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does the No- fear Act protect the rights of mental patients convicted of a felony and/or more charges?--72.73.180.229 (talk) 03:24, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

THE NO-FEAR ACT MAY PROTECT HOME OWNERS FROM BEING BULLIED INTO ABANDANING THEIR HOMES BY UNCONSTITUTIONAL ORDINANCES IMPLEMENTED BY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
When a neighbor that covets your property files a false report that your home is abandoned to the Assessor's office and they have close tiess or reletives who work for government agencies like the Indiana Board of Health and they have ties to the Indiana Superior Court Environmental Division your nightmare has just begun. Welcome to my nightmare on Kessler Boulevard North Drive where exactly that happended.

It began when Thelma Payne, a resident who lives on Goodlet Avenue, one street over made such an inquiry. I was met in the driveway by Indiana Board of Health Inspector, Marcie Smith and told, "Your garbage can has nothing but dog fecies in it." This was an indication according to Ms. Smith that my home must be inspected further to gather proof of abandonment. I was then summonsed to the Indiana Superior Court Enviornmental Division by the Indiana Board of Health and given 14 days to have my utilities turned on or vacate my home. The cause given for this demand was that my home presented a structural danger to myself and my neighbor. I was not allowed to give any information to the contrary that would change the Court's decision to give the Court Order to Vacate in 14 days as the INDIANA Board of Health requested.

My utilities were turned off after being laid off and not being able to find work then my unemployment ran out and there wasn't money to get them turned back on considering they were double the amount because of fees added by the utility company. One new fee came after the Citizens Gas Company merged with the Indianapolis Water Company to form the Citizen's Energy Group. Their new fee was a $34 dollar charge (seems like usury to me) on your bill whether you use water or not added to your charge for actual water usage. This caused my water bill to go up to over a hundred dollars even when I had it turned off at the main valve in my basement and only used 10 gallons per week of water. My biggest surprise came when I went to pay the bill and discovered it was up to $300 and was told that it combined with my gas bill would be over eight hundred dollars! The light bill was $500 after doubling up on the $200 disconnect amount for a combined total of $1,166. With zero income these bills had to be set asided and alternative means of heating, battery powered heaters and Keroscene Heaters would have to suffice in the winter and candles were substituted for electric lights. As for water, I paid my neighbor a stipend to fill up gallon jugs from a water hose that reached into my dining room window. It wasn't the Gand but it was home and hope of getting things back to normal was just around the corner with my next job until the abuses of authority from combined government agencies started.

The Indiana Board of Health came to my home as promised on the 17th of December with an officer from the Indiana Sherrif's Department and threatened to aresst me and shoot my dog if I didn't get my belongings out of my house by that night because they were boarding it up the following morning. The sherrif was nice enough to reitterate that he would shoot my dog and arrest me because they weren't playing around or spending any extra time waiting. I took enough clothes to survive starting a new job at Amazon.com as an extra through Integrity Staffing on the 26th of December and found temporary homes for my adult male dog and his two nearly grown pups. It wasn't easy, but by the grace of God me and the dogs were away from the house as commanded so we weren't shot or arrested that weekend.

On the 20th, I had to appear in court to follow up on the Court Order to Vacate. They said nothing to me and the case wasn't on the docket when I inquired about it that morning at court because they had it scheduled for 1:00 p.m. I asked a court official whether it was a violation of my constitutional rights as a homeowner to cause me to vacate my home because I couldn't afford to pay their utilities after being laid off work and whether that wasn't the same as being thrown into a debtor's prison or worse since that meant I would be homeless and in the cold winter streets. She said I still owned my home but the city ordinance required me to have working utilities. I filed an answer to the complaint that mentioned another city ordinace that required proof that the utilities were off due to structural damages and presented immediate danger to the environment. Nothing was said to me about my case and whether or not they had erred in boarding up my home since my utilities were off due to financial hardship. She just handed me a paper and said the case was dismissed.

I still don't know whether my filing bankruptcy the day before they boarded up my home as a last resort to try to stop them was why the case was dismissed or whether it was because they had gone through with the Court Order for me to vacate by boarding up my front and back doors as a way of preventing me from entering my home. What did ring true was I still owned my home and would have to pay my mortgage according to the court official I'd spoken with before the hearing on the 20th of December. After the holiday, I phoned the local Rainbow Post Office and asked why I hadn't been getting my mail. They tlod me that they were holding it because my home was abandoned and that unless I filled out a change of address form that they were only keeping it for 10 days then returning it to the sender. I asked for the manager to see under whose athority they were holding my mail and she said it was just policy. I went ther in person and showed them my driver's license and asked for my mail and again they told me not unless I filled out a change of address form and that it was useless arguing about it because that is what their policy requires them to do.

It was late and nearly time for the Rainbow Post Office to close and the Assistant Manager told me she would ask the person who delivered my mail when he hot there whether or not my home was abandoned. A few minutes later after she claimed she spoke to him she told me he said that there was a not on the door saying it was abandoned. I told her that was a lie, that there was not and never had been a not on the door saying that and she brushed me off saying "Oh, well he said the door was boarded up and there was furnitur still in the house so that means it's abandoned." She then asked me to leave because they were getting ready to close but said that if I put down another address she would give me my mail. I almost did, but then it dawned on me that I was being rail roaded into providing proof that I'd abandoned my home. To do this would mean I would have to change all my information about where I lived and probably not be processed for important time sensitive matters such as my EBT (Food Stamps) or Home Retention Paperwork needed to get my mortgage modified and keep my home. It would also prevent me from receiving any court information about the bankruptcy I had just filed.

Therefore, I refused to fill out the change of address form and left without my mail. The following day I went back to video tape a copy of the policy that the manager and Post Master said gave them the athority to hold my mail without permission from me or proof that my home was abandoned. They said they would have to call me back with the information after speaking to their supervisor and that I was violating their policy that said you cannot video tape the post office. I apologized and told them that I thought that my right to video tape the post office policy if they had it to show me was protected under the Freedom of Information Act. I'm wasn't sure about that so I went to the library to research it and came across something called the NO-FEAR ACT which apparently was designed to protect employees of federal agencies from discrimination and retaliation for reporting acts of abuse. I hope it's not too far of a stretch to apply this same law to protect homeowners from combined abuses of government agencies that seek to use their authority for political advantages accomplished by forcing homeowner out of their homes to change the demographics of an area also done through gerrymandering. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:18E8:3:11B5:E5E4:FF6D:1C95:EBA9 (talk) 19:21, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
 * No, your problem is unrelated to the No-FEAR Act. -- Beland (talk) 18:18, 6 November 2014 (UTC)