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Residents urge Modesto City Council to repeal anti-masking ordinance and investigate June 14 arrests
Summary
Dozens of residents urged the Modesto City Council to place repeal of Modesto Municipal Code 4-23.02(13) on a future agenda and to authorize an independent review of police actions at a June 14 protest, citing constitutional concerns and disparate enforcement.
Dozens of residents urged the Modesto City Council on Aug. 26 to put the city's anti-masking ordinance on a future agenda and to authorize an independent investigation into police actions at the June 14 protest.
The request targeted Modesto Municipal Code 4-23.02, subsection 13, which critics and civil-rights groups say is vague and allows viewpoint-discriminatory enforcement. "Laws that are overbroad and vague . . . chill speech and expression and enable arbitrary, unbridled discretion and discriminatory enforcement practices," a speaker said while reading from a July 18 letter from the ACLU of Northern California.
Why it matters: Commenters said the ordinance has already led to arrests that were later dropped and that those arrests remain on records. They argued the code disproportionately affects Black,…
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