CALL TO ACTION #3 for SB 1252 – Red Lettering on Driver’s Licenses – Now in the Senate Fiscal Policy Committee – Meeting @ 9:30AM on Thursday, 4/20/2023

Committee meeting @ 9:30AM on Thursday, 4/20/2023 Major Concerns About This Bill: This is the Senate companion bill to HB 1085. SB 1252 would require “SEXUAL PREDATOR” and “943.0435” to be printed in a distinctive format and in RED on driver’s licenses and identification cards. SB 1252 is now in the Senate Fiscal Policy Committee. Information on the Louisiana and

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Member Submission: Open Letter to Merrick Garland, Attorney General

Open Letter to Merrick Garland, Attorney General Let us begin with some words. You may be familiar with them. They come from the statement of Chanel Miller, the victim of a notorious sexual assault. She said: “You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my safety, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice. Until now.” These are

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CALL TO ACTION #5 for HB 1085 – Scheduled agenda meeting 2:00 pm Monday, April 17, 2023

Major Concerns About This Bill: The bill states that all driver’s licenses and identification cards for people on the registry “shall have printed in the color red all information otherwise required to be printed on the front of the license or identification card.” This bill has now passed two committees and is in the Infrastructure Strategies Committee with a scheduled meeting at 2

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CALL TO ACTION #3 for HB 833 — 24-Hour Reporting for Vacation Rentals

Major Concerns About This Bill: HB 833 is of great concern as it would require reporting stays of 24 hours or longer at vacation rentals. A vacation rental is defined to be any unit or group of units in a condominium or cooperative or any individually or collectively owned single-family, two-family, three-family, or four-family house or dwelling unit that is

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Florida Legislative Update – April 12, 2023

On Wednesday, April 12, 2023, Senate Bill (CS/SB) 1252 Motor Vehicles is on the Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism and Economic Development’s 8:30 a.m. meeting agenda.  This bill would require “SEXUAL PREDATOR “or “943.0435” to be printed in a distinctive format in the color RED on driver’s licenses or identification cards.   YOU CAN WATCH THE 8:30 MEETING LIVE AT:  

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Brevard County settles costly lawsuit

“Brevard County has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit involving the right of convicted sex offenders to attend County Commission meetings.”  (FloridaToday, April 8, 2023) “As part of the settlement, the county agreed to pay damages of $2,500 each to the plaintiffs, plus pay $150,000 for plaintiffs’ attorney fees.” Three plaintiffs plus their attorney’s fees comes to $157,500.  This does

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Florida Legislative Update – April 8, 2023

On Wednesday, April 12, 2023, Senate Bill (CS/SB) 1252 Motor Vehicles is on the Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism and Economic Development’s 8:30 a.m. meeting agenda.  This bill would require “SEXUAL PREDATOR “or “943.0435” to be printed in a distinctive format in the color RED on driver’s licenses or identification cards. House Bill (CS/HB) 1085 Department of Highway Safety and

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Is the government of Florida no longer held accountable to the citizens of our state?

ClickOrlando.com is staying on top of the story concerning the three individuals in Orlando who were arrested for voter fraud because they voted in the 2020 election – the same three individuals who applied for voter’s registration and were given a voter’s registration card, i.e., they were registered. WHY WERE THESE PEOPLE GIVEN A VOTER’S REGISTRATION CARD IF THEY WERE

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D.C. official did not report past offenses because the law did NOT require him to do so

As reported in The Hatchet, court records reveal a criminal history that was not publicly disclosed by the highest-ranking official on an advisory neighborhood commission in Washington, D .C.  Yes, he definitely has a sordid past, and he did end up on Florida’s sex offense registry; but after going to prison, he decided to turn his life around.  Isn’t this

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