In yesterday's exchange of comments and messages, Del. David Englin has twice evaded answering a key question posed by readers.
So the Growler will now ask it publicly.
At which meeting of the full ARHA board of commissioners -- which readers may recall now includes Alexandria Police Chief Earl Cook -- did you, Del. Englin, present your proposed legislation for discussion and endorsement?
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If an individual waives his rights to a hearing and the authority agrees with the barment, it is only official once the individual is served with his copy?
A man who doesen't live on arha property breaks some property while visiting the mother of his children. Individual is charge with destruction of said property and barred by the police. He give a fake address to the police and is released on a citation for the misdemeanor. He waves his hearing and the authority decides the police were right in barring the individual. He comes back to the property again and again because the paperwork was sent to prince william county for service, based on the address the individual gave at the time of the first incident. The subject knows he can not be arrest based on the fact that he hasn't been served the official ruling from the authority. Therefore he plays cat and mouse, hide and seek with the police until they can catch him again, when they have the official paperwork.
Wow, I would pretty much give up on barring people if I was a cop and had to go through all this. Luckily for Parker Gray and decent ARHA citizens I'm not.
Mr. Englin, you previously said that there was a hearing process already in place, but the individuals being barred weren't aware of it.
Why not add the information of the hearing process to the current paperwork the police issue the individual and be done with it? What's the need for all these extra rules Sir?
SCSA
In the spirit of openness, I'd like to ask another question of Mr. Englin.
In his posting, he vaguely claims to have consulted "attorneys, and City non-profit leaders" as well as "various groups involved with housing authorities around Virginia"
Could he please be more specific about who these attorneys, leaders and groups are?
I'm guessing his choice of "consultants" is what produced this wildly one-sided and ill conceived legislation.
Does anyone else find this unfair? Mr. Eglin says that these new rules will protect the police from harassment suites. What about all the non public housing private properties the police work with and bar people from. Is it ok for the police to use the current system now?
Again we seem to have a leader that wants to separate rules for one group of people from another group. Sounds like an aticle I just read on here recently.
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