Debbie Riddle and HB106 How to destroy your online buisness.

By Valente Gonzalez
May 31, 2007

I am worried that my State representative for district 150 wants to convict people with a deferred adjudication, even though they are not convicted. Debbie Riddle during the 80 th legislature authored a bill that would make it a misdemeanor for people with Deferred Adjudications to sell items or services online without telling the world that they were convicted, or that they had a deferred adjudication. (Imagine you are not convicted but Debbie wants you to go and tell the world that you have had a deferred adjudication).

Her HB 106 said that she wanted to make it a crime for someone to operate a webpage without notice that they had a deferred adjudication (Effectively crippling a business). If such reckless legislation had it gone forward, it could have spelled financial ruin for people who pose no continuing threat to society. Her Bill would have made people with deferred adjudication have to post on their business websites that they were arrested for a crime, but that they were not "convicted".

I tried to contact her office during the session to find out why such legislation was proposed, and I never heard back from her office. www.TAJLR.com has given her an F grade on issues regarding deferred adjudication, probably because they are "Unconstitutional, and Anti-Buisness".

I have spoken with Debbie in the past and I thought that she had the opinion that deferred adjudication was not a conviction and that people needed a second chance.

The fact that I have been unable to contact her, and that her office refuses to contact me, troubles me, so if anyone needs the scoop on Debbie please contact her to find out why such awful legislation was proposed.

Debbie Riddle