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8B ♦ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2006 BATTLE From page tA place to live. The local man, only identi fied as John Doe VII, is 81 and lives with his son and 77-year-old wife of 61 years. The law has left his wife feel ing like a victim. “I can’t find a place to take him,” she said. “Everywhere you have to have a criminal background check.” Her husband is in the last stages of Alzheimer’s, which has disabled him for the last thrbe years. He was convict ed of statutory rape in 1994, she said. “It’s not fair to me,” Mrs., Doe VII said. “I'm not the problem, it’s my husband, he’s disabled and I can’t do anything for him.” Mrs. Doe VII and her dis- LAW From page iA - Rainbow House; Perry Police - Perry Volunteer Outreach; Centerville Police - Make A Wish Foundation; 78th Security Forces EFFORT From page iA and had a lot of citizen com plaints about the area. “We just mounted a large scale operation,” he said. “Shut the street down to DIABETES From page iA amputation of the foot or leg. “The good news is that Type II diabetes is treatable bv control ling blood sugar levels through proper diet and exercise along with medication if needed,” explained Alexander. For more information and to register for the program, call 478-923-9771 or register online by visiting www.hhc.org/commu nity ed. v w 1 If \ 1 \ 7 * Georgia is On the Right Track! Vote Larry O'Neal for State House November 7th! Larry ONeal Larry O’Neal - Our Representative, Our Values! abled son live at the house. Her other children come by to help take care of the father. She said she’s been noti fied he has to move by the sheriff 1 s office. “They’re kinda working with us,” she said. “I was told I might have to get a paper, go before the judge to say he’s disabled not a threat,” so they don’t have to move or he isn’t put in jail. “ By virtue of t heir advanced age and or physical condi tion,” the attorneys said in the brief, “the plaintiffs are not a danger to anyone.” . The nine plaintiffs are elderly, ill and/or severely dis abled and the enforcement of the church provision would force them to move out of their homes, nursing homes and in one case a hospice or put them in jail for not mov- - Safe Kids of Georgia; and the Georgia State Patrol - Students Against Drunk Driving. Volunteers helping the create the haunted house this year include local law enforcement, citizens, the Warner Robins High School North Avenue and across Ignico Drive,” Clay said. A field command post was set up at the intersection, Edwards said. “Officers conducted field interviews and vehicle checks on everyone who came through,” Clay said. taFeit Heals I c x u have m meUiins Dfe «es tc veil ami it*v under xm p tous -rr SW ? If. so, tall cur £B ®mte r p m s&L clavvlfieil ilepl. + well __ limit / phi intnm-i per week . mmf nm mi ! line* ■ ing, where taxpayers would be required to pay for their costly medical care. The only source of income for most is Social Security, which, like Medicaid, they cannot receive if in jail. The nine men are mostly poor and elderly, except for a 29-year-old who is, according to the brief, profoundly men tally and physically disabled by Huntington’s disease. Most are in secured nursing unit locked to prevent elderly patients with dementia from wandering, and some are under 24-hour care. One with Alzheimer’s wears an ankle bracelet to track him if he wanders. His nursing home, while within a 1,000 feet of a church is next to a police station. The local man is one of three of the nine who are at home. Of the others living at Theater Department and Air Force personnel, Clay said. They’ll be out most nights beginning at 6 p.m. through Tuesday. If you want to help, there are still spots avail able for persons wanting to take part in the Haunted The SWAT Team executed three narcotics search war rants, Edwards said. “We seized some meth, cocaine and prescription drugs.” There were 12 arrests in all, three for narcotics and some on open warrants. Edwards said there were Larry O’Neal is Moving Education Forward! / Voted to require more spending in the classroom - Giving Teachers the Tools They Need to Succeed / Voted to Lower Class Sizes - Helping Teachers Restore Discipline to the Classroom y Voted to Increase the Pay of our Dedicated Educators / Supports FULL FUNDING of Ag Education programs in our schools Larry O’Neal is a True Conservative! y A+ Rating and Endorsed By the NRA y Pro Life - Endorsed by the Georgia Right to Life / As Ways & Means Committee Chairman, Larry works to lower our taxes every day Larry O’Neal is acting on Illegal Immigration! y Voted to block all Illegal Immigrants access to Taxpayer funded benefits y Voted to fund the Georgia National Guard's efforts to secure the southern US border y Voted to require employers with state contracts prove their em ployees are legal y Voted to Block Illegal Immigrants from Receiving the HOPE Scholarship LOCAL home, one is 100 years old, was released from prison a decade ago and lives with family. The other has no family and live in a rented trailer. The attorneys claim the men have no place to go. The also claim moving the men “shocks the conscious” and government action that does so is prohibited. “Forcing a terminally ill man with less than six months to live out of his hos pice care facility because he resides within 1,000 feet of a church is utterly irrational,” said lead attorney Sarah Geraghty, of the Southern Center for Human Rights. “A civilized society does not turn elderly and severely dis abled people out on the street or force them to jail for con duct that was punished long ago.” The attorneys claim the House. The Training Center is on Stalnaker Drive off Industrial Park Drive, which is off Ga. 247 between Cascade Corp. and Northrop Grumman. For more information con tact Clay at 808-2117 or 929- 6979. tactical operations - the search warrants; ground operations - the roadblocks; and the ground units con ducting knock and talks in the neighborhood. 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JR >«.- ' - ..r'—L m— —————|—|—— church provision, as applied to the nine plaintiffs “cannot survive rational-basis scru tiny because the relationship between the classification and goal of protecting the children from sex offenses is so attenuated as to render the distinction arbitrary or irrational.” “Arresting someone who is already locked in secured nursing units with 24-hour supervision, who poses no threat to society, is yet more evidence that this legislation was poorly con ceived and badly written,” said Geraghty. “As an elec tion year stunt for an easy win, the Georgia Legislature passed a badly written sex offender law. They need to return to the drafting table and fix the mess that was made.” She is referring to House Bill 1059, passed this year Saturday, October, 21 st 7:00 p.m. THUR. - Sat. 10/26 - 10/28 j \ MO. - TU. 10/30 - 10/31 I j mm 4j| 1 Call: 213-2034 for more info. p must park at auto air of Macon & take trollev HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL which added churches and school bus stops to the places where children are likely to congregate like schools and parks. Registered sex offenders are prevented from living within 1,000 feet of any of these places. Previous lawsuits have prevented enforcement of the school bus stop provision. The original case on the bus stops and church provisions was filed June 20, prior to the new law taking effect on July 1. The court decisions have required school boards to take action to set and define the school bus stops before the provision could be enforced. Most have not. Follow-up suits resulted in restraining orders against the enforcement in the few jurisdictions that actually did. iwSSSfauE