{"id":1706,"date":"2011-07-26T08:51:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T12:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/these-are-crimes-susan-leavens.html"},"modified":"2011-07-26T08:51:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T12:51:59","slug":"these-are-crimes-susan-leavens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/these-are-crimes-susan-leavens.html","title":{"rendered":"These are crimes &mdash;Susan Leavens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Received 28 June 2011. -jsq<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJohn,<\/p>\n<p>\nI am so sorry you had to see these offenses, it should have been<br \/>\ninvestigated\/viewed by the Sheriffs Dept. or GBI, these are crimes not violations like the GDA says!<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/loco\/animals\/violation.png\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" width=\"430\" height=\"136\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/loco\/animals\/violation.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nI will not give up on this; crimes should<br \/>\nbe punished as such. I have written many citiznes of lowndes county<br \/>\ncitations and they have been charged with these crimes by a court of<br \/>\nlaw. No one is above the law including Linda Patelski, but the GDA<br \/>\nrecognizes these crimes as violations, not crimes or they would have<br \/>\nbeen handled as such. No person should be covered under the umbrella of<br \/>\nGDA. After statements have been lost by them (GDA) and then resubmitted<br \/>\nit just seems like these crimes are no more important then losing a<br \/>\nreceipt for gas.<\/p>\n<p>\nI find that<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/05\/-county-animal-shelter-issues-joe-pritchard-lcc-work-session-23-may-2011.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3006\/5752929422_7636ef793a_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/05\/-county-animal-shelter-issues-joe-pritchard-lcc-work-session-23-may-2011.html\"><br \/>\nJoe Prichard involving my character in this matter<\/a><br \/>\nirrelevant and my convictions in court cases involving<br \/>\nanimal cruelty inhumane treatment and other ordinance violations<br \/>\nand state laws speak of my character, over 400 cases brought before<br \/>\nmagistrate court, municipal court and state court out weigh his<br \/>\npersonal opinion(s) and one case lose in five years of employment as<br \/>\nanimal control officer for Lowndes County and I was told to write that<br \/>\ncitation by my director Linda Patelski for nuisance dog. I have not<br \/>\ndiscredited any employee who works for Lowndes County in these<br \/>\nmatters&#8230; I have told the truth and<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/07\/falsified-logs-at-the-animal-shelter.html\"><br \/>\nhave documentation<\/a> to back what I say.<\/p>\n<p>\nBecause I said I have no respect for Joe Prichard in my statement<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nto the Department of Agriculture means after I have told everything<br \/>\nstill he does nothing, I would not discredit him but I do not have to<br \/>\nhave respect after he disregarded these matters. The chain of<br \/>\ncommand&#8230; it must be none the shelter chain of command has two weak<br \/>\nlinks, our director and Lowndes County, that&#8217;s why we went to GDA with<br \/>\nthese issues, That is not disrespectful it is fact. In the memo from<br \/>\nLinda is states we are not able to go to outside entities GDA, GBI and<br \/>\nthe FBI&#8230; and we will not be retaliated against, does that mean we<br \/>\nwill if we go to those entities with crimes?<\/p>\n<p>\nThese are crimes&#8230; not<br \/>\ninternal issues although there are those too. It is against the law and<br \/>\nagainst policy to harass; but employees have been threatened by our own<br \/>\nemployer Lowndes County. Racial statements and harassment are a few of<br \/>\nthe other problems incorporated in my statement. Laws not just internal<br \/>\nissues! There is an African American man Eric Sharp who is an animal<br \/>\ncontrol officer, who has had the lights flickered on an off on him then<br \/>\nemployee Ryan Curtis and former employee Jacob Fox (now in the<br \/>\nmilitary) would say &#8220;Where&#8217;s Eric, indicating you could only see his<br \/>\nteeth in the dark&#8221;! Racial harassment, On another occasion Ryan Curtis<br \/>\ntold Officer Eric Sharp to &#8220;SHUT YOUR MOUTH  BLACK MAN!&#8221; and these<br \/>\nmatters are not being  dealt with either! It is a hostile work<br \/>\nenvironment to say the least! Cruelty, inhumane treatment, falsifying<br \/>\nrecords, destroying records, racial harassment with employees and the<br \/>\npublic to name a few&#8230; tell me were does it all end!<\/p>\n<p>\nThank you so much for your involvement in these matters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\nSusan Leavens\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Received 28 June 2011. -jsq John, I am so sorry you had to see these offenses, it should have been investigated\/viewed by the Sheriffs Dept. or GBI, these are crimes not violations like the GDA says! I will not give up on this; crimes should be punished as such. 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