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Actual title: Federal judge blocks Seattle police from enforcing graffiti ban Actual content: "A U.S. district court has ruled that Seattle must temporarily ce
by kneebonian 3y ago
Actual title: Federal judge blocks Seattle police from enforcing graffiti ban
Actual content: "A U.S. district court has ruled that Seattle must temporarily cease enforcement of property crimes with regard to graffiti.
Judge Marsha Pechman of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington issued a preliminary injunction, saying the city's ordinance that punishes graffiti "targets speech" and "poses a real and substantial threat of censorship."
- davesque 3y agoAlso, the judge's opinion: "On its face, the Ordinance sweeps so broadly that it criminalizes innocuous drawings (from a child’s drawing of a mermaid to pro-police messages written by the Seattle Police Foundation) that can hardly be said to constitute 'visual blight' and which would naturally wash away in the next rain storm."