WILL THE ST PETERSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT TRY TO DENY THAT THEY ARE CURRENTLY USING CHILDREN AS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS?

The St Petersburg Police Department will eventually be given an option to admit or deny that they are presently using children as confidential informants (CIs).  I think it would be outrageous and unreasonable if they tried to deny that they are presently using children as CIs.  Additionally - it would be very easy to prove that they are still using children.

(1)  St Petersburg PD records show that they are still using children as informants. 

(2)  Pinellas County, Florida State Attorney's records for their Juvenile Division and the Juvenile Division of the Pinellas County,Florida Public Defender's Office have records that prove the SPPD is presently using children as CIs.  

(3)  The children who are presently being used as CIs, and their families, can prove this to be so.

(4)  Criminal defense attorneys who represent children arrested by SPPD know that SPPD is using children as CIs. 

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Harold Hempstead

People who know that the St Petersburg Florida Police Department is using children as confidential informants

(1)  The children who are presently being used as confidential informants and their families know about it.

(2)  Attorneys in the Tampa Bay area of Florida who represent children on criminal cases know that the St Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) is using children as confidential informants (CI-s).

(3)  The Assistant State Attorneys who prosecute kids in Pinellas County Florida and the Assistant Public Defenders who represent kids on criminal cases there know that the SPPD uses children as confidential informants.

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Harold Hempstead

Questions To Be Considered About Law Enforcement Using Children Between The Ages Of 13 And 17 As Confidential Informants

(1)  Do you believe it’s child-abuse for law enforcement to use children between the ages of 13 and 17 as informants?

(2)  Would you agree to allow law enforcement to use your child as a confidential informant?

(3)  Do you believe a law enforcement agency that uses children as informants should be investigated by the federal government?

(4)  If you have ever been used as an informant when you were a child – will you share your experiences with us?  If you have ever been used as an informant by the police department in St Petersburg – Florida – will you please share your experiences with Largo – Florida attorney John Tevena and Tampa Bay Times reporter Kathryn Varn?

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Harold Hempstead

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 -