Senator Book Bill advances
As if there was any doubt, Senate Bill 234 (https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/234) sailed through the Criminal Justice Committee with a vote of 8 to zero.
The bill would require anyone convicted of a sex offense to register even if they have not completed their sentence or paid their fee. It redefines the term “sex offender” in the Florida Statutes and circumvents the court’s orders in a 2nd DCA case that we wrote about last year (https://floridaactioncommittee.org/ruling-allows-tampa-man-to-avoid-sex-offender-registration-until-he-pays-10k-fine/). In the comments to that article we wrote, “UNQUESTIONABLY the legislature will pass something to address this.” So here it is…
Some of Senator Book’s other Bills this year include SB 236, requiring pretrial detention for persons charged with a “dangerous crime”, and SB 812, which would allow hearsay testimony in Human Trafficking cases.
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Revised bill places EVEN GREATER burden on interstate and intra-state travel than is cited in our lawsuit.
So it’s two nights per hotel per year. Not three. A third night would trigger registration and its collateral consequences. NO exceptions in cases of emergency evacuation orders.
Get ready to amend our amended complaint!
(Is our lawsuit just making things worse?)
With luck, my math is wrong, or I don’t comprehend the language. Does it mean that the day you check into the hotel doesn’t count towards the number of days?
So you check in Friday, then Saturday, Sunday, and Monday count, but if you haven’t registered, you must check out Monday, as that partial calendar day at the END DOES count?
If so then that might resemble the practice people already have been engaging in, am I right? That would be three nights.
Hope I’m not fearmongering too much here. Many thanks to the member who brought this amendment to all our attention.
But don’t you have to have registered before the third day has begun? Within 48 hours? Which means before 12:00 am Monday morning?
UPDATE ON CS/SB 234!
Bill has been expanded to apparently address portions of our lawsuit:
Specifying how days are calculated for the purposes of determining permanent residence, temporary residence, and transient residence;
requiring the reporting of certain vehicle information; clarifying a requirement relating to the timing of reporting of international travel or a change of residence to another state or jurisdiction
” the first day a person abides, lodges, or resides at a place is
excluded. Each day following the first day is counted. A day
includes any part of a calendar day.”
This really screws us. Before this change, FDLE had interpreted “a day” as “a full day”. That previous interpretation meant we could arrive at our destination on a Monday and leave on a Thursday since neither Monday or Thursday counted towards the 3 day rule. Now we must leave our destination on a Wednesday.
https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/234/BillText/c1/PDF
Going back to a broader question, if we visit a state which doesn’t require you to register for stays under 3 days, we still have to report that address in person in Floriduh?
Honestly, will this woman ever get a life? It gives me some pleasure in knowing that she and those like her must be so miserable that they spend most of their time digging up foolish ways to hamper the lives of registrants! Some truths about righteous people will soon be known, its only a matter of time.
Perpetual Victim Barbie’s just mad because the Florida Supreme Court declined to review Logue v Book.
LAUREN FRANCES BOOK vs. DEREK WARREN LOGUE
Petitioner(s) Respondent(s)
This cause having heretofore been submitted to the Court on jurisdictional briefs and portions of the record deemed necessary to reflect jurisdiction under Article V, Section 3(b), Florida Constitution, and the Court having determined that it should decline to accept jurisdiction, it is ordered that the petition for review is denied.
No motion for rehearing will be entertained by the Court. See Fla. R. App. P. 9.330(d)(2).
CANADY, C.J., and POLSTON, LABARGA, MUÑIZ, and COURIEL, JJ.,
concur.
What was the issue she had, please?