GA: Bad bill advances through the legislature (lifetime probation and Halloween signs)
The following is an update from an advocate in Georgia. If anyone is in Georgia and would like to be connected with the advocate group there, please reach out to [email protected]
Here’s an update on Georgia HB 720 which would require Judges to issue mandatory lifetime probation sentences upon conviction of a 2nd sexual offense. It would also make it lawful for Sheriffs to put signs on registrants property on and before Halloween.
The bill passed today 98-63.
There was nearly 30 minutes of discussion both for and against. I helped my representative (Kennard) craft a great opposition speech. In the end, we just didn’t have the votes to stop this in the House.
The bill now moves on to the state Senate. My plan is to remind the Senators that this bill does not implement any of the findings that came out of their own study committee last year. I also plan to get the Department of Community Supervision to publicly oppose the bill.
If anyone would like to, you can view the livestream here (begins at 1:01:40):https://livestream.com/accounts/25225474/events/8824297/videos/202832129
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What a bunch of incompetent boobs! No wonder this country has gone to shit with idiots like this in power. So sad.
Signs in the yard were unconstitutional before this action and will still be unconstitutional after any action. I control what goes into my yard so if I lived in Georgia it would be a ‘cold day in hell’ before any sign went into my yard.
Good Day…
So, One Solution, maybe, Erecting a Fence around one’s residence with Adopted Pit Bulls as Lawn Ornaments, to Prohibit Such Draconian and Unconstitutional Pettiness!
So if politicians cannot be trusted to protect or even acknowledge constitutional rights for all America’s citizens, may God bless the courts to do so.
So registry is not punishment ? It is not enough to get shamed on a website but now on our own F-ing Yards? Might as well tattoo our Department of corrections # on our foreheads while your at it because they think they own us even after we served our time.
What would the sign look like at an apartment complex? Put up in a common area for everyone to see and no one would then want to move into that complex? Guess that is why apartments do not want to rent to us.
I am moving into a tree house starting tomorrow or a cave in the mountains. Oh wait Florida doesn’t have mountains.
Cherokee Jack, don’t give them any ideas. They already have enough plans to screw registered citizens.
yeah pisses me of that the new drivers licenses are going to have a HUGE number across the front. Right now mine is real tiny on the corner.
I feel sorry for those who have predator on their license. Everywhere you go nowadays they want to see your I.D and if you go to a doctors visit, how do you think you are going to be treated once they see that?
Bad enough one time when I got my license just with the # on it and the clerk went to her supervisor and then came over and said loud enough for everyone to hear “Oh you one of those registry pricks”. I would have complained to the supervisor but she was laughing about it along with the clerk.
And it just never stops. Matters will continue to worsen before they ever get better.
Alas, we can only hope that something like this is eventually heard by the Supreme Court.
Hearing it is a good possibility. Them giving a damn about us or our rights is another story that has yet to be written.
When they know we are right but they do not want to upset the balance of nature, they just refuse to hear a case and send it back to the lower courts in a game of tennis or ping pong.
One of these days a judge is going to grow a pair and do the right thing.
Pffft, the supreme court is full of boobs who only support idiots like the ones who pass laws like these.
You would say such a thing after SCOTUS DENIED CERT TO THE STATE OF MICHIGAN? You would say such a thing to JUDGE CLELAND WHO NOT ONLY PLACED A PERMANENT INJUNCTION AGAINST MOST ALL OF MI’S REGISTRY FOR PRE-2011 REGISTRANTS AND ALL REGISTRANTS FOR SOME THINGS…STRIKING RESIDENCY RESTRICTIONS, STRIKING THE STRICT LIABILITY CLAUSE FROM THE LAW, STRIKING HAVING TO LIST VEHICLES ON THE REGISTRY…Some judges are doing big things. Even though the case languishes to this day at the 10th Circuit, Judge Matsch made a precedent-setting ruling in Colorado by ruling the registry is a violation of the 8th Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. The CA Supreme Court ruled that local municipalities could no longer enact residency restrictions that are more stringent than what the state has already enacted, which has allowed Janice Belluci/ACSOL to file suit and force many localities to repeal their residency restrictions AND PAY THE BILL FOR THE SUIT.
Let’s not refuse to give credit where credit is due.
I forgot to mention that Judge Cleland also struck the requirement to register on-line identifiers. Not only can MI registrants have Internet access (unless their crime is directly tied to use of the internet (child exploitation by distributing K.P. or solicitation by electronic means), but they don’t have to tell the state squat about their user names, monikers, e-mail addresses, passwords, etc.
Too bad we cannot edit our comments….The 6th Circuit, along with Federal Judge Cleland completely killed the registry for pre-2011 individuals. They are not beholden to any registration obligation.
I’m sorry but in the grand scheme of things, that’s a drop in a big bucket. While some judges might actually be sane, the majority is what matters. After all, this country seems to revolve around majority everything, even if it’s not the general public majority involved.
Don’t need Supreme Ct. Just need this circuit to rule similarly to the 6th.
When the Federal Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled against many of Michigan’s registry provisions, the Supreme Court, thankfully, refused to take up Michigan’s petition for cert. That made it a win. Then a district court in that circuit enjoined the state against enforcing it.