On April 10th, The Florida House of Representatives amended House Bill 987: Public Lodging Establishments, to require Persons required to register as sex offenders report to the Sheriff’s office where they will be staying, 48 hours before an intended stay at a Public Lodging Establishment, regardless of how long they will stay at the location!
In addition, operators of a Public Lodging Establishment who have a Person required to register as a sex offender staying at or within 1000 feet of their establishment, must notify all guests staying there.
Not only will this be impossible to comply with (you will need to report to the local Sheriff 48 hours before even arriving!), but burdens the travel rights of persons who have served their time and without any individualized assessment of their risk to the community.
It is IMPORTANT that you contact your legislator to tell them to OPPOSE this bill! NOW!
A copy of the Amendment can be found here: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/987/Amendment/348655/PDF
A copy of the Bill can be found here: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/987/BillText/c2/PDF
You can find House Committees and Representatives serving here: https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Committees/committees.aspx
You can find all Representatives here: Florida House of Representatives Complete List
You can find all Senators here: Florida Senate Complete List
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So should this draconian bill pass into law, I wonder if those areas that have a 2,500′ would be compelled to abide by the county/municipality rules.
That would make it even worse, not only for the registrants, but also for the public lodging facilities.
The whole thing begs for a lawsuit and I am fully against the state of FL spending monies in the courts to support this lawless infringement of our rights
This bill as most laws in Florida concerning so-called “sex offenders” is designed to make it even easier for useless lazy law enforcement to violate registered citizens and get them back in the pri$on $ystem.
This protects no one – it only enriches the state with bigger numbers of citizens they add for life on their registry! People have no idea that once on you can never get off (by evil design).
So insane that it defies logic – in other words, it is Florida politics as usual. This must stop!
48 hours, then in a couple of years they move it down to 24 hours, then in short time after, they’ll just have us log in everywhere we go through out the day similar to what they already have in sex offender probation. They might as well just call this for what it is….probation….and probation is a punishment.
I just had a thought, how would this affect those going to a hotel/resort to attend an event (wedding, reunion, business meeting etc) for just the day? What about to visit a bar or restaurant in the hotel? In Jacksonville there’s a comedy club inside of one of the chain hotels, would that fall under these ridiculous guidelines too?
Wouldn’t this subvert the 3 days or longer = temporary address if I only intended to stay for two?
So silly.
This is yet another attempt by the Floriduh legislature to put all registered citizens on house arrest. It is akin to wearing a GPS monitor without the monitor, but reporting our coordinates to law enforcement so they know where we are 24 hours a day. It is also compelled speech (“Hey, I’m a ‘sex offender'”) and unequal treatment under the law unless it is applied to all felons.
No establishment will rent to us if this bill is signed into law. We will have to establish an underground railroad to stay at each others houses while travelling!
If this isn’t punishment, what is?
Lets not play there labeling game. Words define and they are not the thing. They can call this regulatory but the truth is that it Florida has lifetime probation for ALL those designated with the label “sex offender”.
If it had been stated outright that LIFETIME PROBATION was part of the plea bargain I would have gone to trial. Everyday I wish I had gone to trial instead of handing my life to Florida!
When is enough enough?
Question: What about those Registrants who are NOT Mickey Mouse Residents that are planing to visit their Family in Florida? No way possible to appear 48 hours before you get there? OXYMORON at best….These Muderskunk Legislators are DUMB AND BLIND AT THE SAME TIME…..
If I am travelling in Florida for more than 2 or 3 days I let my wife get our room in her name. One time I was in to register and the person registering told me he knew someone who left the state without registering a few times and was real lucky he didn’t get caught. How do you explain “Real Lucky”? Do we have a 90% chance of being pulled over when we are on the road not following our requirements? Do they have a tracker on us? In my entire life, before and after my conviction, I have been pulled over a total of 2 times for speeding. Police don’t just say “oh there is a sex offender, let us pull him over and make sure he is where he should be”. Millions of people travel without having a run in with the police so I don’t know how they try to tell me we are going to get caught if we don’t follow the registration requirements. It’s more a scare tactic than anything…My last trip to Florida last month I spent a week in Miami by myself at a hotel and didn’t have any problems. I got home and no one was the wiser.
Regarding how do they know…if you fly into FL., they know. The airlines have the name and address of everyone that flies. You present ID at the gate to confirm you are the one flying. Make no mistake, the FBI checks these manifests for “terrorists”. A check by LE can confirm your departure date. Over stay your time and fail to register, you may find LE waiting for at your check in. FAC has reported stories of people on International flights being denied because their passport did not have the scarlet letter. Point being “they” ARE watching.
One other data point, leave your cell phone at home. You probably have to list that with your local PD. Moving around unfamiliar territory, you may violate keep out zones that exist in that state so no point leaving electronic bread crumbs.
The only real issue here is…how hard does LE want to catch SO’s that fly in and do not or fail to register or in some other way violate their laws.
I will not knowingly violate the laws of any state I visit. FL., I just avoid altogether. I’m sure that is what they want anyway. While SO’s are not “welcomed” by any state, there are other wonderful places to visit that are not nuts like FL.
@DM
The problem with what you wrote is local LE is only going to check with national LE if they are alerted to do so. Don’t think national LE is going to sit around alerting local LE of a person impacted by the registry coming and going from FLA when they have other things to do of higher importance. Yes, national LE has access to the flight passenger manifests (not local LE), but they enforce federal law, not local law. As much as people want to think national LE and local LE work well together, national LE is not a babysitting service to warn local LE of someone who flies in and out of their state and when unless there is a national interest.
The other problem with this situation is if you fly into FLA and cross a state line to the north for a visit, then national LE has alerted a local LE to a non-situation for no reason and possibly created legal issues for themselves. At the same time, if someone buys a one-way ticket into FLA and leaves it by whatever means, e.g. auto, private plane, bus, or boat, then there could be issues there.
As always, those impacted by the registry should research their travel destinations, know the laws of them, and ask questions, if any doubt, of those who know the laws, not the local LE who will tell you what they want you to know, which could be counter to what the real law is.
I sent my local representative en email and used all 4k characters. Let’s see what happens.
How about the Citizens that live in public lodging establishments??? They can possibly get evicted because of the pressure this bill would bring to the Hotels/Motels.
DONT YOU ALL SEE WHAT THOSE BASTARDS HAVE DONE?? THEY TOOK THE 5 DAY REGISTRATION DOWN TO A 3 DAY IN JANUARY……..
NOW THEY MADE IT TO A ONE DAY REGISTRATION.
(tHIS IS GOING TO BE FUNNY IF A CAT3(OR BIGGER) HURRICANE CAME THRU——- WATCH fdle “try” TO TRACK DOWN THE OFFENDERS
What good will it do to write it email any of the Elected officials once they find out we are sex offenders and can’t vote for them our emails will be deleted and our words thrown in the trash. Not one of them give a crap about us because if any did someone would step forward and oppose it. But no one will because of who we are and the title we bare. Instead of being ex offenders like everyone else. Thank you for reading my rant.
Not necessarily true.
Firstly, what if black people in the civil rights era decided that fighting for equal treatment was not possible because they were the ones being treated as unequal? You have the right to seek justice for yourself just as much as anyone else does. We aren’t the only oppressed group, and we aren’t the only oppressed people that stands up for themselves.
Secondly, people may prejudge based on the label, but not all will and those that do will vary. I’ve seen reactions throughout the entire spectrum. I’ve seen situations where it was as certain as the sky is blue that a harsh judgment was coming, but it didn’t come.
Hindsight bias is a mental fallacy humans commit where, in our retrospection, we think we were correct on things more than we actually were. For example, looking back on some of the successful lawsuits we’ve seen in the past few years, you might think “oh yeah I figured that would go in our favor”, even though you didn’t, fooling yourself into thinking you have really good predictive ability. So when our next challenge is being fought, you can say “aint no way we’re winning this, it’s hopeless” and be certain that you are correct in your prediction based on prior (delusional) rates of personal prediction accuracy. But you’re fooling yourself. Also, that inclination to buy into the negative outcome, which many of us here do, is the result of a cynicism that pervades our community–which is only natural given the circumstances.
Unfortunately, the second we delude ourselves into thinking we know the outcomes (fortune tellers) is the second we close a lot of doors and decline to get active and help carry our weight in fixing the problem. Don’t give up, know that winning is actually a possibility at all times, regardless of how slim the odds might seem to be. If everyone did this, we would have zero lawsuits, zero wins, and many more punitive bills becoming law.
Only two choices left Judge. Lock me up or let me off this Bull Ride
Here’s my example sent to the whole commerce committee;
—Please vote NO on HB987 as written. I am a registered, voting, tax-paying citizen and I believe HB987 is a gross over-reach of government and a burdensome regulatory load on citizens that borders on unconstitutionality. SECTION-4 is an additional EXPOST-FACTO burden on registered people who are shown to be almost completely non-violent and only re-offend at a decreasing rate beginning at 3%, without regard to the individual history. In contrast, MURDERERS are not registered or restricted in this way at all. Section -4 also treats all registered persons as predators regardless of their classification. Statistically, 95% of offenses are by UNREGISTERED persons so, this bill is IMPOTENT to protect as it presumes. In addition, the bill places private citizens at risk of fines, lawsuits and the ability to provide an income for themselves unless they act as law enforcement and town crier for the bill authors. There are already too many burdensome laws restricting registered people and preventing them from having productive lives as they re-integrate in society. HB987 adds to the library of bad legislation that tells registered people they might as well give up and be who you treat them as instead of who God created them to be.—
Please keep writing. This is good!
Perhaps we should all contact the organizations of vacation rental owners also;
To the CFHLA Staff,
To the FRLA Staff,
I hope you and your members will contact the FLorida legislature and tell them you oppose HB987. If it passes, it will threaten all vacation rental owners with fines and loss of livelihood if they do not act as law enforcement for this burdensome law and become fear-mongers for mis-guided people in the legislature. It was added to the second reading calendar yesterday morning. The amendment submitted by Rep Santiago is attached.
We also might contact the https://www.luxuryhotelassociation.org/contact/
who undoubtedly have a large presence in Florida.
You have a nice little blurb already written. Hopefully you have or will send it.
This is so frustrating and ludicrous I honestly don’t know how to respond. I will say this will affect the tourism industry greatly if this should pass..I can only imagine the logistical nightmare this will create, for both those registered, their families and the people running the hotels, etc. Florida is an absolute joke and embarrassment. I haven’t told my husband about this new proposed bill only because he carries so much guilt from his past and this will just make him feel even worse than he already does.(especially after the fiasco we experienced at Disney a couple of years ago)
Commerce Committee members:
https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Committees/committeesdetail.aspx?SessionId=87&CommitteeId=2994
Chair: La Rosa, Mike [R]
Vice Chair: Fischer, Jason [R]
Democratic Ranking Member: Jenne, Evan [D]
Representatives:
Andrade, Robert Alexander “Alex” [R]
Avila, Bryan [R]
Buchanan, James [R]
Casello, Joseph A. “Joe” [D]
Fernández, Javier E. [D]
Fitzenhagen, Heather [R]
Hage, Brett Thomas [R]
Jacquet, Al [D]
Overdorf, Tobin Rogers “Toby” [R]
Plasencia, Rene “Coach P” [R]
Robinson , Jr., William Cloud “Will” [R]
Rodrigues, Ray Wesley [R]
Sabatini, Anthony [R]
Santiago, David [R]
Silvers, David [D]
Stark, Richard [D]
Stevenson, Cyndi [R]
Stone, Charlie [R]
Webb, Jennifer Necole [D]
Willhite, Matt [D]
Williamson, Jayer [R]
Thank you for providing this link. As a business owner myself who is also a registrant, these are exactly the people who need to hear just how damning this asinine this piece of legislation is. Forget the “novelty” of actually taking a vacation; it would be impossible for me to continue my work responsibilities as currently required.
This is the Email I sent to my representative Spencer Roach:
I respectfully ask you to oppose HB 987.
As an offender with an out of state misdemeanor charge from 1994 I feel that this would be more punishment not only to me but to my family as well. We are already required to notify the Lee County Sheriffs office with any travel plans exceeding 3 days.
I do not believe this bill would protect anyone. Most of the folks on the SO Registry could not and would not harm a flea. This will only drive the most dangerous offenders under ground to lurk about undetected.
This bill burdens the travel rights of persons who have served their time and without any individualized assessment of their risk to the community.
Thank you for your continued service to our amazing county and the state that we both live in and share the beauty of.
Ron XXXXXX
Hello can you tell me if this ridiculous bill has already passed or if it hasn’t then when will it take effect?
This is completely INSANE as a means of any kind of reasonable law! Other than a phone call (which every time I have ever called I have always received a “Sorry, xxx can’t speak with you right now, but will call you back” and never got a call back) How can we contact people to be sure this bill does NOT get passed! How can they expect me to, if I am living in Pensacola, and going to vacation in Key West, to travel to Key West 48 hours before I plan to go there, and register? It is bad enough that we have to register when we go for just two days, now they are literally making it IMPOSSIBLE for an SO to go ANYWHERE! THIS HAS GOT TO STOP!!!!!!!
H0ly $hit! This new language was added to a formerly benign bill on 4/10, barely passing:
CS/CS by- Commerce Committee; YEAS 13 NAYS 11 -HJ 682
and then incorporated into Change 2 on 4/15.
Last Action: 4/17/2019 House – Placed on Calendar
It was first proposed by Goff-Marcil on 4/9, but not considered. But then, like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, Santiago gets it adopted the next day 4/10.
Does anyone have a good template I can follow to send these out?
My amendment was not considered by the Conmerce Committee and Representative Santiago filed a substitute amendment that also included public lodgings. If you need more explanation, you are welcome to contact my Legislative Aide, Joseph Goldberg at (850) 717-5030. Thank you for letting me know your concerns. Rep Goff-Marcil
— Response I received from the rep who wrote that amendment
If this is ever signed into law, I think all of those who are required to register should do exactly that…register every hotel in Florida as an intended dwelling space. Just flood the registry with information.
I like this idea, I do the same thing with my internet identifiers.. Choke them with info…
Easy to do folks. Find your representative, call number. Praying that just because it hasn’t helped before, that this will be different. This is truly heartbreaking.
I can’t believe that anyone could pass such a law. It’s got to be unconstitutional and cruel and unusual punishment. Realtors and resort owners won’t even rent to me. I can’t afford to go 2days early and hope I can find a hotel that won’t let me stay unless I lie to them so I can stay at my resort. It will prevent anyone registered as a sex offender from leaving their house. I had one picture on my computer 11years ago in Pennsylvania and received no jail time. Florida has the most asinine politicians in the nation!
i called !!
Didnt this die once before? Someone brought it back?
I emailed Andrade just now and also forwarded your call to action to my wife who works for Best Western and told her that her boss needed to see and respond to this with opposition since it imposes an undue and needless burden on innkeepers as well as registrants.
We never seem to catch a break.
Damn…..I thought some version of this was killed last year? I thought this was too intrusive for even the state of Florida. Whoever said this will be nearly impossible to enforce wasn’t joking. Wasn’t this similar to Lauren Book’s proposed legislation that was pulled due to a conflict it would have caused with her drunken father’s donors? They really, really, really want to do a number on the registered citizens of your state…..I came down for spring break this year but stayed for less then 3 days with no problems but this will kill any registered visitor/tourist from ever visiting Florida…WOW! SMH
People required to register, without being able to stay at a hotel will end up shacking up with intoxicated women they meet at the local tavern. Some of these women will be single moms. The other people not able to get hotel rooms will end up sleeping in their vehicles, possible the RV they rent. I would think that it would be best to allow those required to register to actually register in their own room at a hotel. Perhaps the lawmakers know best that people will feel safer knowing sex offenders are sleeping in the van parked outside their home or that the sex offender was the designated driver who drove their daughter home from the bar and is now sleeping in the next room with your grandchildren.
OK I spoke with Samantha at the Florida restaurant and lodging association And she said this bill is not keeping her awake at night because she said this language although alarming is not likely to survive because it would be too difficult to implement. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t stop calling but it does alleviate a small bit of concern.
Good call Jim. Very good thinking!!!
So, If we decide to stay within 1000 feet of a hotel and notify law enforcement 48 hours prior, the hotel is required to notify all guests? And then our “plans” change at the last minute so we cancel but the hotel has already suffered the stigma?
Just saying… incidents like this would rile the hotels up against the law. I have already contacted Wyndham, Marriott, Hilton, and Holiday Inn (IHG). Hopefully they will apply pressure to prevent passing this craziness. Registrants would be denied ALL lodging. O have a child shipt case coming up in Indian River county which is 5 hours away. If this were law, I’d be good to sleep in my car to make it to my hearing.
SCOTUS heard ruled on a case that required hotels to keep certain specified information about their customers, including the name and address, vehicle information, dates of the stay, room number, and how the customer paid the bill, among other information and if a police officer requested the data, the hotel had to make it available or face criminal penalties. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/13-1175_k537.pdf
An Arizona hotel chain that reported to federal immigration of suspected illegals staying on their property. The hotel had to pay $8.9M in settlements for wrongfully providing law enforcement with hotel data without a warrant. Additionally, the court ruled that “written consent” must be a an option by the guest to protect privacy.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/04/575567251/motel-6-gave-guest-information-to-immigration-agents-lawsuit-says
In the state of Washington, the same hotel chain settled by paying a $12M fine for sharing hotel data with law enforcement without a warrant.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/motel-pay-12m-settle-lawsuit-sharing-guest-info/story?id=62239566
If Florida passes this bill into law, it will surely meet the fate of the SCOTUS ruling used in these two cases to settle. Anyhow, some poor may suffer at the hands of an unnecessary and intrusive law. But he/she may be beyond rich once the case is quickly identified as a violation of constitutional rights?
The bottom line is, don’t ever support or visit Florida.
A Florida Democrat is a Republican everywhere else. To think that Rep. Joy Goff-Marcil discussing criminal justice reform on her social media page. What does she know about criminal justice reform? I’m just surprised it wasn’t an amendment by a certain blonde senator we all know and dislike (although she probably had a hand in it somewhere).
So, let me get this straight. If a registered citizen wishes to vacation in Florida (God knows why), they would legally have to travel to Florida, register their stay, leave Florida and come back. Or, say a resident of Florida needs to check into a motel/hotel due to an emergency, they couldn’t for at least 2 days or risk going to jail.
Seriously, do these lawmakers not THINK before writing laws??
I dont think this has a shot to pass as it places to much burden for lodging to comply and opens the flood gates for civil litigation against them.
I pray that this is shot down.
However, I would advise and rso to never book lodging in his/hers name and travel with someone else
Will this be added to the post facto suit?
Removing Dross has called our representative, Amber Mariano, and strongly objected to this bill. We left a message for Miss Mariano with her receptionist at her local office and on her Tallahassee voicemail.
It is imperative that we all flood our representatives with phone calls and emails. Just remember to be polite and respectful. There is strength in numbers. Please encourage your family and friends to call in objection to this bill.
I am off paper, live a clean life, and dont bother no-one. I go where I want, fish where I want, shop where I want.
I went to a tool place to pick up some tools. 3 doors down there was a day-care. There were also 3 BSO cops there. ALL of them knew me, knew OF me and my charges.
What did they do?? They asked me what I bought and how I was doing with my health.
THEY DONT CARE!!!!
Exactly man I agree to that not many people living here are giving a shit anymore who’s on a registry lol.
I plan on responding to my representative. But what exactly is a public lodging establishment?
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0500-0599/0509/Sections/0509.242.html
509.242 Public lodging establishments; classifications.—
(1) A public lodging establishment shall be classified as a hotel, motel, nontransient apartment, transient apartment, bed and breakfast inn, timeshare project, or vacation rental if the establishment satisfies the following criteria:
(a) Hotel.—A hotel is any public lodging establishment containing sleeping room accommodations for 25 or more guests and providing the services generally provided by a hotel and recognized as a hotel in the community in which it is situated or by the industry.
(b) Motel.—A motel is any public lodging establishment which offers rental units with an exit to the outside of each rental unit, daily or weekly rates, offstreet parking for each unit, a central office on the property with specified hours of operation, a bathroom or connecting bathroom for each rental unit, and at least six rental units, and which is recognized as a motel in the community in which it is situated or by the industry…………………………………………………..
Help me call all major hotels legal departments . I’m sure they don’t want to resort to all their customers if there is a registrant living within 1000 feet of their property. It would be very bad for business.
Wow! What is wrong with those people? I have never heard or seen anything as idiotic as this. Florida!! Wake up!! Rid yourselves of these Nazis running your state!
This should be our Alamo our Massada if you will. If this passes it will violate so many laws and principles that we muat at this point draw the line. It will be my break point and should be everyones.
Not hotel, motel etc will ever allow a rso to stay there because the owner of the hotel, motel will not risk losing customers to allow one to stay.
As harsh as the law sounds, most people will just have someone else rent the room for them. All one needs is a fake ID and a prepaid debit card in that name. This is a more cost effective system than hiring an Indian call center to register all of the possible hotels one might stay at. Perhaps I need to start buying up cheap RVs around the country to rent out to RSOs vacationing in Florida. Parents would not want sex offenders staying in a hotel, they would rather have them parked outside their house in a rented van. Wait, that only makes sense to Florida lawmakers!
I live in Miami and occasionally have to travel to Orlando for work, for a day or two. How could I possibly register with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office at least 48 hours before my hotel stay? I would have to drive 4 hours to Orlando and then drive 4 hours back to Miami, since I could not even stay in a hotel while I was there, for the purposes of registering. This is essentially a total ban on staying in any hotel outside of the immediate area of one’s residence.
How would anyone from another state even realize this? What if you stayed at one hotel that was within 1000 feet of another? Wouldn’t the other hotel have to notify as well? Along with the 48 hours advance in person. literally impossible
If i read it right. It states the hotel
Needs to advertise and display the rule online and in lobby.
This will make our lives and our Family lives a Nightmare, this means we cannot go anywhere, unless you go to another family home. If this passes, I’ll have to buy a camper to go anywhere for a night or two,
Please everyone call your state Representative ….
Think a campground would somehow fall into this
Just called and left a message to oppose HB 987.
This is an awful amendment. So many thousands of people will be affected. Not just registered citizens. Thanks FAC for getting the word out.
Please everyone call and oppose this amendment.
And support Ex Post Facto – Sustainer – even if it’s just few dollars, it will all add up. We can’t give up. As the song by Journey says “Don’t stop Believing”
Here we go again ! The state of Florida is again pushing to limit the travel abilities of registered offenders. This is just an attempt to impose more punishment to all. I currently have the enjoyment of doing road trips by car or Motorcycle within Florida. This requirement will essentially wipe that ability out.
Also, I am considering going to the NARSOL conference in Texas in June. This requirement would make it impossable to attent something where I have to register (in person i assume) two days before I arrive.
This is absurd.
To be fair (while I abhore this bill) it will have nothing to do with you when you travel outside of Florida. Florida state law can’t impose restrictions on an SO in another state.
I was thinking the same thing. For example you can be in Georgia if I recall for 15 days before reporting. So please correct me if i am wrong you could stay in 7 different hotels for 2 days each and not have to report in GA or FL.
Might as well just ban us outright from overnight stays anywhere in Florida. Demanding that people who rent to registered sex offenders MUST also inform everyone near them of that fact seems to be a blatant violation of their rights to free speech. Obviously, legislators don’t really care whether or not their bills meet constitutional requirements.
Dont think its private companys responsibility to notify: isnt that what the registry is for? This pits some sick law enforcement power in the hands of a hotel clerk
I thought this was withdrawn last year , it was a bill By L Book, or is this something new
New – someone just snuck it into another bill.
Sorry – I just have to comment on the absurdity of this proposal. So, someone traveling to FL from out of state (which requires a place to stay) will need to travel to FL (again – from out of state) 2 days ahead of time to register, but then return home so they can return back to FL and can only stay at or within a 1000 feet of the establishment?
So much for doing any traveling to FL as a tourist.
Exactly what is in the water down there that they are drinking?
Its the prescription meds now
When will they stop punishing people who have already served their time. “America Home Of The Free” more like “America Home Of The Laws” Seems to me the state of Florida is making it harder and harder for ex-offenders to live a normal life and to also become productive citizens. It’s almost impossible for ex-offenders to even get housing of their own. What’s next Florida?
Are the FL. Legislators smoking weed? 2 hotels next door to each other within 1000 feet. I register in one and they have to notify all of their guests plus the hotel next door who then has to notify all of their guests. Wouldn’t it be easier and better on the image of the hotel to just not let SO’s stay in your hotel? Nope, the dopes are not smoking weed. They know exactly what they are doing. They are making the businesses impose their will with force of law. Is there a $ penalty for not doing this?
Seems they lose their license to operate if they dont comply