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June 11, 2024 response to my open records request sent to Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens

June 13, 2024 By D.A. King

Mariachi band invited to the January 19, 2021 event staged by newly sworn Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens to announce his withdrawal from the ICE 287(g) contract. Photo: Cobb County Courier

The below (email) response to my June 6 open records request was received here June 11, 2024 at 3:51 PM.

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RE: Open Records Request of June 06, 2024, Reference # S011386-060624

Dear Mr./Ms. KING,

Cobb County received an open records request from you on June 06, 2024. You requested the following:

Please send me copies of any and all CCSO letters, communications (electronic or hard copy) to and/or from U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security / Immigration and Customs Enforcement concerning, mentioning and/or pertaining to beginning or terminating any MOU/MOA with ICE for 287(g) authority. Date range: 1 November 2020 to 30 April, 2021.

Please send me a copy of any/all CCSO internal memo(s) or communication(s) concerning or mentioning any effort, inquiry, question, intent or decision to terminate the agreement or MOU/MOA with ICE for 287 (g) authority that existed under Cobb Sheriff Neal Warren for the same date range as above. To be clear, this request includes a copy of the memo held up by Sheriff Craig Owens at an event in January, 2021 in which Sheriff Owens reportedly told the audience he had terminated the 287 (g) agreement and authority as reported by multiple news outlets including the Atlanta Journal Constitution and the Marietta Daily Journal in January, 2021.

To be clear: This request includes the request for a copy of the memo pictured in this MDJ news report (https://www.mdjonline.com/news/bold-necessary-and-overdue-sheriff-owens-declares-end-to-287-g-immigration-enforcement/article_457130f8-5a7e-11eb-a19f-9331a3092882.html (tagged with the caption “Courtesy Cobb County Sheriff’s Department. Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens holds a copy of the memo formally ending the office’s involvement with immigration enforcement. Commonly known under the name 287(g), ending the program was a major promise of Owens’ campaign”).

Please send me a copy of any existing MOU/MOA between CCSO and U.S. DHS/ICE concerning or granting CCSO 287 (g) authority.

We are diligently working on your request but need additional time to fulfill your request. We plan to have a response to you on or before 6/21/24.

Sincerely,

Corrie Hubbard

Cobb County Sheriff’s Office

185 Roswell St

Marietta, GA 30060

770-852-3240

To monitor the progress or download responsive records from Cobb County Sheriff’s Office, please login to the Open Records Center.

The Dustin Inman Society vs the Southern Poverty Law Center in Newsweek magazine

April 21, 2023 By D.A. King

Newsweek magazine

Conservatives Wrongly Demonized as ‘Hate Groups’ May Get Justice at Last | Opinion

April 21, 2023

Tyler O’Neil

“The Left has a long and ignoble history of grasping at straws to demonize conservatives, but one organization arguably encapsulates this strategy more than any other. That group may finally have to face accountability for its defamation. The Southern Poverty Law Center publishes a “hate map” plotting “hate groups” across the United States. Of course, the map features chapters of the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups like the National Socialist Movement, but it also includes a broad swath of conservative organizations whose major crimes amount to disagreeing with the SPLC’s policy positions. Take the Dustin Inman Society, for example. This small Georgia-based nonprofit essentially consists of one man, D.A. King, who was moved to advocate against illegal immigration by the story of a Georgia boy who lost his life at the hands of an illegal immigrant in a 2000 car crash…” please read the entire piece here.

Southern Poverty Law Center Inc.: Endowment, net assets, as of Oct. 31, 2022: $639,379,448.00

April 9, 2023 By Maria Silvia Montoya

Open records request (4of 4) to Glynn County Sheriff’s Office Dec. 29, 2022 Jose Luis Galvan-Chavez/Jose Lopez Gutierrez – OCGA 42–4-14

January 3, 2023 By D.A. King

The below post is in process and incomplete.

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Jose Lopez Gutierrez.

FBI #: L5HFF9PA9

State ID # (SID): GA5178569P

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The below was sent to the GCSO at 3:52 PM January 3, 2023.

Undersheriff Morales, please see below my original request from Dec. 29, 2022. Because of your quick response and the many emails we exchanged, there may be some error on my part here, but I do not see that I have received the items that I have highlighted in bold italics from that request. Will you please send or resend those records?

I am looking for any and all records (paper of electronic) that indicate contact and reply from federal authorities on the apparent GCSO query on immigration status for the individual now known as Jose Lopez Gutierrez.

* Also, in sorting through my sent email from last week, I see that I sent you an “off topic” email in error. The photo of my fresh-picked peppers was meant for another recipient who is a gardener and also a Marine. I am very sorry for the mistake.

Thank you,

D.A. King

My original request:

As discussed, please send me a copy of any booking report for a subject who was confined in your jail using the name Joe Luis Galvan-Chavez, aka Jose Luis Galvan-Chavez who was booked into Glynn County Sheriff Office jail on or about Friday, 23 Dec. 2022.

Please include a copy of any intake photo of subject.

Please include a copy of any electronic record or document that may indicate alternate identity or name/alias of this person.

Please include a copy of any document or record that indicates country of birth of this subject – or GCSO effort to discern country of birth.

Please include a copy of any electronic record or document that illustrates GCSO compliance with OCGA 42-4-14, including contact with LESC or other official source regarding immigration status of this subject – if he is foreign born.

Please include a copy of any document or record pertaining to any existing ICE hold on the subject.

Thank you for your professional and patient treatment on the phone this morning.

Thank you for what you do.

Respectfully,

D.A. King

The Dustin Inman Society

NewDustinInmanSociety.org

ImmigrationPoliticsGA.com

2984 Lowe Trail

Marietta, GA. 30066

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Reply:

The reply from Undersheriff Morales includes the below ICE detainer notice.

On arrogance: GA Star News and John Fredericks’ radio show, January 2022 – Audio

January 30, 2022 By D.A. King

I know a lot of very arrogant people. I try to stay away from them as much as possible.

I first learned of Ga Star News in a very slanted “news” piece in the Democrat AJC – they used Media Matters as a source. We assume the SPLC & ADL were busy that day. It was bad enough that I took the time to record it and comment on my blog. No good deed goes unpunished.

I first spoke to John Fredericks about eighteen months or so ago when I was trying to buy an ad on GA Star News and also asked if he would accept OPED submissions from an experienced expert on immigration politics in Georgia. I told him about the defense I had offered on the AJC hit. I sent him an OPED but never heard back.

Later in that same month I called to ask about the submission and buying an ad. I had asked supporters for donations to buy the advertisement space. This character hung up on me in a business phone conversation while I was trying to spend $700 on ad space on the Ga Star News site. There is more.

Fredericks seems to have conflicting opinions on illegal immigration. Most pro-enforcement conservatives I know don’t condone or accept illegal aliens getting drivers licenses to “get to their jobs…” Maybe I mis-understood him one of the two times I have ever heard him on the air. You be the judge.

Below is the audio from earlier this month of Fredericks interviewing my friend state Rep Charlice Byrd about an election integrity bill (HB 228) we are struggling to get to a committee hearing. I don’t think Fredericks understands the legislation.

—>UPDATE: The liberal AJC prints a lengthy correction after demand letter from the Dustin Inman Society. More news on this coming soon.

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Daily Signal News report (‘DEFAMATORY’: Conservative Demands Swing-State Newspaper Retract ‘Hate Group’ Smear’)
on the recent AJC attack here by the great Tyler O’Neil.

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I added educational hyperlinks to the below letter – dak.

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October 18, 2024

VIA U.S. REGULAR MAIL & E-MAIL

Leroy Chapman, Jr., Editor in Chief THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION 223 Perimeter Center Pkwy NE Atlanta, Georgia 30346

Re: Demand for Retraction and Apology

Dear Mr. Chapman, Jr.:

I write on behalf of my client, the Dustin Inman Society (DIS), to demand an immediate retraction and apology for the defamatory statements published in your October 7, 2024, article titled “Democrats in this Georgia district are backing a write-in candidate” by Tia Mitchell.

Through use of internet links, the AJC article wrongfully characterizes the Dustin Inman Society as a “Marietta-based anti-immigration hate group.” This characterization is false, defamatory, and published with actual malice. The Dustin Inman Society pushes for secure borders, is not “anti-immigration” and its proprietors do not hate anyone. Rather, DIS advocates for enforcement of U.S. immigration laws and actively opposes unlawful immigration. This distinction is crucial and well-known to staff at your publication.

I paste the offending paragraph from the AJC story:

“A search of activity under her birth name, Karen Sacandy, which Stamper legally changed in 2019, showed that she previously was aligned with a Marietta-based anti-immigration hate group. The group’s website often linked to Sacandy’s activities, like a letter seeking information about the state’s Immigration Enforcement Review Board and a copy of a letter to the editor supporting legislation to prevent immigrants claiming asylum from obtaining driver’s licenses.”

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We note the AJC informs readers that the Dustin Inman Society “often” linked to Karen Sacandy/Kate Stamper activities — but produces only two occasions.

Your story, for which DIS founder and president D.A. King was not contacted, informs readers that Sacandy/Stamper “was aligned” with the Dustin Inman Society. We note that polls show that a majority of Americans oppose the federal offense of illegal immigration. Since the letter posted on the DIS site was a published missive to the editor at the Cherokee Tribune, we must ask: does this make that newspaper a “Cherokee County-based anti-immigration hate group”?

Your characterization demonstrates a reckless and vindictive disregard for the truth, rising to the level of actual malice as defined in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. Actual malice in defamation law refers to publication of a statement with knowledge that it is false or with reckless disregard of whether it is false or not. Your repeated mischaracterization of the Dustin Inman Society, despite having been corrected on numerous occasions, clearly meets this standard.

The Dustin Inman Society’s position on immigration is clear and public:

1. It supports sustainable levels of legal immigration through established channels.

2. It opposes unlawful immigration due to various societal concerns, including: – Strain on public resources and services
– Potential and real public safety issues
– Economic impacts on low-wage American workers and America’s poor

– Challenges to the rule of law

3. The Dustin Inman Society defends legal immigrants when media attempt to blur the difference between them and illegal aliens.

Moreover, the Dustin Inman Society’s board includes lawful immigrants who have navigated the proper channels for authorized immigration. This fact alone should dispel any notion that the organization is “anti-immigration.” As he has informed you multiple times over much of the last two decades, D.A. King’s sister is a real, legal immigrant.

While we acknowledge that the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated the Dustin Inman Society as an “anti-immigrant hate group that denigrates all immigrants,” your article presents the “anti-immigration hate group” characterization as the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s independent assessment and statement of fact.

This smear is not only demonstrably false and ignores Mr. King’s many communications to you advising you of the truth, but also demonstrates an exceedingly unprofessional failure to fact-check and verify information before publication.

We demand that the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

October 18, 2024 Page 3

1. Immediately publicly retract the defaming statement in the October 7, 2024, article.

2. Publish a prominent apology, equal in visibility and placement to the original defamatory article.

3. Cease and desist from further defamatory characterizations of the Dustin Inman Society.

Failure to comply with these demands may result in further legal action. We expect your prompt attention to this matter and await your timely response.

Sincerely,

Todd V. McMurtry

cc: James Abely, Esq.

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The below (email) response to my June 6 open records request was received here June 11, 2024 at 3:51 PM.

Conservatives Wrongly Demonized as ‘Hate Groups’ May Get Justice at Last | Opinion

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—>UPDATE: The liberal AJC prints a lengthy correction after demand letter from the Dustin Inman Society. More news on this coming soon.

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