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| Date: From: Subject: | 4/24/2012 2:31:22 PM Scott Woodruff--HSLDA Missouri and Kansas--Make Calls, Attend Hearing April 26, Fight Daytime Curfew |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Missouri and Kansas--Make Calls, Attend Hearing April 26, Fight Daytime Curfew Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: Kansas City, Missouri, Councilman Scott Wagner used a parliamentary maneuver last week to pull his daytime curfew bill out of the Public Safety Committee and place it before the full City Council. A hearing before the City Council is scheduled for Thursday, April 26 at 3 p.m. We need your help! This is the first time the full City Council will have the opportunity to weigh in on the bill. A big crowd opposing daytime curfews will send a powerful message! The proponents of the daytime curfew are determined. We must be all the more determined! Protecting freedom is worth every hour you spend. Your children will never forget how hard you are working to protect liberty. ACTION REQUESTED 1. If you live in Kansas City, MO, or ever plan to visit there with children, please immediately call the mayor and several council members and explain your opposition to the daytime curfew bill in your own words. (See contact information and background below.) 2. Please attend the hearing this Thursday at 3 p.m. on the 26th floor of City Hall. Allow extra time to find parking. Please bring someone with you who did not attend the last hearing! A big turnout will show the council that this is an important issue. CONTACT INFORMATION Mayor Sly James, 513-6573 Dick Davis, 1st District 513-6505 Ed Ford, 2nd District At-Large 513-6507 Russ Johnson, 2nd District, 513-6509 Melba Curls, 3rd District At-Large, 513-6511 Jermaine Reed, 3rd District, 513-6513 Jim Glover, 4th District At-Large, 513-6515 Jan Marcason, 4th District, 513-6517 Cindy Circo, 5th District At-Large, 513-6519 Michael Brooks, 5th District, 513-6521 Scott Taylor, 6th District At-Large, 513-6523 Scott Wagner, 1st District At-Large, 513-6503 BACKGROUND Daytime curfews always take away freedom. But rarely deliver on their promise. After Belvidere, Illinois, enacted a daytime curfew, chronic truancy actually went up 73%. Daytime curfews sometimes cause costly litigation. HSLDA has represented families in a number of lawsuits related to daytime curfews. Daytime curfews create a police-state atmosphere in which young people are afraid to exercise the simple right of moving about freely during the daytime. Because of daytime curfews in some areas, innocent young adults have been accosted by police or even threatened with being taken into custody. Law enforcement personnel already have all the tools they need to arrest and prosecute truants. No new laws are necessary. Thank you for standing with us for freedom! Sincerely Yours, Scott A. Woodruff Senior Counsel, HSLDA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> What do you look like when you get out of bed? It's hard to look our best all the time. HSLDA works to present homeschooling in an engaging, dynamic, and informative light to the public news media. More reasons to join HSLDA... http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=1104 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================================== The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. 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