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| Date: From: Subject: | 8/4/2011 2:42:25 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Alabama -- Proposed Mobile Daytime Curfew Changed |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Alabama -- Proposed Mobile Daytime Curfew Changed Dear HSLDA Members and Friends in Mobile: Today, Mayor Samuel L. Jones issued a memorandum to homeschooling parents telling them of revisions made to the proposed curfew ordinance for Mobile. Eliminated altogether was the definition of a "home-schooled minor" as a child who had been issued a certificate of exemption by the public school superintendent." The definition of "minor" was revised for purposes of the daytime curfew as a child who has not reached his or her 17th birthday, thereby aligning the language of the ordinance with state compulsory attendance law. Additionally, the proposed ordinance was amended to exclude minors who are enrolled in a church school or taught by a private tutor if they are in a public place with the permission of their parent or guardian. While all of the changes are favorable to homeschooling families, they do not warrant support for a daytime curfew such as is being proposed. If the proposed ordinance is passed, law-abiding minors will still be stopped, questioned by police, and required to provide proof that they are not in violation of the ordinance. They may be picked up and transported to the Curfew Center. This type of treatment is abhorrent to a free society and the principles of liberty upon which our nation was founded. Mayor Jones will hold a second community meeting on the proposed juvenile curfew ordinance this evening at 6:30 p.m. at the Mobile Regional Senior Community Center. We urge you to attend this meeting and express your opposition to the proposed ordinance. Action Requested: 1. Please contact the mayor and members of the Mobile City Council by telephone or email and express your opposition to the proposed ordinance. The names and contact information for the city council members are available at http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11982 . The mayor's contact information can also be found online at http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11983 . 2. Attend the public meeting this evening at 6:30 p.m. at the Mobile Regional Senior Community Center at 3201 Hillcrest Road to demonstrate your opposition to the proposed ordinance and speak against it. 3. Forward this email to other homeschooling families who are not members of HSLDA and ask them to take the same action. Please contact the mayor and city council members today! View the text of the proposed ordinance; http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11984 Read the mayor's memorandum to homeschooling parents: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11985 Read HSLDA's helpful information on daytime curfews: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11986 Very truly yours, Dewitt T. Black, III HSLDA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> How long are you in for? Some families are facing what seems like a lifelong commitment to homeschooling, with children at both ends of the spectrum -- some graduating and some just reaching school age. If you're going to be "in" for a while, consider a lifetime membership with HSLDA. It's a good deal for families with more than 10 years of homeschooling ahead. 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