Feds target nudity at off-road recreation areas

Feds target nudity at off-road recreation areas
July 10, 2010 11:00 AM
By DAVID DANELSKI, The Press-Enterprise

Tension has existed for years between party animals and families with children at popular off-road southern California desert playgrounds.

Now, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has officially banned nudity in those desert recreations areas under its jurisdiction.

While public nudity always has been an infraction subject to citations, the bureau’s action makes it a federal crime, subject to a possible $1,000 fine and or a year in jail.

The new prohibition extends the rule to “all developed sites and areas and all ORV open areas” in the agency’s Desert District, including San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial and Los Angeles counties.

The ban covers mobile strip shows, naked motorcycling and women flashing their breasts, all behaviors that have brought complaints from families and others using the public recreation areas, as well as warnings and tickets from law enforcement officers.........

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