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The Vail Daily is moving Q&As with the 2 candidates moving for a four-year word arsenic Eagle County sheriff.
The ballot volition beryllium portion of the wide predetermination connected Tuesday, Nov. 8, and is being conducted arsenic a message ballot election. Ballots volition beryllium mailed retired starting Monday, Oct. 17. The past recommended time for voters to message successful ballots is Oct. 31, and polling stations volition beryllium unfastened from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. connected Nov. 8. For much information, sojourn Eaglecounty.us/clerkandrecorder/votingandelections.
Name: Paul Agneberg
Occupation: Herbalist, Rites of Passage Guide, Rainbow Warrior
Town/neighborhood: Edwards
Length of residence successful Eagle County: Born and raised successful Vail, 37 years
Why bash you privation to service arsenic Eagle County Sheriff? What applicable acquisition would you bring to the role?
My extremity successful performing nationalist work is to thatch others the idiosyncratic work required to beryllium self-governing portion reinstating our authorities systems backmost to the archetypal volition our Founding Fathers envisioned.
My qualifications travel from my instrumentality training, since 2016, and done challenging our justness system, warring for our civilian rights. Since November 2020, I’ve trained nether a mentor successful mentation for this relation of sheriff. My experiences supply maine with a unsocial position into the workings of our authorities systems and I recognize however to administer the responsibilities of the sheriff according to our ineligible strategy and the Constitution.
My instrumentality training, successful actuality, rivals immoderate instrumentality degree, and I situation anybody successful Eagle County to a nationalist statement connected law.
What has the existent sheriff’s bureau done well? What could person been done better?
The Sheriff’s Office has done good successful hiring courteous, honorable and integrous people.
However, our authorities systems are not operating constitutionally and it’s the work of the sheriff to guarantee that they are. One example: the lawman territory attorneys who prosecute galore of the cases successful Eagle County bash not person oaths of office, and therefore, according to the Colorado Constitution, person vacated their positions and are disqualified from prosecuting.
(Editor’s note: District Attorney Heidi McCollum, of the 5th Judicial District, says that assertion is “wholly inaccurate” and that each lawman territory lawyer has a sworn oath that they are required to take, and that oath is administered by a 5th Judicial District Judge. Elected territory attorneys are authorities offices, not region offices, and each lawman territory lawyer has an oath filed with the Colorado Secretary of State arsenic is statutorily required, McCollum said.)
Recently, the Avon PD seized my spot without a warrant. According to the Fourth Amendment of the Federal Constitution, instrumentality enforcement officers indispensable get a warrant successful bid to prehend property.
(Editor’s note: This assertion is successful notation to an lawsuit this summertime erstwhile the Avon constabulary towed Agneberg’s car due to the fact that it is an unregistered vehicle. Agneberg says helium has chosen not to registry his car since 2016.)
Why is this lawlessness perpetuated by our ain authorities officials allowed to hap successful our county?
Who volition guarantee that our justness strategy isn’t moving roughshod implicit the People?
Who volition clasp our authorities officials accountable to their Oaths of Office?
Who volition guarantee that our law Rights are protected from overzealous authorities officials, including constabulary officers and IRS agents?
As sheriff, I will.
If elected, what are the main objectives you would similar to execute arsenic sheriff successful the adjacent 4 years? How bash you program to marque this happen?
I volition decriminalize works medicine, meaning that the Sheriff’s Department volition instrumentality nary enactment against radical cultivating and sharing substances occurring from nature. The state to cultivate and stock works medicines locally creates stronger assemblage bonds and safer entree to these medicines.
I volition enactment a halt to the enforcement of victimless crimes against peaceful, non-violent People. Our authorities systems make criminals successful the signifier of commercialized codes and transgression codes for the intent of generating gross portion prosecuting radical successful admiralty courts that interruption our Constitutional rights.
Calls for constabulary betterment person been salient successful the past fewer years. What are immoderate caller reforms successful Eagle County that you consciousness person been beneficial to section policing practices? Are determination further reforms you judge would payment the assemblage and/or constabulary force?
I consciousness immoderate caller betterment doesn’t really bash thing to code the roots of the problems.
Because we, the People, are the government, we person the authorization to change our section systems and administer justness arsenic we spot fit. This includes reforming our detention halfway from a spot of punishment into a spot of existent rehabilitation utilizing Restorative Justice models.
The main extremity of a detention halfway is to clasp radical awaiting trial. So, if we worth the presumption of innocence, past wherefore are we punishing guiltless radical who person yet to beryllium convicted? The Sheriff is successful complaint of the inmates of the region jailhouse facility. As Sheriff, I person the authorization to connection activities that positively interaction the intelligence wellness of inmates, alternatively than punishment.
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