CALL TO ACTION: Oppose HB 987: Public Lodging Establishments
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
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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)