June 30, 2017

The Dustin Inman Society has confirmed that at least one of the individuals recently arrested for a May, 2017 rape of a Gwinnett County mother is under an ICE hold

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The Dustin Inman Society has confirmed that at least one of the individuals recently arrested for a May, 2017 attack on a Gwinnett County mother is under an ICE hold.

As Fox News reported yesterday, “Georgia police arrested three teenagers who allegedly broke into a home and raped a woman near her children.

Francisco Palencia, 17, Josue Ramirez, 19, and a 15-year-old girl who has not been identified were arrested in connection with the horrifying case. The three are facing charges that include kidnapping, rape, cruelty to children, home invasion, aggravated sodomy and aggravated battery.

The victim told police that two young men broke into her Gwinnett County home on May 12, shocked her with stun guns and forced her into her bedroom, according to Fox 5 Atlanta. The woman tried to fight them off and went to be with her two children, the police report said. One of the intruders dumped two pots of scalding hot water on her.”

This morning, the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s office confirmed in an email that Josue Ramirez is the subject of an immigration hold request from ICE.

The Gwinnett County Sheriff, Butch Conway was one the first sheriffs in Georgia to implement the 287 (g) program in his jail, with a trial-run that proved the need and effectiveness of the federal program.

Corporate-funded anti-borders groups fought against the 287 (g) program and claim that taking illegal aliens opff the streets “makes the community less safe”

According to DHS, Georgia has a larger population of illegal aliens than Arizona.

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June 28, 2017

IERB/Adult education: DeKalb BOE seems upset: My complaint has caused them to use harassment tactics if it moves forward

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IERB Open records request sent to Georgia Southern University today – Re; Adult education, * UPDATED with reply

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photo: Georgia Southern University

MARKED “C” and “D” in my July 12, 2017 complaint to IERB and the Georgia AG office.

 

 

–> *ADDED – July 5, 2017 – Response from Georgia Southern:records Records

July 3, 2017 AT 2:19 PM

<records@georgiasouthern.edu>, “D.A. KING” <DKing1952@comcast.net>

Your recent Open Records inquiry has been processed. The University maintains no documents responsive to your request.

2017-06-28 11:08 GMT-04:00

D.A. KING <DKing1952@comcast.net>:
Office of Legal Affairs
Georgia Southern University
P.O. Box 8020
Statesboro, GA 30460
(912) 478-7481 (phone)
(912) 478-7488 (fax)

Fax: (912) 478-7488

 

______

June 28, 2017

Open records request

Georgia Southern University
Office of Legal Affairs
1005 Marvin Pittman Bldg.
P.O. Box 8020
Statesboro, GA 30460
records@georgiasouthern.edu
Phone: (912) 478-7481

Or to whom it may concern at Georgia Southern University:

Please regard this as my official request for public records.

Please send me copies of the eligibility affidavits collected from the adult education students who attended any English learners classes including the classes detailed in this example as required in OCGA 50-36-1. Also please send me copies of the secure and verifiable ID presented at application or registration that were collected from the adult education students.

“(f) (1) Except as provided in subsection (g) of this Code section, an agency or political subdivision providing or administering a public benefit shall require every applicant for such benefit to:

(A) Provide at least one secure and verifiable document, as defined in Code Section 50-36-2, or a copy or facsimile of such document. Any document required by this subparagraph may be submitted by or on behalf of the applicant at any time within nine months prior to the date of application so long as the document remains valid through the licensing or approval period or such other period for which the applicant is applying to receive a public benefit; and

(B) Execute a signed and sworn affidavit verifying the applicant’s lawful presence in the United States under federal immigration law; provided, however, that if the applicant is younger than 18 years of age at the time of the application, he or she shall execute the affidavit required by this subparagraph within 30 days after his or her eighteenth birthday. Such affidavit shall affirm that:

(i) The applicant is a United States citizen or legal permanent resident 18 years of age or older; or

(ii) The applicant is a qualified alien or nonimmigrant under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, Title 8 U.S.C., 18 years of age or older lawfully present in the United States and provide the applicant’s alien number issued by the Department of Homeland Security or other federal immigration agency.

(2) The state auditor shall create affidavits for use under this subsection and shall keep a current version of such affidavits on the Department of Audits and Accounts’ official website.”

Please send copies with dates of January 1, 2015 – June 28, 2017. Please include classes conducted on all campuses and copies of student applications, registration forms and/or sign-in sheets.

Also, please send me a copy of the SAVE MOA between Georgia Southern University and USCIS also required in OCGA 50-36-1.

Please contact me with any questions.

Thank you,

D.A. King

Marietta, Ga. 30066

Georgia Southern University does Adult Education English classes

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MARKED “A” & “B” in my July 12, 2017 compliant to the IERB and the Georgia AG office.

 

IERB Open records request sent to Central Georgia Technical College- Re; adult education – *updated with response

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* Added 6 July, 2017: Response HERE

June 28, 2017

Open records request

To: Brown, Brenda
VP for Adult Education
(478) 218-3288
bbrown@centralgatech.edu
Or, whom it may concern at Central Georgia Technical College:

Please regard this as my official request for public records.

Please send me copies of the eligibility affidavits collected from the adult education students who attended the English learners classes detailed in this Macon Telegraph news report as required in OCGA 50-36-1. Also please send me copies of the secure and verifiable ID presented at application or registration that were collected from the adult education students.

“(f) (1) Except as provided in subsection (g) of this Code section, an agency or political subdivision providing or administering a public benefit shall require every applicant for such benefit to:

(A) Provide at least one secure and verifiable document, as defined in Code Section 50-36-2, or a copy or facsimile of such document. Any document required by this subparagraph may be submitted by or on behalf of the applicant at any time within nine months prior to the date of application so long as the document remains valid through the licensing or approval period or such other period for which the applicant is applying to receive a public benefit; and

(B) Execute a signed and sworn affidavit verifying the applicant’s lawful presence in the United States under federal immigration law; provided, however, that if the applicant is younger than 18 years of age at the time of the application, he or she shall execute the affidavit required by this subparagraph within 30 days after his or her eighteenth birthday. Such affidavit shall affirm that:

(i) The applicant is a United States citizen or legal permanent resident 18 years of age or older; or

(ii) The applicant is a qualified alien or nonimmigrant under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, Title 8 U.S.C., 18 years of age or older lawfully present in the United States and provide the applicant’s alien number issued by the Department of Homeland Security or other federal immigration agency.

(2) The state auditor shall create affidavits for use under this subsection and shall keep a current version of such affidavits on the Department of Audits and Accounts’ official website.”

Please send copies with dates of January 1, 2015 – June 28, 2017. Please include classes conducted on all campuses and copies of student applications, registration forms and/or sign-in sheets.

Also, please send me a copy of the SAVE MOA between Central Georgia Technical College and USCIS also required in OCGA 50-36-1.

Please contact me with any questions.

Thank you,

D.A. King

Marietta, Ga. 30066

June 27, 2017

Latest response from DeKalb Schools – Re; Literary Action Inc. – no business license, no bid but an “agreement” – note the date(s) on attached agreement (click on link)

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My request and more info HERE

Dear Mr. King,

Please find attached the agreement between Literacy Action and the School District. Applications, bids, contracts and payments do not exist. If we can provide further assistance, please contact our office.

Thank you,
_____________________________
Audrey Qualls |Legal Records Specialist
Office of Legal Affairs | DeKalb County School District
1701 Mountain Industrial Blvd | Stone Mountain, GA 30083-1027
Tel: 678.676.0203 | Fax: 678.676.0234
audrey_k_qualls@dekalbschoolsga.org

http://www.dekalbschoolsga.org/legal-affairs/#tab-9a89bbe921f46756671

–> Attachment here – DCSD_Literacy Action MOU

Please note: June 5, 2017 through July 28, 2017, the School District’s AIC summer hours are: Monday – Thursday, 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM; Closed on Friday

June 21, 2017

An open letter to Georgia’s Immigration Enforcement Review Board Re; City of Atlanta refuses mulligan gift from unproductive IERB – request IERB members recommend abolishment of the board

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Photo: Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signs HB 87 into law, My, 2011

 

June 22, 2017

An open letter to Georgia’s Immigration Enforcement Review Board

Re; City of Atlanta refuses mulligan gift from unproductive IERB – request IERB members recommend abolishment of the board

“And Deal spokesman Brian Robinson said Deal intended his appointees to the board to take a hard line on immigration. “Gov. Deal signed this piece of legislation (HB 87) into law not so that it could be neutered and used as window dressing,” Robinson said. “This immigration law is meant to have teeth. We want it to be enforced.” – 2011

Dear members of the IERB,

After no little trouble on my part, nearly a year ago I filed a valid complaint against the City of Atlanta because they refused to protect public benefits according to state law which received much national news coverage when it was created in 2006 and international media attention the last time it was modified (2011).

OCGA 50-36-1 clearly requires all agencies that administer public benefits – including business licenses/occupational tax certificates – to follow simple and standardized procedures to help insure that applicants are eligible and are not illegal aliens. The City of Atlanta acknowledged their Business License office was not following the state law, but defiantly defended themselves by saying they were in compliance with their own city ordinance on the process.

The IERB made a unanimous decision that my complaint is accurate and that City of Atlanta was in violation and sent me this letter to that effect. The IERB “requested” that Atlanta take remedial action to correct the estimated six thousand violations that occurred over the course of five years.

While I awaited a meaningful sanction from the board on which you serve, apparently a procedural error was discovered which caused the entire hearing process on my complaint to be repeated from the beginning.

The original finding of violation had zero effect on the defense from the City of Atlanta in the second version of your proceedings. Their lawyer brought in the same witness to make the same Ground Hog Day claim: ‘we are in compliance with city law
and since state law doesn’t mention non-profit businesses, we think the law is ambiguous and difficult to obey or understand
’

I have received a second letter from the IERB with the same finding of violation and the same ‘request’ that Atlanta obey the law. We should all be so lucky in our own business and daily responsibilities under the law. “Window dressing” indeed.

I write today to make it clear that it is my assumption that the current delay in further IERB action and a meaningful punishment is intended to allow the City of Atlanta time to now begin compliance and escape any sanctions by simply stating they have stopped their violations. State law allows the IERB to impose punishments that will deter other agencies from future violations.

Having had similar experience with the IERB since its inception, I offer the request that if there is no intention of real use of authority in investigation of further violations or any real sanctions for clear violations of the law over which you have authority, the board members admit there is no reason for the board to exist and to explain that premise to the General Assembly and the people of Georgia.

The pervasive official attitude across the state is that 2011’s HB 87 and all laws aimed at the crime of illegal immigration can easily be treated as optional in Georgia. The IERB and so far, the Attorney General’s office have done nothing to change that perception. I am aware that state law allows the AG’s office to prosecute violations of the three laws over which the IERB has preview totally separately and in addition to whatever action the board takes – or does not take.

As you know, I have more than ten additional complaints pending with the board. I have little confidence in fair resolution. I am now beginning the process of seeking assistance for a remedy in the court system, where adjudication of violations of state law have a better chance of seeing real, wholehearted attention and justice. I am not going to ignore the board’s inaction despite the fact that the governor, the legislature and Atlanta’s media does exactly that.

While I am aware some board members sincerely strive for an equal application of the law, I hope that you will all make recommendations to the General Assembly to disband the IERB and allow a workable, enthusiastic justice system that actually uses investigative authority to take over.

I also note here that I have a great deal of trouble recalling more than one meeting or hearing since the board’s creation in 2011 that saw attendance by the entire board membership.

Including in the “watch-dog media,” to my experienced knowledge, I am the only person in Georgia who pays attention to compliance on the illegal immigration legislation passed by the General assembly and signed into law by Governor Deal or investigates obvious violations.

D.A. King
Marietta

Confirmed today: Literacy Action Inc. is operating in Decatur, Georgia without the required business license – here are the board members

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Note; According to the DeKalb County Board of Education, Literacy action Inc. has been teaching adult education classes for the BOE.

Business License

Literacy Action Inc. board

 

 

Althea Broughton, Chair

Arnall Golden Gregory, LLP

Brandon Marzo

Troutman Sanders LLP

Addison Meriwether, Vice Chair

Cushman & Wakefield

Dr. Meca Mohammed

GLISI

Ray Cirone

Deloitte Tax LLP

Rebekah Henry Murphy

Junior League of Atlanta

Celena Evans

Cox Automotive

Anthony Olinger

Cox Automotive

Iris Feinberg

Georgia State University

Dr. Ruth Parker

Emory University

Barbara Felix

Wells Fargo

David Peterson

Community Volunteer

Deirdra Glover

Conserte Consulting

James Rodgers

J.O. Rodgers & Associates

Ashley Hamilton

Cox Enterprises

JaKathryn Ross

Georgia-Pacific LLC

Melanee Haywood

Delta Air Lines

Lesley Solomon 

Alston & Bird LLP

David LaWare

GE

Rho Thomas

Kilpatrick Townsend

Lauren Lambiase

Georgia Power

Leon J. Trum III

PwC LLP

Brian Lay

EY

Michael Turner

UPS

Renee Livsey

IBM

Michael Wall

Inivision

Calvin Wright

Community Volunteer

“You’re fired” rally – Americans who saw their jobs taken by foreign guest workers on the H-1B visa and outsourcing schemes will rally outside the White House before President Trump’s meeting with India’s Prime Minister

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Americans who saw their jobs taken by foreign guest workers on the H-1B visa and outsourcing schemes will rally outside the White House before President Trump’s meeting with India’s Prime Minister.

 

IERB DeKalb BOE/Cross Keys compliant – email traffic in response to my open records request to City of Decatur for information on business license for Literacy Action Inc.

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sent June 21, 2017 at 10:15 AM in reply to Ms. Mowatt

Ms. Mowatt,

Odd. Thanks.
FYI – Please see the website for that business here. https://literacyaction.org (see “contact” for Decatur address)
Also, I respectfully repeat that in response Glinton R. Darien, Assistant Legal Officer at DeKalb BOE specifically told the Georgia Immigration Enforcement Review Board that Literacy Action Inc. has conducted/administered adult education classes for the BOE – see the 3rd page here, under paragraph marked “Fourth”.

Thank you again for the insight.

D.A. King

On Jun 21, 2017, at 10:01 AM, Roslyn Mowatt wrote:

Mr. King,

Actually, I made the typo in my letter. My apologies. The City’s search used the correct name, Literacy Action Inc., and there are no records for that name and as stated in my letter, there is no business registered at the address 515 E. Ponce de Leon.
If you wish to make a different Open Records request, please submit to the City’s Open Records Officer as you did previously. This office is not authorized to accept Open Records requests on behalf of the City.

Thank you,

Roslyn S. Mowatt
Attorney at Law, Of Counsel
Wilson, Morton & Downs, LLC
Two Decatur TownCenter
125 Clairemont Ave., Suite 420
Decatur, Georgia 30030
(404) 377-3638 phone
(404) 941-3456 fax
Rmowatt@wmdlegal.com

The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential, and is intended only for the recipient(s) listed above. If you are neither the intended recipient(s) nor a person responsible for the delivery of this transmission to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified than any unauthorized distribution or copying of this transmission is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please destroy all copies of the transmission immediately and notify us immediately at 404.377.3638.

From: D.A. King [mailto:dking1952@comcast.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 9:42 AM
To: Roslyn Mowatt
Subject: Re: Open Records request to Decatur

Please forgive my typo. Correct name is Literacy Action Inc. ( not Literary) – their website gives Decatur address as 515 E Ponce de Leon Ave, Decatur, GA . 30030
Please send me copies of requested documents using corrected name.
Thank you
D.A. King

Sent from my iPad

On Jun 21, 2017, at 9:05 AM, Roslyn Mowatt wrote:

Mr. King,
Please see the attached.

Roslyn S. Mowatt
Attorney at Law, Of Counsel
Wilson, Morton & Downs, LLC
Two Decatur TownCenter
125 Clairemont Ave., Suite 420
Decatur, Georgia 30030
(404) 377-3638 phone
(404) 941-3456 fax
Rmowatt@wmdlegal.com

The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential, and is intended only for the recipient(s) listed above. If you are neither the intended recipient(s) nor a person responsible for the delivery of this transmission to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified than any unauthorized distribution or copying of this transmission is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please destroy all copies of the transmission immediately and notify us immediately at 404.377.3638.

 

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