{"id":986,"date":"2022-02-19T10:41:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T15:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/georgia\/?p=986"},"modified":"2022-02-19T10:41:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T15:41:51","slug":"eleventh-circuit-smacks-georgia-sheriff-around-for-posting-dont-trick-or-treat-here-signs-in-sex-offenders-yards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/georgia\/eleventh-circuit-smacks-georgia-sheriff-around-for-posting-dont-trick-or-treat-here-signs-in-sex-offenders-yards\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleventh Circuit Smacks Georgia Sheriff Around For Posting \u2018Don\u2019t Trick Or Treat Here\u2019 Signs In Sex Offenders\u2019 Yards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_post_meta_wrapper\">\n<p class=\"post-meta\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">[FAC NOTE: This is old news already\u2026 well not that old, but we already know this, yet the headline and article was too good to not share.]<\/p>\n<h3>from the\u00a0<i>this-is-the-First-Amendment\u2026-perhaps-you-two-should-get-acquainted<\/i>\u00a0dept<\/h3>\n<div class=\"byline\"><span class=\"pub_date\">Mon, Feb 14th 2022 3:43pm<\/span>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/georgia\/goto\/https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/user\/capitalisliontamer\"  >Tim Cushing<\/a><\/div>\n<p>In 2018, the sheriff of Butts County, Georgia (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/georgia\/goto\/https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Butts_County,_Georgia\"  >no, really<\/a>),\u00a0<s>Buford T. Justice<\/s>\u00a0Gary Long instructed deputies to ruin the Halloween holiday spirt by planting damning signs in the yards of released sex offenders. The sheriff cited no reason for doing this \u2014 not even extremely anecdotal \u201cevidence.\u201d Instead, the signs \u2014 which warned trick or treaters away from the homes of certain county residents \u2014\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/georgia\/goto\/https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20181031\/14533540953\/georgia-government-officials-celebrate-halloween-engaging-pointless-hassling-sex-offenders.shtml\"  >appeared to be purely punitive<\/a>: a way to continue to punish criminals who\u2019d already served their time.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/georgia\/goto\/https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20220121\/19171548332\/eleventh-circuit-smacks-georgia-sheriff-around-posting-dont-trick-treat-here-signs-sex-offenders-yards.shtml\"  >READ MORE AND THANK THE AUTHOR<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[FAC NOTE: This is old news already\u2026 well not that old, but we already know this, yet the headline and article was too good to not share.] from the\u00a0this-is-the-First-Amendment\u2026-perhaps-you-two-should-get-acquainted\u00a0dept Mon, Feb 14th 2022 3:43pm\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Tim Cushing In 2018, the sheriff of Butts County, Georgia (no, really),\u00a0Buford T. Justice\u00a0Gary Long instructed deputies to ruin the Halloween holiday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex-offender-news"],"modified_by":"SOOSR","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/georgia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/georgia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/georgia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/georgia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/georgia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/georgia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/georgia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/georgia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/georgia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/georgia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}