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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I wonder how to get Senator Book from introducing these bills. Maybe organizers need to throw out 50% spa coupons.
It was our 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln who said, “The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
Derek:
I think Lauren has a crush on you. Kind of like the girl that keeps hitting the boy in the third grade.
Tell Gini it’s nice to hear from her. She should post more often.
Perish the thought, Detroit. There’s nothing uglier on a woman than a nasty, hateful personality. Lauren Book can be handed all these arbitrary, meaningless “awards” and have people cater to her and heap praise upon her, but there’s not enough L’Oreal makeup on the planet to hide the ugliness of her soul.
I admit I let my emotions get the best of me while reading a bill and being overwhelmed by everything. Please don’t let your emotions get the best of when you write for or against a bill. My hope is things to improve for Florida registrants and their families.
Brandon:
Smart move. Registrants in Florida have the incredible bad luck of having the Books and being in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Bad combination.
I hope you didn’t relocate to Georgia. They have Jerry Keen who is a Lauren Book on steroids. He can come up with ideas 10 times anything Sweet Lauren can come up with.
I don’t ever see them placing registrants in concentration camps but bet the ones they can’t place in prison or civil commitment will be living in penal colonies. If this happens, it will most likely occur in Georgia or Florida.
About 10 years ago Georgia tried to pass legislation to chase all registrants out of Georgia. A few legislatures even admitted that this was the intent of the legislation. All the prosecutors and sheriffs opposed the bills because they didn’t have the resources to enforce it and advised the legislature that other states simply had to pass similar legislation. The legislation failed. The easiest way to kill this bill is to locate the old news articles and send them to all of the sheriffs and prosecutors and say, “good luck enforcing this one”.
Detroit
Don’t be so sure. More things to do for officers / Sheriff Deputies is more Government grants and funding of law enforcement. The Sheriff’s employee who use to check me in once said that registering ex offenders was not what she signed up for when she joined the Sheriff’s office.
She further said she joined the Sheriff’s office to make a difference in the community and that working on registrations almost caused her to quit. She finally got a different assignment. We all miss her. she actually treated us with dignity. I think the Sheriff thought she was being too soft on us.
‘Good luck enforcing this one.’ Every FL registrant law that we previously assumed was unenforceable, has been enforced, to the benefit of multiple sheriffs’ offices and the detriment of hundreds of registrants’ families. This bill isn’t much different.