Bad news from up in Siskiyou County. We really need anybody who likes to grow in full sun to exercise their rights,
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Help! Siskiyou Co. Banning Outdoor Medical Cultivation
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Thanks for posting this up !!So did they issue a ban or are they just talking about it? Nevada county issued a ban on all outdoor this week, would be surprised if more counties don't follow suit. That's good news on your petitions Mrs. Babba, sounds like there is some organization and hope there.
Yeah siskiyou county board of supervisors placed an all out ban on growing if you live in the county....we got the necessary signatures for the referendum to make to go to a vote in June. We registered more then a thousand ppl to vote in about 17 days, and more then 4000 signatures!
My boss is amazing she organized this whole thing and got it done! With a lot of help but she got the ball rolling.
So any siskiyou county residence here get out and vote in june, let your voice be heard and tell the assholes in charge that they can't take away our rights!
My boss is amazing she organized this whole thing and got it done! With a lot of help but she got the ball rolling.
So any siskiyou county residence here get out and vote in june, let your voice be heard and tell the assholes in charge that they can't take away our rights!
I'm considering a property in Siskiyou for this year, and I wanted to know what people are thinking up there. I'm currently in Butte county, and it's quite a mess out here right now. The enforcement was very aggressive last year, and is looking to be worse this year.
Does anyone know if they've allocated resources to this program yet, and how they plan to enforce it? I know they've got SUMIT, just like we've got BINTF to pursue larger operations/cases. In Butte they used an approach based on Code Enforcement officers backed up by Butte County Sheriffs.
Any information would be appreciated. I've been reading some articles, but there's nothing like first hand information.
Does anyone know if they've allocated resources to this program yet, and how they plan to enforce it? I know they've got SUMIT, just like we've got BINTF to pursue larger operations/cases. In Butte they used an approach based on Code Enforcement officers backed up by Butte County Sheriffs.
Any information would be appreciated. I've been reading some articles, but there's nothing like first hand information.
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Anywhere is better than Butte
This made me laugh. Butte really rolled up the welcome mat last year. I wish my friends who are staying here the best, but I'm getting out.
That's great news! Hopefully everyone out there has a good season.
Good luck Siskiyou! Actually, it's not about luck, it's about getting out and vote...Hopefully, the village idiot Sheriff Lopey finally gets shut up for good...
Speaking of the village idiot Sheriff Lopey...Wouldnt surprise me if he stooped to do this. The Hmongs, as Sheriff Dopey knows quite well, are very versed in the art of grow-age in the Siskiyou area...
LOCAL NEWS
Attorney General's Office in Siskiyou County after reports of sheriff intimidating voters
Posted: 12:36 p.m.
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By Damon Arthur of the Redding Record Searchlight
The state Attorney General's Office representatives have been sent to Siskiyou County after reports the county sheriff has been intimidating residents of Hmong descent to keep them from voting in Tuesday’s election.
Representatives of the Secretary of State's Office have also been sent to the county to monitor voting there, said Rachele Huennekens, a spokeswoman for Attorney General’s Office.
“The California Attorney General’s office is assisting the Secretary of State’s office to monitor polling places in Siskiyou County, and ensure that all voters are able to cast their ballot free from intimidation, interference, or threats of violence,” Huennekens said.
“We are specifically monitoring reports of alleged voter intimidation among vulnerable minority populations, such as the Hmong community. Anyone who witnesses or is subject to voter intimidation should report it to the Secretary of State’s office,” she said.
Lori Shellenberger, the American Civil Liberties Union’s director of the California Voting Rights Project, said she was contacted last week by a representative of the Hmong community that residents were being intimidated by the Sheriff’s Office.
Shellenberger said the sheriff's office set up a checkpoint outside a subdivision near Hornbrook and were only stopping cars being driven by Hmongs and asking them if they were registered to vote.
"I'm not aware of this happening in any other county. This is extreme," Shellenberger said.
The sheriff’s office sent out a press release Friday indicating state officials, deputies, as well as the District Attorney and other county officials, visited several communities investigating voter fraud.
The sheriff said they visited the Klamath Country Estates in the Hornbrook area, Mt. Shasta Vista and the Mt. Shasta Forest area outside McCloud.
The sheriff said some county ordinance violations were observed and some people were issued misdemeanor citations for those violations.
The press release did not say what the alleged violations entailed or whether any voter fraud was uncovered.
“While we encourage all eligible citizens to register and vote in the upcoming election, we are supportive of the state investigative efforts because deliberate voter fraud is a serious criminal offense and monitoring and enforcement serves to protect the integrity of our voter registration and elections’ systems,” Sheriff Jon Lopey said in the press release.
Lopey was not available for comment Tuesday and has not returned a message left at his office.
Andy Fuss, founder of Siskiyou Forward, said the sheriff's actions may be related to some measures on Tuesday's ballot, including two that have to do with banning outdoor marijuana growing.
Another would raise the sales tax by a half cent in the county to raise money to build a new jail.
Fuss said law enforcement went to homes where people of Hmong descent lived and told people they could not vote.
“The story is particularly disturbing because the people being targeted are refugees who came here to escape oppression. Many of them fought alongside the United States to promote democratic freedoms,” the ACLU said in its press release.
Shellenberger on Sunday sent an email to Helen Hutchinson, the president of the League of Women Voters of California, asking her to recruit observers to travel to Siskiyou County.
In a phone interview Hutchinson said voter fraud is "almost nonexistent," and said she was skeptical of the assertions that anything illegal was going on in Siskiyou County.
"We are on record as saying that voter fraud is so rare as to be nonexistent," she said.
Hutchinson forwarded the email from Shellenberger to Alice Bell, president of the League of Women Voters in the Redding Area, asking if anyone from Shasta County could help in Siskiyou County.
“The sheriff is threatening to arrest Hmong community members who vote on Tuesday (there are nearly 1000 or more Hmong people who have moved there),” Shellenberger said in her email to Hutchinson.
“There are lots of politics involved that I won't go into here, but this sheriff is no joke and I have spent the weekend working to verify complaints and drill down on this,” Shellenberger said in her email.
Hutchinson said by phone that attempts to intimidate voters is unusual in California, but happens in other areas of the country. She said her agency gets involved to make sure voters have safe access to polling places.
Siskiyou County Elections Clerk Colleen Setzer said she didn't want to comment on the sheriff's investigation or the accusations of intimidation.
She did say she did find problems with voter registrations and she forwarded those on to the Secretary of State's office because she has no investigative authority.
Representatives from the Secretary of State's Office and the state Attorney General's Office have been sent to Siskiyou County polling places to ensure people have access to vote, Shellenberger said.
Fuss said he and others recruited some 50 volunteer observers at various polling places in the county. Many members of the Hmong community that are registered to vote have been told at polling places they were not on the voter rolls, Fuss said.
Instead they were given provisional ballots, he said.
LOCAL NEWS
Attorney General's Office in Siskiyou County after reports of sheriff intimidating voters
Posted: 12:36 p.m.
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By Damon Arthur of the Redding Record Searchlight
The state Attorney General's Office representatives have been sent to Siskiyou County after reports the county sheriff has been intimidating residents of Hmong descent to keep them from voting in Tuesday’s election.
Representatives of the Secretary of State's Office have also been sent to the county to monitor voting there, said Rachele Huennekens, a spokeswoman for Attorney General’s Office.
“The California Attorney General’s office is assisting the Secretary of State’s office to monitor polling places in Siskiyou County, and ensure that all voters are able to cast their ballot free from intimidation, interference, or threats of violence,” Huennekens said.
“We are specifically monitoring reports of alleged voter intimidation among vulnerable minority populations, such as the Hmong community. Anyone who witnesses or is subject to voter intimidation should report it to the Secretary of State’s office,” she said.
Lori Shellenberger, the American Civil Liberties Union’s director of the California Voting Rights Project, said she was contacted last week by a representative of the Hmong community that residents were being intimidated by the Sheriff’s Office.
Shellenberger said the sheriff's office set up a checkpoint outside a subdivision near Hornbrook and were only stopping cars being driven by Hmongs and asking them if they were registered to vote.
"I'm not aware of this happening in any other county. This is extreme," Shellenberger said.
The sheriff’s office sent out a press release Friday indicating state officials, deputies, as well as the District Attorney and other county officials, visited several communities investigating voter fraud.
The sheriff said they visited the Klamath Country Estates in the Hornbrook area, Mt. Shasta Vista and the Mt. Shasta Forest area outside McCloud.
The sheriff said some county ordinance violations were observed and some people were issued misdemeanor citations for those violations.
The press release did not say what the alleged violations entailed or whether any voter fraud was uncovered.
“While we encourage all eligible citizens to register and vote in the upcoming election, we are supportive of the state investigative efforts because deliberate voter fraud is a serious criminal offense and monitoring and enforcement serves to protect the integrity of our voter registration and elections’ systems,” Sheriff Jon Lopey said in the press release.
Lopey was not available for comment Tuesday and has not returned a message left at his office.
Andy Fuss, founder of Siskiyou Forward, said the sheriff's actions may be related to some measures on Tuesday's ballot, including two that have to do with banning outdoor marijuana growing.
Another would raise the sales tax by a half cent in the county to raise money to build a new jail.
Fuss said law enforcement went to homes where people of Hmong descent lived and told people they could not vote.
“The story is particularly disturbing because the people being targeted are refugees who came here to escape oppression. Many of them fought alongside the United States to promote democratic freedoms,” the ACLU said in its press release.
Shellenberger on Sunday sent an email to Helen Hutchinson, the president of the League of Women Voters of California, asking her to recruit observers to travel to Siskiyou County.
In a phone interview Hutchinson said voter fraud is "almost nonexistent," and said she was skeptical of the assertions that anything illegal was going on in Siskiyou County.
"We are on record as saying that voter fraud is so rare as to be nonexistent," she said.
Hutchinson forwarded the email from Shellenberger to Alice Bell, president of the League of Women Voters in the Redding Area, asking if anyone from Shasta County could help in Siskiyou County.
“The sheriff is threatening to arrest Hmong community members who vote on Tuesday (there are nearly 1000 or more Hmong people who have moved there),” Shellenberger said in her email to Hutchinson.
“There are lots of politics involved that I won't go into here, but this sheriff is no joke and I have spent the weekend working to verify complaints and drill down on this,” Shellenberger said in her email.
Hutchinson said by phone that attempts to intimidate voters is unusual in California, but happens in other areas of the country. She said her agency gets involved to make sure voters have safe access to polling places.
Siskiyou County Elections Clerk Colleen Setzer said she didn't want to comment on the sheriff's investigation or the accusations of intimidation.
She did say she did find problems with voter registrations and she forwarded those on to the Secretary of State's office because she has no investigative authority.
Representatives from the Secretary of State's Office and the state Attorney General's Office have been sent to Siskiyou County polling places to ensure people have access to vote, Shellenberger said.
Fuss said he and others recruited some 50 volunteer observers at various polling places in the county. Many members of the Hmong community that are registered to vote have been told at polling places they were not on the voter rolls, Fuss said.
Instead they were given provisional ballots, he said.
I think that maybe Lopey has a bit too much of an interest in how this turns out -
http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/article/20160607/NEWS/160609790
http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/article/20160607/NEWS/160609790
