Gloucester, VA Animal Control Caught Breaking The Law.......Again

Now here is the person that kicked off our watching and reporting on county employees conducting themselves in behavior that is a violation of local and state laws.  We have shown the laws on this site many times that employees are not allowed to use government vehicles for personal use.  Here we have Jeff Stillman with Animal Control using a government issued vehicle this morning at 7:40 AM to get himself breakfast while on the clock.  This is the 7-Eleven across from McDonald's up off of 17 in the courthouse area.

  This is a clear violation of the public trust on so many levels.  This guy is sworn to uphold the laws and here he is violating county and state laws.  How can you trust this guy?  This is part one for today.  We have more.

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Regulating Animal Control (Photo credit: Office of Governor Patrick)

Gloucester One Dollar Gun Sales from Chuck Thompson

Here is the entire issue that was a part of a public discussion last night before the Gloucester, Virginia board of supervisors.  As it turns out, Carl, (Chuck), Shipley decided to whine and cry about being able to buy his gun for one dollar from the county even though he only had 22 years of service in, and county code says you have to have 25 years of service in.  Well, first off, the 25 years of service is in violation of state codes.  Not that this is bad enough, but Animal Control does not qualify as law enforcement per Virginia code.  Now they are granted limited law enforcement capabilities by both state code and local ordinance, but are not technically considered law enforcement by either that we see.  See the above 59.1-148.3 state code.

 It appears Animal Control officers are excluded from section A which is the defining section for the rest of the code.  Carl's complaint was that he wanted to buy his gun for one dollar even though he does not have the right to from what we see in the state code.  Watch the video here as Brenda Garton now plays legal interpretation for state code in violation of the Dillon Rule.

We have gone over the state codes regarding law enforcement officers and animal control officers.  Animal Control at this time is not listed as law enforcement.  They have certain deputized duties of law enforcement, but are not listed as law enforcement at all.  http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+3.2-6555  Link to Animal Control officer status with the state.  Now it looks like in the future there will be a new breed that does meet the law enforcement section of state code, but that division has not yet been made law, even though it is on the books to become law.  http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+15.2-632  This link will take you to where the state is looking at Animal Protection Police.  If and when that comes, then those are the ones who will meet law enforcement guidelines of the state.  (More invasions on privacy).

  So what we see in the video is county employees making assumptions in violation of the Dillon Rule regarding Carl Shipley being able to buy a gun for one dollar when he is not classified as law enforcement.   Where was Twitching Ted, (I'm not an attorney), Willymot, the court jester, county attorney on all of this?  Not a word came out of his mouth.  County employees just state Twitches opinion for him, and it does not look as though that opinion was correct.  But hey, when do we actually see these people trying to even consider following any laws anyway?  It's more fun to make them up as you go along.  Even the Sheriff was appalled at the county ordinances not meeting state guidelines.

 

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October Gloucester, VA Ordinances In Violation of State Code

Sec. 3-14. Use of fireworks causing injury to animals.

It shall be unlawful to set off or use any fireworks that result in an injury to any animal caused by direct contact with the fireworks or if the animal injured itself from fear of the fireworks.

  Sounds like a decent ordinance.  If it could be enforced, it would be.  Problem is, it has no parallel in state code that we can find.  Also, we tested this and the county can not nor will not enforce it.  What they have done in the past is send out Sheriff's deputies to try and witness an event.  The deputies only stay so long and if they do not see anything themselves, there is nothing they say that they can do about it.

  In other times, officials have instead sought to attack those who reported the issues.  ???  No joke.  Dig through this site and you will eventually find confirmation on this.  (Clue, go back a few years and dig through posts after the 4th of July).    It's hard to argue against an ordinance that for all intents and purposes seems very logical and in the best interests of the people.  But when it has no basis in state code, it has no business being there in the county ordinances.   It's once again Gloucester officials making up their own nanny state rules at their own whim and pleasure which do not serve the common good of the people even if it appears to.

   Below is the link to the Virginia state codes as they apply to animals.  Check for yourself to see if you find any parallel.  http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?

In less than one hour, the Gloucester Board of Supervisors meeting will begin.  At this meeting, they will only be addressing one ordinance in violation of state code while there are many that remain in violation of state code and they are aware of a number of these violations.  There are a lot of questions about these people voted in that we expected to represent us and instead have made it a choice to misrepresent us at so many levels.  

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Gloucester, VA Government Employee's Violation Mondays Is Back Again.

7:40 AM Monday, September 23rd, 2013, Parks and Recreation employee at McDonald's at the courthouse area.  McDonald's is the new Hardee's?  Looks that way.

Proof that he was going into McDonald's?  Yep, that's him heading in now.

Here comes our boy now.  He's smiling as he just got his happy meal.  Truck number 67.

7:50 AM.  Public Schools van pulls up and is ordering at the drive through.  2 people in this van.

Van number 273.  License plate number 169-938L.  Once again, same McDonald's up in the courthouse area on route 17.

Same van now in line at the drive through.

8:40 AM, Public Schools.  One male parks and goes inside to order takeout.

In the foreground is the Suntrust Bank.  Plate number 138-037L.

This picture shows that the truck is in fact parked at McDonald's.  I saw three separate vehicles here today.  Last week I saw that this is the new Hardee's stop, so this is where I focused my own time.

So if you need to find a Gloucester County Government employee, they are no longer hanging out at Hardee's they are now after those happy meals.  To reach them when they are not at their designated site just call McDonald's at the following phone number, (804)-684-4810.  Guess when we recommended that other fast food restaurants complain about all the Gloucester County employees going to Hardee's, staying away from the other fast food places, McDonald's was the one who actually complained.

  What about Burger King?  Sonic's? or Chick-Fil-A?  Why are the Gloucester employees breaking the laws just to hit McDonald's only now?  Is it that maybe these employees are being sent here to pick up breakfast for Branda Garton, Ted Wilmot or The Kiser?  Now these folks all know that this activity is illegal.  Why do they continue to break the laws each and every week costing all the tax payers untold small fortunes?  Criminals with no regard for the law.

And today of all days when county officials are having the swamp school ground breaking ceremony for the highly controversial swamp property?  Are these employees trying to make fools out of the Gloucester officials?  That really does not take much at this point does it?  Happy Meals now on wheels.  Why do officials still have jobs?  Has it become that in order to move up in the world, you have to show very high levels of incompetence?  If that is the case, the local jails are filled with people more than qualified to take over these jobs and probably do much better at them.

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