You would think that a person who has been subject to harassing phone calls for several years would be able to depend on the Green County Sheriff's and District Attorney's offices. You would be wrong.
Despite my pleas, the district attorney refuses to issue a routine piece of paperwork required to release the trace of a harassing phone call I received. The same individual under a different name also harassed my sister in Illinois. The criminal responsible is now being protected by our county law enforcement officials, who say they only have the resources to process this paperwork in the event there is some kind of grave threat made. How they are able to make this determination without interviewing the criminal responsible is something they have not told me. So, people of Green County, so long as a telephone harasser refrains from making some kind of death threat, you can count on the DA to take no action at all, and thus none of us is protected from harassers.
In a strange twist, the deputy I spoke with suggested the blame lies with the phone company for demanding paperwork that, as it turns out, is required by law, in addition to telling me that the district attorney's office would not issue the paperwork, for the reasons stated above. The district attorney has told me it is the policy of the sheriff's office which is the determining factor.
Finally, the DA's office seems to think the trace was unsuccessful, according to the police report, though it was successful for the first time in the years of harassment I have been dealing with. I wonder if the district attorney or the sheriff would apply their arbitrary and subjective standard if it was they who were being subjected to this harassment.
No I don't.
Perhaps this is why the people of Brodhead are now being harassed by fraudulent phone calls; the word is out that in Green County, they have nothing to fear.
Despite my pleas, the district attorney refuses to issue a routine piece of paperwork required to release the trace of a harassing phone call I received. The same individual under a different name also harassed my sister in Illinois. The criminal responsible is now being protected by our county law enforcement officials, who say they only have the resources to process this paperwork in the event there is some kind of grave threat made. How they are able to make this determination without interviewing the criminal responsible is something they have not told me. So, people of Green County, so long as a telephone harasser refrains from making some kind of death threat, you can count on the DA to take no action at all, and thus none of us is protected from harassers.
In a strange twist, the deputy I spoke with suggested the blame lies with the phone company for demanding paperwork that, as it turns out, is required by law, in addition to telling me that the district attorney's office would not issue the paperwork, for the reasons stated above. The district attorney has told me it is the policy of the sheriff's office which is the determining factor.
Finally, the DA's office seems to think the trace was unsuccessful, according to the police report, though it was successful for the first time in the years of harassment I have been dealing with. I wonder if the district attorney or the sheriff would apply their arbitrary and subjective standard if it was they who were being subjected to this harassment.
No I don't.
Perhaps this is why the people of Brodhead are now being harassed by fraudulent phone calls; the word is out that in Green County, they have nothing to fear.
