE in the city.
I understand the high probability that sex offenders will repeat, but we just go too far in punishing ones who've already served their sentence in my opinion.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.