UPDATED NEWS: CA Senate Bill 615 Temporarily Suspended
Please write to oppose California Senate Bill 615, which would harm the LGBTQ community!
Senator Melissa Melendez (Republican, Riverside) has introduced a bill, that if enacted into law, would significantly reduce the benefits of former Senate Bill 145, authored by Senator Scott Wiener (Democrat, San Francisco). Specifically, the Senate Bill 615 would require anyone convicted of committing certain sexual acts with a minor more than three years younger to register as a sex offender. The existing law, established in former Senate Bill 145, does not require registration unless the person is more than 10 years older than the minor.
“ACSOL opposes Senate Bill 615 and its attempt to gut legislation passed recently in support of members of the LGBTQ community,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci.
Senate Bill 615 was introduced on February 22 and has not yet been assigned for consideration by the Senate Public Safety Committee. However, all bills affecting public safety issues must be considered by the public safety committee in the house of origin no later than April 30.
Click here to download a sample letter opposing Senate Bill 615:
SB 615 – OPPOSE – March 2021_000573.pdf
As you can see in the letter, please mail the letter to:
Senator Steven Bradford, Chairman
Senate Public Safety Committee
State Capitol Room 2031
Sacramento, CA 95814
ACSOL members are requested to send similar, but not the same, letters to members of the Senate Public Safety Committee as soon as possible.
Will do!
Hmm. Says it was referred to the committee on rules on the 10th.
Chairperson of the rules committee’s LGBT as well, so I doubt this will go anywhere.
On it! I’ll be sending one out this week!
I’m not surprised Melissa Melendez sticks her puny little head out with a new Senate bill every couple of years.
This bill will never get passed but it won’t be from lack of trying
Good luck
convicted with a minor 3 years younger? so what if your already assigned to a tier *example* tier #2 age plays a part, so all of a sudden a 288(A) would be be assigned to tier #3 due to age differences?
Just sent my letter to Senator Bradford. Melendez is one of the most hateful people on the face of the earth. It makes me feel good to oppose her bills and the venomous attitude she brings to the Senate. I wish that I could be there to see her, once again, have her bill shot down by the Senate.
While this is usually a win for us, we need to all write to ensure that her bill is defeated.
QAnon again. Part of the recall effort of Newsom.
‘The difference is QAnon’: how a conspiratorial hate campaign upended California politics
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/16/qanon-republicans-conspiracy-theory-politics-save-the-children
The fact that sex Offenders can’t leave the country if they wanted is crazy i don’t think Mexico would care much if a Americas cross the border to start a new life it’s the US government that told them to specifically look for people with sex crimes and notifie them emditly.
The thing about all this that puzzles me is how does Law Enforcement know when one of their sex offenders has cross into the Mexican border.
Once a sex offender doesn’t show up for their annual registration a warrant for their arrest is sent out nation wide the US Marshal’s alongside the FBI conduct a investigation on the sex offenders were abouts who could be anywhere in America so how the hell do they know that one of their sex offenders have escaped into Mexico.
Sex offenders only have to register in person once a year that’s a 12 month head start and if you got enuff money to lay low for awhile how the hell do the FBI keep finding these people hideing in Mexico there’s gotta be some type of new tracking technology their using on sex offenders we dont know about because iv never heard of any sex offenders successfully getting away from the FBI and the us Marshal’s
Good luck
Sorry there’s no way this stupid bill even gets so much as a hearing. Hearings in committee stage are entirely subject to scheduling by the chairman. He’s only scheduled 2 more with the last being on the 13th of April and so far has refused to schedule any more.
It’s important that we remain vigilant and aware of activities and agendas
that our law makers initiate on the hill.It is our capital too.Send the emails,
make a call or two.I \ we are using the sample letter as a template.
With over 100,000 individuals sucked-in to this battle for civil rights restoration,
it is disheartening that are voices are less united.If these 100,000 plus individuals
contact information could discretely be acquired, a stout but small pamphlet
could be mail too them. The pamphlet could detail important legal information,
rules of the road,emotional resource groups,advocacy foundations
and a offering to the recipient that they are not alone.As well as
a mission statement with contact info and relevant dates\time for meetings.
Obviously,there are the homeless ones contained in that number;
something would have to be organized and available at the reporting
agencies where they frequent.Something apparent and available
without inquiry.