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Council narrowly adopts Residential Tranquility Act after debate over dispersal orders and protests
Summary
The D.C. Council approved the Residential Tranquility Amendment Act to limit amplified overnight noise directed at residences, rejecting an amendment that would have explicitly required dispersal orders before arrests and drawing extended debate about enforcement and free‑speech boundaries.
The Council on July 1 adopted the Residential Tranquility Amendment Act, a narrowly drawn measure targeting the use of amplification devices to target individual residences overnight. Sponsor Councilmember Brooke Pinto and other supporters framed the bill as a response to sustained, targeted amplified protests in residential neighborhoods.
Chair Phil Mendelson described visiting a demonstration in Kalorama and said a decibel reading on his phone measured "128 decibels at the source," arguing the level was far…
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