AL: SB301 is going to change the definition of “residence,” and the results will be catastrophic

I have a huge problem with SB 301. The definition of “reside” is being changed by this bill, and not for the better. Most residence definitions deal with where a person sleeps, but this law impacts even where a person spends his time during the day. Full Article

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I thought it was bad enough that the Attorney General of the United States re-defined the term convicted to mean also those not convicted that had charges dismissed, but plead “no contest” to the original charge.

Now we have the definition of “residence” to be changed to mean anyplace you go to for 4 hours.

Wow…just wow. Who needs to move the bar to put us in worse shape anymore when all you have to do is redefine the bar.

Unless you are specifically banned from a library, many homeless go to libraries as they float between soup kitchens for the amount of time listed here. That could be interesting then if they powers that be see the library as a residence due to the time minimums. Heck, even if you work there or anywhere, according to the time minimums, you could list it as a residence because it does not exclude employment.

The fishing hole analogy is pretty good too….CA could have that for fishing piers on the coast!

I wonder if they hear banjos yet.

Under this proposal, any full time job would be a “residence.” And if my job is a residence, does that mean they have to get rezoned as residential property? Do they have all the requirements for residential buildings, such as facilities for bathing, egress(in reference to building codes concerning height/size requirements for windows, especially in bedrooms), etc? Will they be required to provide a bedroom for me there? Will they provide means to store cold food and to cook as required by most housing codes? This is a can of worms I don’t think they have considered…

Ha! I would picket in front of this politician’s’ house on the public street, so as to be forced to register his address as a place I have been spending my time!

😜😂😅🤣😂😜🤣😂😅😂🤣😘🤣😂🤣. Like I said, grab your 🍿 and enjoy the show.

The etymology of the word “reside” is from old French which means to stay somewhere for a long time. Nothing is going to change that. They would have to come up with a new word to describe where and how offenders live. Actually politicians and by extension their minion law enforcers need a new lexicon just for registrants!
Most States vehicle codes requires that everyone update their license or ID if they move or change residences within 10 days and they incur fines and punishment if they don’t. ( in essence, we are all registered citizens) So their previous definition of residence would conflict with their new definition if this bill passes.

They must be making their moonshine too strong or in galvanize pot.

They can call it your haunt, stomping ground, habitat, watering hole, whatever they like, it’s all regulation. Why don’t they just put radio collars them and re-hire those federal wildlife biologists laid off by new administration to track their every movement. Howoooooooo, yip, yip, yip howoooooo!

Just another attempt to twist words and manipulation the system.
…….Not Fooling Anyone.

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.” Abraham Lincoln. You folks are not seeing the bigger picture here. As a former attorney but still working for a law firm in Florida, and as an S.O., there is a solution to this “enact-nasty-law-madness”. If Alabama wants to know everywhere you spend time, EVERYONE in Alabama should line up and give exact details of where, where, where, exact addresses, dates, times, etc. All S.O.’s should line up at the Sheriff’s Office or Police Station and make them work for their money. Inundate them. Make them work overtime. And, if they say you are providing too much information and they do not want to take the information and write it down and register it in your file, get together with a sympathetic attorney, start a Class Action challenging the Authorities that they are not upholding statutory mandates and are violating the law and making the community unsafe. Drive ’em nuts and overwhelm the system! Our law firm has Clients that have non-S.O family members who want to sue the State that these laws are making communities unsafe by these barbaric and idiotic laws and if the law requires that law enforcement knows thew whereabouts of S.O.’s, but allowing municipalities to prohibit certain people from residing in their communities and forcing them to go transient, is a violation of the State S.O. law. There are approximately 800,000 Registrants nationwide, even if 20% were to start a movement of “strict compliance” and lawsuits as mentioned above, and they got 5 of their family members and friends to support them and sue the state as a Joe Citizens, that would amount to 800,000 people doing the above, filing lawsuits, and S.O. giving required compliance reporting… and driving the authorities nuts and overwhelming the system. Just a thought. Time will tell.

Gov. of AL signed SB301 into law (http://www.alabamanews.net/2017/05/31/gov-ivey-signs-sex-offender-reporting-bill-law/). The only positive I saw with a cursory reading is that judges now have discretion to exempt juveniles from registration. Wow, even a sliver of sanity creeping into AL? Otherwise, nothing helpful for RCs that I could see (surprise, surprise!).

SB301 with additions and deletions indicated: https://legiscan.com/AL/text/SB301/id/1600546/Alabama-2017-SB301-Engrossed.pdf

–AJ