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Molly's Bill
Senate Bill S2316
Understanding
Molly's Law...
EZ-ID website
"This is an innovative effort to improve safety,"
Senator Bruce Tarr (R-Wilmington) explained at an event
announcing his legislation last Thursday. He was joined
by Bish's parents, Magdalene and John, as well as the
family of abduction victim Elizabeth Smart. A group of
twenty middle school students were also on hand to
express support.
Tarr's proposal (Senate Bill S2316)
would reduce the existing six-letter
license plates to a
simplified version with three
letters and a symbol, all of which would glow in the
dark. Bish's parents believe that their daughter would
still be alive had they been able to remember the
license plate of a white car in the parking lot where
sixteen-year-old Molly Bish was last seen.
Article Excerpt:
"I didn't get the license plate number that day,
and I search for white cars now," [Magdalene Bish]
said.Senate
Bill S2316
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Areas of Improved Law Enforcement Capabilities
The EZ-ID License Plate Program will enhance law
enforcement capabilities in the following areas:
Reduce abductions and improve the chances of quick recovery of
victims. According to the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children, there are 800,000 children reported missing
every year – that’s one child every 40 seconds. Of this total,
approximately 262,000 are abductions by family or non-family
members – that’s one child every 2 minutes. Even more chilling
is that with stranger abductions, if an abducted child is not
found within the first hour, 44% will likely be murdered; 74%
within 3 hours; and 91% within 24 hours. The EZ-ID license plate
with an easily identifiable symbol will better enable law
enforcement and the general public in identifying and locating
suspect vehicles when every second is critical.
further details
In the Press↓
Molly’s Law
would make license plates easier to read
By David Riley /
Daily News Staff
Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - Updated:
03:52 AM EST
Senate Bill S2316
FRANKLIN -- A local
business consultant is part of a push on Beacon Hill to pass
Molly’s Law, legislation that would simplify license plates and
make it easier for crime witnesses to remember them.
Since the fall, Alan Adams of Franklin has
been pressing for the bill’s passage with Gary Richard, a
Gloucester businessman who created a new design that could
replace the current six-character plates used in Massachusetts.
"It helps children, whose victimization really
got us started on this," Adams said last week. "If you just save
one child’s life, it justifies itself."
The legislation is named after
Molly Bish, a Warren teenager kidnapped in 2000 and later found
murdered. Adams said the tragedy inspired Richard to invent the
new design.
As proposed, the new plates would include an easily recognizable
symbol, like a star or triangle, and no more than four numbers
or letters. The characters would be bigger than they are on
current plates, and luminescent so they would glow in the dark.
This new design is meant to make it easier for
law enforcement and crime witnesses, especially children, to
spot and remember plate numbers, Adams said.
"Children can recognize a symbol even before they
can recognize letters and numbers," Adams said.
Adams said the design is called the EZ-ID
program and is owned by Sun-Up Products Inc. That company was
founded by Adams’ partner, Richard, and manufactures
photo-luminescent products.
The proposal first came to light in September.
This month, it became a bill up for consideration in the
Legislature, and hopefully will be examined in legislative
committees next session, Adams said.
Entire Story
Families back 'Molly's law' for overhaul of
license plates
Friday, September 23, 2005
By DAN RING
dring@repub.com
BOSTON - The parents of Molly Anne Bish joined yesterday with
the parents of Elizabeth Smart to unveil legislation that would
require the illumination of numbers on license plates in order
to more easily identify possible child kidnappers and predators.
Under "Molly's law," the maximum amount of numbers and letters
on a license plate also would be reduced from the current six.
Plates could include special symbols such as a baseball or a
boat, and there could be only one or two characters. Since plate
characters would be illuminated, they could be more easily seen
at night.
Entire Story
Contact your Massachusetts
legislator and insist this purposed bill passes:
Massachusetts House of
Representatives
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Megan's
Law
The
crime against 7-year-old Megan Kanka coupled
with many other heinous crimes against children,
prompted the passage of federal and state laws
mandating the release of information necessary
to protect the public from high risk sex
offenders.
To find out more on Megan's Law please
click here.
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JOANNE AND
ALYSSA
ACT
"The state has failed my family. If
Massachusetts was held to the national standard
of sexual offender law, Joanne and Alyssa could
be alive today." Mark, brother of Joanne.
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