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The first thing we're going to talk about today is this news coming out of Georgia around a group

of registered sex offenders and I wonder why YouTube hits me. But the story isn't about them

committing more crimes, but rather they're arguing that they are the victims of a situation. In fact,

filing a lawsuit against the Butts County Sheriff's Office for posting signs on their homes warning trick-or-treaters not to visit.

Those signs in question reading warning, no trick-or-treat at this address, a community safety message from Butts County Sheriff Gary Long.

According to Sheriff Gary Long, the messages were designed to keep kids safe. However, the sex offenders who filed this lawsuit argue that these are a violation of their rights to privacy and have likened this policy to compelled speech, which violates the First Amendment.

The lawsuit was filed by the registered sex offenders that are Christopher Reed, Reginald Holden, and Corey McClendon.

And here the men say that the signs were put up by county sheriffs, but also in other cases, the county sex offenders were told that they had to either display the signs on their properties or face unspecified trouble. And one of the things with this story is that this is actually not a completely new situation.

In fact, the initiative to display the signs began back in 2018, with Long directing deputies to place the warnings in the front yards of over 200 sex offenders registered in the county from October 24th to November 2nd.

The sheriff's office planned to do the same thing this year, which prompted the lawsuit.

Now in a Facebook post, Sheriff Long said the signs were first instituted after the cancellation of a local Halloween festival,

something that ended up resulting in an influx of children just out in the street going door to door.

And there he also explained that the signs comply with a state law that forbids sex offenders from participating in Halloween.

And in fact, in other areas of the state, like Monroe and Lamar counties, they also use signs.

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