Sean Hearty, the city's zoning enforcement officer, said in general, temporary lawn signs are not permitted on public property or in the public right of way.
"It's OK on private property as long as the sign doesn't obstruct the line of sight for motorists and the sign is taken down shortly after the event," he said.
Last year, most blatant offender was the carpetbagger who gives new meaning to the term "extra credit", the 107th, 110th, 109th State Rep candidate Gregg Seabury. Everywhere you turned, there seemed to be a Seabury lawn sign in public places. Fortunately, no amount of lawn signs, or acts of desperation such as jumping on the illegal immigration bandwagon, smearing his opponent with outright lies, could help Seabury from getting ripped to shreds in an News-Times editorial and losing horribly to current State Rep. Joe Taborsak.
That was then and this is now and it seems like the Republican Town Committee is at it again by blanketing Treasurer Dan Jowdy signs everywhere.
This brings us to the purpose of this post.
On the request of several people I've talked to, we're going to do zoning enforcement officer Sean Hearty a BIG favor. With the help of you guys, HatCityBLOG will keep daily track of every single illegal lawn sign placed in a public location.
Here's what we're asking out of you. If you think you see a lawn sign that's placed illegally, send us an email with the address where the sign is located and we'll go and take a look at it. If the sign determined to be in a public place, we'll photograph and document it the offense.
The picture of the sign, complete with address, google map, and the date the photo was taken, will be placed on the site for all to see...including the zoning enforcement officer who will be emailed each time we find a sign placed illegally. We'll monitor the location until the sign is removed.
Eventually, this post will be converted to a separate web page for easier viewing.
REPORT ILLEGAL POLITICAL SIGNS.
If you see a sign that you feel is in an illegal location, email us at hatcityblog@yahoo.com and we'll check it out and add it to the list. (click on any image to enlarge)
Violating sign 3: Dan Jowdy Address:Corner of Liberty Street . Date reported: September 23 2007 Date removed: Still there... NOTE: Two signs were removed from this location positioned in front of the church at an earlier time.
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
