Related link: Janice’s Journal: Victory is Ours!
The author of CA Assembly Bill 1568, Assemblymember Juan Alanis has withdrawn that bill from future consideration. As a result, the bill will not be heard on June 16 by the Senate Public Safety Committee and cannot move forward this year.
“The registrant community and its allies have stopped Assembly 1568,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci. “This is a significant victory. ACSOL thanks everyone who made calls as well as sent emails and letters to the state senate in opposition to this bill.”
Another factor that may have led to the withdrawal of this bill is an analysis issued by the Senate Public Safety Committee on June 14. According to that analysis, “the bill appears to address a problem that may not exist.”
The analysis includes a discussion of several concerns about the bill starting on page 13 of 14. The concerns include the fact that many people convicted out of state and in military courts would be blocked from petitioning for removal from the registry even though they were otherwise eligible.
According to the committee analysis, the bill was supported by many law enforcement agencies as well as the California District Attorneys Association. The number of bill opponents was significantly smaller.
Thanks to those who took action! You make a difference!
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From the looks of it, Congress is trying to make laws abridging the rights of people to petition for redress of grievances.
Please do not be complacent and make your calls to the Senate Committee!
It only takes literal seconds of your time for each call, there is no judgement – the representative answering the phone is not something to be scared of. They will simply log your opposition to the bill.
I assume there is more of a chance with the Senate Committee to listen to reason and Scott Weiner is known to take a common-sense, logical approach to these absurd bills.
Call as soon as you can, it’ll take less than 5 minutes of your time.
I will be there. Any me too’s want to chime in.
Now is the time to stop this bill, not argue it’s constitutionality. We can stop it now or argue it in court for the next 5 years. I choose now.
I made my calls. It was fast and easy. They just wanted to know the bill and that I wanted the senator to oppose it. Also, my name and my zip code.
Tomorrow I will put together a short custom letter based on some of what Janice wrote in her sample letter. Then I can easily duplicate it for each member’s letter and contact form. Just copy/paste.
I will also take the time to drive to the hearing.
We HAVE to spend the time to do this! Inaction will result in it being difficult to get off the registry even when we reach the 10 or 20 year requirement.
Please don’t assume some other people will make those calls and write those letters.
WHY are so few registrants commenting and making their calls?
Do you guys just expect everyone to do the work for you?
Don’t whine and complain about the registry if you’re not willing to put in the minimum work to help stop it.
Make your calls, stop being complacent and expecting other people to do your work.
It’s important to call these offices. It’s even more important to attend the June 16 hearing. We need to have a large presence at the hearing in order to be heard.
I just made all 6 calls. Everybody was extremely nice. Took less than 5 minutes. My question is, how do people who are not on these forums get this information so they can call, too? There are so many PFRs in CA, but only a small percentage utilizes these forums.
CA comrades and Janice I am with you in spirit and sending good vibes for a successful campaign to kill this bill. I hope to be a CA resident someday and this may possibly impact my family if I can convince my son there is life outside of Chicago. But beyond that, beyond me and my family, this is just wrong. And call me crazy but I have come to feel strongly about all of us in this predicament and feel I know some of you (to the extent that’s possible) over the years through this forum. Best of luck and fingers crossed!!
Letters done (fyi…ChatGPT does a good job of creating letters if you aren’t computer savvy). See you at the hearing! This bill is a nightmare! After 20 years and fighting like heck to stay compliant in every last detail because the conviction happened in another state you can’t be included in the Three Tier Laws and get relief? What the heck kind of nonsense is that? No logic what-so-ever!
I wrote to each person on the list – I am from Wisconsin but I believe, if this passes, it will affect every state ( eventually ) Please send them your thoughts and comments about this – it will only help
Hi everyone,
I called every Senator’s office on the list informing them that I oppose AB-1568. To be a little a more than a year away from finally being able to get relief from this evil registration, only to find out that they have once again added an additional road block to the process is so disgusting. The registration is nothing more than a business to law enforcement, which is literally the strongest union that we have in this country. These people can’t bare the fact of losing power which is why they try to create additional barriers to keep souls such as me and everyone else, the relief that we more than deserve from this disgusting registration. I pray that God intervenes in some way to stop this bill from being passed. Thank you!
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I emailed my Senator and called every Senator’s office objecting to this bill. More importantly, Senator Wiener authored SB384 in 2107 which changed the registry into tiers and allowing registrants to be removed from the registry. This needs to be publicly brought up someway or somehow next week during this meeting as this current bill makes his own legislation more restrictive and goes against his own reasons why he authored SB384 and fought for before becoming legislation.
Can someone explain this bill? I made all my calls but I am confused why A) it will affect everyone on Tier 2 and B ) Anyone not granted parole but rather probation? For B, is that because those not sent to prison never completed a CASOMB certified treatment program? Those who received probation still had to go through an authorized treatment program for the entire length of probation. Thanks!
Are we all just meeting at the courthouse?
Great news!! 🥳🎉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you so much for posting so quick. I was literally at the boarding gate to get on my flight and I sat down and saw the email. Such wonderful news! Yay!
Of course the cops and the district attorneys were for this, it helps keep them employed with job security.
Woo hoo! I made the calls.. So glad that it was defeated….
This is such a relief, I’m so glad that this was removed and will not be voted upon.
There’s a light at the end of the tunnel for so many people right now and this could have switched it off.
Thank you to Janice and everybody involved, and to all of you that took the time to reach out and respond against this.
I guess I am confused as to why the California Sex Of*****r Management Board (CASOMB) supported this bill? Haven’t they been behind past sensible/not harmful bills for PFRs?
Hallelujah!!!
This is absolutely fantastic news. Our opposition worked. Some of the wording quoted from the legislative analysis sounds like it came directly from the ACSOL opposition points.
Never think that our calls and letters don’t have a positive effect. I wrote letters, sent emails, and phoned each office. The more times the office hears or sees our opinions, the better informed the senator or representative is.
Thank you to all who aided in this just cause.
I was nearly halfway to Sac from SoCal when I heard the news. YAY, we prevailed. Many thanks to everyone who stood up and spoke out. And eternal gratitude to Janice who led the charge.
We had a fight at 5am to get to the hearing then booked a hotel. We’ll now sleep in a bit and catch a later flight to SMF and have just a getaway instead since I can’t cancel the hotel. But the price is worth the WIN!! . Thanks, Janice!
OMG ! Thank you to all! Thank you Janice and the ACSOL team. This was a horrible bill and I’m so happy to see it withdrawn!
Thank you! I was literally losing sleep because of this bill.