We have only a few days to stop this….As crazy as it sounds, a few days ago Jacksonville, Florida City Councilman Rory Diamond filed Bill 2026-186, to appropriate approximately $314,000 from the city’s reserve funds (or as much as $600,000 with annual maintenance fees added) to install at least 14 Safe Haven Bay Boxes in the city–1 in each council district..
Heads Up: 14 Safe Haven Baby Boxes Could Be Headed to Jacksonville, Florida!
Jacksonville, Florida, City Councilman Rory Diamond has introduced City Council Bill 2026-186 that would appropriate approximately $314,000 (or as much as $600,000 with annual maintenance fees added, according to one report) from the city’s reserve funds to install at least 14 Safe Haven Boxes in the city–1 in each council district.
Georgia SB350 Update: Delays, Bashful Parents, TikTok, 7-Elevens, Bog Down Vote. Contact Committee Now! Vote DO NO PASS
Prayer goes only so far, though, and the day didn’t go as well as they expected,,,…Mike Griffin, the Public Affairs Rep for the Georgia Baptist Mission Board, compared Safe Haven Baby Boxes to convenience stores. Sen Setzler wants elementary schools to be drop-off spots.
Action Alert: California AB2073. Stop Safe Haven Baby Box Legalization in California
AB2073 , a bill that legalizes the use of Safe Haven Baby Boxes aka newborn safety devices, was introduced recently in the California Assembly. As of this writing Assb Natasha Johnson (R-Riverside) is the only sponsor. On March 9, it was referred to the Assembly Public Safety Committee and the Assembly Judiciary Committee. It is scheduled for a hearing in the Public Safety Committee on March 24.
California AB2073: Bastard Nation/SHBBN Joint Testimony–Assembly Public Safety and Judiciary Committees. Opposed
The number of reported discard cases throughout the US has remained steady—a little over 30 a year– since the Safe Haven Baby Box concept was introduced 10 years ago. According to the CDHSS Office of Child Abuse Prevention, discards in California plummeted from 20 in 2001 (7 surviving and 13 deceased) to 3 in 2024. (1 surviving and 2 deceased, making the discard rate in the state, one of the lowest in the country.
Action Alert! Georgia HB350: Stop Safe Haven Baby Box Legalization in Georgia
The Georgia Senate Health and Human Services Committee will hold a hearing on HB350 in the next few days. The bill legalizes the use of Safe Haven Baby Boxes aka newborn safety devices, in the state. Similar bills were unsuccessful in several legislative sessions. On February 2, 2026, however, SH350 passed the House. Besides Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc, the bill is lobbied heavily by Bringing Newborn Safety Devices to Georgia and Georgia Right to Life.
Mirror Indy Investigates Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc
Mirror Indy, a city paper in Indianapolis, just published a good piece on Safe Haven Baby Boxes, Inc, The Growing Backlash to Indiana’s Baby Box Empire. The title alone tells you what to expect. And I expect that while I was doing the proverbial jump for joy this morning, Monica Kelsey, CEO of SHBB Inc, was getting a big case of indigestion.
Action Alert: Georgia HB350. Safe Haven Baby Box Hearing, (submitted) February 20, 2026
The promotion and use of Safe Haven Baby Boxes is anti-adoptee, anti-adoption, anti-family, dangerous, and unethical. Boxes are a danger to the physical and mental/emotional health of mother and child. Abandonment boxes are a slap in the face of every parent who has followed normal child relinquishment procedures. The boxes are a slap in the face of the 6 million adopted people in the United States today, who unlike Georgia adoptees, are subjected to archaic and discriminatory adoption secrecy laws such as sealed birth and court records. They are a slap in the face of adopted people everywhere in the US who view Georgia as an ally in the battle for equality.
Bastard Nation/SHBBN. Testimony, Georgia HB350, Senate Health and Human Services Committee, (submitted) February 20, 2026
The promotion and use of Safe Haven Baby Boxes is anti-adoptee, anti-adoption, anti-family, dangerous, and unethical. Boxes are a danger to the physical and mental/emotional health of mother and child. Abandonment boxes are a slap in the face of every parent who has followed normal child relinquishment procedures. The boxes are a slap in the face of the 6 million adopted people in the United States today, who unlike Georgia adoptees, are subjected to archaic and discriminatory adoption secrecy laws such as sealed birth and court records.
Action Alert: Alaska HB64. Safe Haven Baby Box Hearing, February 20, 2026
The first hearing this session was held on February 13 with only one witness outside of the sponsor: a representative of Right to Life Alaska Interior, who supported passage. A second hearing is scheduled for February 20, 2026. BN and SHBBN have again submitted joint written testimony.