The Department of Corrections has created a sex offender house in your neighborhood. They need to change their policy of establishing housing for sex offenders without first determining if the location is appropriate. When this house was established in July, no contact was made with the town, the local police or the Department of Education. If they had looked at the number of single women and children in this area, it would have been clearly seen that this is no place for a sex offender house. The DOC needs to revise their policy and remove their house from this neighborhood.

A prisoner of a violent crime was released to a work center after only 7 months of. 10.5 year sentence. She killed 14 year old child and pleaded guilty. She should be in prison, she should not be in a work center

We have an epidemic of drug addiction and it's only going to grow if we don't make some major changes. We need to stop the revolving doors to our prisons and jails. It's been proven that sentencing people with addiction issues to jail/prison and releasing them over and over isn't working and it's costing taxpayers millions of dollars. According to the Minnesota House of Representatives, it costs approximately $32,700 of taxpayer money every year for each inmate as opposed to $2000 to $7000 for treatment. We need rehabilitation not incarceration. We need more treatment centers that people can afford without lengthy waiting lists so when a loved one says they want/need treatment they can get in somewhere ASAP. Waiting could mean more jail or possible death due to an overdose. Let's wake up!!

Damiean Wicks was falsely arrested, tried and convicted of Aggravated Assault. Damiean was sentenced on the day of his trial. Damiean's sentence is - 2 twenty year sentences running concurrently with 7 years behind bars and 13 years on probation. No evidence was available.

More than two weeks after Darrien Hunt, 22, was fatally shot in the back by two Saratoga Springs police officers, the Salt Lake Tribune reported that the department had purchased body cameras sometime in the last year or more, and one of the officers involved had publicly praised the use of the high tech devices in several online journals and newspapers. Two weeks. Were the two officers wearing the body cams on September 10, 2014, the day they killed Hunt? No one knows. “We are still currently unaware if the Saratoga Springs police wear body cams,” said Susan Hunt, Darrien’s mother. “There is a big concern now—that if they were wearing them, did they have them on? Can they claim they didn’t have them on? Can they say they were blocked? They are police officers. They should be held at a higher liability—they have to be more accountable for their actions, and what they do. It should be considered withholding evidence if they do not. Body cameras should be worn by all police to protect both honest officers and citizens.” In lieu of this finding, and the fact that the investigation into Darrien’s death is not transparent and the investigators appear biased, we are launching a new petition asking for the Saratoga Springs police department to be required to answer honestly whether or not their officers were wearing body cameras when they shot and killed Darrien Hunt. We would also request that any videos captured by the bank, or any other business, be made available to the public, or at least to the Hunt family lawyer. We would also like access to the 911 tapes that include the original call to the police station, and any subsequent audio regarding the shooting. In addition, we would like to see: 1. A law passed that all police jurisdictions require their personnel to wear working body cameras during all encounters with citizens. This will help to ensure transparency for law enforcement activities. 2. That body camera video be treated as evidence, and managed the same as other evidence. 3. Local investigators be held accountable for not conducting a valid criminal investigation. 4. The development of a national standardized protocol for officer-involved shootings, so that officer(s), citizen(s), victim(s), families, and communities can trust that the investigative outcomes are fair and just. 5. That all law enforcement investigations be transparent to ensure the facts in evidence are neither hidden nor altered to protect any party from wrongdoing, unethical, or illegal activities. 6. That in the case of an officer shooting where a death results, that the case goes before a citizen review board. 7. That officers, while not treated as criminals, are interviewed promptly and kept apart, as is always done in a criminal investigation. It appears that the Utah County District Attorney's Office has forgotten that Darrien was someone's child. Specifically, Susan Hunt's child. All evidence points to a shooting that was not justified. The nation and world is watching, and so those responsible must be held accountable. Susan Hunt and her family are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as are most of her neighbors in the 95-percent white, Mormon community. But for those with children of mixed ethnic heritage, it is fraught with danger. Susan Hunt does not want to see this happen to someone else's child. Only by changing the laws can we prevent this. She stands behind her claim of racial prejudice. Darrien, who was half black, was too different to fit in. She and many others believe this is obvious. The fact that Darrien died with six bullets in his back shows that he was not a threat. “Too many people have come forward making us aware of complaints brought forward against the police department for racial discrimination, or basically anyone who is different or considered not fitting into the norm for Saratoga Springs,” Susan said. "Until this is fixed, I would tell other parents to be afraid. Be very afraid for your children." She knows, because Susan will never see her child again.

The the Savannah Community demands an apology from Savannah Police Officer David Jannot for killing Charles Smith . The Savannah police department has a direct reflection on police departments everywhere. The killing of Charles Smith, in addition to the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, is not benefiting the police department . They are not carrying out proper procedure . You can make a change today by signing this petition.

On September 14, 2014, our lives were forever changed upon receiving the most devastating news that our dear friend Bereket Haile “BK” was a victim of a deadly hit and run while he was crossing the 2700 block of Georgia Ave. NW in Washington, DC. The Ethiopian Community in the DMV area is still in shock for what happened to Bereket, we are asking the Metropolitan Police Department to increase the ongoing investigation of the hit and run. We do understand that MPD workload can be overwhelming sometime and we are offering our unconditional help as a community to find the killer. We will not rest until this case is solved nor we will accept this as of yet another unsolved case. Within the past few years we have lost many members of our community and we have yet to find answers for many questions we have asked, we are starting this petition to make the appropriate people aware that this time around the situation is quite different. We as a community are determined to find the answer to the question “Who Killed Bereket?”

To press Senator Greenleaf to stop blocking the Hate Crime legislation before his committee.

The police have been found justified for their actions in the shooting death after only a few days of deliberation from the Grand Jury, but despite that conclusion they were falsely called to a situation that warranted no police involvement. They reacted without speaking with the perpetrator or even other witnesses to the alleged crime. If there had been a real threat, you would think other people in the store would have stopped shopping or called the police if they were in fear for their lives . Ronald Ritchie, as well as the police officers should be held accountable for their actions. Ronald Ritchie sparked a frenzy by calling the police and giving false information in a non-threatening situation. He was also still in the store. The video that has been published in the media has made this case clear and concrete, yet no one is being held accountable for a life lost unjustly. Filing a false police report is a serious crime that no one should get away with. Video: http://m.whio.com/videos/news/911-call-surveillance-video-together/vCtDnb/ *edit Beavercreek, Ohio is the location where the event took place

Charles Erickson was wrongfully convicted and is an innocent man. He lost his twenties while incarcerated in Missouri maximum security prisons. His co-defendant Ryan Ferguson's convictions have been reversed and he has been released. Charles is 30 years of age now and should also be exonerated and released. Then, law enforcement officials must reopen and re-investigate the murder case in which Charles was wrongfully convicted so that the real killer(s) can be brought to justice.

THE JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT MUST ENDED.

Our community deserves and demands full accountability from our elected representatives. Mr. Shabazz's comments were unethical and inflammatory and could lead to the direct harm of a law-abiding citizen. His remarks also send the wrong message to our youth and do nothing to assuage the community's pain over the shooting.