ACLU challenges Hawaii law allowing ban on visiting public places

ACLU challenges Hawaii law allowing ban on visiting public places

HONOLULU - A new law allowing police and other authorities to ban people from public property for up to a year without a specific reason is unconstitutional, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday. The law could potentially be used to keep voters out of polling places or bar groups such as Native Hawaiians from the grounds of the state Capitol, thereby chilling their constitutional rights to free speech, the ACLU said.

I'm tellin' ya, Canada is looking better and better. Of course it begs the question of what happens if you are supposed to show upto court, jury duty, pay a parking ticket, driving school....wait a minute. Is jail a public place? "Sorry officer, I would love to go to jail but I have been banned...I really should sleep more.