Litigation
Nov. 21, 2012
Some say Prop. 35 tramples on free-speech rights
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and ACLU argue the statute, which also boosts sentences for human trafficking crimes, would actually foster a wider trend of increased government intrusion on individual constitutional rights.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Sensible restriction of sex offender anonymity or impermissible encroachment upon First Amendment protection?
That's the question at the heart of the lawsuit filed this month by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union in the wake of voters' Nov. 6 passage of Proposition 35.
The organizations argue the provisions of the new law requiring California&...
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