General Comments January 2014

Has anyone encountered “Rapid” or “instant” background check… it looks like a laptop with a driver license swapper… I was hitting the sidewalk to find work, and encountered one.. The job was in no shape or form involving children.. The interviewer asked for my driver license, and he just scanned it in the machine and bam there I was on his screen…. sigh… no delay no anything.. He got up handed my driver license and said “Good luck elsewhere” and that was it, no application or anything…. I feel pretty much depressed…. like rock bottom depressed.. with my unemployment running out of time…

@Bruce…good note there…..question there is using a human
being without his permission for profit…?…..for profit business using a person could be sued for millions a dollars …..yes..?

Back to the wall………It’s Gone ..! …HomeRun.!…the appeals court did support and protect the Constitution for ALL people and not just for the few……..THANK YOU….
Supporting and protecting the Constitution for ALL …
it can work…It Does Work.

When The Goin’ Gets Weird,,,The Weird Go Pro!
Hunter S. Thompson

An idea, food for thought: One possible legal defense or offense.

The 290 laws ban registrants from living within a certain distance from parks, child care centers, schools, etc. Yet, it does not define anywhere what those are.

Seems to me that at least for “parks,” that would be unconstitutionally vague, maybe even for schools. I’m not sure about child care centers.

What is a park, and who says what is a park? Is any old patch of grass some local yokel decides to call a park actually a park under this state law? Is the 290 law to be defined by local yokels rather than by the state, and maybe even defined differently depending on what locality you are in?

In Los Angeles, they currently are putting in 50 different pocket parks all around the city, sometimes even tearing down an existing house to make that small lot a “park.” I know other tiny spots in Los Angeles, literally about 10-feet by 10-feet with grass and a single palm tree that is now being declared to be a “park.” Los Angeles has even taken at least one similar sized pieced of concrete that has a flag pole and a couple benches, and changed its classification from the Department of Public Works to the parks department, and declaring it a park — something never before considered to be a park is now declared to be a park. The Los Angeles River, a federal flood control channel, is now being called a park, barring its something like 50-mile flow. And all it is — at least for now — is a walkway and bikeway –is that all that is needed to be a “park” for the purposes of 290, a simple sidewalk?

Is there some minimum size at least that the state law would require before it came under this park header? If they get away with such lame excuses for calling these tiny places with a little grass and a bench a park, will they next declare every single bus bench to be a “park?” What is the definition of park under the 290 laws — and how can that definition be left to be nothing but a word applied to anything? Grass is not a park. A bench is not a park. Neither is grass and a swing. When they passed a law barring registrants from living near a park, no one was thinking of a bus bench or a sidewalk, they were thinking of a real expanse (well, yes, they were really thinking of any excuse to run out registrants, I know)!

Is an amusement park a “park” under 290? Who knows, since ti doesn’t says “public park,” or anything else to nix amusement parks. Amusement parks certainly are parks “where children gather.”

This really seems too vague to meet constitutional muster.

Not very dissimilar for a “school.” Sure, I would expect the public schools would be included, although I’m not sure that “preschool” is a real “school” — yet there is no definition saying so. Is the local private music school where you go to some storefront to learn how to play trumpet also a school under 290? 290 doesn’t say “public” school, it simply says schools. Is a private charter school covered under 290, or only public schools? Is a church that has Sunday school once a week also a school? You get the idea. If your neighbor’s house, where they give private tutoring, also a school? Who knows.

Seems to me that that entire clause is unconstitutionally vague and should be struck. Of course, if it were struck down accordingly, I’m sure the Legislature would just put it right back in, but add specific definitions.

Can someone explain what exactly SORNA and AWA is? Is it one and the same? I guess, CA did not adopt the AWA, is that correct? Would that not have given us the Tier classification? So, is it good or bad that we don’t have the AWA? My BF was arrested and they contacted SORNA. How is that possible if we don’t have SORNA? Confused again since I am very new, still learning. Thanks everyone.