Effort Underway to Close Sacramento’s Nudity Law Loophole

[Davin]

In May of 1975, the Vietnam War was over. Gerald Ford was president and the Sacramento City Council passed an ordinance that made public nudity in parks, waterways, playgrounds and beaches a misdemeanor.
Forty years later, city officials say there’s a loophole in the ordinance.

http://fox40.com/2015/05/11/effort-u...-law-loophole/

[jasenj]

I have no problem with public nudity being illegal. The problem I have is that it gets classified as a sex offense with very severe, possibly lifelong, consequences. I like San Francisco's ordinance where the first few offenses are tickets of escalating cost.

I'd be far more willing to push the boundaries a little - e.g. nude in the backyard where the neighbors _might_ see, or places I think are private but could be encountered - if the consequences of being wrong and having a complaint filed did not include being branded a sex offender forever.

- Jasen.