RI Prostitutition Bill Hearings are Today
[QUOTE=P Austin]Hearings are scheduled next week.
[url]http://newsblog.projo.com/2009/10/prostitutition-bill-heads-to-g.html[/url][/QUOTE]It's on today:
[url]http://www.projo.com/news/content/PROSTITUTION_BILL_27_10-27-09_B9G81U1_v18.3a68004.html[/url]
Honestly,This bill is nothing but a waste of our time and taxpayer dollars(how Can WE even afford this right now?).
What people choose to do behind closed doors in completly their own business....this is someform of "invasion of privacy".
Quoted from the Projo article:
[quote]The compromise bill treats prostitutes who work in brothels or out of their homes the same as prostitutes who ply their trade on the streets: both would face criminal misdemeanor fines or imprisonment, or both. First offenders would face fines of $250 to $1,000 and up to six months in prison, or both; multiple offenders would face up to a year in prison.
Landlords who “knowingly” profit from prostitution on their property also would, for first offenses, face fines of $2,000 to $5,000, and one to five years in prison. The penalties, adopted from the Senate bill, would punish multiple offenders with fines of $5,000 to $10,000 and from 3 to 10 years in prison.
[url=http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/Giannini/]Rep. Joanne M. Giannini[/url] , D-Providence, the House bill’s sponsor, said she is pleased that criminal penalties in the compromise bill are “exactly the same” as the bill that passed the House last May.[/quote]It's obvious that they're tryin to give this a go, just to get more $$$ to the state, not because they "suddenly care" about Public Safety.
Guess they didn't get enough with the RED light cameras and the stupid parking tickets on Prov? !
Now ask yourself: who is the "victim" here?
I rather have spent their time and my tax dollars focusing in catching real criminals, and getting them off the streets: gun violence, robbers, etc.
Or on a better Education System.
Heck, spend the tax $ on fixing the damn roads, its more worth it.
If this pass, we have to be really careful fellow mongers, cause we are gonna become a main focus/target.
Btw theres 2 bills.
The other one is to keep [url=http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/24/legal-loophole-allows-rhode-island-minors-to-strip[/url] people under age 18 from working on the RI Stripclubs.
Let's see what happens.
Peepin J