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ACLU and environmental groups warn of civil-rights and access risks as committee advances temporary protection-zone authority
Summary
An ACLU witness and the Sierra Club told the Judiciary C committee that a bill authorizing 72-hour temporary protection zones lacks sufficient notice, interagency coordination and explicit protections for private-property and Fourth Amendment rights; sponsors said the tool is narrowly aimed at public safety and mirrored in other states.
The Judiciary C committee's discussion of temporary protection zones drew detailed opposition testimony March 5 from Sarah Whittington of the ACLU and written remarks from Peter Robbins Brown of the Sierra Club Delta chapter.
Whittington said the bill as initially filed contained no guardrails limiting zones to aerospace or similar narrow uses and that the only places she found comparable language in existing law were declarations of emergency or disaster. She told the committee the…
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