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Arkansas Act 372 was signed by the Arkansas governor on March 31, 2023. [1] Sections one and five of Arkansas Act 372 expose librarians and booksellers to criminal penalties, [ 2 ] which includes up to a year in prison, in the case they distribute materials such as books , magazines , and movies deemed "harmful to minors."
"Stop and identify" laws in different states that appear to be nearly identical may be different in effect because of interpretations by state courts. For example, California "stop and identify" law, Penal Code §647(e) had wording [37] [38] [39] similar to the Nevada law upheld in Hiibel, but a California appellate court, in People v.
In the United States, states have differing nudity and public decency laws. [4] In most states, state law prohibits exposure of the genitals and/or the female nipples in a public place, while in other states simple nudity is legal, but evidence of intent to shock, arouse or offend other persons (lewd conduct) is evidence of prohibited conduct.
Judge blocks key provisions of Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians, booksellers. Taylor Penley. December 24, 2024 at 7:00 PM.
Earlier this month, Arkansas’ Pulaski County turned down and returned a $60,000 check sent by Lucky 8, the production company behind the Netflix docuseries “Unlocked: A Jail Experiment.”
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Hurst was born in Hot Springs, a resort city in central Arkansas, to Q. Byrum Hurst Sr., and the former and Hazel Earline Barham. Hurst Sr. was elected administrative judge in Garland County in 1947 [ 4 ] and then elected to the Arkansas State Senate , in which he served for twenty-two consecutive years until he ran unsuccessfully in the 1972 ...
The Arkansas State Police was created on 19 March 1935 through Act 120 of 1935, which was passed by the Arkansas General Assembly and signed into law by the 30th Governor of Arkansas J.M. Futrell. Upon the creation of the Arkansas State Police in 1935, the agency consisted of approximately thirteen Rangers who were charged with enforcing liquor ...