9th Circuit Says California's Prop 35 Violates First Amendment
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a California ballot initiative (Proposition 35) violates the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment rights of sex offenders, noted an Electronic Frontier Foundation news release. EFF and the American Civil Liberties Union…
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sued the state of California after the passage of Prop 35, also known as the Californians Against Sexual Exploitation Act, in 2012, it said. The act required all California sex offenders, including those whose crimes weren’t online, to “turn over a list of all their Internet user names and online service providers to law enforcement,” said EFF. The 9th Circuit’s unanimous three-judge panel's opinion upheld an earlier ruling by the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The case is Doe v. Harris; docket 13-15263.