BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–The South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services will again have a curfew for offenders under its supervision for a sex offense.
Halloween rules for sex offenders on Probation, Parole and other forms of community supervision under the jurisdiction of SCDPPPS are as follows:
- Curfew: 5:30 p.m. – 9 p.m. statewide on Halloween day (Saturday).
- This applies to all persons under supervision for a sex offense. (Note: This does not apply to all sex offenders, many of whom are no longer on probation or parole and therefore not under the jurisdiction of SCDPPPS.)
- Curfew will be enforced through agent surveillance techniques in all counties in the state. Some counties will require offenders to go to a central location.
Sex offenders have been notified there will be no lights on outside their houses; no candy distribution; no participating in Halloween parties or carnivals.
They must also stay in their homes and can’t go into the street.
In 2014, PPP deployed 205 personnel on Halloween. They made a total of 500 sex offender residence checks and another 261 landline phone checks statewide. There was one arrest. This is the tenth year the SC Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services has imposed a Halloween curfew on sex offenders under its jurisdiction.
Exactly how many children have been harmed by those parolees on Halloween? Before these restrictions? After? Ever?
How many children have been harmed / killed by automobile drivers? How many of those drivers were drunk?
THAT is something worth reporting…