Click on the speech below that was introduced into public record on the House side to the Non-Civil Judiciary Committee, and actually given in person to the Judiciary Committee on the Sentate side in support of House Bill 1059.
Speech to Senate

Accomplishments This 2006 Legislative Session
•  After several meetings with the Georgia Department of Corrections in which we discussed the releasing policies and procedures involving sex offenders, a 4-step process was changed to a 9-step process. The 9-step process now includes checking the background history of inmates due to be released and also checking the systems for any arrest warrants from all law enforcement agencies. Both of which were not a part of standard procedure before September 12, 2005. Other changes include the methods used to notify probation officers, district attorneys, and sheriff departments. There will be no more regular mail notification attempts to probation officers. Now they will be notified by email, or by fax if no email is available. Confirmation of notification must be received or there is a follow up phone call. The notification attempt has to be confirmed in order for there to be considered an official notification. Before, only an effort to notify was sufficient. Email will also be used to notify DAs and sheriff departments unless email is not available and then, again, fax will be used followed by a phone call if no confirmation is received. Proper notification to the probation officer in June when Brian Clark was released would have saved my wife's life.

•  House Bill 1059 was passed by both the Senate and House sides of the General Assembly and will be signed into law on Wednesday, April 26, 2006. This new law introduces minimum mandatory sentences and review boards that will determine which sex offenders are dangerous sexual predators. Once a sex offender is deemed a sexual predator, he/she will have to wear a GPS tracking system the rest of his/her life. This law also mandates that all sex offenders being released will have to be registered before leaving prison and they also are restricted from living, working, or loitering near anywhere kids may be gathering. This law, along with the procedural changes of the DOC, will significantly reduce the chances of anymore Brian Clarks falling through gaping holes in the judicial and correction systems. Proper registration and tracking of Brian Clark would have saved Kimberly's life. Less judicial discretion would have saved Kimberly's life.

•  The "Kimberly's Call" was also introduced and passed in the General Assembly this session. This addition to the "Levi's Call" originated from the awareness that not only did society need to help police in locating fugitives of child related crimes, but also the harsh reality that society needs to also help police locate fugitives who have committed violent crimes against women, mothers, men, and fathers. Now when there is a violent crime committed against an adult where the person is either abducted, raped, murdered, or otherwise in imminent danger, and there is enough information available for the public to assist in finding the fugitive i.e. make and model of the vehicle, plate number, partial or whole description of the suspect, the Department of Transportation will issue an alert that will be broadcasted across radio, television, and interstate signs to be on the look out for the violent suspect. Now not only will children have a fighting chance when abducted or in imminent danger, but so will their mother and fathers. Had the DOT issued a Kimberly's Call on September 6, 2005 after Brian Clark had brutally abducted, beaten, and raped the other Acworth lady and escaped in her car, the public would have seen him trying to ditch the car at the busy North Metro Tech University and someone would have called the police and Kimberly would be alive today.

•  The Allatoona Lake Bridge north of the Lake Acworth Drive and Highway 41 intersection will now be named "The Kimberly Boyd Memorial Bridge." Senate Resolution 849 unanimously passed both the Senate and the House sides of the General Assembly to designate this bridge to be named after Kimberly. This bridge is the same bridge she fought for her life and her family's and anyone else's who might have been harmed if she had chosen to be a passive victim. She chose not to be a passive victim, and she showed heroic courage and determination in making sure that everyone on the road that morning knew there was a rapist, child molester, and murderer in her car trying to attack and escape again like he had done the week before. This is a small be very appreciated token of gratitude shown by the state of Georgia that we hope will somehow in the future help illustrate to Kimberly's children the kind of woman that was taken from their lives at such an early age.

•  Senate Bills 379 and 513 were referred to subcommittees for study over the summer. This is a small step toward getting these bills voted on and passed in the next session in January of 2007. Of all of the actions we set out to accomplish after Kimberly's death, one would think that proposals to make ATM's safer to use by having 911 buttons and a reverse pin code to activate when in danger and being forced to withdraw money, would have been the easiest to accomplish. After all, both ideas originate from common sense and everyone recognizes the need for the safety features on ATMs, but ironically and tragically this is not the case. Due to objections from the Banking Association and a host of excuses to not implement common-sense safety devices, this association has successfully stalled the progress of these life-saving features. But with a little more time and pressure from the public, who is becoming more and more informed on the dangers of ATM use and the criminal element who preys on people using ATMs, it is just a matter of time when the Banking Association will have to take action and be forced to be more concerned about human life and less concerned about budgets and bottom lines. Had these safety features been in place on September 6, 2005 or September 12, 2005, Kimberly would be alive today.