It’s nearly been two years since Navarre woman Cassie Carli disappeared only for her body to be found a week later in a shallow grave in Alabama.
Now, 22 months after her death, a bill filed by Rep. Joel Rudman and named after Carli has passed the House of Representatives.
The House passed HB 385, named the Safe Exchange of Minor Children, which Rudman dubbed the “Cassie Carli Law,” requiring a court to designate authorized locations for child custody exchanges “unless otherwise agreed to by both parents in writing.”
Representatives voted 115-0 to pass the bill. Five representatives missed the vote, but two later voted yea after the roll call.
The bill would also require each sheriff’s office in Florida to “designate at least one parking lot … as a neutral safe exchange location at which parents … may meet to exchange the minor child.” Judges have the option of deeming that location specifically, but can choose a different location.
Each parking lot must have a purple light or sign, which Rudman says was Carli’s favorite color, to clearly identify the neutral safe exchange location and must include the following: