CALL TO ACTION SB 932 Prohibits Parental Timesharing with their minor child
Senate Bill 932 is on the Agenda to go before the Rules Committee tomorrow 04/06/21 at 9:30 am.
We are calling on all members to contact the members of the Senate Rules Committee by calling and emailing them via the information below, and asking them to OPPOSE SB 932. Please remember to be polite and professional. Remember, they were not the one introducing this bill, they are considering it, so be mindful of that when communicating with them.
SB 932 prohibits a court from granting time-sharing with a minor child to a parent registered as a sexual offender or sexual predator. It literally says timesharing MAY NOT be given to a registrant parent unless a judge makes written finding that the parent poses no significant risk of harm to the child and that time-sharing is in the child’s best interest.
Anybody who has been through the family court system knows that never happens. In Florida we have elected judges who will not risk re-election by making such a written finding. Judges are also not qualified practitioners and therefore should not be making risk assessments, especially when it comes to the right to the fundamental right to raise one’s children. (Art. I., s. 23 of the Florida Constitution provides that parents have a fundamental liberty interest in determining the care and upbringing of their children.)
Plus, its unreasonable for someone on the registry who is likely already struggling financially because of unemployment or underemployment caused by the stigma, to now be forced to hire an attorney to fight for timesharing that is otherwise statutorily guaranteed to all other parents.
With more than 50% of marriages ending in divorce, there will be hundreds of thousands of children who will lose a wonderful parent because of this sick bill. We NEED to fight this one!
Please email or call the Senators on the Rules Committee TONIGHT and ask them to OPPOSE Senate Bill 932!
Senate Rules Committee:
| CHAIR: Senator Kathleen Passidomo (R) | (850) 487-5028 | [email protected] |
| VICE CHAIR: Senator Ileana Garcia (R) | (850) 487-5037 | [email protected] |
| Senator Ben Albritton (R) | (850) 487-5026 | [email protected] |
| Senator Dennis Baxley (R) | (850) 487-5012 | [email protected] |
| Senator Aaron Bean (R) | (850) 487-5004 | [email protected] |
| Senator Lauren Book (D) | (850) 487-5032 | [email protected] |
| Senator Randolph Bracy (D) | (850) 487-5011 | [email protected] |
| Senator Jeff Brandes (R) | (850) 487-5024 | [email protected] |
| Senator Manny Diaz, Jr. (R) | (850) 487-5036 | [email protected] |
| Senator Gary M. Farmer, Jr. (D) | (850) 487-5034 | [email protected] |
| Senator Audrey Gibson (D) | (850) 487-5006 | [email protected] |
| Senator Joe Gruters (R) | (850) 487-5023 | [email protected] |
| Senator Travis Hutson (R) | (850) 487-5007 | [email protected] |
| Senator Debbie Mayfield (R) | (850) 487-5017 | [email protected] |
| Senator Bobby Powell (D) | (850) 487-5030 | [email protected] |
| Senator Kelli Stargel (R) | (850) 487-5022 | [email protected] |
| Senator Perry E. Thurston, Jr. (D) | (850) 487-5033 | [email protected] |
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As a Reminder, the Recidivism Rate for a ‘Person Forced to Register’, is Less Than 7% while the Recidivism Rate for a Person Convicted of DUI/DWI is More than 60%….So, therefore, a Minor of a Parent Convicted of DUI/DWI is ‘SAFER’ with this type of Parent?!?!…..Hummmmmm
Comments Anyone?
4/6/2021 Senate – CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
So another onerous bill will become law.
Aside from not being surprised at this thing passing unanimously, I do not think this would hold up in a court setting opposing the soon to be law as it amounts to a punishment without a crime nor is it part of any sentencing guidelines.
If the wording were changed to where the Court has to state a reason WHY the decision was made to bar the time sharing rights to a particular individual… That would more than likely hold constitutional/legal ground to be a valid law.
(I’m not a lawyer fyi!)
Is this our Governments model for Registered Citizen Laws? There is more than this and am at awe at the similarities.
1938, Nazi legislation barred Jews from all public schools and universities, as well as from cinemas, theaters, and sports facilities. In many cities, Jews were forbidden to enter designated “Aryan” zones. The government required Jews to identify themselves in ways that would permanently separate them from the rest of the population.
Government agencies at all levels aimed to exclude Jews from the economic sphere of Germany by preventing them from earning a living.
The Jews analogy will ALWAYS backfire with legislators and others we wish to educate.
There’s a difference between targeting people based on their birth and targeting them based on their criminal background.
That difference is intuitively obvious to all those outside of our bubble.
Nazis’ 1938 legislation, hardly unique to Nazis, would barely even be remembered today, had they not taken the next step that made them unique: death camps for entire families. But good luck persuading lawmakers or their constituents that that is the direction in which we’re headed, or preserving your credibility while attempting to make that case.
If we cite Nazis in an e-mail to a lawmaker, I promise you they’ll stop reading.
LAWS
Just keep in mind though, Jews did not commit a crime. They were hated just because they were Jews. Not saying we are being treated right, because we are not, but we did do something to get arrested, unless you are innocent.
Now is it fair that we were retroactively put on a registry? Absolutely not. But so far the court group known as the Supremes is singing a different tune than we are.
We did something an we paid our debt. Ammmm still paying….. Still paying
Two wrongs dont make a right. Shame on our Government if this is an actual model they were influenced by.
It didn’t work for Antisemitism and its not working now. Stand by….
I never add Book to my emails when I send out a statement. Is there ever a point to wasting even the seconds of my life it takes to adding the email of that waste of humanity?
Has anyone sent anything to her and got a response?
Derek
I am keeping her and her family in my prayers that God would soften her heart to her anger she feels towards us. 99.99% of which she doesn’t even know. I realize she and her family had some sort of incident and I won’t down play that, but making it her mission to attack us and our families is not going to bring her closure, unless what she seeks is revenge.
And we all know revenge really does not make you better. It makes you bitter. Even the prosecutor in my case who treated me so badly when I was sentenced, was shocked at my resentencing where I won against her. I went over and shook her hand. She looked at me like I had two heads. I didn’t say it but by shaking her hand, I was saying, “I didn’t win against you, but Christ who is in me won for me.”
In one of the Call to Actions, I actually spoke with Sen B assistant. I read my point paper as I would have into her email. I then added the ongoing attack Sen B puts against persons on the registry instills her personal agenda and does not represent many others whom she represents. It is her responsibility to put her agenda aside when it conflicts. The assistant just said thank you for the call. Hung up.
Grateful to our Legislative Committee for the timely update and change tracking.
Another thing I was considering is what happens if a married couple are on the verge of divorcing and one of them is an offender with children and they are forced to not get a divorce for fear of this new law? Are they supposed to stay married in a toxic relationship so they won’t lose control of their children? There are plenty of times where the offender could be the “better” parent so if they take away custody from him/her and the other parent has a lot of issues of their own then where do the children go?