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!
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If it passes, what every registrant in Florida needs to do is take a list of every local address – commercial or residential – and register it. Simply driving or walking by it constitutes presence for a day as defined by law. Do it in pieces (10 – 15 pages at a time) or just take the whole damn phone book. Then follow up with FDLE to complain that the registration office isn’t updating as required.
I would also suggest doing the same thing with vehicles (pull the lists from advertisements – you can “have access” to them without buying them) and email addresses and identifiers (whether or not you actually create them, just register long lists).
Not a good idea. Stick to the reality of the issue, please.
Dear FAC,i do believe Dustin has a very good idea, have been thinking about this scenario for years but never got around to doing it, i sit at these 3 bus stops for a period of time most every day, i eat at 3 of these pizzerias at least 5 times a month, i have coffee at these 5 coffee shops at least 5 times a month. This could end up being so much fun FAC, we should invest our time and thoughts in getting this scenario going in multiple jurisdictions, heck we can even put Books address on the list,, dam, sounds like real fun.
I beg to differ. The reality of the issue (as you put it) is that the point of the law is to prevent registrants from going out and having anything resembling a life, keeping them imprisoned in their own homes like hermits, and sending them back to jail/prison for what amounts to no other reason than being on the registry.
As you pointed out, it’s not far fetched to envision some deputy kicking down a registrant’s door because they have multiple video security clips of the registrant pumping gas at a station he didn’t register in accordance with this law. Or a street intersection with a stop sign on the route the registrant takes from his residence to where he works. I wouldn’t even be surprised if some sheriff (probably in Broward) arrested someone for not registering the sheriff’s office as a “place frequented” by the standards set by this law. Consequently, the idea proposed above is more CYA than intent to harass or overburden LE just to spite them for finding more ways of being absurd.
Someone above quoted Lincoln saying “The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.” That may have been true in his day, but certainly not now. The registry itself was bad law when it was first written (not surprising, given that it’s based entirely on false premises), gets worse every year, and there seems no end in sight. Florida is the perfect example of that – the strictest enforcement of a completely asinine set of discriminatory rules that achieve nothing regarding its stated purpose (but don’t forget the unstated purpose – money).
Another reality of the issue is that elected officials really only value the opinions of those with money and those that vote, in that order (the former having far more weight than the latter). Perhaps the best opposition to this bill would come from non-registrants whose homes and businesses would end up on the registry because a registrant “frequents” there, according to this law. If so, counter that they shouldn’t have a problem with that – it’s not like it’s punishment or anything…
Dustin
To make matters worse, WE cannot live freely in peace, even though many of us have been off Paper for years or decades. Having said that, the World news this morning announced the new adminstration just gave the green light for 25,000 immigrants in Mexico to come into the U.S.A.
I have no issue with a handful of people coming here for a better life the “Right” way. But granting a mass Exodus from South America and beyound is crazy. AND many of us on the registry cannot get jobs, food stamps or any assistance. BUT, they already said these people coming will get assistance with jobs, housing, medical care, educations and more.
Again, not being racist, just stating how we are treated lower than immigrants.
Dustin
Bill 666 Florida Penal Code
Under the command of the Governor of Florida, The new Sex offender Police force is hereby formed.
Ok this is not true, but, how far fetched is it??? Vote down the devils bill #666
From what I’ve been reading, most Florida LE pretty much are the “Sex Offender Registry Police Force.” They don’t appear to be willing and/or able to deal with any other kind of crime (even sex crime), be it because of cowardice or incompetence (or both?).
Easy, print out every store, shop, bus stop and street in their home area, and declare that as the places you “frequent”.
I declared every street and business in California and they said I couldn’t do this. I said, I have lawfully informed you of this fact, and that their laws do not require you to tell them where you do not go, they accepted this loophole. They didn’t care for it. But you declare it lawfully, then they can’t get you. Print it out in “tiny” front to help save some trees, please.
Note: If you fail to disclose streets you drive on, bus stops, etc.. this is how they are going to “get you”.
When they have to have a billion tons of paper as “evidence”, then they will die of document overload.
I know none of us want this bill to pass because it will complicate our lives even more!!! BUT, Can we imagine the burden that this bill will put on ALL the Law Enforcement Officials that deal with the “Sex Offender Registration”!!! I really believe that if this bill passes, Not only will it FINALLY prove that the Registry IS A PUNISHMENT, But it will also cause EVERY Registration Office to STAY Booked Up with “People Forced To Register”!!!! I feel MANY Lawsuits being filed would open up some “Closed” Eyes!!!!!!. Legally, I don’t think anyone can “Change” the Definition of a Word!!! Not without the SUPREME COURTS ruling on it!! Every School and (Partially) Educated person was/has/is being taught in school that a “Day” is 24 HOURS!!! Or 12 HOURS at the Least!!!! Not 1 minute or 1 hour or even 10 hours!! I see LOTS AND LOTS of Problems with this new “Law” if it passes!! And I believe it will actually HELP us in the end!! It very well could be the Stone that Crumbles the Wall!! At least I wanna believe this!!! I mean, People can’t really be this stupid!?!?!, Can they?????. Maybe this is the Added law that WAKES UP EVERYONE and makes them see that the “Registry” Really IS PUNISHMENT!!!!!.
tired
I would agree with you if not for the Holocaust. I know we were told to stop making that comparison but bare with me. Who in their right mind could have imagined World War II would advanced from a fight for dominance, to Killing men, woman AND innocent children.
And not just with bombs that have no eyes, but humans killing humans in ovens. So if that can happen, to innocent children and their families who did NOTHING wrong except being a race (Jews) that a group of monster hated, what sympathy do you expect for us?
They will rubber stamp this with smiles, back slaps and high-fives. The FLA legislature has historically coddled and embraced the Books’ nonsensical vigilante and hate bills.
All propaganda. No proof. No evidence. Just fear rhetoric.
They fall for it every time.
OK, well not every bill passes, so lets do our best to prevent it or put them on notice of this absurdity so if we do have to sue there will be a textbook of letters in opposition.
I left a terd at their doorstep. I hope this helps. The Books obsession with registrants is absolutely morbid.
In administrative law they have what’s called the Arccadi Doctrine. This applies to federal law. Essentially, this doctrine invalidates a law that they fail to enforce. In theory, if they fail to enforce all of these provisions the entire registry can be invalidated which would be the Books worse nightmare. No more sex offender registry for Florida. There are state equivalents for the Arccadi Doctrine. This should be an interesting argument for FAC’s attorneys.
If she gets away with this then I’ll never set foot in Florida again….which I’m sure is her purpose….although I’m proud of Derek from Once Fallen for having the balls to stand up to the Bimbo Princess, he probably made things worse for the general registrant population down there….I’m not denigrating Derek in ANY way as I personally regard him as something of a hero and revolutionary in this fight. I’m sure left to her own devices(yeah right) errrr…because we all know how smart she is. Florida’s policy on span of days spent in permanent & tempory domiciles might not be what they are now….
Bay County is already targeting ppl & timing/harassing ppl concerning the calendar days vs this bill.
W, you ain’t kidding,,,,failure to register a hole flew of stuff,,,,,,,,,,,,https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/38-arrested-in-bay-county-operation-targeting-sex-offenders-child-porn-predators/ar-BB1dvnx6