URGENT CALL TO ACTION – STOP LAUREN BOOK’S AMENDMENTS ON FLUORESCENT GREEN LICENSE PLATES AND RED LETTERING ON DRIVER’S LICENSES

SB 1252 HAS BEEN RETAINED ON THE SPECIAL ORDER CALENDAR WITH FIVE PENDING AMENDMENTS, INCLUDING THREE FROM LEADER BOOK.

AT THE POSTING OF THIS CALL TO ACTION, SB 1252 HAS NOT BEEN ADDED TO ANY OF THE FOUR SPECIAL ORDER CALENDARS FOR MAY 1 & 2, BUT THAT IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME.

 Major Concerns:

  • Amendments filed by Senator Lauren Book for SB 1252: The department shall assign a distinctive, fluorescent green license plate to vehicles owned, leased or operated by persons who are designated as sexual predators under s. 775.21 11 or are subject to registration as sexual offenders under s. 943.0435 or s. 944.607, or who have a similar designation or are subject to a similar registration under the laws of another jurisdiction. Such person must display the distinctive, fluorescent green license plate on any vehicle owned, leased, or operated by him or her as required in subsection (1), and may not disguise or obscure the plate. 
  • The sponsor of SB 1252, Senator DeCeglie, filed an amendment to the bill that would remove the red lettering on the driver’s licenses.  Senator Book filed an amendment to put the red lettering back into the bill AFTER DeCeglie filed his amendment.  Book is fighting to keep the red lettering in SB 1252.
  • Senator Book continues to push legislation that would punish people with a past sex offense after they have served out their sentence.  Is she using her office to seek revenge for what her nanny did to her?

 

PLEASE Do the Following:

  • Email or call the 40 senators (or as many as you can).
  • Let the Senators know that you OPPOSE the fluorescent green coloring of the license plates that Senator Book has proposed in her amendments, along with the red lettering on the front of driver’s licenses.
  • Ask the Florida Senators to vote YES on Senator DiCeglie’s amendment to SB 1252 that would remove the red lettering language and vote NO on Senator Book’s amendments that include the red lettering on the front of driver’s licenses and florescent green license plates.
  • Ask family members and friends to also contact the senators to OPPOSE Book’s amendments.

Talking Points:

  • According to FDLE, there are already 63 registry requirement violations that could land someone back in prison, making people on the Florida sex offense registry regulated to the point that the Florida registry has become excessively punitive. Adding the red lettering on the driver’s licenses and the fluorescent green license plates will be the tipping point that will bring the registry down in the courts.
  • Should legislators, such as Lauren Book with an obvious vendetta, be able to create policy to target a particular population?
  • Why is Lauren Book refusing to talk to reporters? What is she afraid of?
  • https://cw34.com/news/local/south-florida-senator-proposes-marked-license-distinctive-fluorescent-plates-for-registered-sex-offenders-florida-action-committee-requires-licenses-of-registered-sex-offenders-in-the-state-to-have-the-words-sexual-offender-written-in-red-april-28-2023
  • https://nbc-2.com/news/state/2023/04/27/florida-sex-offenders-could-be-required-to-have-special-colored-license-plates/
  • Other states have tried to legislate the green license plates and failed to do so (Ohio, Alabama, and Wisconsin). Why does Florida want to be infamous as the state for being the most unconstitutional state in the United States?
  • Why does Florida want to go down a path to place targets on the backs of children and families with the green license plates just because a family member made a bad decision in the past for which they have already paid their debt to society?
  • Why does Florida want to deliberately and blatantly ignore all of the research which clearly shows none of these policies have done anything to increase public safety?
  • Lauren Book’s amendments will have registrants along with their spouse or significant other, teenage sons and daughters, and others driving with a target on their backs for vigilantes to come after them in a way that this country has never seen before.
  • Lauren Book’s red lettering on the driver’s licenses has been declared unconstitutional in the Louisiana and Alabama court cases.

 

 

Emails and Phone Numbers for Florida Senators:

Senator Email Phone
1.      Ben Albritton [email protected] (850) 487-5027
2.      Bryan Avila [email protected] (850) 487-5039
3.      Dennis Baxley [email protected] (850) 487-5013
4.      Lori Berman [email protected] (850) 487-5026
5.      Lauren Book [email protected] (850) 487-5035
6.      Jim Boyd [email protected] (850) 487-5020
7.      Jennifer Bradley [email protected] (850) 487-5006
8.      Jason Brodeur [email protected] (850) 487-5010
9.      Doug Broxson [email protected] (850) 487-5001
10.   Danny Burgess [email protected] (850) 487-5023
11.   Colleen Burton [email protected] (850) 487-5012
12.   Alexis Calatayud [email protected] (850) 487-5038
13.   Jay Collins [email protected] (850) 487-5014
14.   Tracie Davis [email protected] (850) 487-5005
15.   Nick DiCeglie [email protected] (850) 487-5018
16.   Ileana Garcia [email protected] (850) 487-5036
17.   Erin Grall [email protected] (850) 487-5029
18.   Joe Gruters [email protected] (850) 487-5022
19.   Gayle Harrell [email protected] (850) 487-5031
20.   Ed Hooper [email protected] (850) 487-5021
21.   Travis Hutson [email protected] (850) 487-5007
22.   Blaise Ingoglia [email protected] (850) 487-5011
23.   Shevrin Jones [email protected] (850) 487-5034
24.   Jonathan Martin [email protected] (850) 487-5033
25.   Debbie Mayfield [email protected] (850) 487-5019
26.   Rosalind Osgood [email protected] (850) 487-5032
27.   Kathleen Passidomo [email protected] (850) 487-5028
28.   Keith Perry [email protected] (850) 487-5009
29.   Jason Pizzo [email protected] (850) 487-5037
30.   Tina Scott Polsky [email protected] (850) 487-5030
31.   Bobby Powell [email protected] (850) 487-5024
32.   Ana Maria Rodriguez [email protected] (850) 487-5040
33.   Darryl Rouson [email protected] (850) 487-5016
34.   Corey Simon [email protected] (850) 487-5003
35.   Linda Stewart [email protected] (850) 487-5017
36.   Geraldine Thompson [email protected] (850) 487-5015
37.   Victor Torres [email protected] (850) 487-5025
38.   Jay Trumbull [email protected] (850) 487-5002
39.   Tom Wright [email protected] (850) 487-5008
40.   Clay Yarborough [email protected] (850) 487-5004

 

 

Every email/call gets heard and tallied.  Every respectful conversation with a staffer is an excellent opportunity to change a mind about our community with someone who has direct contact with a lawmaker.  YOUR EFFORTS DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

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