Fingerprinting Law for Charity Solicitors Upheld
A Superior Court judge has upheld a 45-year-old Glendale law requiring that solicitors for charities from outside the city be fingerprinted.
In a written opinion issued Monday, Judge William Huss ruled against a claim by the environmental group Greenpeace that Glendale’s fingerprinting law violates constitutional rights of privacy, equal protection and freedom of speech.
The suit was filed more than three years ago after Greenpeace members, backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, refused to be fingerprinted in order to obtain permits to canvas Glendale neighborhoods for money. Solicitors from local charities are not subject to the same rules.
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