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TheCatt wrote: The bill does not allow for that discretion for victims who are 10 or 8 years old. It's for teens who are 15 to 17 only. So 15-25 is covered (sketchy), but also 15-18 (Reasonable)
SB 145 appears to allow adults to victimize minors by luring them with the intent to have sex, and then shields the predator from being automatically registered as a sex offender, as in the case of a 25 year old luring a 15 year old for sex, or a 22 year old luring a 12 year old.
They keep using 15 year olds in their examples, but that doesn't appear to be the lower end of the bill.
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Vince wrote: They keep using 15 year olds in their examples, but that doesn't appear to be the lower end of the bill.
It's spelled out in the original bill, which SB 145 is amending.

And from the article
There is no age limit or range specified, except for existing law which already excludes lewd acts with children under 14.
I think it's 14 and under, not "under 14"
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TheCatt wrote:
Vince wrote: They keep using 15 year olds in their examples, but that doesn't appear to be the lower end of the bill.
It's spelled out in the original bill, which SB 145 is amending.
Good God, lawyers should be shot. I was just trying to find the age stipulations in the original bill. Can you point me to the section that covers that?
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Vince wrote: I was just trying to find the age stipulations in the original bill. Can you point me to the section that covers that?
Honestly, I cannot. Cuz I cannot read that piece of shit either. And it references some other sections that may specify the specific crimes.

I would hope that the discretion piece is limited to 15-17, but who knows. But the idea of a HS senior being automatically a registered sex offender for having sex with a HS freshman seems absurd. I guess freshman often includes 14 year olds, and rarely 13 year olds.

NC allows for discretion at 4 years, with an age of consent of 16 instead of 18 like CA. So that in theory means discretion for a 12 year old and 16 year old, which seems icky.
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My kid will be a 13 year old freshman.
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TheCatt wrote: So 15-25 is covered (sketchy), but also 15-18 (Reasonable)
Yeah 15-18 is the biggest leap I'm willing to take, and even that makes me cringe a bit. Huge difference between a 15 and 16 year old. Big difference between a 18 and 19 year old too.
TheCatt wrote: The bill does not allow for that discretion for victims who are 10 or 8 years old.
I don't think it should be ok with anyone 17 or older having sex with a 14 year old or younger. Should a 15 year old be able to molest an 8 year old? No sir.

The bill just bugs me. I think they left in too much gray area.
TheCatt wrote: But the idea of a HS senior being automatically a registered sex offender for having sex with a HS freshman seems absurd.
Agreed, but what if the senior is someone who flunked twice and the freshman someone who skipped two grades? :D
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Leisher wrote: Agreed
Well, that's what the discretion is for I guess
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TheCatt wrote:
Vince wrote: I was just trying to find the age stipulations in the original bill. Can you point me to the section that covers that?
Honestly, I cannot. Cuz I cannot read that piece of shit either. And it references some other sections that may specify the specific crimes.

I would hope that the discretion piece is limited to 15-17, but who knows. But the idea of a HS senior being automatically a registered sex offender for having sex with a HS freshman seems absurd. I guess freshman often includes 14 year olds, and rarely 13 year olds.

NC allows for discretion at 4 years, with an age of consent of 16 instead of 18 like CA. So that in theory means discretion for a 12 year old and 16 year old, which seems icky.
I agree about most of that. Not sure about a senior with the freshman. I'm okay with senior vs sophomore. Our high school was 9th through 12th grades, so the freshmen to senior in our school would have been an almost Bill Clinton to intern level of unequal, with freshmen coming into school thinking they've reached a level of maturity that they have not and being taken advantage of because of it.

This bill bothers me a lot. And there's a lot of ambiguity that bothers me as well (because we don't speak legal gobbley-goop). 10 years is too much. The fact that it's the LGBT coalition doing this bothers me. The age disparity among gay men seems to be the rule rather than the exception. But... there are a number of reasons I would never live in CA. We can just throw this on the heap.
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Vince wrote: And there's a lot of ambiguity that bothers me as well (because we don't speak legal gobbley-goop). 10 years is too much. The fact that it's the LGBT coalition doing this bothers me.
If nothing else, all of this should give someone pause.

What's the purpose of this bill? What was the trigger incident that necessitated its creation?
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Leisher wrote:What's the purpose of this bill? What was the trigger incident that necessitated its creation?
That's me. I completely understand the argument of "treating vaginal sex as less of an offense than other types of sex creates a legal bias against homosexuals". The whole 10 year change is what sets off alarms and raises more flags than the UN.
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Vince wrote:
Leisher wrote:What's the purpose of this bill? What was the trigger incident that necessitated its creation?
That's me. I completely understand the argument of "treating vaginal sex as less of an offense than other types of sex creates a legal bias against homosexuals". The whole 10 year change is what sets off alarms and raises more flags than the UN.
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Put a strong offer in on a house north of Berkeley and had the U Cal Berkeley blow everyone out of the water by $100k and a non contingency offer for a professor. As in they don’t even need to get the place appraised, Cal just handed them the check. Like competing with Walmart.

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Troy wrote: Put a strong offer in on a house north of Berkeley and had the U Cal Berkeley blow everyone out of the water by $100k and a non contingency offer for a professor. As in they don’t even need to get the place appraised, Cal just handed them the check. Like competing with Walmart.

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Insane!
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I do not envy you searching for a house in Cali. That market is insane.
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Berkeley is banning all gender language.

Thank goodness people will no longer be traumatized by words like manhole and manpower.
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The revised city documents also will replace instances of gendered pronouns, such as "he" and "she" with "they," according to the ordinance.
English needs a better gender neutral singular term.
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TheCatt wrote:
The revised city documents also will replace instances of gendered pronouns, such as "he" and "she" with "they," according to the ordinance.
English needs a better gender neutral singular term.
How about "fucktard"?
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Leisher wrote:
TheCatt wrote:
The revised city documents also will replace instances of gendered pronouns, such as "he" and "she" with "they," according to the ordinance.
English needs a better gender neutral singular term.
How about "fucktard"?
This issue existed before the current gender stuff.
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TheCatt wrote:
Leisher wrote:
TheCatt wrote:
English needs a better gender neutral singular term.
How about "fucktard"?
This issue existed before the current gender stuff.
I agree with you, but my recommendation remains the same.
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