JOLIET, IL — A new lawsuit filed by a former Will County inmate against Sheriff Mike Kelley isn't over access to medication, better jail food or the quality of the cable television shows. It's about the President of the United States of America. Plaintiff Charles Bocock's new lawsuit accuses the sheriff of violating Bocock's free speech rights "to be an informed citizen in a democratic society ... by their total restriction on Plaintiff's ability to view the tweets of President Trump."

The civil lawsuit informs Will County's judicial system that since Jan. 1, 2017, "Donald Trump has been the president of the United States of America" and "President Trump operates a Twitter account with the handle @realDonaldTrump." Furthermore, the jail inmate from Will County alleges, "The President has stated that he uses the account frequently 'to announce, describe and defend his policies, to promote his administration's legislative agenda, to announce official decisions, to engage with foreign political leaders, to publicize state visits and to challenge media organizations whose coverage of his administration he believes to be unfair.'"

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2019 Former Joliet Patch staff writer Joseph Hosey wrote several articles about Will County Jail inmate Charles Bocock, who is an Englishman. In 2014, Hosey reported how Bocock, then 36, was an alleged aspiring pedophile who allegedly wanted to have sex with a girl younger than 11 but settled for a 12-year-old he believed he found on Craigslist.

A police investigator reportedly offered Bocock his 12-year-old niece for car payment money, and a rendezvous was set up at a Dunkin' Donuts in Plainfield on Route 59. After Bocock was taken into custody, police searched his Chicago home and found "numerous" images of child pornography, a prosecutor said during a court hearing.

Charles Bocock was in the Will County Jail from 2013 until 2018. Mugshot via Will County Jail In last week's lawsuit against the Will County Sheriff, Bocock informed Will County's court that "former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer stated at a press conference that President Trump's tweets should be considered 'official statements by the President of the United States.'

"The account is one of the White House's main vehicles for conducting official business," according to Bocock's lawsuit.

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2019 Bocock explains in his pro se lawsuit how he was a pretrial detainee at the Will County Jail and "was prohibited from accessing the Internet and therefore, Twitter, while housed at the jail." Therefore, he "could not read the tweets of President Trump."



According to Will County Jail logs, Bocock was kept at the Will County Jail from June 10, 2013 until May 2, 2018.

In one of his final articles with Patch, Hosey wrote a story about Bocock headlined, "Brit Facing Child Sex Slave Case Wants Better Lunch On Court Days, Just Like Buddhists, Jews & Muslims." In his latest lawsuit surrounding President Trump and Twitter, the plaintiff asks for a Will County judge to "declare defendant violated his right to free speech ... and to award plaintiff general, nominal, compensatory and punitive damages for such violation."