St Petersburg Mayor Challenged On Juvenile Confidential Informants Policy

When Harold Hempstead was 13 he was pressured by the St Petersburg Police Department in Florida to become a Confidential Informant and get involved in highly dangerous clandestine operations  - In an article on his own blog you will find his sworn affidavit detailing his illegal juvenile employment by various law-enforcement agencies - 

The following is a copy of an email Harold asked me to send to the Mayor of St Petersburg challenging him to open-up and take a stand on the controversial topic of using minors to do police-work -
Harold Hempstead is currently serving 165 years without parole in a prison in Mountain City - Tennessee - He has just published his first book on the killing of Darren Rainey by guards with super-heated steam in Dade Correctional Institution in Florida and is following this up with several more volumes which are due for imminent publication -  His refusal to be silent in the face of monstrous cruelty and injustice earned him the nick-name "The Caged Crusader" -

Darren Rainey

Message follows:

Attn:  Rick Kriseman – Mayor of St Petersburg – Florida                2:2:2019

 

Dear Mayor Kriseman   

I’m sending this email on behalf of Harold Hempstead.  Hempstead has stated that he was recruited by the St Petersburg Police Department to be a confidential informant when he was 13 years old.  As Mayor of St Petersburg – Florida – I’m asking that you please answer the following questions:

(1)  Will you please direct that the St Petersburg Police Department provide Hempstead’s Attorney John Trevena with all the documents and information they have concerning Hempstead’s past as a confidential informant going back to when he was 13 years old? 

(2)  How many children are the St Petersburg Police Department presently using as confidential informants?

(3)  Do you agree with the studies that show it is child-abuse to use children as confidential informants?

(4)  Will you request that a federal investigation be conducted into the St Petersburg Police Department using children as confidential informants?

(5)  Will you direct that the St Petersburg Police Department stop using children as confidential informants?

 

Please provide your response to this email to the parties listed in the CC section below.

Any attempts to communicate with Hempstead should be directed to his Attorney John Trevena at trevenalaw@aol.com. This email and any response or failure to respond could be published in future books and used in court proceedings.

CC  

John Trevena

Kathryn Varn

Sue Carlton

Adam Playford

Craig Patrick

Casey Frank

Julie Brown

(email sent by Jeremy Schanche on behalf of Harold Hempstead)

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Harold Hempstead

To help clarify the legal standing of Children-s Rights in Law I have included a link to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)  

For more detail on the world of young Confidential Informants please read the story of Rachel Hoffman -