UPDATE: Oppose Senate Bill 234
THIS BILL SAILED THROUGH THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE WITHOUT OPPOSITION AND UNANIMOUSLY.
On Monday, February 15, 2021, the Senate Judiciary committee will consider Senate Bill 234. It is item number 3 on their agenda.
Among other things, this bill introduced by Senator Lauren Book would change the definition of “day” to mean part of any calendar day. Therefore, as written, anywhere you are physically present 4 or more times a year would technically have to be registered within 48 hours.
Visit your parent’s home once a week for dinner? Play cards at a friend’s house once a month? Stop in for coffee at a neighbors’ once every few weeks? Use the same barber?… You’d be registering them all.
Senator Book could have easily clarified the confusion in the language of the bill to state, “a Day means any Calendar Day that includes a 24 hour period”, but she chose, “A day includes any part of a calendar day.” Any part of a calendar day can be one minute! If you sit at a bus stop for 5 minutes on your way to work have you spent a day there? Do you now need to change your transient address?
This Bill was intended to clarify but it only makes things more confusing! Senator Book’s proposal to redefine the meaning of day is ridiculous! It must be stopped.
We call on our members to contact the Senate Judiciary via email and telephone and ask them to OPPOSE SENATE BILL 234 when they meet this coming Monday!
The Senators on the Judiciary Committee can be found here: https://www.flsenate.gov/Committees/Show/JU/ click on their names for contact information.
For quick reference:
| [email protected] | (850) 487-5024 |
| [email protected] | (850) 487-5006 |
| [email protected] | (850) 487-5012 |
| [email protected] | (850) 487-5021 |
| [email protected] | (850) 487-5005 |
| [email protected] | (850) 487-5001 |
| [email protected] | (850) 487-5017 |
| [email protected] | (850) 487-5029 |
| [email protected] | (850) 487-5027 |
| [email protected] | (850) 487-5019 |
| [email protected] | (850) 487-5033 |
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Can we ALL visit Senator Lauren Book’s house 4 times? We can ALL register her house , residence, her cars, and maybe her work location since we visited there four or more times in a year.
Please don’t suggest this. This will only harm the effort.
Maybe we SHOULD protest in front of her house as part of the absurdity of the bill. Maybe it seems like hyperbole, but the bill is so absure that if even a second could be considered part of a day, then theoretically, She can file restraining orders on one person like she tried with me, but she can’t file restraining orders on hundreds of protesters.
It isn’t that uncommon for the houses of lawmakers to see protesters. Just ask Mitch McConnell. Ask Louis DeJoy. Or, ask MN Department of Human Services Commissioner Jodi Harpstead, whjo was met with protesters as part of the MSOP Hunger strike. It got things accomplished.
Y’all spent years in fear of Lauren Book. She only has power over us because we are unwilling to stand together. I’ve taken the brunt of her hatred and she’s thrown everything at my and I’m still standing. And now I have three victories over her in court, and don’t forget I protested her in 2015; she tried to have me arrested then and failed. So what more can she do to me other than have me killed?
If we ALL stand up to her, she’ll stand down. If you leave it to one or two of us to fight, she can silence us.
Relax
It was a joke, about as funny as them saying we have to register every minute of our lives. I was just saying, IF she helps pass this and we have to register EVERY place we go, I will do it.
Let us all pray this does not pass. I think the registery kings and queens are feeling the pressure from all the lawsuits. It is easier to do sweeps and get us all off the streets and get us new / Fake charges.
Unlike people now arrested for new charges, I do not get to bargain registry application to get a lighter sentence. There was no registry in 1991. I, along with others were double cheated. 1st by not having the luxery of fighting it during our trial (Because it didn’t exist) and #2 Then getting it applied retro actively in 1997.
Great Idea !! You wouldn’t even have to ring the door bell.
I called their main number and left a verbal objection with office personnel discussing the issues from the posts about this bill. I was told there will be a vote on this next week before it heads to the Rules Committee. My written objections will follow.
Stay on that slippery slope. Shop the same store 4 times in a year and you have to register it, purchase gas at the same location 4 times a year and you have to register it, go to the same shopping mall 4 times in a year and you have to register it. Attend church 4 times a year and YEP!!!
another required registry location. Comments like this might help show how ludacris this bill really is.
I agree, I called & objected 2 Bill 234
One of the definitions of insanity is : To do the same thing, the same way, over and over, and expect different results.
Book just will not give up until she is declare the High Priestess of the Universe and rises as the AntiChrist.
She seems to have a personal beef with us that she just cannot let go of. Does she lay awake at night plotting her next evil plan against us? She must live a miserable life. Very sad.
I emailed Senator Doug Broxson yesterday and sent him an amended version of the same letter that Gail sent him just changing it to say I am a member and customizing it to make it mine since Gail is far more eloquent than I am.
Book needs to resign and her daddy needs to retire from his lobbyist career. Both are corrupt symptoms of the Florida political system.
Sent email, called also, this bill makes no sense. Are we just pawn in a game that rules change all the time. I say no, time to voice your comments. We need more people to show we are human beings. I hope you do the same.
Joe
To me, this would also be considered MORE Ex Post Facto laws