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I just spent the better part of a day picking up and disposing (in double bags) of pornography, littered in the streets. When I see it, I can’t rest until it’s cleaned up. I can’t stand to think of someone, especially a child, being exposed to it.
The time is right to pass a law and get those news racks off the sidewalks. We have a new Supreme Court. It may rule differently than it did years ago.
Can’t the city control its own sidewalks? If a beer company set up a coin machine on the sidewalk, would the city have to allow it? I’m not proposing censoring them, just prohibiting their sale on our sidewalks. How can that be a violation of freedom of the press? They’re free to publish and sell it all they want, just not on our sidewalks.
I beg the City Council to “take back our streets”--kick the porno news racks out.
FRANCIS J. O’BRIEN
Panorama City
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