Registered sex offenders in Ohio couldn’t operate a little library or request video from public swimming pools under a new bill co-sponsored by Coshocton’s state representative.
House Bill 514, introduced by Reps. Mark Hiner, R-Howard, and Sean Brennan, D-Parma, would ban anyone convicted of sexual offenses or crimes against children from keeping a library box on their property. Programs such as Little Free Library help people buy or build library boxes that promote book exchanges in a community or neighborhood.
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Hiner got the idea from Mount Vernon, which operates a water park and splash pad. Safety Service Director Tanner Salyers said city leaders aren’t aware of any incidents, but they want to be proactive to prevent future problems.
[Ohio residents, will you take action by calling, writing, and showing up, or just let this hysteria bill happen?]
What a far stretch of the imagination!!
There has never been any incidents, but make a law anyways?
Don’t these people have anything else better to do??
Seems odd to even allow someone to request video from a swimming pool to begin with. Unless an event happened that needs to be reviewed, (and in that case should be reviewed by staff or authorities) what reason would someone have for that other than being weird. Seems like a good way for weirdos to watch children in swimsuits.
” City leaders are not aware of any incidents, but they want to be proactive to prevent future problems.” Has a PFR ever assaulted/kidnapped a kid looking for book at their front yard library. These lawmakers’ fathers should have worn a condom to prevent future bs bills or laws.
Lawmakers have reached their “grasping at straws” phase in an attempt to find and close loopholes for non-existant threat scenarios and potentialities.
Over 400 segregationist laws were passed in the United States during the Jim Crow era. When you have a legal subclass of human beings, this is what happens–lawmakers just go back to the same old well. Sadly, nothing new here.
I swear these incidents that occur in these people’s minds get stranger every year and I keep asking myself, who elects these clowns and why do they enjoy circus freaks with big egos and bad ideas.
Video from swimming pools?! WTF is that all about, with or without being on the registry?! This post would be funny if it weren’t for that fact that these laws, even though they will not protect one child from harm, fuel the erroneous narrative that children are constantly snatched off the street (at a library box next to a sidewalk in this case). That narrative freaks parents out and they are the registry supporters. Yes, those parents should be able to think independently and be smarter than that, but our entire society is based on narratives, so it matters.
This ain’t nothing new, this happens about every 7 or 8 years things will feel like the registry hysteria is dying down and people are starting to come to their senses and then out of nowhere there’s another city, county, or state legislation that starts pushing this narrative of people forced to register hiding in the bushes waiting to jump out and snatch your kids.
I’ve noticed the government likes to wait 7 to 8 years and push this narrative on the new parents, parents that have been parents for 7 to 8 years they know no internet website is helping keep their kids safe. In California there are places where similar laws and ordinance exist, like Orange County, and some parts of San Diego.