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                   Suzy’s Law Update

It’s time for an update on the status of Suzy’s Law.  We are making progress in gaining support across the country.  Mary has been working extremely hard on her social networking project through Twitter and Facebook.  As of today we have 3146 followers on Twitter and 187 friends on Facebook.  You can find us on these two networks under “suzyslaw”.  I have to say that we are receiving many, many, comments of support and have had a lot of supporters contact their Congressional Representative, urging them to support and co-sponsor HR 853.  This is the kind of support that we need to convince our law makers to pay attention to what we have to say and pass Suzy’s Law!  If everyone that supports us passes our message to just 2 of their friends, and those friends each passes the info to 2 of their friends, just imagine the number of supporters we will have and imagine how much attention we would receive from the House of Representatives.  It is true that the voices of the people will dictate that actions of the politicians so make you voice heard!  Support Suzy’s Law, contact your Congressional Representative, and ask them support HR 853 by becoming a co-sponsor. 

Suzy’s Law supports and is supported by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP).  Part of our support is that we attend the AFSP “Out of the Darkness” Community Walks.  This is a great way to support suicide prevention/awareness by attending one of these walks and joining others in this common goal.  We are going to personally attend 8 of these walks starting with Santa Barbara on Sept. 12 and ending with Riverside on Nov. 7.  Please feel free to join us at these walks and meet with us to discuss Suzy’s Law. We will have the honor of speaking at these walks about what happened to our daughter and what we trying to accomplish with HR 853.  This is our way of helping to prevent what happened to us from happening to others.  By making others aware of the dangers these predators pose - the less effective they are in making others their victims.

 Here is a complete list of walks that are scheduled here in California.

You can find more information at the AFSP.org website.

Hope to see you at these wonderful walks.  Please join our team, “Team Suzy’s Law”.  You can find out how to join our team at the AFSP.org site also or you can just send us a message and we will do the rest.

One last thing, I found this quote in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC.  Written by Thomas Jefferson in 1816 in a letter to Samuel Kercheval,  I find its meaning even more relevant today as our laws struggle to keep pace with the technology of today.  Read it and see what you think.

“I am certainly not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and 

constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the 

progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more 

enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and 

manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, 

institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times………”