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05.18.09 CHL PRIVACY BILL HITS SENATE COMMITTTEE |
HB
2727 A, a vastly watered down "CHL Privacy" bill,
is due to be heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday
May 21st at 8AM.
As you know, this bill passed out of the House recently and
now must pass both a Senate Committee and the full Senate before
becoming law.
Frankly, the bill as amended provides virtually no protections
for CHL holders. After being diluted by members of the House
Judiciary Committee, the original strong protections envisioned
by its chief sponsor, Representative Kim Thatcher, were stripped
from the bill and now it is little more that window dressing.
If you saw our
alert dated May 9th, you know that some anti-gun crusaders
are already gloating about their continued access to the personal
information about CHL holders.
But there is still time to fix the bill. It is essential
that you contact the Chair of the Committee, Floyd Prozanski
, along with the committee members and urge them to return the
original protections to the bill.
Contact information and a sample message follow:
Full
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senator Floyd Prozanski
sen.floydprozanski@state.or.us
900 Court St. NE, S-417, Salem, OR, 97301
503-986 -1704
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Dear Senator Prozanski,
HB 2727 A is due to be heard in your committee shortly.
As an original sponsor of the bill, you know the importance
of the safeguards the original bill included.
As you are no doubt aware, The "Newberg Graphic" has
already stated that they can still use the amended law to harass
certain CHL holders. In a May 7th editorial, they stated "This
newspaper and many others, have accessed information on CHL
holders in order to report for instance, that teachers with
CHL permits are carrying handguns in schools."
It's just this kind of reckless misuse of the CHL information
that 2727 attempted to curb, but the amended bill will not.
Now that you are planning a hearing for the amended bill, I
urge you in the strongest terms to add amendments to make the
bill actually do something for license holders. WIthout real
safeguards, the bill will solve nothing.
Yours,
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