URGENT CALL TO ACTION – STOP FLORESCENT GREEN LICENSE PLATES
CALL TO ACTION FOR FLOOR VOTES ON HB 1085, SB 1252, AND HB 833
FLOOR VOTES THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2023 FOR HB 1085 AND SB 1252 (RED LETTERING BILLS) and ADDS FLOURESCENT GREEN LICENSE PLATES
Major Concerns:
- Amendments filed by Senator Lauren Book for SB 1252: The department shall assign a distinctive, fluorescent green license plate to vehicles owned, leased or operated by persons who are designated as sexual predators under s. 775.21 11 or are subject to registration as sexual offenders under s. 943.0435 or s. 944.607, or who have a similar designation or are subject to a similar registration under the laws of another jurisdiction. Such person must display the distinctive, fluorescent green license plate on any vehicle owned, leased, or operated by him or her as required in subsection (1), and may not disguise or obscure the plate. This will be voted on Thursday, April 27, 2023.
- Lauren Book has also filed an amendment to SB 1252 bringing back the red coloring on the driver’s licenses. This amendment will be voted on Thursday, April 27, 2023.
- HB 1085 and SB 1252, bills that would require information on the driver’s licenses to be in red, have a floor vote this Thursday, April 27, 2023.
- HB 833, the bill that would require the 24-hour vacation rental reporting, has passed through all its committees. A date for the floor vote has not been given at the time of the posting of this Call To Action.
- The Senate has an amendment filed to remove the red lettering language from SB 1252. The House has not done so, yet, for HB 1085.
- The Analysis for HB 1085 continues to leave out the Louisiana and Alabama court rulings.
- The Analysis for HB 833 has REMOVED the warnings by FDLE of possible significant litigation due to the changing of the definition of a temporary residence, along with other major concerns about this bill and its expansion of registration laws in Florida.
PLEASE Do the Following:
- Email or call all 160 legislators (or as many as you can).
- Let the Senators (and Representatives) know that you OPPOSE the coloring of the license plates that Senator Book has proposed in her amendments, along with the red lettering on the front of driver’s licenses.
- Let the Florida Representatives know that you OPPOSE only the part of HB 1085 that would require the red lettering on the driver’s licenses for people required to be on the sex offense registry.
- Ask the Florida Senators to vote YES on Senator DiCeglie’s amendment to SB 1252 that removes the red lettering language, and vote NO on Senator Book’s amendment that includes the red lettering and adds florescent green license plates.
- Let the Florida Representatives know that you OPPOSE the part of HB 833 that would require the reporting for registrants who stay in a vacation rental for 24 hours.
- Ask family members and friends to also contact the legislators to OPPOSE these three bills.
Talking Points:
- Lauren Book’s amendments will have registrants along with their spouse or significant other, teenage sons and daughters, and others driving with a target on their backs for vigilantes to come after in a way that this country has never seen before.
- Lauren Book’s red lettering on the driver’s licenses has been declared unconstitutional in the Louisiana and Alabama court cases.
- The analysis for SB 1252 included information about the rulings for the Louisiana and Alabama court cases that determined the colored markings on driver’s licenses are unconstitutional, but the analysis for HB 1085 continues to exclude it. Why?
- There are currently two court cases, one in the Northern District of Florida and the other in the Southern District, challenging the markings on the driver’s licenses for registrants. If passed into law, the red lettering and 24-hour reporting for vacation rentals will only give the plaintiffs more evidence that the registry laws in Florida are punitive and therefore unconstitutional.
- Attorneys are prepared to file a lawsuit, along with an injunction, if the red lettering on the licenses becomes law. People are uniting throughout the state of Florida to fight the possible passage of this unconstitutional law.
- It is the responsibility of the Florida Legislators to ensure that all laws passed in this state are constitutional. The citizens of Florida should not be the ones having to file costly lawsuits to make sure that all laws are constitutional. Legislators, do the job that you were elected to do.
- The analysis for HB 833 has REMOVED the warnings from the FDLE: FDLE recommends the bill does not amend the definition of “temporary residence” for people on the sex offense registry; the 24-hour reporting of stays at vacation rentals for registrants could seriously impact Florida’s registration laws for people on the registry causing courts to rule that the Florida registry is punitive; the 24-hour reporting could create a burden on Florida sheriffs’ offices; FDLE has warned of possible significant litigation if the 24-hour reporting is left in HB 833. All of these warnings have been in the previous analyses but have been taken out of the current analysis. Why?
Emails and Phone Numbers for Florida House of Representatives:
| Name | Phone | |
| 1. Shane G. Abbott | [email protected] | (850) 717-5005 |
| 2. Thad Altman | [email protected] | (850) 717-5032 |
| 3. Daniel Antonio “Danny” Alvarez | [email protected] | (850) 717-5069 |
| 4. Carolina Amesty | [email protected] | (850) 717-5045 |
| 5. Adam Anderson | [email protected] | (850) 717-5057 |
| 6. Robert Alexander “Alex “Andrade | [email protected] | (850) 717-5002 |
| 7. Bruce Hadley Antone | [email protected] | (850) 717-5041 |
| 8. Kristen Aston Arrington | [email protected] | (850) 717-5046 |
| 9. Jessica Baker | [email protected] | (850) 717-5017 |
| 10. Douglas Michael “Doug” Bankson | [email protected] | (850) 717-5039 |
| 11. Webster Barnaby | [email protected] | (850) 717-5029 |
| 12. Robin Bartleman | [email protected] | (850) 717-5103 |
| 13. Fabián Basabe | [email protected] | (850) 717-5106 |
| 14. Melony M. Bell | [email protected] | (850) 717-5049 |
| 15. Mike Beltran | [email protected] | (850) 717-5070 |
| 16. Christopher Benjamin | [email protected] | (850) 717-5107 |
| 17. Kimberly Berfield | [email protected] | (850) 717-5058 |
| 18. Dean Black | [email protected] | (850) 717-5015 |
| 19. David Borrero | [email protected] | (850) 717-5111 |
| 20. Adam Botana | [email protected] | (850) 717-5080 |
| 21. Robert A. “Robbie” Brackett | [email protected] | (850) 717-5034 |
| 22. LaVon Bracy Davis | [email protected] | (850) 717-5040 |
| 23. Robert Charles “Chuck” Brannan III | [email protected] | (850) 717-5010 |
| 24. James Buchanan | [email protected] | (850) 717-5074 |
| 25. Demi Busatta Cabrera | [email protected] | (850) 717-5114 |
| 26. Daryl Campbell | [email protected] | (850) 717-5099 |
| 27. Jennifer Canady | [email protected] | (850) 717-5050 |
| 28. Michael A. “Mike” Caruso | [email protected] | (850) 717-5087 |
| 29. Joe Casello | [email protected] | (850) 717-5090 |
| 30. Hillary Cassel | [email protected] | (850) 717-5101 |
| 31. Kevin D. Chambliss | [email protected] | (850) 717-5117 |
| 32. Linda Chaney | [email protected] | (850) 717-5061 |
| 33. Charles Wesley “Chuck” Clemons Sr. | [email protected] | (850) 717-5022 |
| 34. Lindsay Michelle Cross | [email protected] | (850) 717-5060 |
| 35. Dan Daley | [email protected] | (850) 717-5096 |
| 36. Kimberly Daniels | [email protected] | (850) 717-5014 |
| 37. Fentrice Driskell | [email protected] | (850) 717-5067 |
| 38. Wyman Duggan | [email protected] | (850) 717-5012 |
| 39. Lisa Dunkley | [email protected] | (850) 717-5097 |
| 40. Jervonte “Tae” Edmonds | [email protected] | (850) 717-5088 |
| 41. Anna V. Eskamani | [email protected] | (850) 717-5042 |
| 42. Tiffany Esposito | [email protected] | (850) 717-5077 |
| 43. Tom Fabricio | [email protected] | (850) 717-5110 |
| 44. Juan Alfonso Fernandez-Barquin | [email protected] | (850) 717-5118 |
| 45. Randy Fine | [email protected] | (850) 717-5033 |
| 46. Gallop Franklin II | [email protected] | (850) 717-5008 |
| 47. Ashley Viola Gantt | [email protected] | (850) 717-5109 |
| 48. Alina Garcia | [email protected] | (850) 717-5115 |
| 49. Sam Garrison | [email protected] | (850) 717-5011 |
| 50. Mike Giallombardo | [email protected] | (850) 717-5079 |
| 51. Karen Gonzalez Pittman | [email protected] | (850) 717-5065 |
| 52. Peggy Gossett-Seidman | [email protected] | (850) 717-5091 |
| 53. Michael “Mike” Gottlieb | [email protected] | (850) 717-5102 |
| 54. Michael Grant | [email protected] | (850) 717-5075 |
| 55. Tommy Gregory | [email protected] | (850) 717-5072 |
| 56. Philip Wayne “Griff” Griffitts Jr. | [email protected] | (850) 717-5006 |
| 57. Jennifer “Rita” Harris | [email protected] | (850) 717-5044 |
| 58. Dianne “Ms Dee” Hart | [email protected] | (850) 717-5063 |
| 59. Fred Hawkins | [email protected] | (850) 717-5035 |
| 60. Yvonne Hayes Hinson | [email protected] | (850) 717-5035 |
| 61. Jeff Holcomb | [email protected] | (850) 717-5053 |
| 62. Christine Hunschofsky | [email protected] | (850) 717-5095 |
| 63. Berny Jacques | [email protected] | (850) 717-5059 |
| 64. Dotie Joseph | [email protected] | (850) 717-5108 |
| 65. Sam H. Killebrew | [email protected] | (850) 717-5048 |
| 66. Traci Koster | [email protected] | (850) 717-5066 |
| 67. Chip LaMarca | [email protected] | (850) 717-5100 |
| 68. Thomas J. “Tom” Leek | [email protected] | (850) 717-5028 |
| 69. Johanna López | [email protected] | (850) 717-5043 |
| 70. Vicki L. Lopez | [email protected] | (850) 717-5113 |
| 71. Randall Scott “Randy” Maggard | [email protected] | (850) 717-5054 |
| 72. Patt Maney | [email protected] | (850) 717-5004 |
| 73. Ralph E. Massullo, MD | [email protected] | (850) 717-5023 |
| 74. Stan McClain | [email protected] | (850) 717-5027 |
| 75. Lawrence McClure | [email protected] | (850) 717-5068 |
| 76. Fiona McFarland | [email protected] | (850) 717-5073 |
| 77. Lauren Melo | [email protected] | (850) 717-5082 |
| 78. Kiyan Michael | [email protected] | (850) 717-5016 |
| 79. James Vernon “Jim” Mooney Jr | [email protected] | (850) 717-5120 |
| 80. Angela “Angie” Nixon | [email protected] | (850) 717-5013 |
| 81. Tobin Rogers “Toby” Overdorf | [email protected] | (850) 717-5085 |
| 82. Bobby Payne | [email protected] | (850) 717-5020 |
| 83. Daniel Perez | [email protected] | (850) 717-5116 |
| 84. Jenna Persons-Mulicka | [email protected] | (850) 717-5078 |
| 85. Rachel Lora Saunders Plakon | [email protected] | (850) 717-5036 |
| 86. Susan Plasencia | [email protected] | (850) 717-5037 |
| 87. Juan Carlos Porras | [email protected] | (850) 717-5119 |
| 88. Michele K. Rayner-Goolsby | [email protected] | (850) 717-5062 |
| 89. Paul Renner | [email protected] | (850) 717-5019 |
| 90. Alex Rizo | [email protected] | (850) 717-5112 |
| 91. Spencer Roach | [email protected] | (850) 717-5076 |
| 92. Felicia Simone Robinson | [email protected] | (850) 717-5104 |
| 93. William Cloud “Will” Robinson Jr. | [email protected] | (850) 717-5071 |
| 94. Bob Rommel | [email protected] | (850) 717-5081 |
| 95. Rick Roth | [email protected] | (850) 717-5094 |
| 96. Dr. Joel Rudman | [email protected] | (850) 717-5003 |
| 97. Michelle Salzman | [email protected] | (850) 717-5001 |
| 98. Jason Shoaf | [email protected] | (850) 717-5007 |
| 99. David Silvers | [email protected] | (850) 717-5089 |
| 100. Tyler I. Sirois | [email protected] | (850) 717-5031 |
| 101. Kelly Skidmore | [email protected] | (850) 717-5092 |
| 102. David Smith | [email protected] | (850) 717-5038 |
| 103. John Snyder | [email protected] | (850) 717-5086 |
| 104. Paula A. Stark | [email protected] | (850) 717-5047 |
| 105. Kevin M. Steele | [email protected] | (850) 717-5055 |
| 106. Cyndi Stevenson | [email protected] | (850) 717-5018 |
| 107. Allison Tant | [email protected] | (850) 717-5009 |
| 108. John Paul Temple | [email protected] | (850) 717-5052 |
| 109. Josie Tomkow | [email protected] | (850) 717-5051 |
| 110. Dana Trabulsy | [email protected] | (850) 717-5084 |
| 111. Chase Tramont | [email protected] | (850) 717-5030 |
| 112. Keith L. Truenow | [email protected] | (850) 717-5026 |
| 113. Kaylee Tuck | [email protected] | (850) 717-5083 |
| 114. Susan L. Valdés | [email protected] | (850) 717-5064 |
| 115. Katherine Waldron | [email protected] | (850) 717-5093 |
| 116. Patricia H. Williams | [email protected] | (850) 717-5098 |
| 117. Marie Paule Woodson | [email protected] | (850) 717-5105 |
| 118. Taylor Michael Yarkosky | [email protected] | (850) 717-5025 |
| 119. Bradford Troy “Brad” Yeager | [email protected] | (850) 717-5056 |
| 120. PENDING SPECIAL ELECTION |
Emails and Phone Numbers for Florida Senators:
| Senator | Phone | |
| 1. Ben Albritton | [email protected] | (850) 487-5027 |
| 2. Bryan Avila | [email protected] | (850) 487-5039 |
| 3. Dennis Baxley | [email protected] | (850) 487-5013 |
| 4. Lori Berman | [email protected] | (850) 487-5026 |
| 5. Lauren Book | [email protected] | (850) 487-5035 |
| 6. Jim Boyd | [email protected] | (850) 487-5020 |
| 7. Jennifer Bradley | [email protected] | (850) 487-5006 |
| 8. Jason Brodeur | [email protected] | (850) 487-5010 |
| 9. Doug Broxson | [email protected] | (850) 487-5001 |
| 10. Danny Burgess | [email protected] | (850) 487-5023 |
| 11. Colleen Burton | [email protected] | (850) 487-5012 |
| 12. Alexis Calatayud | [email protected] | (850) 487-5038 |
| 13. Jay Collins | [email protected] | (850) 487-5014 |
| 14. Tracie Davis | [email protected] | (850) 487-5005 |
| 15. Nick DiCeglie | [email protected] | (850) 487-5018 |
| 16. Ileana Garcia | [email protected] | (850) 487-5036 |
| 17. Erin Grall | [email protected] | (850) 487-5029 |
| 18. Joe Gruters | [email protected] | (850) 487-5022 |
| 19. Gayle Harrell | [email protected] | (850) 487-5031 |
| 20. Ed Hooper | [email protected] | (850) 487-5021 |
| 21. Travis Hutson | [email protected] | (850) 487-5007 |
| 22. Blaise Ingoglia | [email protected] | (850) 487-5011 |
| 23. Shevrin Jones | [email protected] | (850) 487-5034 |
| 24. Jonathan Martin | [email protected] | (850) 487-5033 |
| 25. Debbie Mayfield | [email protected] | (850) 487-5019 |
| 26. Rosalind Osgood | [email protected] | (850) 487-5032 |
| 27. Kathleen Passidomo | [email protected] | (850) 487-5028 |
| 28. Keith Perry | [email protected] | (850) 487-5009 |
| 29. Jason Pizzo | [email protected] | (850) 487-5037 |
| 30. Tina Scott Polsky | [email protected] | (850) 487-5030 |
| 31. Bobby Powell | [email protected] | (850) 487-5024 |
| 32. Ana Maria Rodriguez | [email protected] | (850) 487-5040 |
| 33. Darryl Rouson | [email protected] | (850) 487-5016 |
| 34. Corey Simon | [email protected] | (850) 487-5003 |
| 35. Linda Stewart | [email protected] | (850) 487-5017 |
| 36. Geraldine Thompson | [email protected] | (850) 487-5015 |
| 37. Victor Torres | [email protected] | (850) 487-5025 |
| 38. Jay Trumbull | [email protected] | (850) 487-5002 |
| 39. Tom Wright | [email protected] | (850) 487-5008 |
| 40. Clay Yarborough | [email protected] | (850) 487-5004 |
Every email/call gets heard and tallied. Every respectful conversation with a staffer is an excellent opportunity to change a mind about our community with someone who has direct contact with a lawmaker. YOUR EFFORTS DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
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OMG!! 😳😲 WTF! 😖😠
This is absolutely un-fking-believable!!
I can see a lot of issues with this. Cars and homes now being easily targeted by vigilantes. Green plate you already know who they are. Are insurance carriers going to insure us. At what rate? If at all. Spouses, children, friends who have access to our cars. Can Florida be responsible, for any act of violence or possibly death? I can see Florida opening up an entire can of worms of possible lawsuits.
This woman, with her a vigilante idea(s), is going to give an account to God for the seemingly clear victims that she is going to create in trying to get this passed. This law is going to get someone on the registry killed. She is a victim of sexual assault. I don’t think her or her dad can see clearly to suggest or pass any constitutional law because of the retribution they want to continually invoke. She couldn’t see clearly on how to speak up when the years of abuse happened. Her father couldn’t see clearly when the years of abuse was happening. So how are they all of a sudden able to see clearly in suggesting and passing any kind of Constitutional law that is equal, just, fair, balanced, of sound mind? I’m sorry Lauren that you became a victim. But you can’t see clearly on this subject. You should recuse yourself from these types of laws. Jurors get removed all the time because of these same concerns. You should removed too. Out of pity for Lauren, legislators will probably just vote yes.
I say let it pass, then wait for a USF alum with a USF vanity tag, someone who bought the Tampa Bay Estuary” tag, or a state worker driving a commercial “Apportioned IRP” or Fleet tags, gets shot to death for having a green car tag.
Has the ACLU been contacted yet?
I have teenage kids who drive my cars. It’s not ok if one of them get shot to death and neither is it ok for a person driving any vehicle with a similarly colored tag to be shot to death. That’s a terribly irresponsible comment. I know you have. Every reason to hate that woman after what they did to you. But there are literally teenage children’s lives that will put in harms way. None of this is OK.
Oh, looks like I picked a good time to move to Georgia. I will give you folks a little heads up. When you move, if the LA is saying that they don’t have to remove your Internet information and that they will not. The only thing you can say, is that those Internet identifiers are “in active“ which means that you’re not using them anymore. At least that’s what the somewhat less than competent if the LA person told me the other day. Of course, he also said that they don’t send out any information regarding these Internet, identifiers to anyone, image of the point of kind of denying that they give them to people like Facebook upon request every week. Of course, we know that to be faults as typically it takes Facebook about three or four days to figure out who you are. Georgia does not collect Internet identifier information, but, this guy kind of implied that you would have some kind of liability if you said that you’re not using those in the fires, even though you’re not required to maintain any kind of registration in Florida. One other thing. Even though I gave Florida the address where I was going to be residing for a couple of months in Georgia, all they put on the , Florida website was the county name. I am currently gathering my court documents so that I can petition to be removed from the registry in Georgia. What that may mean is that the only thing on the Florida registry will be an old entry saying that I’m somewhere in a county where I’m actually no longer residing. After Georgia, my next mission will obviously be to tell the feds that it’s been 25 years come 2025 and that they need to remove me from their little SORNA and issue me a passport without any special markings on it. I’m not holding my breath, but who knows?
Done. Every individual listed has been emailed, and Senator Book was sent one with a more personalized message included, all respectful, begging for a broader, non-biased look at what is being proposed here.
I have enough anxiety working as a freelance event worker, wondering if I’ll be denied entry to a venue I’m working or if security will kick me out and or ban me.
Oh and also people in my industry, some I barely know, who are horrible individuals, and have made a name for themselves that everyone in the industry knows, apparently in a jealous rage to bring others down, sit at home and google other freelancers/techs and of course for me, there’s an instant jackpot that’s easily found, and then outed me on social media groups.
I’ve been very fortunate that for the most part, my business has been unaffected, but there are now some “poisoned pills” as I call them, out there and have already encountered one that told me not to ever address them again. Didn’t bother to ask any questions or find out what my very ridiculous story was of how I’ve ended up in this cluster.
So yeah, let’s add even more stress and anxiety to people who are not re-offending, minding their own business, contributing to society, paying takes, supporting the economy, by introducing more sanctions and chances for severe harm and damage to their livelihood and property.
Not to mention the taxpayer burden when policy response activity goes up on vandalized vehicles, plus the taxpayer expense of printing new licenses AND tags. Then insurance claims to fix/replace vandalized vehicles that will likely drive up premium costs and eventually could even lead to cancelations of our policies altogether. All the while, no one is any safer in the end.