Senator Lauren Book – Bills to watch out for and oppose.
Lauren Book, Daughter of Lobbyist Ron Book, Founder of ‘Lauren’s Kids’ one of the State’s highest funded charities, advocate for punitive sex offender registration laws and State Senator, has sponsored some bills that will be on our radar and we will be opposing this legislative session.
| SB 1214 | Creates a Rebittable presumption of dangerousness to a child if a parent has a CP Conviction in their history. |
| Increases the Penalties for CP offenses | |
| SB 1226 | Sets Mandatory minimum terms of supervision for registration violations and includes electronic monitoring |
| Reduces the period of time before one must register a permanent or temporary residence from 5 to 3. | |
| SB 1502 | Establishes a 10 year mandatory minimum for crimes which are considered “Human Trafficking” |
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This past July the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that SORNA was unconstitutional. I have been following the progression of events since the Supreme Court ruling as best I can. The latest news that has come out is that the Pennsylvania State Legislature is going to re-write new legislation to try to accommodate the PA Supreme Court ruling.
Being a RSO living in Pennsylvania, I am very apprehensive about the possible negative impact the new laws will have on the lives of RSO’s in PA. The past track record of politicians (like the Books) has not been in favor of passing common sense sex offender laws. I hold out hope that Pennsylvania passes some decent common sense legislation instead of more draconian laws based on fear, flawed statistics, and self preservation.
Also, from what I am seeing here in PA, the Pennsylvania State Police as well as District Attorneys, are not going to give up on the current laws without a fight.
I sometimes have difficulty in accepting the reality of how absolutely messed up these sex offender laws have become. Unreal, just unbelievable…and pitiful that this is going on here in the United States in this day in age. Too much misinformation out there!
NEWS FLASH – The government does not exist to keep people safe. As we have seen recently they even fail miserably at that task. Legitimate governments exist solely to protect the rights of their citizens. The vast majority of politicians only say what they think will get them into office. Once elected, they use their elected positions as a cash cow or as a future ATM when they get private sector jobs. It unfortunately falls on the governed to continuously fight for our civil rights and civil liberties or they will simply evaporate into thin air. This includes The Second Amendment Right to keep and bear arms.
800,000 Americans die EVERY year from heart disease. Maybe we should require universal background checks for food purchases. Or perhaps require universal background checks for food purchases by fat people.
“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Dictionary definition of infringe:
To break off, impair, break, violate; To break (a law or agreement.);
Following that logic ANY laws which impair (weaken, hinder, prevent or delay) in any way, an American’s right to acquire, possess or own any type of arms (including firearms) clearly violates the United States Constitution. Period.
There are NO clauses in the United States Constitution stating if public opinion polls are taken that the opinion of those polled trumps any laws or any part of the United States Constitution or amendments thereof.
It is NOT wrong to stand up for our civil rights.
It is WRONG to pass laws and believe that they will stop the violence embedded in American society.
People are getting sick and tired of being told that they need to give up their civil liberties to keep them safe. What a crock of BULL!
Freedom comes with risks. Either you want to live in a free country or you don’t. If YOU want to give up YOUR civil liberties to feel safe then do so. But do NOT ask me to give up MY civil liberties. Do NOT ask tens of millions of other freedom loving Americans to give up theirs either! If YOU find The United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights unacceptable then go live somewhere else. AND don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way to Mexico or China or Russia or Venezuela or Canada.
Freedom suppressed and regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” –Thomas Jefferson
Remember: British attempts at gun-control and firearms and ammunition confiscation started the American Revolution. It was not about tea.
“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” –Edmund Burke
Well said Paula!
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
-Benjamin Franklin
I am new to this site. Retired, moved to Florida from Michigan about a year ago. Spent 20 years as a licensed master social worker working with children in foster care as well as assessing and treating juvenile and adult sex offenders. Recently joined Volusia/Flager ACLU. Speaking at Orange City Unitarian/Universalist Church tomorrow on the subject of sex offender registries (Michigan has one as well) and community incarceration. These responses to the real problem of criminal sexual conduct are not only inappropriate, they are unconstitutional and by their precedent open to the door to even more outrageous human rights abuses by the criminal justice system. Are there any commenters out there who would like me to say something on their behalf?
Michael. Thank you so much for becoming involved. We will be in touch shortly.
According to my research in May of 1996 the feds passed the Megan law requiring states establish sor.though not all have. But each state can make up there own decisions as to what a sex offender is ,so with 50 different ideas and one the same we have a conglomeration of screwed up mick mash but trade names from state to state and now to other countries even though none can even agree between themselves.plus each state is constantly changing there laws and punishment. It’s like making a law that every state have abaseball team and play each other but every team make up there own rules and Change them at will. You wonder why there are problems