Tennessee nurses push for new law to add protection from sex offenders
Nurses in Nashville are hoping to put a new bill on the books that would add another layer of protection against registered sex offenders.
The hope is to have legislators take up a bill that would require sex offenders to present their offender identification card once inside the hospital.
“You would go register at the front desk, like any other patient, the only difference is that you would hand them your sexual offender identification card, and let them know,” explained Carissa Kohne, co-writer of the bill.
“It would allow us to plan how we would do patient care, not that it would change the care itself any…” explained Ciearria. [FAC COMMENT: Yeah right!]
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TN is actually more punitive than FL towards former offenders. Isn’t this one of the states that mandates family separation?
Have their been any other assaults on providers by registrants? Any at all?
How many have been perpetrated by non registrants?
A committee member needs to ask these questions, and a TN legislative activist needs to feed these questions to them.
Given 6th Circuit precedent, I would like to think that this provision was a susceptible to court challenge. But that could take years.
Any Tennesseans here able to express their concerns to their representatives?
Notice also that the people to benefit most so far from 6th Cir ruling have been in TN not MI
The report doesn’t specify what the penalties are for attempting to obtain care without identifying oneself as a sex offender. Anyone see the bill?
The claim that their identification as a registered sex offender wouldn’t affect their care is bull! A couple of years ago at a medical checkup, I discussed the possibility of resuming the treatment for low testosterone levels that my former doctor had identified, which eliminated my chronic pain and restored my normal energy levels. The FEMALE Nurse Practitioner then pretended to be listening to my heart and lungs, but used it as an opportunity to whisper in my ear, “I won’t prescribe hormones for sex offenders.” That, at least, explained some of the negative vibes I had been getting from some of the other health care “professionals.” They stop looking at you as a patient who came to them for help.
Seems like a hospital in Tennessee is looking for organ donors…
So altering the way you “plan to do patient care” is somehow not changing patient care? Interesting.
Sounds like 1984 doublespeak