Here’s the wording of the proposed alert text that will go on dating site home pages. The revised bill is here.
“NO BACKGROUND SEARCH OF FELONY OR SEXUAL OFFENSE CONVICTIONS IS DONE ON MEMBERS WHO USE THIS SERVICE.
PLEASE TAKE APPROPRIATE SAFETY MEASURES TO INCREASE AWARENESS OF POSSIBLE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH DATING.”
What safety measures? What is appropriate? How do I increase awareness of risks? What are these risks?
Guess what. If you do provide background checks, you still have to put up a notice.
[NAME OF PROVIDER] INITIATES A LIMITED BACKGROUND SEARCH FOR FELONY AND SEXUAL
OFFENSE CONVICTIONS BEFORE A MEMBER IS PERMITTED TO COMMUNICATE WITH ANY MEMBER
FROM FLORIDA.
Dating site must initiate the background check? It’s not done by each member? I can belong to a dating site, but may not communicate with any member from Florida?
This is not helping:
If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or
circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or
applications of this act that can be given effect without the invalid provision
or application, and to this end the provisions of this act are declared to be
severable.
Typical lawyer-speak that is not doing anything to make the nuances of the bill easier to understand for dating site executives.
Sites with less than 1,000 members are exempt. Who would want to admit to that?
Mark Brooks, the editor of Online Personal Watch has “got complete confidence that True is going to run this thing through.” I for one, don’t.
