Batesville, MS Mayor Hal Ferrell reveals City Ordinance barring Video Recording in the lobbies of City Buildings after a big push by a Constitutional Rights Activist and his supporters
Change came to Batesville, MS on Wednesday 10/19/22, thanks to a push by a 1st amendment auditor/constitutional rights activist and all of his supporters!
This was the Board of Aldermen meeting July 19, 2022 where the Ordinance to ban video recording in City buildings was tabled and passed. Reardon reviews the matter at hand
It was more than just a constitutional challenge and open refusal to comply with controversial ordinance passed by the Board of Alderman on July 19, 2022. The Ordinance in reference barred the use of photography or video recording inside of any City Building. However, on October 13, 2022 all of that would come under direct challenge by a Journalist/1st Amendment Auditor/ Constitutional Rights Activist.
Matt Reardon walks into Batesville, MS City Hall to video record the inside of City Hall on October 13, 2022. This sparked a major reaction to come
The very next day, October 14, 2022 Reardon put in a call to the Batesville Mayor, Hal Ferrell. Later that day, he got a return call from the Mayor. In that call, matters deteriorate as both Reardon the Mayor take two completely opposite stances on the matter at hand. Reardon states that he is fully intent on constitutionally challenging the Ordinance and will return to request public records, recording video as he is doing it. Mayor Ferrell then welcomes the challenge, stating he will even personally address the matter when Reardon comes in video recording. Then both state their willingness to fight the matter in court.
Here is the call on 10/14/2022 between Reardon and Mayor Hal Ferrell
On 10/17/2022, Reardon calls Mayor Ferrell back to let him know he was coming to constitutionally challenge the city Ordinance and request Public Records on Wednesday 10/19/2022 to ensure the Mayor was going to be there.
The confirmation call on 10/17/2022 from Reardon to Mayor Hal Ferrell
On Wednesday, 10/19/2022 just after 2pm, Matt Reardon delivers on his promises and arrives at City Hall walking in with not just one camera recording video, but three separate cameras. Mayor Hal Ferrell comes out of his office and immediately greets Reardon, shaking his hand, and stating that he and the board of Aldermen convened the night before. During this meeting they discussed all the grievances stated and took into account all the calls and emails received on the matter from a plethora of concerned citizens. Ferrell says they held a special vote and voted to repeal the Ordinance.
Since that time, Reardon says that he and the Batesville Mayor have spoken several times and that a mutual respect and friendship have been established. Mayor Ferrell has shown an insistence on transparency being given to the Citizens of Batesville and any interested citizen into the function of matters in Batesville, MS.
This story couldn’t have come with a better, more perfect ending! Hats are off to the Batesville Mayor and all concerned citizens whom helped bring about a positive change!
On 6/13/2022, Matt Reardon files an amended motion for leave to amend his initial complaint with the Court. In it he specified the reasons his Initial Complaint was needing to be amended. Among others included simplifying the complaint in an easier to understand and follow along with, but also expressing his intention to drop John Doe Deputies (1-10) while ADDING the Mississippi Department of Mental Health to the Lawsuit. The new complaint is now a staggering 74-pages in length and is apt to bring challenges ahead for all parties involved. Read the complaint here and feel free to provide your thoughts regarding what was just filed
On 6/13/2022, Matt Reardon files an amended motion for leave to amend his initial complaint with the Court. In it he specified the reasons his Initial Complaint was needing to be amended. Among others included simplifying the complaint in an easier to understand and follow along with, but also expressing his intention to drop John Doe Deputies (1-10) while ADDING the Mississippi Department of Mental Health to the Lawsuit. The new complaint is now a staggering 74-pages in length and is apt to bring challenges ahead for all parties involved. Read the complaint here and feel free to provide your thoughts regarding what was just filed
On Monday June 6th I submitted a simple 1-page motion seeking leave of the court to Amend my complaint and add the MS Department of Mental Health to the lawsuit
On Friday, I received word that I had prevailed in the order to Show Cause on the Lawsuit I filed in District Court on 4/6/2022 and that summons would be prepared and sent out to the Defendants. I did not realize at that time exactly how fast the clerks office would move upon receiving the order from the Judge.. nearly instantaneously! So today, June 6 2022 I submitted a simple 1-page motion seeking leave of the court to Amend my complaint and add the MS Department of Mental Health to the lawsuit after giving it much consideration over the weekend.
Matt Reardon announces even more legal action to be pending against the Lafayette County Sheriffs Department, Lafayette County, and the State of Mississippi as he shows play by play everything beginning to fall apart for the Department through the poor decisions of several among its ranks. This video contains scenes of excessive force, police brutality, lies, deprivation of rights, and destruction of property; and may not be suitable for all audiences.
“if two or more persons conspire for the purpose of impeding, hindering, obstructing, or defeating, in any manner, the due course of justice in any State or Territory, with intent to deny to any citizen the equal protection of the laws, or to injure him or his property for lawfully enforcing, or attempting to enforce, the right of any person, or class of persons, to the equal protection of the laws” – 42 USC 1985 – CONSPIRACY TO DEPRIVE RIGHTS
It gets real when Dixon and Tidwell are shown lying on their police reports in trying to justify an arrest when Reardon was simply seeking out the assistance of the Sheriffs Department to deal with conspired upon acts by Liz Crowder. Wam bam thank you mam that spells the aforementioned out verbatim to a T. Particularly when Dixon never audibly says “you are under arrest” and says to “move” which I did. Not one time was I ever told to freeze. So how could an arrest ever be considered lawful. These are questions to be asked on the record.
YET DESPITE ALL FACTS KNOWN AND ALL LIES THAT HAVE SURFACED, I WAS STILL FOUND GUILTY BY JUDGE CHRIS CHILDERS WHOM DENIED ME A TRIAL BY JURY. NOBODY CAN MAKE THE CLAIM THAT THE SYSTEM IS NOT RIGGED AFTER ASSESSING THIS MATTER AT HAND. NOBODY
Circuit Court Judge John Kelly Luther and Matt Reardon met again for the first time in 5-years in a nearly 2-Hour motions hearing scheduled by Reardon on 4/12/2022. See what the response is when Matt Reardon asked about the mysterious changing of court records in The Circuit Court Clerk’s Office
Circuit Court Judge John Kelly Luther and Matt Reardon met again for the first time in 5-years in a nearly 2-Hour motions hearing scheduled by Reardon on 4/12/2022. At the conclusion of the hearing, Judge Luther asks Reardon if there is anything else he would like to address. At this point, Reardon takes the perfect opportunity to address a very important matter to him in open court on the record. Here is how it went and what response was given when Matt Reardon asked about the mysterious changing of court records on two separately filed matters in Circuit Court
Well, time has come and gone yet again for Liz Crowder to be taught a lesson regarding the lies and false reports given to law enforcement, in particular regarding the father of her child, Matt Reardon. Yet again the State of Mississippi through it’s obnoxiously biased prosecutors have allowed her to escape unscathed with no relief whatsoever granted to the victim/claimant, Reardon. Listen above to the 22-minute exchange in trial between Reardon, Prosecutor Bela J Chain, Judge Johnny Wayne McClarty, and Crowder’s newly hired Attorney (name unknown).
Well, time has come and gone yet again for Liz Crowder to be taught a lesson regarding the lies and false reports given to law enforcement, in particular regarding the father of her child, Matt Reardon. Yet again the State of Mississippi through it’s obnoxiously biased prosecutors have allowed her to escape unscathed with no relief whatsoever granted to the victim/claimant, Reardon. Listen above to the 22-minute exchange in trial between Reardon, Prosecutor Bela J Chain, Judge Johnny Wayne McClarty, and Crowder’s newly hired Attorney (name unknown). Reardon has stayed tied into it with Lafayette County and the State of Mississippi over the past few years particularly since a set of events that transpired back in 2017 which Reardon steadfastly claims he was victim to multiple lies, fake allegations, and complete deprivation of due process rights in order to obtain a cheap-shot ill contrived conviction
The 4th Visit to the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department on 12-28-2020 resulted in this absolutely bizarre arrest of Matt Reardon and it is all Completely Broken-Down as it was presented at trial. Arresting officers were Deputy Courtney Dixon and Deputy Ethan Tidwell with Deputy Omar Ahmed assisting and Sheriff Joey East spectating.
SEE ALL 4 LCSO ENCOUNTERS IN 2020 ONLINE HERE
AND THEN….
MASSIVE VIOLATIONS OF THE FALSE CLAIMS ACT (FCA) & THE WHISTLEBLOWER ACT
Phone Calls which demonstrate Communicare acted in retaliation and malice in their latest attack
The existing laws surrounding due process and the federal rights afforded to all citizens simply can’t be ignored, and nothing will change them. The moves made by Lafayette County Officials and Communicare simply exacerbated everything for them most of all. The Calls attached to this video go to fully invalidating Communicare and exposing their truly immoral intentions. Visit lafayettems.net to see more information
AND FINALLY….
Meet Ethan-Oliver James Reardon
Ethan-Oliver was born to parents Matthew and Madelyn Reardon on February 17th, 2022 at the Tupelo Women’s Hospital. On this day, Ethan-Oliver was just 28 weeks and 6 days gestational age and weighed just 2lb 11oz. He has been fighting for his life ever since that time. As tough as it has been on parents Matthew and Madelyn along with his sisters Meri-Emmelyn, Anna-Claire, and McKenna-Rose living an hour away from baby Ethan, It’s The details surrounding this preemie’s significantly early arrival have made this situation for the Reardon family particularly strenuous, difficult, and have piled on additional stresses and worries for this young family of 6.
On December 6th, 2021, Ethan-Oliver’s father, Matthew whom is an independent investigative journalist & reporter, discovered a key court record in Lafayette County Circuit Court that was fraudulently altered now twice over the past year on two currently active filed matters of Reardon’s. When pressing in for answers as to how this could have happened, the Circuit Clerk got highly defensive and had communicated out to the Lafayette County Sheriff Joey East in order to try to get rid of Reardon along with what the county and certain County Officials would interpret as a significant issue discovered and sore on the horizon. East’s motive in the matter is very clear to see when taking into consideration key facts based upon numerous erroneous and concerning findings have more recently surfaced regarding the Lafayette County Sheriff’s alleged involvement in a matter dating back to 2017. Even more alarming is the fact that the latest record fraudulently altered in Circuit Court that was discovered by Reardon just so happened to be a matter Reardon was appealing from Lafayette County Justice Court where East’s Deputies and even he himself gave false sworn testimony in order to contrive a conviction based upon lies. The very next day, December 7th, 2021, Lafayette County Sheriff Joey East rose to the occasion once again in passing obnoxious lies and complaints centered around constitutionally protected activity as a journalist, reporter, and credentialed member of the press to an employee of Communicare by the name of Rachel Alcorn with a predisposed plan to exploit the State’s mental health laws by cutting corners, ignoring required procedure under state law, and seeking to separate a husband and father of four from his family in a grueling, sickening act that undoubtedly would align with not only the feeling, but the legal definition of human trafficking. And this they were successful in doing at the expense of Reardon and his family when no crimes were ever committed and the procedure botched through and through. At approximately 5pm on December 7th, 2021 upon returning home from a Doctors Appointment for one of his children, Reardon is taken into custody at his residence in front of his wife and child based upon false claims in a sinister, cowardly attack on an independent journalist in order to suppress the reporting of fraud to not only the public but the proper authorities for the dishonesty which took place on open legal matters stemming from the Lafayette County Circuit Court/Circuit Clerks Office.
Reardon immediately condemned the ruthless attack and hailed the involuntary commitment as a fraudulent commitment coming about as a result of completely erroneous lies spewed by the sheriff, Joey East, and echoed by Communicare staff members. After voicing his complete disgust with the matter to a Communicare employee, Matthew was informed that he needed to submit any complaint in writing to the director of the Facility including any demand for preservation of evidence. Early on in the afternoon on February 8th, 2022 at the conclusion of speaking with chancery court clerk Sherry Wall, Reardon filed and served an 8-page shocking letter with Chancery Judge Lawrence Little’s chambers and Communicare’s executive director Dr. Sandy Rogers.
The very next day, February 9th, 2022, another Communicare Employee proceeded to file another affidavit for commitment of Reardon claiming Reardon had refused to attend a scheduled appointment, however, recorded phone calls with Communicare paint an entirely different picture and in combination with the Complaint filed just 1-day prior almost certainly show that this latest move by Communicare and its employees was ill-brought once again and done to retaliate against Reardon and once again try to dodge a situation that the county and Communicare brought on themselves.
On February 10th, 2022, upon returning home close to midnight from Madelyn being hospitalized due to pregnancy complications, Lafayette County Sheriffs Deputies light up the yard with blue lights and take Reardon once again into custody for the affidavit for commitment filed in front of his wife, Madelyn. He was held for 6-days without any rights afforded to him at the Lafayette County Detention Center and then shipped 2.5 hours across the state to the East Mississippi State Hospital in Meridian MS on February 16th, 2022. All of this put Madelyn into preterm labor and she gave birth via emergency c-section on February 17, 2022 without her husband by her side to witness the birth of their child.
It is the thesis of this article that a private action to vindicate fourteenth amendment rights that are violated by private conspir- acies is constitutional and was precisely the sort of remedy that Congress intended to create by enacting section 1985(3). The par- adox is resolved conceptually because this type of action is clearly possible, and the paradox is resolved legally because this type of action is constitutional.
Justice Burton, joined in dissent by Justices Black and Douglas, argued in Collins: “Congress certainly has the power to create a federal cause of action in favor of persons injured by private individuals through the abridgment of federally created constitutional rights.” The dissenters also pointed out that when Congress intended to limit comparable civil rights statutes to require that a defendant had acted under color of state law, it did so in ”unmis- takable terms.” The dissenters compared the color of law language that appeared explicitly in another section of the same civil rights act, the section now codified as 42 U.S.C. § 1983,13 with the absence of such language in section 1985(3).
Twenty years later, this dissenting view of section 1985(3) was vindicated in Griffin v. Breckenridge, when the Court decided that section 1985(3) did provide a remedy for damages caused by private conspiracies that did not operate under color of state law. The Griffin court set out these elements to guide judges in determining whether a complaint stated a cause of action under section 1985(3)
introduced into the federal statutes by the Act of April 20, 1871, entitled, “An Act to enforce the Provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other Purposes.” 7 The Act was among the last of the reconstruction legislation to be based on the “conquered province” theory which prevailed in Congress for a period following the Civil War. This statute, without separability provisions, established the civil liability with which we are here concerned as well as other civil liabilities, together with parallel criminal liabilities. It also provided that unlawful combinations and conspiracies named in the Act might be deemed rebellions, and authorized the President to employ the militia to suppress them. The President was also authorized to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus. It prohibited any person from being a federal grand or [341 U.S. 651, 657] petit juror in any case arising under the Act unless he took and subscribed an oath in open court “that he has never, directly or indirectly, counselled, advised, or voluntarily aided any such combination or conspiracy.” Heavy penalties and liabilities were laid upon any person who, with knowledge of such conspiracies, aided them or failed to do what he could to suppress them.
The fourteenth amendment prohibits a State from denying to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws; but this provision does not, any more than the one which precedes it . . . add anything to the rights which one citizen has under the Constitution against another.’ 92 U.S. at pp. 554-555.” And “`The only obligation resting upon the United States is to see that the States do not deny the right. This the amendment guarantees, but no more. The power of the national government is limited to the enforcement of this guaranty
