Florida State Senator Lauren Book, introduced Senate Bill 540 last week. Included in her bill is the establishment of a “Soliciting for Prostitution Registry”.
Her bill also wants every law enforcement officer to be trained in investigating human trafficking and, “The training must be developed in consultation with the Department of Children and Families.” DCF is the same agency she, only weeks ago, said could not be trusted to care for the welfare of children.
I think we should push for a Fraud and Illegal Campaign Contributor’s registry in FloriDUH and make it retroactive to whatever year Ron Book pleaded No Contest to Fraud, either 1985 or 1986. It should be make public. In fact, there should be nice, red signs in their yards.
In fact, make those convicted of such offenses live at least 2500 feet away from where potential victims congregate or be allowed entry to said places, like the State House in Tallahassee. Why should a recidivist like, say, Ron Book, be allowed to go where he could reoffend again?
Who’s with me?
Joseph, very good. I got a good laugh out of it. Too bad it is borderline truth.
Joseph, Now THAT is the way to get your point across, in a very satirical way !!!!
You have to give the Books a little lee-way on this…..
They are “handicapped” per say (I am handicapped so no rude, slanderous intentions here)
They are Democrats… (nuff said)
Only to be expected. She is grasping for straws at every move she makes. She is the product of being a clueless politician with nothing of any positive value to claim in her portfolio. Apparently she is in critical need of counselling.
If this passes (which I’d be surprised if it does), then it could have a significant impact on how solicitation of prostitution cases are handled in court. Under Florida law, a first offense is a second degree misdemeanor (maximum punishment: 60 days in jail), a second offense is a first degree misdemeanor (maximum punishment: one year in jail) and a third or subsequent offense is a third degree felony (maximum punishment: 5 years in state prison). Unless there are aggravating circumstances, many if not most of these offenses are typically handled summarily at first appearance or arraignment, with a sentence of time served (often the 1 day the offender was in jail before bonding out) or non-reporting probation with adjudication withheld handed out.
With new, greater “collateral” consequences, defendants will be much less likely to plead nolo contendere to have the case summarily disposed of, clogging up county courts with defendants charged with solicitation charges insisting on going to trial. It’s often the unintended consequences of bad laws that have the greatest impact.
More Book self serving hypocrisy.
A Street Walkers Registry
SB 540: Human Trafficking
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/540
Requiring the owner or operator of a public lodging establishment to train certain employees and create certain policies relating to human trafficking; requiring that the criminal history of a person who is convicted of, or enters a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, soliciting, inducing, enticing, or procuring another to commit prostitution, lewdness, or assignation be added to the Soliciting for Prostitution Registry.
Creates a (NON-PUBLIC?) Soliciting for Prostitution Registry. Makes prostitution legally the same as human trafficking.
Public Shaming 101. Bringing the gas station mugshot mag national. Never forget never forgive!
Welcome to the club!
Now want another registery. This is why some are on now from sex sting they set up as kids. So now its be hard do stings without dectives getting into trouble. Actually that won’t help either focuse on important thing
Solicitation is kind of subjective. Any monetary transaction in the course of a date with any expectation or even hope of a sexual encounter with that person afterwards could be twisted into solicitation. What if I owed her money and gave it to her just prior to or just after coitus? Another prudish puritanical attempt at controlling what people think and do by imposing THIER beliefs on everyone else. Wonder what sort of skeletons are in those closets of the Books…?
Just think how easy it is to claim this! It is genius! What unemployed woman hard up for money wouldn’t hang out on the corner of Beale street in Memphis, wearing a red dress knowing all she has to do is have someone approach her to make money! No sex involved! Another profitable endeavor, Faux-pimping! Girls can be placed all over who accuse men of offering them compensation for sex. Whoever came up with this idea for a law is genius!
Now this is actually something I can agree with her on. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Yeah, if we have to be on a registry, then why shouldn’t anyone else??
Bring on another registry! Convicted child and animal abusers should also be on a registry. Convicted theives and corrupt politicians should have one. Murders and drunken drivers should have one! Then we’ll all see the systems crash either by financial overload or case law saying all this is unconstitutional.
What exactly is the reasoning behind this? Isn’t soliciting prostitutes already on publicly accessible criminal records (for the 4 or 5 people in the world who care)? Exactly what threat do those who solicit prostitutes pose to the community at large, children in particular? How exactly does the inept DCF factor in?
The woman’s idiocy knows no bounds. Odds are such a registry would include her father and a good number of her colleagues in the legislature. People have moral issues with it, to be sure. But threatening? Please…
Back in the 80s or early 90s, Miami Dade County begun posting those convict of Soliciting Prostitution, (mostly the man) on billboards throughout the County. I believe a Court declared it unconstitutional public shaming.
The men & women of the evening would love this, they could stay home and just make contact with the people on the new state provided contact list
Am I the only one totally SICK of reading about this opportunistic parasite? I really think that her playing the boo-who victim card is more than totally played out!
Hey Lauren – read some actual facts and not just your old tattered copy of the “How to emotionally manipulate the masses for fun and profit” handbook.
I like the part about opportunistic parasite, I never thought of her that way, but now I do. Why can’t I come up with those kinds of descriptions?
Sure lets put everyone on Registry
Including her father THE BIGGEST SCAMMER OF ALL!! i mean they feel if u did it once ull do again so why is he so special?
We could start a ‘piss-poor parent’ registry and ‘Daddy’ Book could be the poster boy.