The legislative members of district 6 Amherst/Milford have been inundated by calls and emails calling for immediate legislation to preclude another incident similar to the Caylee Anthony case, in NH.
Everyone who showed concern should know there are bill(s) being drafted by a number of legislators and both the and the Speaker of the House have proclaimed an interest in this legislation. In fact there will be attempts to suspend the rules allowing this legislation to be enacted upon the next legislative session which begins in January.
We must however be mindful that this legislation, in any form, will be very difficult to craft in order to preclude the nearly inevitable unintended circumstances of any legislation written and passed with respect to this complex social issue.
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It is imperative that any legislation does not infringe on the rights of those who are innocent or, victims of circumstance which although perfectly innocuous in intent and practice, somehow fail to meet the law as written and results in arrest and/or incarceration. The events and results from the now infamous Ward Bird case is the example that is best left unduplicated.
