Are you kidding me?!?!?!
I’m posting early in the morning because this one kept me awake for most of the night.
Senate Bill 932 sponsored by Senator Wright and it’s companion bill House Bill 141 sponsored by Representative Leek, are making their way through the Florida legislature, The Bills would amend the Florida divorce statute to provide that:
“The court may not grant a parent time-sharing with a minor child if the parent is required to register as a sexual offender under s. 943.0435 or a sexual predator under s. 775.21″ unless the court makes a “specific finding in writing that the registrant poses no significant risk of harm to the child and that time-sharing is in the best interest of the child.”
WHAT THE F…?!?!?!
So if you have a sexual offense in your past, no matter what it was, no matter if it was years or decades before you get married and start a family, and you happen to get divorced, even for reasons completely unrelated to the offense, the court may not grant you time sharing (custody) with your own children unless the court specifically finds in writing you present no significant risk of harm to the child?
So if you get divorced you automatically lose your children and it’s up to a judge whether you can see them again and the burden on the judge is for them, not a qualified practitioner in risk assessments, but the judge, to make a specific written finding that you present no significant risk of harm to the child?
We have seen plenty of cases where a judge has a bias against someone on the registry or found that even a “negligible risk” or “less than 1 percent risk” is not “no risk” or “zero risk”, even though “zero risk” does not exist on the risk assessment instruments.
Anyone who is on the registry and has minor children, whether presently married or divorced, should be very concerned. If this horrible bill passes it will change the dynamic of families of registrants immediately.
Below are the links to the bills:
https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/932
https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/141
Look for a CALL TO ACTION this coming week.
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Another horrific bill advances
https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/122
Don’t want your newborn? Just chuck it in a bin!
We all need a list of all State and Federal lawmakers, to write to.
With our new administration, will come new laws and attitudes.
I do not want to be in the same class as an Illegal Immigrant. Persons from many other countries do not have the beliefs or controls over their behavior. Pornography and Human Trafficking tend to originate from abroad.
Yes. I do agree completely. The worst thing even worse than not having people to write to is that there is no public hearings, at least where I’m at, that give you the opportunity to be heard, like in other states. They seem to be doing all of it behind closed doors because they probably know that their arguments would not hold water in a public setting.
Meanwhile in the federal system under a new administration:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/08/ice-raid-to-arrest-illegal-alien-sex-offenders-cancelled-at-last-minute/
Before anyone panics, start at Troxel v Granville, 530 US 57 (2001). Go to googlescholar and read this opinion and limit your citation search to Florida, the Florida federal courts, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. After reading a little you will be able to form an opinion on the viability of this legislation.
Rest assured, if this bill passes the new law will be joining the Titanic.