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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Learned how to be totally alone and isolate, Quess now be even more such. Not by choose mind you, but by force.
I just read the Bill, I encourage everyone to at least review it’s contents before commenting on it. By reading a lot of these comments it does not seem everyone has reviewed it. Here is the link: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/234/BillText/c1/PDF
By the way, one of the most damaging things I read is that if you are going to another country they will automatically notify that countries authorities, so you will have a mark on you before you even arrive!
Folks, please read and digest this stuff, then you decide if it’s worth the time and effort, I have and believe it is.
The Senate already cast enough yays last month to push for it’s approval.
One committee – Children and Families, which is chaired by Lauren Book.
Next up on Monday is Judicial Committee, which she is not on. That’s why we reserved our CALL TO ACTION for now.
Look, we’re not forcing anyone to take any action. If, for whatever reason, you want this to pass or you think it’s not worthy of your time, don’t do anything or support the bill. All we can do is bring it to everyone’s attention, let them know how it will impact us, give directions and talking points for those who are on our side of this fight and ask people to support our efforts.
It sounds like it was planned and approved behind closed quarters before it was even introduced openly.
There are more pressing issues in our society and this is the crap they waste their time on.
Jed:
You are correct. Reasonableness is the touchstone of due process. The more a law is unreasonable the better the chance that the law will be found unconstitutional.
FAC is correct as to the practical effect of these laws. They negatively affect peoples lives in a very real way. Registrants need to get behind organizations like FAC to push for changes in these laws either through legislation or through a civil action. FAC and other organizations have a long row to hoe. Look how long it is taking to reach the goal of $25,000 for their expost facto sustainer challenge. Persons with an interest in these laws simply are not donating sufficient funds to touch on every issue of the registry.
There are two ways you can look at it. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is one of the toughest circuits in the U.S. and FAC is receiving funds sufficient to maintain a couple of issues and lacks the resources to address the broader issues and issues that develop in new legislation. By having an incredibly unreasonable law it may wake up the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals but this is even doubtful.
Or you can have patience and keep treading water in Florida while registrants have success in other states and wait until the 11th Circuit comes around. FAC is doing what it can with what it has to work with. If registrants aren’t willing to do more fundraising in Florida it is more prudent to keep treading water in Florida until the 11th Circuit comes around and ameliorate the suffering of registrants in the meantime. If I were a registrant in Florida, I would be supporting FAC in their efforts to ameliorate my suffering and push for more fundraising.
Unreasonable laws can last a lifetime before courts overturn them, if they ever do.
No advantage is conferred by an unreasonable law. That’s why we need to do our best to slow down a bad bill before it becomes law.
Please give real numbers. Like what number ex post facto sustainer we are on now? And the up front cost we needed to raise to get this started. What a slap in the face. Considering a lot of Offenders can’t work since Florida decided to give them a scarlet letter on there license.
Detroit
It is not that all of us don’t WANT to help, some of us CANNOT. I can only speak for me but the registry took EVERYTHING from me.
I have no job, no home (Had to move in with elderly parents) no health insurance, Do NOT qualify for food stamps because my parents take care of me, no income and did not qualify for a stimulus check because I have not worked since the early 2000’s.
I owe Florida hospital over $120,000.00 in medical bills for a heart attack I had in 2014 for a 12 day stay and numerous tests and procedures. Every year I think they are going to write it off but they keep sending me to collections.
One of the reasons for funding shortages, is because not everyone can afford to donate. Think of those who do not and cannot obtain employment, and those who cannot use the internet, and those who aren’t even aware FAC exists, etc. Now imagine that is just us in this situation, it doesn’t even touch the loads of people who could help that don’t, won’t, and those who don’t know or care. You know, those who still have rights and the ability to help make a change, the whole of society.
Derek:
She is absolutely obsessed with you and sex offenders in general. I think she has something going on deep down inside. It’s clear that this obsession is morbid and unhealthy. It may not be the ugliness of the soul. I think the problem is between the ears. Maybe we can get her civilly committed.
Am I reading this bill right? It says that the first day a person establishes permanent, temporary OR transient residence IS excluded? So I can travel out of state, spend a “day” in a hotel, then travel to another state and stay at another hotel for a “day” and so on, and I don’t have to register or count ANY of those days to have to register…. So I can keep going back to the same hotel for a “day” and since the first day is excluded not count that “day” on the aggregate of a year? Providing I don’t stay after mid-night… I mean I LOVE to drive at night! I am being facetious! Except for the part of being excluded…
That’s correct. That’s the way it has always been. You can even stay 2 days in each hotel.
And yet vcso stopped me and told me to add my travel time TO the out of state location i was driving to. Granted i was staying three days but they forced me to add the two days of travel time. I wasnt staying 5 days just leaving on the third. They were pretty harsh about it. Also asking what car im driving. I havent been on any paper anywhere in 23 years. I take monthly trips and theyre getting harsher and harsher. Now i need to call the moment i get back and if i get back earlier i need to go in person